An experienced strategist and leading expert in global applications for internet, mobile and wireless-related networks. A proven record for on-time delivery of highly technical, award-winning products. A PhD in Artificial Intelligence, ten years progressive experience in understanding the system development. And now, completely at ease with all the nuances of software architecture, and its integration into a  broader corporate structure. Market sensitive, with extensive, international, client-facing experience. An active and recognised participant in standards activity work. Work  projects have been completed on either  permanent contracts, or on a subcontracted basis. 

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Fastmobile Inc: Director of Strategy                      

Motorola: Chief Technical Architect                             

Consensus Software Ltd: Director and Consultant                  

Neural Computer Sciences: Solutions Analyst         

Nottingham Trent University: Research Assistant    

*Voice Recognition  *Mobile Technologies  *Artificial Intelligence  *Data Warehousing

*Data Mining  *User Interface Design  *Game technology

*Managing Software Development  *Strategic Marketing  *Delivering Partnership Programmes  *Consultative Selling *New product Development

PhD Artificial Intelligence, Nottingham

BSc (Jt Hons) Computer/Cognitive Science, Nottingham 

fastmobile: Kent UK/ Chicago US

05/03-present   Director of Strategy                                
09/02-05/03     Director of Technology                               

The Company: fastmobile $7million VC invested startup and the first in the World to offer operator independent Push-To-Talk capabilities.

My Role: to identify new products and new markets; to manage European engineering resource.

*Oversaw development and successful launch of fastchat in Europe - an integrated communications utility incorporating voice-over IP push-to- talk functionality – jargon?

*Taken to successful trial with five European operators.

*Spearheaded the development of “enhanced features”: always-on, push-email, picture messaging and voice attached email within the core product line.

*Initiated  Gaming and Enterprise product lines.

*Handled partner relationship for IBM, Sun, Logica, and  Game Companies.

*Developed business plan and  model for gaming infrastructure for submission to Samsung Board.

*Performed due diligence on a series of high technology companies, on behalf of Venture Capital investors

Motorola, ISCG & Professional Services:  Basingstoke, UK

08/01-09/02    Chief Technical Architect                                
01/01-08/01    Director of Engineering (acting)                               
09/99-01/01    Platform Solutions Architect                               

Company: ISCG is Motorola’s internet division which deals with all client-device, server-technology and technology-standard activity that relates to internet.

Role: technical and architectural managerial authority across product lines, senior technical sales representation

*Delivered fully internationalized VoiceXML Browser, to full commercialization, utilizing distributed team of 30+ engineers of over four countries. ($4m dev project)

*Delivered J2ME download server to market, culminating in full launch with O2. ($5m+ opportunity)

*Design and delivery of voice applications framework, which reduced development cost by factor of four

*Managed multiple fee-earning, bespoke developments, fronting customer engagement: such as voice driven email reader, corporate directory dialing, voice news browsing.

*Contributed to Motorola’s strategic position on standards including: MServices, WAP, VoiceXML, IMPS, Wireless Village, MGIF, SyncML.

*Contributed to customer engagement team - presenting products at senior level to carriers across Europe, formulating customized propositions, and assisting with the formal purchase process.

Consensus Software Ltd:  Southampton, UK

Principal Consultant/Director               1994-present

Company: provides architectural and implementation consultancy services to companies

Role: acted as fee earning principle consultant, business development activity.

Client Projects include:

*Shell Oil/Kalido: Provided architectural and implementation consultancy to Kalido product group, which is a generic data warehouse data-mining tool. Rolled out to 80 international Shell sites as well as having 2 global licenses purchased by international conglomerates

*WK Engineering: hardware based automated testing equipment, port from OS2 to Win32 and transition to component software technologies.

*Deutsche Bank: investment bank. Provided consultancy on techniques for solving non-linear equations. Specifically an implementation of a genetic algorithm that could be embedded for use from Excel, to model and analyse financial performance data

*Dorling Kindersley: multimedia Company, implementation of autonomous agents for intelligent navigation across non-linear surfaces, used in CD for simulated planetary navigation.

*RMC: Case tool company, consultancy provided on software process and data mining activities. 

Neural Computer Sciences: Southampton, UK

Senior Software Engineer/Solutions Analyst  1993-1994

Company: Software house specialising in AI consultancy and data analysis software.

Role: consultancy and programming as required.

*Successful delivery, implementation of highly complex product within 9 months development.

*Consultancy provided to 3rd parties on utilisation of platform and data processing techniques generating revenue for company.

*Coordinated technical collaboration with European partners on smart card based voice identification product  

The Nottingham Trent University: Nottingham, UK

Research Assistant/Part time lecturer:1992-93

Company: Software University Computer Science research department.

Role: research into natural language processing with part time lecturing duties.

*Primary researcher on projects for NLP, CBT and Automated Assessment

*Delivered and assessed courses on C/C++, Programming Design, Software Development Process:

The Nottingham Trent University: 07/92-06/00

PhD Artificial Intelligence/ Natural Language Processing

Natural Language Processing Framework for Automated Assessment

*PhD was obtained studying part time while simultaneously working.

*Lectured and created courses in C/C++ and program design

Nottingham University: 10/89-07/92

BSc (Ht Hons) Computer and Cognitive Science IIi

Final Year Project: A Neural Model of Music Harmonisation implemented in 68000 assembler.  

Poole Grammar School: 10/86-10/89
King Henry VIII School Coventry: 10/83-6/68

4 A Levels, 9 O Levels

Barclays Bank Scholarship for Secondary Education.  

Standards

*Member of Core Architecture Committee for Mobile Gaming Interoperability Forum (within OMA)

*Project Managed the delivery of 1.0 MGIF specs

*Sub-Committee lead for DRM, Presence and Location groups

*Contributions made to: WAP, VoiceXML, PoC, Wireless Village, SyncML, internal company committees

Professional Memberships:

*Member Institute Analysts and Programmers

*Associate Member of British Computer Society

*Member Society Study Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour

*Publications

*Commercial and academic publications: book chapters, journals, conferences

*Experienced Speaker International Conferences: most recently for the of game and voice recognition industries  

More extensive detail on the products and publications discussed can be found on website: www.nickallott.com