Bobby Ford

Helping organisations design, deliver, and optimise their Digital Workplace in Microsoft 365

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

About

I help organisations design and deliver modern Digital Workplace solutions across Microsoft 365; including SharePoint, intranets, collaboration tools, and process improvements. A great employee experience needs platforms people actually use and that deliver real business value. I combine strategy, user-focused design, hands-on delivery, and change adoption to make that happen, while helping organisations get the most from their Beacon investment, aligning product capability with business outcomes and feeding real-world insight back into product evolution. I work alongside product, UX, and technical teams to ensure solutions meet both user needs and business goals.

Experience

  • Silicon Reef (Full-time · 4 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Consultant and Product Specialist
      Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

      Working with clients to design and implement modern digital workplace solutions across SharePoint and Microsoft 365, combining strategic advisory, change leadership, and hands-on delivery. I support organisations in maximising the value of their Beacon product investment — aligning capability with business outcomes, driving adoption, and feeding insight back into product evolution.

    • Product Manager
      Jun 2022 - Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Working with a great team to build products to support employee engagement, collaboration and wellbeing.

  • RPA Analyst at Abcam
    Jul 2020 - Jun 2022 · 2 yrs

    Working with teams across the business to understand and validate nominated processes to make the most of the robotic process automation tools available. By automating the repetitive admin tasks, colleagues can get back to the interesting things which add real value.

  • Ripple (1 yr 3 mos)
    • UX Researcher and Analyst
      Feb 2020 - Jul 2020 · 6 mos

    • Head Of Analysis
      May 2019 - Feb 2020 · 10 mos

  • Senior Business Analyst at KFM Analysis
    Nov 2018 - Apr 2019 · 6 mos

    Contract Business Analyst

  • Senior Business Analyst at Business Cloud Integration Ltd
    Oct 2016 - Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Working with businesses to help them get the most out of Office 365 and SharePoint. Focusing on business processes and document management.