Hugh Dixon Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

Chief EA at Nominet responsible for technical engagement on major customer projects, operational strategy and architecture, standards and industry contact and technology leadership.

United Kingdom

Enterprise Architecture for delivery of a major project for UK public sector networking and security.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Trusted partner to senior stakeholders across technology, data, product development, finance, cybersecurity, commercial, operations, policy and security/compliance functions providing direct technical insight alongside commercial awareness.Broad remit across Group Technology to enable technology transformation, develop strategy, drive architectural standards and principles, operational efficiency improvements, organisation and process change. Wide-ranging engagement with regulatory, standards and government bodies. Build links to other areas in Comcast group and to other comms providers across UK/ROI markets.Key deliveries:* Cloud Transformation - built out unified quantitative dataset of the entire application estate to deliver investment and cost-cube/savings model baseline. Lead cross-Sky stakeholder group (30-40 monthly call attendees, 80+ engaged) to drive strategy and grassroots-to-director-level action.* Group Operating Model and Tech Modernisation Agile/DevSecOps (£800k) and Path to Production Automation (£600k) workstreams – Identified needs, instantiated solutions and co-directed external consultants for architectural mapping, hierarchical taxonomy, value-measurement and process change.* Represent Sky in OTA/OFCOM, Comms Industry, UK Government and international standards bodies. Support compliance technical procurement activity such as £10m Internet Connection Record acquisition platform under IP Act.* Establish and lead cross-functional teams to analyse and address multi-domain business problems - e.g. lack of a consistent taxonomy of financially-accountable resources (staff/org structure, infrastructure, products and services); voice regulatory and standards changes impacting Sky products, operations, technology stacks; impact of encryption and privacy initiatives from Google, Apple, Meta et al. on network economics and Sky comms products, taking into account Comcast perspective and wider geopolitical context.

London, England, United Kingdom

Chief Architect and leader of telecoms enterprise/solution architecture team covering fixed-line and mobile broadband and telephony, and platform cyber security. Key Deliveries:• Owned and evolved reference operational architecture for network and third party integration, service lifecycle and assurance functions through to customer management integration used in all agile development. Extended eTOM architecture model for telecoms to include internet service provider function processes and systems and mixed direct consumer and indirect (wholesale) capabilities.• Delegate and advisor for Director of Data Strategy during Google Cloud data transformation programme providing process analysis and migration planning.

London, United Kingdom

* Ensure that large-scale telecoms projects are executed within a strategic architectural and regulatory context and deliver consistent improvements in customer experience and value. * Manager of a small team of highly-skilled solution architects on Sky network services projects from conception through to development/delivery phases and into post-golive change. * Work closely with the business analysis, development design authority and infrastructure teams within SNS and with technical and non-technical teams throughout Sky.* Accountable to Compliance Board under Group Head of Govt Liaison and Investigations for end-to-end telecoms legal compliance regarding LI and Comms Data.

Trouble-shooter on specific technical issues across the entire Sky broadband domain. Full project lifecycle involvement from technical business analysis through to development management and execution.Developed a broadband exchange unbundling (LLU) process data management application (Oracle/web app) from analysis through development and user-testing to golive, replacing a shared-spreadsheet-based solution.Seconded to Sky Business and UK Online (BSkyB companies) as technical director.Technical author for RFPs for network service/software procurement.Delivered large-scale project analysis and solution architecture for the ground-up rebuild of customer-facing portals and sales channels.

Manager of team of web designers, producers, technical developers and project managers working on internal and external client projects. Delivered technical consultancy and development personally in addition.

Managed a team of web designers, project managers and technical developers as well as personally delivering e-commerce consultancy services to all Arcadia Group brands incl. TopShop, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Topman, Principles, Miss Selfridge. Responsible for £1.2mln p.a. of revenue into parent company Easynet Group plc.Reported to Easynet Group CEO.

Senior e-commerce consultant and solutions developer for Arcadia Grp. E-Commerce platforms and operations. Provided vendor-qualification, platform transformation and commercial proposition analysis to client.

B.A. (Hons) Class I, Natural Sciences

Corpus Christi College.

Phd Research (Unpubl.), Earth Sciences

Research Associateship with Professor Stephen Sparks F.R.S. followed by Ph.D. Research. PhD title: "Interaction of Lava and Ice During.