Experience

Internet Engineering Task Force

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Designated Expert for CDN Interconnect Redirection Interface error code registry

  • Sep 2021 - Present

• Designated Expert for CDN Interconnect Control Interface error code registry

  • Sep 2021 - Present

• Designated Expert for CDN Interconnect Media Type

  • Dec 2015 - Present

• Routing Directorate Member

  • Dec 2010 - Present

  The IETF Routing Directorate is an advisory group comprised of experienced members of the IETF and the IP routing technical community that advise and assist the IETF's Routing Area Directors.

• Layer 3 VPN WG Chair

  • Oct 2009 - Apr 2012

  Chaired the IETF’s Layer 3 VPN Working Group in the Routing Area.



Red Hat

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Software Engineer - Telco Partner Architect

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  Integrating third party products and software onto Red Hat's OpenShift (Kubernetes) virtualization platform on behalf of Red Hat's Telco partners and customers. Integrating third party products and software onto Red Hat's OpenShift (Kubernetes) virtualization platform on behalf of Red Hat's Telco partners and customers.



Nokia

• Finland
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Solutions Architect

  • Dec 2019 - Apr 2021

  Automating Software Defined Networks (SDN) for Nuage Networks from Nokia. https://devops.nuagenetworks.net/ Defined the strategy and product management programme for Nuage Network’s SDN DevOps tools including processes for roadmap definition and feature prioritisation. Scoped, defined and prioritized reusable features and bug fixes for Nuage’s SDN deployment & configuration DevOps tools, working directly with the development team. Designed an extensible SDN configuration tool that removed the need for manual configuration by providing a repeatable, automated workflow across production deployments, significantly reducing deployment time and instances of mis-configuration. Developed SDN configuration tool plugins to simplify Nuage’s API and remove the need to specify the same configuration in multiple places. Show less



Velocix

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Global Customer CTO

  • Apr 2017 - Dec 2019

  Principal technical consultant for multiple strategic customers generating €37M a year. Defined technical strategy for modernising and evolving the Velocix product suite to support deployment onto public (AWS), private on-premise (OpenStack, KVM, Kubernetes, Docker) and hybrid cloud/NFV architectures. Demonstrated leadership to customer executives and stakeholders by communicating fluently and producing deeply technical designs in collaboration with engineering, operations, product, and sales teams. Drove customer (Telcommunication, Cable and Internet service provider) adoption of Internet scale distributed web delivery and storage products and migration of existing production deployments to private cloud platforms. Scoped, defined, prioritized and reviewed statements of work and fed back customer insights and requirements to product teams. Mentored, coached and trained team members on products and customer engagements. Presented to all levels from operations and engineering to CTOs and SVPs, as well as large external audiences at industry events, product road shows and sales conferences. Led highly technical customer projects and prioritized, managed and delegated incoming customer requests and escalations. Negotiated inclusion of customer requested feature functionality into product roadmaps. Show less



Nokia

• Finland
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Architect

  • Feb 2012 - Apr 2017

  Design Authority and techincal strategist for Nokia’s highly resilient, highly distributed GNU/Linux based product suite combining multi-Tbps web delivery and multi-PB storage platforms using a mixture of in-house developed and open source technologies, which generated €48M a year in revenue. Recruited, mentored, empowered and professionally developed a team of 10 architects spread across 3 countries. Designed and implemented an elastic CDN demo showcasing Nokia's products being auto-scaled within AWS and OpenStack clouds, which was hosted on RedHat’s stand and publicly demonstrated at NAB 2015. Built and E2E (end to end) video test bed within an OpenStack private cloud and conducted performance testing of new product features. Developed reusable Python and Lua scripts to securely integrate with customers’ systems and implement bespoke customer requirements. Drove customer deployment of Nokia’s products within customers' production on-premise (OpenStack, Kubernetes) and public hyper scale (AWS) cloud platforms. Fiscal responsibility for innovation and architecture lab with a budget of €0.5M/year. Led technical pre- and post-sales engagements and managed customer escalations. Show less



ALCATEL-LUCENT UK LIMITED

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Software Architect

  • Jul 2010 - Feb 2012

  Led technical consulting engagements with service provider customers and designed customer solutions that generated $20M in revenue. Collaborated with customer, operations, engineering, sales and product teams to design, plan and prioritize new product features. Architected Alcatel-Lucent's distributed, high scale web delivery products. Architected integration of Alcatel-Lucent’s HTTP proxy product with the Lua scripting language to enable custom functionality to be developed and reused by solution architects outside of the product release process, significantly reducing time to market for customized customer solutions. Developed customized customer specific functionality (in Lua) to overcome obstacles and gaps in the product feature set. Re-architected the internal geo-location and network map system to be automatically updated using IP routing protocols (BGP, IS-IS). Re-architected internal APIs and software components to support IPv6. Designed an API for sending real-time events to customer systems for audience tracking & reporting. Led technology and supplier selection for third party software components, performed technical due diligence, oversaw evaluation process and made selection recommendations to the CEO. Show less



BT Group

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Designer

  • Nov 2009 - Jul 2010

  Design Authority for BT’s Broadband and broadcast content contribution, distribution and delivery networks supporting BT Vision and BT Sport.Recruited, led, mentored and professionally developed a team of 11 designers distributed across 4 sites.Trained operations teams and wrote operational tools (in C & Python) to configure and troubleshoot production networks and platforms.Led technology and supplier selection for capital expenditure of £13.8M, performed technical due diligence, oversaw evaluation process and made selection recommendations to the president of BT’s network design division.Chaired the Layer 3 VPN working group at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Show less

• IP, Data & Content Architect

  • Oct 2007 - Nov 2009

  In-life Architect for mobile backhaul platform carrying traffic from base stations to the mobile operator’s core network using pseudo-wire over MPLS (PWE3) technology. (Worth £750M in revenue over 5 years.)In-life Architect for BT’s ULTRA Ethernet networks delivering extremely low latency and high availability connectivity between algorithmic stock market traders and stock exchanges. (Generated £50M a year in revenue.)Architected and designed the BT Wholesale Broadband content delivery network for BT Vision & BT Sport. Show less

• Lead Consultant - Network Architecture

  • Jul 2006 - Oct 2007

  Provided network standardisation and networking consultancy to BT Group and external customers focussed on IP/MPLS technologies & standardisation.

• Senior Network Specialist

  • Jan 2004 - Jul 2006

• IP Networking Specialist

  • Aug 2001 - Jan 2004