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Frisco, Tx, Us

Frisco, Tx, Us

Frisco, Tx, Us

We operate an intelligent next generation network that seamlessly blends fixed and mobile services into converged unified telecoms.We’ve been supporting our channel partners with innovative white-labelled and wholesale telecoms services since 2009. Enabling resellers and service providers to rapidly deploy unified telecoms products for their business customers, that deliver enhanced customer loyalty and new, high-value revenue streams.Our services include the market leading Mobile-X® fixed to mobile convergence service available as a packaged mobile PBX service and as a SIP based mobile interconnect platform.

Leeds, Gb

Skyrack Technology is an IT, Communications & Consulting business, providing cost effective software and telecommunications solutions for business. Skyrack Telecom provides best in class hosted voice services for corporate and SME channels delivered from the Skyrack Broadsoft platform, fully integrated with our innovative FMC product Mobile-X.

Technology, Architecture & Management consulting services.Internet, IT, Telco, Portals, Digital & Voice/Data Convergent Services.

London, Gb

Web and CMS platform review. Functionality, infrastructure, usability, scalability, performance and security review to provide Lebara with an independent quality audit of the web delivery platform.

Uxbridge, Greater London, Gb

Short consulting exercise with giffgaff to assist in technical and strategy definition to support expansion and scaling of portal and CMS operations.

London, Gb

Delivering review and definition of online and web strategy for Lebara mobile, with accompanying technical and organisational recommendations for global architecture.

Middlesex, England, Gb

Technical strategy and architecture lead, defining the options for Sky to take in SSO, session management and IDM.Business case, architecture, vendor management, planning and costing deliverables.

TheNetStart Platform is a start-up, developing a proposition to provide a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform of telco, ISP, converged service and digital business BSS & management tools. The platform will provide a full range of multi-tenant order to cash business processes, delivered through a smart fully configurable business process framework & engine. Product lifecycle management, Inventory, CRM, Ticketing, Rating & Billing can all be supported for telecoms and digital business models, whether pre-pay, post-pay, or insta-pay. The software platform is designed to take advantage of cost reduction opportunities from open source and virtualisation/cloud to attack traditional BSS and software business models.As CTO I have responsibility for technology & partner strategy, selection & engagement, budgeting & delivery, as well as:• Strategy & architecture for Open source software and application stack• Infrastructure & cloud strategy• Architecture, design and delivery team recruitment and organisation• Engagement and negotiation of Software partners (COSMO model)• Selection and relationship building with Development partners• Venture capital fund-raising – presenting and pitching to VC’s• Market and Customer identification – customer pre-sales workshopsTheNetStart Platform team comprises a strong team of former telco and ISP executives and senior technical staff, who are also working with the local councils, RDA’s and Universities on a vision for digital business capabilities in Sheffield and the local regions by developing entrepreneurial collaboration and incubation centres.

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

A focussed engagement to deliver a target technology architecture & software product roadmap for Experian, to support global integration of their marketing software solutions portfolio. The scope of this was large, covering all analytical CRM across data management & ETL, intelligence, decisioning & analytics tools, campaign management, and interactive sales & marketing tools.

Advised the Royal Mail on the development of wireless technologies and the UK market, focussing on the identification of possible new partnerships and revenue streams. Provided analysis of the current state of the technology and the UK market and possible applicability to various business scenarios to assist their strategic decision making process.

Technical consultant supporting technical discussions with service providers, identifying solutions, and evangelising the platform, with a view to integration of the Phorm solution in UK ISP's. Also provided organisational consultancy to the CTO, delivering an improved approach to Release Management.

Technical consultancy engagements at strategic, tactical and operational levels. Which? Online Transformation Programme:Lead consultant delivering a Healthcheck analysis to Which? management board. Designed an Online Transformation programme covering organisation, methodology, process, and technology in order to improve business value and responsiveness of the Online IT teams. Strong communication skills were a crucial complement to traditional technical and consulting skills. • Devised management framework for online activities covering strategy, governance, delivery and support.• Initiated structured planning for a pragmatic migration to ITIL led service management.• Stabilised software development teams and provided change management & delivery processes to unify and focus effort.• Led feasibility studies for new strategic e-commerce services. Supported business case development, designed high level architecture, & led supplier selection, to support 2008 go live.

