Hi, I'm Lea.

Before I was architecting enterprise design systems, my roots were forged in raw logic and operational grit. Born in the UK, I grew up as a military brat — new schools every couple of years, learning early how to read a room, adapt fast, and find my feet anywhere. At 12 I was sent to military boarding school in Germany. In my final year, my family moved back to the UK overnight. The entire curriculum flipped. I crammed a year’s worth of material in months, passed my exams, and — more importantly — learned how to triage chaos and rebuild momentum when everything changes under you.

After a BTEC in computing, I started in technical operations in Crawley as a mainframe programmer and rose to Shift Leader running mission-critical IBM systems. Picture a high-security, raised-floor data centre straight out of *Hackers* — water-cooled beasts, tape robots, and 12-hour shifts where mistakes weren’t an option. Pure, unforgiving systems thinking.

A short trip to America to meet my mother and half-brother unexpectedly turned into a career, a wife, a son, and a lifetime of adventures and great friends.

In 2018 I returned to the UK to be close to my father and give my son that important generational connection. For the last few years I’ve worked remotely as a Strategic Shared Asset across four concurrent TBC Corporation platforms — B2C ecommerce, Franchise CMS, and B2B wholesale systems — proving that high-trust collaboration and complex delivery don’t care about time zones.