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Alan O'Reilly

Alan O'Reilly

Summary

Dynamic professional with expertise in artificial intelligence and innovation, solution architecture, and consulting. Demonstrates exceptional skills in networking and relationship building, business development strategies, and public speaking. Proficient in cloud computing and DevOps practices, with a proven track record of engaging C-suite stakeholders and driving strategic planning initiatives. Adept at cross-team collaboration to achieve organisational goals. Committed to leveraging technology to foster growth and innovation within enterprises.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Chief Innovation Officer

Purple Transform
Oxford
05.2023 - 09.2025
  • Advanced state-of-the-art platform solutions to expand into new markets effectively.
    Facilitated collaboration with partners to deliver tailored customer solutions.
    Harnessed emerging AI trends to enhance strategic innovation in a dynamic industry.
  • Developed and contributed to launch of Purple Transform AI platform that processes millions of data points each hour, encompassing trillions of stored datapoints such as video/images, sensor data, text, and third-party data feeds to deliver actionable insights addressing customer issues.
  • Directed solution engineering and developed sales pipelines and product roadmaps.
    Supported global sales engagements, including customer and partner bids and RFPs.
    Facilitated senior stakeholder support for sales teams to enhance engagement.
  • Promoted Purple Transform during conferences, media engagements, trade shows and events, championing ethical AI utilisation to tackle pressing issues, such as enhancing patient safety in healthcare, reducing crime in policing and alleviating extreme weather impacts on European railways.
  • Directed Purple Transform Intellectual Property portfolio and strategy, incorporating innovative approaches and techniques to address AI accuracy challenges, including false positive reduction, consistency, traceability, and GDPR compliant storage.
  • Ensured compliance with various, AI, data and security standards and regulations, EU AI Act, GDPR (Including DPIA), ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials etc.

UK&I Transportation Lead

Cisco
London, London
06.2020 - 05.2023
  • Managed technical architecture team for UK&I transportation sector, engaging closely with clients and internal teams. Developed and executed a transformative sector strategy that increased revenue from $8m to $140m per annum. Secured and expanded franchises across Cloud, Security, Software, and services to enhance business growth.
  • Established Cisco’s reference architecture for Rail and shared insights across global platforms. Worked alongside business units for the development of rail-certified infrastructure products. Documented best practices and created sales materials for international sales teams.
  • Championed best practices and frameworks for sector/account planning, guiding numerous individuals on personal and professional growth in UK.
  • Cultivated strategic relationships with key decision makers and senior stakeholders that remain strong today.

Solution Architect – UK&I Enterprise

Cisco
London
06.2019 - 06.2020
  • Developed business architecture and solutions integrating technology, services, and processes to address challenges.
    Collaborated with large clients in finance, manufacturing, and retail during transformation initiatives.
    Delivered projects within tight timelines while meeting aggressive KPIs.
    Led Software Defined (Compute/Storage/Networking) and Cloud/Data Centre engagements for UKI Enterprise SE team.
    Facilitated initial whiteboarding sessions, progressing to proof of concepts and deployments.
  • 100% adoption rate and favourable NPS for driving software-defined technology across accounts, including first EMEA deployment, reference implementations.
  • Championed and played a pivotal role in tiger teams across multiple technological areas, adapting to changing customer requirements and enhancing capabilities of field teams.
  • Spearheaded transformational engagements achieving more than 300% of set quota.

System Engineering

Cisco
London
08.2010 - 06.2019
  • Including Cisco Proof of Concept (CPOC) lab, EMEA Data Center specialist, Commercial and Enterprise segments.
  • Recommended tailored solutions to clients rooted in specific technology best practices.
  • Facilitated discovery meetings with customers, transforming insights into technology roadmaps.

ITC Consultant and Software Development

ALTTITUDE
Edinburgh
06.2005 - 07.2010
  • Engineered bespoke solutions and scalable tools within a dynamic sales consultancy.
  • Strengthened stakeholder relationships through effective communication and engagement methods.
  • Enhanced client understanding of market trends and technology, leading to informed decision making.
  • Provided expert advice on organisational change, resulting in streamlined operations.


Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Dundee
08.2010 - 09.2014

Skills

  • Artificial intelligence and innovation
  • Solution architecture
  • Consulting expertise
  • Networking and relationship building
  • Business development strategies
  • Public speaking skills
  • Cloud computing
  • DevOps practices
  • C-suite stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic planning
  • Cross-team collaboration

Accomplishments

  • Recognised and won 6 industry awards and top listings for the impact of the AI innovation IOT solutions that I nurtured from ideation through to real world deployment in the last 2 years.
  • Had multiple AI innovation projects funded by Innovate UK/ Digital Catapult recognising the cutting-edge AI applications including vector-based belief states for a government project to help secure the UK’s town and cities.
  • Led and key contributor to multiple tiger teams on new networking technologies (Software Defined, Automation, Cloud, DevNet) working with early customer adoption, business units, and delivering field enablement at global. theatre and country levels.
  • Representing Purple Transform’s AI innovation and platform at multiple conferences, including Bridge AI and MWC, presenting to 300+ people in person, being a panellist on AI forums and representing the company in media engagements.
  • Driving sustainable year on year 100%+ growth by delivering a technology leadership with a team of talented engineers across domains such as IOT, Networking, Cloud and Security.
  • Won Cisco Chairman’s Club twice, recognising the global pinnacle of Cisco’s sales and presales talent, along with multiple awards for (Pre) sale achievement (Champion, Achiever) and country wide recognition (SE if the Quarter, Deal of the Quarter) for my contributions over the years at Cisco.

Affiliations

  • A family-man with a passion for the culinary arts and coffee, who enjoys travelling the world and walking the countryside

Timeline

Chief Innovation Officer

Purple Transform
05.2023 - 09.2025

UK&I Transportation Lead

Cisco
06.2020 - 05.2023

Solution Architect – UK&I Enterprise

Cisco
06.2019 - 06.2020

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Dundee
08.2010 - 09.2014

System Engineering

Cisco
08.2010 - 06.2019

ITC Consultant and Software Development

ALTTITUDE
06.2005 - 07.2010

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