Where it started
Technology & Media
Publishing, digital media and DRM.
04 · I am Shyam
The Strategist
Digital Business Transformation Specialist
“I’ve spent 20 years making large, complex things work. Nights and weekends, I make small things exist.”
04 · I am Shyam
Digital Business Transformation Specialist
“I’ve spent 20 years making large, complex things work. Nights and weekends, I make small things exist.”
Field notes
My apps, art and stories aren’t a break from the day job. They’re the same habit pointed somewhere else: creativity to imagine it, technology to build it, and strategy to get it shipped.
Counted conservatively.
Four chapters, one through-line: I never stopped building.
01
I started by building things: publishing, digital media and DRM systems.
02
I moved from building things to leading the people who build them.
03
My mandates grew: multi-country programmes, enterprise portfolios, executive rooms.
04
I never stopped building. It just moved to nights and weekends.
Portfolio governance, delivery cadence, and escalating risk before it escalates itself.
Digital platforms, MarTech, CRM and commerce, including the ones everyone else gave up on.
GCC delivery models, cross-functional squads and multi-vendor teams that keep working after I leave.
Where it started
Publishing, digital media and DRM.
Energy & Utilities
For a regional government authority.
Financial Services
Programme governance for a global bank.
Retail & Commerce
Governance for a North American travel retail network.
FMCG & Marketing
A marketing technology rebuild across three continents.
Travel & Hospitality
A delivery model for a cruise enterprise.
After hours
I make word games, fitness apps, a gym tracker, an alarm that holds grudges, an excuse generator and a savings app for couples. Plus AI art, and a shelf of books.
What happens next?
