Keith Milner

Current

Independent Consultant specialising in Telecoms networks, OSS, Process, Architecture and Strategy at Superlative Solutions Ltd.

Past

Solutions Architect at Invocom Limited
Technical Architect at Bulldog Communications Limited
Director, IP Network Engineering & Services at Interoute

Technical Manager at COLT Internet
Manager, Network & OSS Strategy at COLT Telecommunications
Engineer at City of London Telecommunications
Graduate Engineer at Mercury Communications Ltd.

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Education

University of Hertfordshire
Barclay School, Stevenage

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Industry

Telecommunications

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Keith Milner’s Summary

A Telecommunications/IT Industry professional with a wide experience of technologies and products and experience of industry start-ups.
Focused on new product development and solution delivery in complex operational and organisational environments. Customers include iCom and EMC. Recent projects include:

* Specification and design of SDH/DWDM management capability including development of MTOSI based Inventory interface for major UK telco.

* Design and development of a customised Operations portal for a large managed services provider.

* IP/MPLS network management implementation for a large European telco

* IP/MPLS and DSLAM management system for a large European telco.

* Design and development of a mobile applications provisioning and tracking system for a mobile service provider

* Design for an enterprise wifi hotspot for a major wifi service provider.

* Design and delivery of VoIP service assurance systems for a global service provider.

Keith Milner’s Specialties:

Network Architecture, design and implementation covering:
OSS/BSS
EMC Smarts
Voice Over IP (VoIP), IMS and FMC
Technical Due Diligence
Wifi Hotspot Architectures
PDH and SDH & NGN networks
TDM/IN Voice networks and signalling systems
Inventory (e.g. MTOSI)
ATM and Frame Relay data networks
Metro LAN networks
IP networks including Internet and ISP
Hosting facilities and systems
Workflow and BPM
DSL Broadband networks
Product Development
Software development (Java, Perl, C++, SQL)

Keith Milner’s Experience

Independent Consultant specialising in Telecoms networks, OSS, Process, Architecture and Strategy

Superlative Solutions Ltd.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 2003 — Present (6 years 8 months)

Provider of Technical/Consulting solutions to the Service provider community including:
OSS/BSS and process expertise,
Mobility and Messaging,
VoIP and FMC,
Managed hosting services
Technical Analysis for VC investors
Solutions Architect

Invocom Limited

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 11 months)

Provider of consulting services for Telecommunications Service Providers focussing on delivery of OSS solutions to support complex product developments. Customers include C&W, COLT, Orange, T-Mobile, and The Cloud.
Technical Architect

Bulldog Communications Limited

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

November 2003 — April 2004 (6 months)

Drove the introduction of VoIP services into Bulldog as well as OSS and Business Processes strategy.
Director, IP Network Engineering & Services

Interoute

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2002 — December 2002 (1 year )

Responsible for design and deployment of the Interoute I-21 pan-European MPLS network and services.
Technical Manager

COLT Internet

(Internet industry)

April 1997 — April 2001 (4 years 1 month)

Part of the launch team at COLT Internet, a spin-off of COLT Telecom, I was responsible for technical strategy, Technical and Sales Support, internal delivery processes. I was also involved in M&A due diligence and new project development.
Later responsibilities included Design and Implementation of the technical infrastructure and systems for the COLT "ISC" hosting centres which successfully delivered 9 large hosting centres in 12 months.
Manager, Network & OSS Strategy

COLT Telecommunications

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 1995 — April 1997 (2 years 1 month)
Engineer

City of London Telecommunications

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

July 1993 — June 1995 (2 years )

As one of the first 10 employees of COLT, I was responsible for developing, implementing, and supporting many of the first COLT services including the COLT switch voice services and billing platform, COLT LANLink, and the Internet services. I was also responsible for many of the early OSS/BSS systems and processes.
Customers included Lloyds of London, Natwest, and Reuters
Graduate Engineer

Mercury Communications Ltd.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

October 1990 — June 1993 (2 years 9 months)