Enterprise Architect
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Enterprise Architect at ACCESS LLP
- Past
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- Enterprise Architect at BT
- Head of Data Architecture at BT Global Services
- IT Design Authority for the BT MPLS Product at BT Global Services
- Senior IT Designer at BT Global Services
- Software Developer at BT
- Education
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- The Manchester Metropolitan University
- The Manchester Metropolitan University
- The Manchester Metropolitan University
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Colin Birchenall’s Summary
Ten years of broad experience of the software development lifecycle within a multinational telecommunications company culminating in enterprise architecture within the public sector. Proven record of deploying Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) development practices across a large software engineering community within a multi-cultural environment.
Colin Birchenall’s Specialties:
Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Data Architecture, Enterprise Data Modelling, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), Object-Oriented Analysis, Unified Modelling Language (UML), TOGAF, Web Services, Configuration Management, Agile Development Methods, Borland Together Architect, MEGA
Colin Birchenall’s Experience
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Enterprise Architect
ACCESS LLP
(Computer Software industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Responsible for the Enterprise Architecture for ACCESS (a Limited Liability Partnership between Glasgow City Council and Serco) and delivering its ICT Strategy on behalf of Glasgow City Council.
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Enterprise Architect
BT
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2005 — April 2008 (3 years 4 months)
Responsible for evolving a second generation of architectural principles for SOA Services to support BT's vision of becoming a Platform-based Service organisation. Created a strategy for realising this architectural vision and led an activity to revise the current set of services across the whole domain to optimise their scope and structure to remove unnecessary complexity and duplication to support customer service improvements
Managed a team within a central Enterprise Architecture group that is responsible for translating BT's Enterprise and IT Architectural principles into a set of engineering policies, guidelines and standards and rolling them out across BT's software engineering community (including offshore suppliers and software vendors). The goal of these engineering policies was to ensure that IT designs and developments within BT conform to the underlying principles of BT's Service-Oriented Architecture. -
Head of Data Architecture
BT Global Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT; Telecommunications industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Established an enterprise data model to support a major business transformation initiative to converge discrete operating models across BT's Europe operations into a single operating environment. This involved the development of mechanisms to enable the enterprise data model to be used within Integration Services to provide a standard and consistent structure for passing business information between strategic IT applications.
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IT Design Authority for the BT MPLS Product
BT Global Services
(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years)
Overall IT Design Authority within the BT Global Services CIO Office for the operational support systems for the BT MPLS product (BT's flagship IP VPN product). Initially this involved providing the IT design input into the business case to converge discrete MPLS products from BT's former Joint Ventures (including Concert) into a single converged product (now branded as BT MPLS) and then overseeing the subsequent individual designs as well as guiding and approving a large volume of designs associated with additional product enhancements.
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Senior IT Designer
BT Global Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years)
Provided Consultancy on network management systems to BT Global Services including:-
• Contributed to a large RFP for outsourcing IT development
• Led an RFI for a network inventory product
• Led a technical audit of network management software across BT's former Joint Ventures
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Software Developer
BT
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
Member of a software development team that led on the design and development of software planning tools for BT’s access network. The key software delivered during this period built upon the object models developed for my PhD and combined them with the results of another PhD that specialised on the use of Genetic Algorithms for network planning to provide an automated access network planning tool. The tool radically changed the nature of access network planning in BT by changing it from a manual paper based process with long lead times and a large backlog of work to an automated lower skill task that removed backlogs across the whole of the UK.
Colin Birchenall’s Education
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The Manchester Metropolitan University
PhD , Application of Object-Orientation and Fuzzy Set Theory to Access Network Reliability Analysis , 1994 — 1997
Developed object models of access network infrastructure focusing on the reliability qualities of the infrastructure to enable reliability models for different types of networks (eg fibre-to-the-home, fibre-to-the-cabinet optical access networks, etc) to be quickly assembled and compared and contrasted. The PhD recommended that insufficient empirical data for the reliability of optical components in external conditions necessitated the utilisation of Fuzzy Set Theory to capture the inherent uncertainty of results and therefore applied the principles of fuzzy reliability analysis to the object models.
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The Manchester Metropolitan University
MSc , Optoelectronic Engineering , 1993 — 1994
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The Manchester Metropolitan University
BEng (Hons) , Electrical & Electronic Engineering , 1989 — 1993
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Colin Birchenall’s Interests:
Art, Cinema, Playing the Guitar, Squash, Cycling, Snowboarding
Colin Birchenall’s Groups:
MIET, Instutute of Engineering & Technology ,MITP, Institute of Telecommunications Professionals
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Serco Group
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