Operations & Delivery Lead · Sheffield, UK

I help businesses turn AI into how the work actually runs — not a side experiment.

(Profile)

Johnny Smith

Operations and delivery lead with six years building the systems that let a telecoms startup grow. I design the methodology, build the automation, and hold the brand — the system that lets the work happen.

  • Creative
  • Design
  • AI-led Processes
  • Strategy
  • Software Development
  • Project Management
  • Leadership
  • Team Development
  • People Empowerment

(Capabilities)

Creative

01

In-house brand and creative production — campaigns from brief to performance review, design in Adobe Illustrator, brand consistency across digital, print and physical.

Design

02

Visual systems and brand assets that stay consistent across social, email, web and print.

AI-led Processes

03

Putting AI and automation at the core of how the work runs — cutting out the manual steps and owning the scripts that keep things moving.

Strategy

04

Portfolio planning and prioritisation, with OKRs as the main planning lens. Knowing what to do next, and what to drop.

Software Development

05

Self-taught technical capability — Zoho Deluge automation, API integration design, data modelling and the documentation that keeps systems maintainable.

Project Management

06

A delivery framework built from scratch: governance, reporting cadence, runbooks and a custom Outcome-Oriented Agile methodology.

Leadership

07

Leading delivery across an ISP — clear ownership and fast decisions when something's gone wrong upstream.

Team Development

08

Growing the people around me — mentoring, and the onboarding and docs that make complex systems learnable.

People Empowerment

09

Giving people real ownership — the context and autonomy to make the call, not wait to be told.