Steve Harrop Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Responsible for coordinating and developing SOA governance and Integration architecture across the Vodafone Group IT estate

London, Gb

Responsible for coordinating and developing SOA governance across the Vodafone Internet Services (VIS) Department within Vodafone Group

London, Gb

Managing a 3-5 year, VF-UK technology-wide strategy and roadmap for adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SoA), encompassing UK-wide service gateway consolidation and Group alignment for faster, more cost-effective service layer development.Built a UK “innovation lab” with Ericsson and demonstrated capabilities and services in advance of production capability: Mobile Widgets, Consumer Web/Telco IMS and other mobile media-oriented services.Led various initiatives for the strategic defence and exploitation of mobile differentiating services: Identity, Mobile Location, Data Mining.

London, Gb

Technical Architect for the Mobile Applications and Content Services Domain in Vodafone UK. Domain is responsible for all SMS, MMS, Location, Voicemail, Web/WAP access, SSO, MobileTV, the Vodafone Live! WAP Portal and various other service platforms.

Parsippany, Nj, Us

Coordinating development and governance of the TM Forum Open-API catalogue - as an industry standard for Telco-IT APIs.

London, Gb

Contract. Wrote VF-UK's first rendering and content aquisition engines for first VF-UK WAP portal. Also worked on a central Web Services gateway (VF-Via) for consistent third-party SMS, location and billing interfaces.

Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, Us

Contract architect. Involved in various technical bid work for NZ-Government.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Worked on a CRM/Billing/Provisioning platform for mid-tier telco's.

Us

Previously the software arm of SFNB - Security First Network Bank: "The World's First Internet Bank"Contract architect: Established inital middleware frameworks for messaging and persistence, allowing the banking software with ~10,000 customers to scale up and be wholesaled to established nationwide banking institutions.Also worked on data models and ORM layers to extend the bank operations into stock brokerage.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Contract developer: Ran a four person GUI architecture team to create a framework for GUI development of a CRM, Billing and Provisioning system for BellSouth. X11/Motif toolkit, C++.

London, Gb

Technical lead designer/developer to a radio planning application (VGis), allowing Vodafone radio planners to graphically overlay population, road/rail networks and terrain/digital elevation - with predicted radio propagation, and quickly play out "what if" scenarios with site parameters (antenna, tilt, power, height, bearing, frequency etc) on TACS and GSM cellular networks.Led the internationalisation of the product (language, mapping, world-coordinates) during Vodafone's international expansion, and assisted in speculative GSM license bid work and deployment to new Vodafone operations.Led exploritory work into wider exploitation of GIS technology into other departments (eg: asset management).

Developer writing an advertisement makeup package for the pre-press industry, basically an industrial strength PageMaker equivalent on a Unix platform.

Bsc, Computer Science

Bsc Computer Science, Computer Science