Manager, Technology (Consulting) at Sapient
United Kingdom
- Current
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- Manager, Technology (Consulting) at Sapient
- Owner at Glimmer Design
- Past
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- Convergence Governance Architect at Vodafone Group Services
- Global IT Technical Architect at Vodafone Group Services
- Global IT Architect at Vodafone New Zealand
- Solutions Architect at Vodafone New Zealand
- Data Migrator at Specialised Sales & Marketing
- Education
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- Massey University
- University of Canterbury
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Hamish Rickerby’s Summary
Hamish is a driven IT Architect with significant experience in all aspects of telecommunications systems. He has direct experience with design and delivery of all facets of BSS systems including billing (prepay and postpay), mediation, integration, provisioning and customer management. He also has experience in business liaison and consulting, IT planning, systems design and development.
Immediate career objectives include obtaining more experience in IT planning, governance, strategy, and consulting. Hamish's passion in IT lies in extracting and delivering true business value out of systems and optimising delivery across projects and technology domains.
Long term, Hamish would like to lead his own technology company.
Hamish Rickerby’s Specialties:
Billing and Rating, Mediation, Prepay, Customer Management, Integration, Telco Software Architecture and Systems Design, Web Applications, Ruby on Rails, IT Consultancy
Hamish Rickerby’s Experience
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Manager, Technology (Consulting)
Sapient
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SAPE; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
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Owner
Glimmer Design
(Computer Software industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)
Glimmer Design provides iPhone and web applications development services. Specializing in iPhone application development, accounting/finance web applications, client management web applications and Facebook applications.
Current products in the marketplace include
* http://gotthegist.co.nz - small business GST/sales tax calculation software for New Zealand
* http://sendit4.me - turn digital photos into to real postcards - also available as a facebook application (http://is.gd/A5gg) and iPhone application (http://is.gd/A5hD)
* http://countees.co.uk - Online t-shirt store infrastructure that integrates with Spreadshirt
We also provide bespoke web, facebook and iPhone application development.
Specific technologies we work with are Ruby, Ruby On Rails, PHP, and Objective-C (iPhone). -
Convergence Governance Architect
Vodafone Group Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD.L; Telecommunications industry)
November 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Manage and deliver the IT architecture governance to Vodafone's local subsidiaries and application development vendors. Align application convergence plans to the business and technical needs (including tactical / strategic steps). Support development of local IT subsidiaries roadmaps in alignment with the global target architecture.
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Global IT Technical Architect
Vodafone Group Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD.L; Telecommunications industry)
May 2006 — November 2006 (7 months)
Design and manage central and distributed global (17+ countries) solutions and products in alignment with the strategic architecture for the group. Liased with vendors and evaluated RFIs for system selections. Worked on TCO models for IT systems.
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Global IT Architect
Vodafone New Zealand
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD.L; Telecommunications industry)
December 2005 — April 2006 (5 months)
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Solutions Architect
Vodafone New Zealand
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VOD; Telecommunications industry)
January 2000 — December 2005 (6 years)
Architect and designer for integration of telecommunications billing and charging (prepay and postpay), mediation, network provisioning, integration (EAI) and customer management . Held release architect role on multi-hundred million dollar customer care and billing replacement program supporting systems consolidation across different countries. Custom system design and implementation to extend the functionality of package based solutions.
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Data Migrator
Specialised Sales & Marketing
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
September 1999 — October 1999 (2 months)
This position was a part-time job whilst at university. I performed an accounting system data migration and audit.
Hamish Rickerby’s Education
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Massey University
Information Systems 2000 — 2001
Studied part-time and completed 2 papers towards a Masters of Information Systems. Completed postgraduate level papers in Object Oriented Design and ERP Systems Implementation.
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University of Canterbury
B.Commerce , Accountancy, Information Systems, Computer Science , January 1997 — November 1999
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Hamish Rickerby’s Groups:
IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Berkshire Branch, KEA
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UK Ruby Users Group -
iPhone Developers - www.iPhoneintouch.com -
University of Canterbury Alumni Association -
Sapient Interactive -
Kea UK
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