Responsible for portal solutions, supporting revenue targets of tens of millions of pounds. Five teams providing solution architecture, design, software development, infrastructure & environments, supplier management, 3rd/4th level support. · Delivered migration of Portal & content management systems, Orange portal rebrand and redesign, supporting daily page impressions in excess of 100 million. · Delivered traffic & sales optimisation solution based on segmentation that protected multi-million pound revenues across Orange & Wanadoo.· Technical senior stream lead for IPTV & VOD/DSL and European level representative, ensuring initialisation and coordination of UK programme.· Integration and localisation of group Digital Identity management platform that supported 3 million UK ISP and portal service subscribers. · Delivered Search services across Orange & European entities within the FT group from UK “centre of excellence”, yielding multi-million pound annual revenues.

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Île-De-France, Fr

Responsible for design and architecture of Wanadoo systems, managing seven teams of architects, solution designers and developers. Software development of all in-house built software – registration, provisioning, middleware, B2B interfaces, Portal tools, client software, self-care etc. Local accountability for pan-European projects and initiatives. - Delivered major re-factoring of legacy code base to J2EE/WLS middleware allowing growth of broadband acquisition to 10,000 per day. - Launched local VOIP telephony service IS integration & systems development (middleware, self-care & integration to softswitch) in under 6 months. - Delivered technical diligence and IS systems development/governance for LLU (local loop unbundling) as part of £100M+ programme. - Matured local SCM, build and release procedures; led migration to Clearcase. - Delivered architecture governance processes, assisting group/European IT policy, and consolidation of architectural roadmap.

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Île-De-France, Fr

Developed a new department to deliver technology strategy & single design authority. Methodology, architecture strategy and governance process. Provided key technical authority to work on European level group platform/product integration and unification. Led a group tasked with stabilising end-to-end delivery and change management processes to complement corporate governance. · Delivered architecture and design that enabled ISP expansion into broadband. · Initiated push towards consolidated middleware, ultimately targeting SOA, for IS integration in order to reduce costs and improve business agility in launching new consumer services. · Led UK RFP processes for middleware, subscriber management and CRM components, though these programmes were eventually integrated into group corporate strategy. · Designed architecture and UK localisation of group European Identity management service and SSO, based on Liberty/SAML, allowing later integrated delivery of this platform in the UK.

Responsible for ISP, portal and IS infrastructure. Built up engineering and service management teams. Technology and supplier accountabilities for major programmes supporting broadband growth. - Initiated 24/7 Service Desk and Service management (ITIL) with tools for monitoring & basic asset/configuration management - Matured & migrated infrastructure platforms and skills, allowing consolidation and insourcing. Contract restructuring improved cost base by c. £7M p.a - Migrated Amdocs to Portal (plus Sun/Oracle platform) platform in £5M+ programme, to move to unified group platform. - Re-location of key infrastructure components to Madeiran site, allowing £tens of millions tax advantage. - Acted as technical lead and evangelist for major RFP programme for entire ISP platform (access & backhaul networks, IP termination, transit/peering, DNS/mail/news/proxy etc) & diligence for ISP acquisitions.

Gb

Responsible for platform delivery & service integration, support and supplier management for hosted, ASP & vISP services – focussed on outsourced infrastructure & inhouse portal development. - Delivered portal applications for one of UK's first online IPO's.

Gb

Responsible for technical design, delivery and integration activities, leading technical and supplier management functions. Managed local IT team providing LAN/WAN and desktop services.

Gb

Set up preliminary in-house technical functions for Freeserve start-up. Managed two development teams and had responsibility for all client (CD) software and portal development.

Virtual ISP (vISP) platform development – presales, technical delivery, support, product development. Managed a small team to support other vISP/network solutions (e.g. streaming).

Narrowband systems and service development, support & end to end testing.

Devised and ran educational and student placement programmes.Built and maintatined first web and information systems for the collection, including network and database.

London, Gb

Lifescience and natural history publications research and technical editorial responsibility.

Ma

Msc, Conservation Biology