Christie Tech is the contracting vehicle for Ian Christie, an experienced IT manager specialising in infrastructure, operations, and technology transformation.
I work with SMEs and enterprises to stabilise services, untangle legacy systems, and create pragmatic environments that deliver real organisational benefit.
Available for both short‑ and long‑term contracts, or parachuting into specific scenarios, I bring over 30 years of experience to the problem.
Operating at senior levels across multiple jurisdictions, the following is a brief and non‑exhaustive overview of my core capabilities:
Setting and delivering technology strategies — determining business best‑fit and investment priorities.
Defining governance expectations aligned to local jurisdictional models.
Liaising with C‑level executives and maintaining clear, sensible communication paths.
Delivering broad transformation requirements with a high degree of autonomy.
Establishing clear ownership, accountability, and reporting.
Designing predictable governance routines (stand‑ups, service reviews, weekly rhythms).
Reducing operational noise and stabilising unreliable services.
Building lightweight processes and automating where possible to free staff for value‑driven work.
Extensive experience managing server, network, and storage estates, including hyper‑converged infrastructure deployments.
Cloud adoption roadmaps and “go‑to‑cloud” strategies.
Modernisation planning and staged migration at platform level.
Resilience, backup strategy, and disaster‑recovery alignment for ISO accreditation and legal compliance.
Incident, problem, and change management.
Vendor management and contract negotiation.
SLA definition, measurement, and improvement.
Practical governance sized appropriately for the company and industry.
Programme and project leadership using industry‑standard methodologies (Prince2, Agile, etc.).
Defining deliverables, transformation roadmaps, and achievable plans.
Active risk management, including issue salience and impact assessment.
Recovering slipping projects and restoring delivery cadence.
Working with CISOs and security professionals to uplift security baselines for SMEs and growing organisations — including physical security.
Ensuring alignment with regulatory and governance requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
Vendor security assessment and practical risk reduction.
Supporting compliance efforts (ISO, financial sector requirements, legal expectations).
Coaching and mentoring internal technical teams.
Leading geographically dispersed and culturally diverse teams across the UK, Channel Islands, India, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia.
Building teams that cover complete ecosystems end‑to‑end.
Championing neurodiverse team members through inclusive language and management practices.
Managing and optimising multi‑million‑pound budgets through consolidation, modernisation, and strategic sourcing.
Negotiating with and managing suppliers to ensure value is maintained over the contract term.
Leading, defining, and scoring RFI/RFP processes.
Building predictable budgets and investment plans across multiple cycles while reducing technology debt.
