Navigating the public sector’s shift to the cloud is a complex journey, a challenge Paula understands from the inside out. With over 21 years in Information Technology, her career has progressed from hands-on hardware support to managing EMEA-wide and global IT operations across multiple countries, giving her a unique, multi-level perspective on technological change.
The great migration to the cloud is well underway, but the promised land often turns out to be more complex, not less. This is Paula’s world. As the Supplier Manager for Cloud and Security supporting four of Scotland’s major public bodies (SDS, SE, HIE, and SoSE), her job is part tech-horizon-scanner, part procurement wrestler, part marketing-buzzword-translator, and full-time supplier wrangler. She fights to deliver the public sector’s holy grail: a modern, flexible, and scalable infrastructure that provides real value for money, all to build something that works for the people of Scotland.
Paula is fascinated by the next frontier—AI—and what it means for the future of public services. This isn’t just a casual interest; she has her own personal R&D department staffed by a chaotic family of robots. While they teach her Prompts, Python and JSON, Loona, the speedy ground robot, delivers daily, practical lessons on the structural integrity of her coffee table legs.