Co-founder of bemoko which provides services for the implementation of internet solutions, specialising in the mobile arena.

Projects whilst a mobile technical architect at bemoko include:

Senior Architect responsible for the end-to-end user experience and technical architecture for a content delivery platform for VimpelCom (Russian mobile operator) focusing on mobile music distribution. Jan 2007 to Dec 2007 – continuation from role whilst at Volantis (below)

Requirements analysis – enabling marketing's vision, bringing inspiration, providing a clear measurable goals for the project and managing change control.
Solution architecture – providing solid foundations with physical architecture, subsystem integration design (including Vignette CMS integration, Diameter billing integration, Customer care Web Services), public interface design (SOAP / REST Web Services), data modelling, UML and technical specifications reviews.
Interactive design – user experience design, defining storyboards and application flow to provide an application that meets the users needs.
Primary technical contact for customer taking responsibility for and reporting to customer on all the platform deliveries.
Co-ordination of work streams, overseeing of all technical activities including subsystem developments, system integration, quality assurance and education to bring clarity of ownership and roles to all team members.
Code reviews and technical guru for development and deployment, including development of Java/J2EE components on the Volantis platform, build and deployment processes (SVN and Maven), web application development on BEA WebLogic, billing integration, mobile device optimisation using Volantis implementation PC, WAP, WAP Push, IVR & USSD delivery channels.

Education of mobile operator in Dubai for system architects, developers, content managers and support team on how to use Volantis to deliver mobile content (Jan 2008).

Development of a training course for developers of the Volantis platform to allow many people to quickly get up to speed with Volantis software skills.

Development of a mobile platform to promote agility and creativity of mobile web sites.

Requirement analysis and solution architecture of mobile delivery platform.
Creation of the systems to manage product lifecycle, with strong foundations in Maven, Subversion, MediaWiki and Bugzilla.
Java development of web framework solution with extensive use of Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Junit, FreeMarker and Groovy.
Web UI creation with GWT and AJAX

Creation of BugzillaReports an opensource MediaWiki integration with Bugzilla written in PHP.

Accountable for the development and delivery of mobile web solutions to global mobile operators and content providers.

Reported to VP of Global Services on account deliverables and strategic initiatives to provide a clear status of the technical activities within Global services.
Created directives, guiding principles and best practices to empower and enthuse the team of around 20 technical consultants and architects.
Defined, championed and delivered on clients’ technical, business and operational requirements to take projects from inception to go-live.
Supported global sales operations to help close multi-million dollar contracts across Europe, China, Japan, Russia & USA.
Worked closely with project management to deliver work breakdown schedules, risk analysis, project sizing and planning.
Developed team knowledge share and training strategies and extended reach of solution through partner education and engagement programmes.
Senior troubleshooter and developer to recover critical path and “hot” projects.

Temporary technical lead for content delivery platform for MTN (South Arican mobile operator) to get the system through some teething issues and get the system live.

Delivery of content delivery platform for WWE (activities between April 2006 to February 2007).

Architectural lead for solution delivery to multiple operators, including 3, AT&T Wireless, Orange, Telecom Italia Mobile, Telefonica and Turkcell.
Team lead and primary technical customer contact.
Extensive hands on solution development primarily using Java, J2EE and XSL.
Server configuration and system administration including the extensive use of SQL, Perl & Shell scripting for MySQL, Oracle, Tomcat, BEA WebLogic & IBM WebSphere administration.
Champion and advocate of the MediaWiki platform encouraging and educating the teams across the company to adopt the centralised and community driven information share.

Technical lead delivering a mobile content delivery platform for Turkcell in Istanbul (September 2005 to March 2006).

Technical lead delivering the Volantis mobile content adaptation platform to Orange in Paris (July 2004 to September 2005). Technical Architect for the mobile web subsystem including Java and XSL development to render the operator partner markup to mobile devices according to the Orange style guide.

Technical lead for the delivery of the Volantis mobile web platform AT&T Wireless in Seattle (September 2003 to July 2004). Integration of mobile rendering solution into the AT&T Wireless mMode mobile content portal including development of UAT process.

Technical lead at 3 (UK mobile operator) enabling successful role out 3G data services.

Technical lead for TIM (Italian mobile operator) responsible for successful proof of concept. leading to sale.

Technical lead for delivery of a mobile portal to a Telefonica in Madrid responsible for:

Successful proof of concept of product leading to win of multi-million dollar project.
Architecture of Vignette CMS integration and technical lead responsible for delivery of mobile portal compliant to the style guide across multiple devices.

Managed team of developers in the delivery of Internet solutions for Financial, Healthcare and SME. Headed up a team of 5 developers developing a set of reusable software components with ASP and ColdFusion including the creation of an easy to use Wiki-like content management system.

Project management, Team leadership and development guru / mentor as well as hands on development of internet applications with ASP, Visual Studio and SQL Server

Consultant at an Internet start-up developing bespoke internet solutions using range of development tools including C, Java, Visual Basic, SQL Server, MS Exchange & Lotus Notes. Responsible for sales support, requirement analysis, development and system admin.