Hey I'm Rich.
I work at the intersection of innovation, technology and design, helping organisations rethink how services, systems and workflows are created and delivered. My focus is on applying innovation practices, design thinking, AI, automation and technology enablement to improve how businesses operate and how customers experience their products and services.
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Experience
Each role includes queryable AI context—the real story behind the bullet points.
Senior Innovation Manager
Lloyds Banking Group
- •Leading innovation strategy and delivery across one of the UK's largest financial institutions
- •Applying design thinking, AI and automation to transform internal processes and customer journeys
- •Driving cross-functional initiatives to embed innovation culture, capability and new working practices
- •End-to-end delivery of innovation programmes from ideation through to scaled implementation
Senior Partnership Manager
Digital Catapult
- •Developed and managed strategic partnerships between technology innovators and industry stakeholders
- •Supported the commercialisation of emerging digital and deep tech technologies
- •Bridged gap between startups and enterprise partners to drive applied innovation programmes
Head of New Market Development and Ventures Innovation
BT Group Plc
- •Accountable for highlighting and delivering new opportunities into BT Ventures across sectors including B2B, consumer, health, agriculture, utility, logistics, automotive, smart city, connected home, and data monetisation.
- •Management of S&I new opportunity pipeline; helping deliver new S&I initiatives from £2m-£360m in scope.
- •Strategic lead in BT's IoT and big data development programs.
- •Responsible for defining and creating the S&I incubation framework and governance process; including C2M process across various Lines of Business.
Skills Matrix
A realistic look at my capabilities and explicit gaps.
Strong
14- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Creative Direction
- AI Automation & Implementation
- Forecasting and Analysis
- Customer Insight
Moderate
14- Agile Methodologies
- Mobile Marketing
- Business Development
- B2B
- Multi-channel Marketing
Explicit Gaps
7The AI is instructed to reject roles requiring these.
- Coding
- Sales
- Software Engineering
- Data Analyst
- Programming
Tools: things I use to make things happen
The software and platforms that power my day-to-day.
Daily Drivers
14- Photoshop
- Make/ Zapier
- Anti-gravity
- Cinema 4D
- Supabase
Used Regularly
16- Blender
- After Effects
- Figma
- Serato
- Office Suite
Not My Stack
4Tools I avoid or don't use in my workflow.
- Visual Studio
- Sublime
- Jira
- Salesforce
Project Portfolio
Selected projects — the real work behind the titles.
Beyond Work
Side projects, experiments and pursuits that reveal who I am outside the office.
Backlog — things I'm looking to do
What's next on my radar, and stretch goals further out.
Next
4Up first — actively being planned
- Enabling my Second Brain stream into beta:ME
- OBS MCP Development
- Blender MCP Development
- LTX Integration
Soon
3On the radar — coming in the medium term
- Canva MCP Development
- Resolume and Sensor Development
- Back to my Piano
Later
3Ideas & stretch goals for the future
- Cavalry
- Adobe Express MCP
- Touchdesigner and TD MCP
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