How to define yourself? I'm a thinker, writer, coder, inventor, agitator, futurologist, irritant, visionary and consultant. I'm interested in the transport and manipulation of bits of information, just as previous generations were dominated by questions of the impact of canals, railways, roads and containers for transporting goods.
Aged 12 I would stand in the computer store programming their TI-99/4A until I got kicked out. IT is where I was born. Previous lives have included being a senior consultant in the server technology consulting group in Oracle Corporation in the UK; and building high-volume transaction and document processing applications for multiple banks and financial institutions in Europe. I've a degree in Mathematics and Computation from Oxford University.
But I emigrated to telecomland in 2001 to work on a crazy project to re-invent Sprint as the first carrier to become an open application platform, and dodge the evil dumb pipe fate that beckons. Think "i-mode++", but before i-mode was a known success. It was an exciting time, boom and bust. The outcome? Project terminated, VP fired, business unit dissolved. At least I'm a named inventor on 8 patent applications granted as a result.
With time on my hands, I started a blog jokingly called Telepocalypse to examine the fundamentals of telecom. Things rapidly got out of hand, with me being quoted in Business Week Online, Forbes and WSJ. I soon left Sprint to go consulting.
Since then I have been Chief Analyst at STL Partners (and co-founder of the Telco 2.0 initiative), and then Strategy Director at BT Innovate & Design.
I am now an independent consultant again. My new focus is on how different communications channels, from voicemail to Twitter, support the needs of enterprises to connect, interact and transact with their customers.
My contact details can be found here.