Alex Newman

Leads operations for PA Consulting's engineering and science business

I work where science becomes product: labs, product development, and advanced manufacturing, and the operating model that holds them together.

Working at the intersection of cyber security, transforming multinationals, and the operational delivery of large engineering and science organisations.

01 · What I work on labs · product · manufacturing

Labs

Science and engineering facilities: the people, kit and digital layer that turn experiments into decisions.

measure → decide

Product development

Taking complex products from concept through development with pace and rigour, not theatre.

concept → commit

Advanced manufacturing

Getting discovery onto the line: industrialising what works so it ships under real constraints.

prove → scale

02 · Why .sh shell script · British territory

# newman.sh - shell script + Saint Helena
$ file ~/bin/run.sh
run.sh: Bourne-Again shell script, ASCII text executable

$ whois .sh | grep -i country
country:              SH
# Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
# British Overseas Territory

$ cat ~/bin/run.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
./build && ./test && ./ship
# exit 0

On Linux, .sh is a shell script: a small programme you execute to get something done.

On the internet, .sh is Saint Helena — a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. Same letters, accidental dual citizenship.

newman.sh leans on both. Not a vanity portfolio. A starting point you can run from.

03 · About public copy

I lead operations for PA Consulting's engineering and science business, part of Jacobs: a multi-site engineering and science organisation spanning the UK, Ireland and the US. The work sits where science meets product: faster cycles from lab to line, without losing rigour.

Day to day that means commercial and workforce planning, performance, strategy and governance, quality systems such as ISO 9001/13485, and the facilities, labs and brand that let engineers and scientists do their best work. I have also helped bring independent teams together into single global businesses.

Earlier career in cyber and high assurance technology, and technical roles across telecoms, software and security engineering.

I write and host Drive-Thru with Alex, a LinkedIn newsletter and short Spotify podcast: short takes on technology, design and innovation.

04 · Career operations · digital · cyber

2023 – presentOperations leadership, engineering and science · PA ConsultingRunning the operating engine of an international engineering and science business.
2022 – 2023Chief of Staff, PA Digital · PA ConsultingHelped bring many independent units together into one global Digital team.
2021 – 2022Principal Consultant, Cyber · PA ConsultingCyber security consulting for complex, high assurance organisations.
2016 – 2021ThalesCyber and high assurance technology.
2016 – 2018Home Office · ACEAccelerated Capability Environment.
2013 – 2016UK Civil ServiceTechnical roles across telecoms, software and security engineering.