Selected work & experience
Nakatomi Consulting brings senior technology leadership to complex situations where strategy, architecture, infrastructure, suppliers, operations and delivery need to move together around a clear outcome.
The distinction here is delivery context, not whether the experience belongs to Nakatomi today. Work delivered under the Nakatomi consulting brand is shown as Nakatomi work. Major programmes Robert delivered in previous employed roles are shown separately as experience Nakatomi brings to current engagements.
Nakatomi consulting work
Examples are described by sector rather than client name where appropriate, keeping the focus on the challenge, the work and the value provided.
Ongoing independent work across infrastructure, networking, security, supplier issues, inherited environments, technology refresh and migration planning. The relationship combines practical intervention when needed with a longer-term view of how the technology environment should develop.
Relevant capabilities:
Emergency consultancy delivered as a clearly bounded engagement. Follow-up client correspondence recorded a positive experience, practical knowledge transfer and an intention to return for further advice or project work.
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Senior technical escalation after a VMware and infrastructure environment had been moved and workloads did not recover correctly. The intervention focused first on restoring control and service, then on understanding the underlying environment and the options for future modernisation.
Relevant capabilities:
An internal IT manager sought independent senior involvement on a substantial infrastructure and network design programme for roughly 300 users. It is a useful example of Nakatomi complementing an internal technology team rather than replacing it.
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Turned an organisation's intention to become cloud-first into a financially modelled, architected, governed and executable transformation programme.
Experience Nakatomi brings
These programmes were not delivered under the Nakatomi brand, but the experience, judgement and capability developed through them are part of what Nakatomi brings to client work today.
Reduced cost and complexity across a substantial global hybrid estate while progressively moving away from legacy managed datacentres toward cloud and modernised services.
Moved infrastructure operations away from reactive, person-dependent working toward measurable services, clearer ownership, repeatable processes and stronger operational control.
Migrated a 900+ endpoint global CDN/WAF estate using automated discovery and repeatable controlled migration patterns while materially reducing recurring platform cost.
Turned a broad platform-performance concern into measurable causes, addressed the areas within the platform team's control and separated them from external network and content factors.
Used real recovery testing to expose genuine platform and supplier failures, restore capability, drive root-cause remediation and prove subsequent recovery against defined objectives.
Led broad infrastructure transformation spanning datacentres, networks, platforms, suppliers, merger integration and disaster recovery in a demanding financial-services environment.
Turned bespoke technical delivery into more repeatable services, reduced delivery and support overhead, and strengthened the operating model behind longer-term customer relationships.
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