Edward Williams

Smart Buildings, IoT & Energy Platform

Led the commercialisation and scale-up of InSentiv, an operator-centric smart buildings platform serving multi-site PBSA and co-living portfolios operating under all-inclusive utility models,

• Defined product roadmap, solution architecture and estate operating model
• Led discovery and workflow design with operators carrying cost and compliance risk
• Repositioned platform from resident app to board-visible governance system
• Built ROI/TCO investment cases and supported enterprise rollout

Impact

• 73.2% reduction in electric heating consumption (Unilife, Southampton)
• Sub-2-year ROI; ~50t annual CO₂ reduction
• Embedded rule-based digital twin logic at room and portfolio level
• Led cross-functional engineering and implementation teams

Digital Progressive Assurance Platform

Built and scaled enterprise SaaS platform replacing paper-based QA and inspection workflows across nationally significant infrastructure programmes. Secured £1.1m growth investment and led enterprise GTM, commercial structuring and delivery.

Great Western Electrification Programme

(Network Rail | Balfour Beatty Rail | £5bn programme)

• Sold and stabilised digital assurance within live rail modernisation
• Designed progressive assurance operating model aligned to OLE sequencing
• Integrated with Network Rail Ellipse asset system
• Led phased rollout across Tier 1 contractor environment
• Delivered seven-figure annual efficiency savings

Drax Power Station – Outage & NDT Digitisation

• Won competitive tender to digitise 3,000–8,000 NDT inspections per outage
• Integrated with Maximo & Primavera
• Led cross-contractor implementation
• Delivered £1m annual savings

United Utilities – West Cumbria Pipeline (£300m)

• Designed regulated evidence governance aligned to Ofwat, EA and DWI
• Reduced site visits by 20%
• Saved 4,000 labour hours annually
• Delivered £189k annual savings

Patented Geospatial QA & Evidence Platform

Founded and commercialised a patented enterprise SaaS platform enabling structured, geospatially verifiable QA, defect and asset data capture across complex infrastructure and capital delivery environments.

Smart Motorways – M25 & M60/M62
(Balfour Beatty, Skanska, Costain | £200m+ programmes)

• Sold and deployed BIM-linked asset ID and QA/defect workflows across live motorway upgrades
• Replaced manual barcoding and paper QA packs with governed digital assurance
• Integrated geospatial capture into BIM and GIS environments
• Delivered 5:1 ROI and £250k+ efficiency savings
• Rolled out to 50+ engineers within safety-critical JV settings

Shell Global Solutions – Al Karaana

Selected to deliver secure, real-time QA and safety reporting within global engineering programme.

Designed legislative-grade audit workflows; programme later shelved following oil price collapse, resulting in withdrawal of capital investment and Snapfile entering administration.

Recognition

• U.S. provisional patent (2014) – cryptographically verifiable geo-tagged evidence capture
• Enterprise Ireland High Potential Start-Up (HPSU)
• COMIT innovation recognition; Irish Software Association finalist

Led national workforce mobility SaaS rollout alongside enterprise asset management systems (IBM Maximo).

Led UK enterprise 3G go-to-market, partner ecosystem development and complex bids; regular industry spokesperson.

Led enterprise sales of document and knowledge management platforms across regulated sectors, supporting large-scale information governance and compliance programmes.