Experience

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  Manx Telecom

  • Isle of Man

  • Head of Networks

    • Jul 2017 - Present
    • Isle of Man

    Reporting to the COO with responsibility for planning, developing, optimising, installing & supporting Mobile, Fixed, Broadband & Transport network services at Manx Telecom.

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  Huawei UK

  • Reading, United Kingdom

  • Director of Integrated Solutions

    • Jun 2012 - Jul 2017
    • Reading, United Kingdom

    Senior role reporting to the Head of Carrier Business Group in Huawei UK & Ireland office. Responsible for customer engagement and technical pre-sales leadership on sales opportunities to all UK & Ireland Telecom Operators. Recruiting, leading & developing a team of ~12 experienced solution architects.

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  Acision

  • VP Technology

    • Mar 2010 - May 2012

    Executive role reporting to the CTO responsible for the overall product hardware & software architecture and roadmap planning across the Acision portfolio of Messaging, Mobile Broadband and Charging products & solutions. Leading and developing a team of ~25 people across multiple geographic locations, driving and coordinating the R&D organisation of ~500 people.

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  Ericsson UK

  • Director Core & IMS System Solutions

    • Jan 2008 - Feb 2010

    Executive role reporting to the VP Network Solutions in the UK sales team responsible for solution architect activities across all UK customers including mobile and fixed network operators. Responsible for mobile and fixed voice core network, core IMS network, mobile packet core network, user management and IP network infrastructure. Responsible for creating customer solutions, driving product roadmap direction into Ericsson development units and creating propositions to drive new business into customers.

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  724 Solutions

  • VP Engineering

    • Mar 2007 - Jul 2007

    Executive role reporting to the CEO responsible for all aspects of the software development and QA activities for the company. Leading and developing the team of ~50 people across multiple geographic locations. Responsible for the evolution of multiple products including WAP Gateway, MMS Push Engine, Service Management Platform, MMS Legacy &Messaging Alerts Platform

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  Vodafone UK

  • Head of Mobile Applications & Content Services Domain

    • Feb 2004 - Feb 2007

    Executive role reporting to Telecoms Systems Director responsible for the technical evolution plans, technical development & delivery, capacity management and 24x7 operational support for the Vodafone UK service layer. Leading and developing the team of ~110 people, managing significant capital & operating budgets, developing and operating ~50 network elements, and managing relationships with ~30 suppliers. Includes the key technology underpinning the Vodafone Live WAP Portal, Picture Messaging, WAP/WEB Gateways, Location, Text Messaging, Voicemail, M-Commerce and User Registration/Authentication services.

  • Head of Mobile Applications Domain

    • Feb 2003 - Jan 2004

    Senior manager reporting to Network Systems Director responsible for the technical development of network elements in the Vodafone UK network including Wireless Internet Access, M-commerce, Location and User Registration/Authentication, Picture Messaging, Text Messaging, Voicemail and Paging.

  • Head of Systems

    • Dec 2001 - Jan 2003

    Senior manager reporting to Core Network Director responsible for leading the teams developing in house HLR, Prepay & IN network elements in the Vodafone networks. In addition managing the development of externally supplied technology supporting IVR and Wireless Internet Access services

  • Inteligent Network Team Leader

    • Aug 1993 - Nov 2001

    Initially responsible for building a new team and developing from the ground up an object oriented framework to develop the Vodafone Prepay and IN systems. From July 1999 also responsible for the leading the continued development of the Vodafone HLR.

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  IPL

  • United Kingdom
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
  • 400 - 500 Employee

  • Software Engineer

    • Aug 1991 - Jul 1993

    Contracted to Vodafone to develop TACS network elements. Key developer on HLR and associated network elements enabling the launch of innovative network services, such as Vodafone Recall.

  • Software Engineer

    • Sep 1989 - Jul 1991

    Contracted to UKAEA to develop control system for a ‘Star Wars’ beam demonstrator. Gained experience a C programming and knowledge of the software development lifecycle.

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  GEC Avionics

  • Sponsored Student

    • Sep 1985 - Aug 1989

    Pre-university year plus summer working. Gained programming experience in Coral 66, C, and Smalltalk on various tasks linked to AEW Nimrod project.