Independent Senior Advisor
AI & Automation Risk
Helping boards and industrial leaders make well-founded decisions about AI, automation and the systems they depend on.
Independent perspective. Grounded in industrial experience.
Advice where technology meets operational consequence.
HCS Consultants01 / Advisory
When a proposal, project or transition needs careful challenge, I help you understand the exposure, test the assumptions and decide what should happen next.
Understand what an AI-enabled upgrade or automation migration will change before you commit.
Bring an experienced outside perspective to a project when its direction, risks or readiness need scrutiny.
Make responsibilities, operational boundaries and acceptance criteria clear enough to act on.
02 / Experience & approach
My starting point is the process, the people and the consequences of getting a decision wrong.
With a degree in physics and more than four decades of experience in industrial control systems, I bring an engineering perspective to the questions now facing boards and technical leaders.
My background spans programmable logic controllers (PLCs), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), industrial communications and continuous process environments. That experience informs how I assess AI, cyber risk and changes to automation architecture.
What guides the work
Start with how the plant actually operates, including its constraints, dependencies and failure modes.
Keep safety, availability and predictable control behaviour central to every technology decision.
Separate evidence from assumptions. Identify who decides, what authority a system has and where human judgement remains essential.
03 / Perspectives
Questions to ask about authority, assurance and operational readiness.
The boundaries between useful intelligence and operational authority.
Why confidence in a dashboard must be grounded in the process it represents.
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If you are considering an AI or automation change, or need an independent view of an existing project, let’s talk.