James Magowan
Head Of Public Service Partnerships at Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarJames Magowan is a driven public service partnerships leader with 11 years’ experience shaping cross-government policy to address complex social issues like homelessness, social care and unemployment. As Head of Public Service Partnerships at DCMS, he leads policy teams and national initiatives such as the Life Chances Fund to strengthen VCSE roles in public commissioning and embed social value in contracting. He is skilled at advising senior directors and CEOs across public, private and charity sectors, translating strategic priorities into partnership and procurement outcomes. James combines policy craft with practical delivery, driving business development and stakeholder engagement to increase measurable social impact. Based in the UK, he brings a practitioner’s curiosity about technology—exploring confidential computing and Kubernetes on IBM’s s390x—into public service innovation. Colleagues know him for energetic leadership and an ability to make cross-sector collaboration operational rather than just aspirational.
11 years of coding experience
French, Spanish
Github Skills (40)
kvm10
docker10
firecracker10
confidential10
qemu10
virtual-machine10
security10
vdi10
location10
vms10
cap9
ord9
kubernetes9
confidential-computing9
workload9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
magowan/documentation
Oct 2021 - Jul 2023
Documentation for the confidential containers project
Contributions:121 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 9 months
containersconfidentialkubernetesdocker
magowan/.github
Oct 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 4 months
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