The depth of a big-consultancy lead, without the overhead.

Ian has spent nearly 30 years in IT, more than 25 of them in UK public-sector technology. Most of that was as a senior consultant inside one of the world's largest consultancies, working on business-critical systems for a major government department.

His edge is range: moving from a budget-holder's boardroom, to a whiteboard wireframe, to production .NET and Azure code without dropping the thread. He devised the modernisation method that unlocked £7m+ of successful delivery across seven programmes (in an account where, before that, no modernisation work had happened at all). He was also running structured human-and-AI delivery nine months before "agentic software engineering" had a name.

To be clear about the record: those wins belong to that consultancy and its clients. They were delivered before Meladian existed. The experience, the method and the person who drove them are what Meladian offers, directly. And when a programme needs more hands than one, he brings in engineers he's delivered with before. Familiar specialists, never another layer between you and the person accountable.