Over 23 years experience in the Telecoms sector, working for Tertio, Tertio Telecoms and latterly Evolving Systems (essentially the same company but various mergers, de-mergers and takeovers). Have served in a variety of roles including Professional Services consultant, Pre-sales engineer and for the last 13 years have been a Senior Product Architect with responsibilities for several of the solutions in the Evolving Systems Customer Activation and Network Services (CANS) portfolio. Skills and career highlights include:o Technical experience in several languages including C, C++, Java and Tclo GSM / 3GPP (including network and signalling design).o Oracleo Security hardeningo Detailed troubleshooting and distributed system analysis. o Designed, implemented, delivered and supported one of the worlds first pre-paid SMS billing solutions (scaling from 10 to 6000 messages per second).o Delivered provisioning and mediation solutions (for Tier 1 and 2 telcos worldwide)o Designed, implemented, delivered and supported (what was at the time) one of the most popular value added text messaging systems (at one point exceeded 5 million messages a month and over 1 million registered users).o Designed and delivered real-time SIM activation solutions using custom network elements (1+ billion SIMs activated to date across the world).o Designed and delivered automatic device detection systems to mobile operators using a custom EIR proxy design.o Listed as inventor on 6 patents. Also:o Comfortable with frequent international travel o Writing and presenting material (including answering RFx and writing proposals to tight deadlines) at any level (from switch tech to CTO) within a mobile network operator.o Have ran technical delivery teams with up to 10 members.