Peter Bowyer (peter@bowyer.org)

Peter Bowyer (peter@bowyer.org)

Consultant to telcos, ISPs, online businesses. Specialist in Technical Assurance for major programmes.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Current
  • Technical Assurance Manager at Dept of Health
  • Co-Founder at TheNetStart
  • Owner at Salmark Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
Past

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Peter Bowyer (peter@bowyer.org)’s Summary

An experienced strategic consultant to ISPs and Telcos, with a specialism in Local Loop Unbundling. Enterprise Architect and TDA on major projects across telco, financial services, utilities, government and blue-chip companies.

Expert in establishing Technical and Delivery Assurance frameworks for major programmes.

Has directed software development and infrastructure management teams and sold a startup software venture to a multi-national company.

Consultant in Social Media in the Enterprise.

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Peter Bowyer (peter@bowyer.org)’s Specialties:

Strategic Consultant. Technical Design Authority. Vendor evaluation and selection. OSS/BSS Integration. Regulatory Liaison. Technical Assurance. Social Media.

Peter Bowyer (peter@bowyer.org)’s Experience

  • Technical Assurance Manager

    Dept of Health

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)

    February 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

    Providing technical assurance services to the NHS Choices programme (www.nhs.uk). Responsible for promoting best practice, standards and processes across design, development and operations for £80m programme.

  • Co-Founder

    TheNetStart

    (Internet industry)

    2008 — Present (1 year )

  • Owner

    Salmark Consulting (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Telecommunications industry)

    December 1998 — Present (11 years 1 month)

    Consulting to Telcos, ISPs and blue-chip organisations. Specialism in Enterprise Architecture, Order to Service fulfillment and provisioning, Local Loop Unbundling, Value Added Service platforms (Email, messaging). Technical Design Authority, third-party design validation, technical assurance, delivery assurance.

  • Design Assurance

    Cable & Wireless

    (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

    August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)

    Managing the technical design integration across a multi-million wholesale DSL/LLU/Voice platform including order management, provisioning, activation, inventory, billing and assurance system.

  • Project Manager

    Cable & Wireless Access

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)

    Delivering a major part of C&W's wholesale LLU platform - managing vendors and SI partners.

  • Technical Architect / Consultant

    Orange Home PLC

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    February 2006 — January 2007 (1 year )

    Technical Consultant to the LLU programme, providing design authority and technical assurance over internal and third-party development projects.

    Representation at LLU industry forums, and at BT Consult21. Member of NICC B2B working group.

  • Strategic Industry Liaison Manager

    AOL UK

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

    June 2005 — February 2006 (9 months)

    Liaison with telco, regulatory bodies and other communications providers.

    Owner of several cross-industry requirement capture exercises. Consultant to OTA on various technical and process subject areas.

  • Technical Consultant

    Wanadoo UK PLC

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 2004 — June 2005 (9 months)

    Technical Design Authority role for major telco development (LLU). Responsible for vendor selection and approval of vendor proposals in the fulfillment and assurance areas.

    Representation at Ofcom/OTA industry forums and at BT Consult21.

  • Technical Architect

    GMAC UK

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

    August 2004 — October 2004 (3 months)

    TDA role for a worldwide strategic retail finance project, including architectural assurance, outsourcer compliance management.

    TDA role for a motor trade dealer portal initiative. Architectural assurance, liaison with GM group architecture teams and offshore outsourcers.

  • Application Architect

    RWE Thames Water

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Utilities industry)

    May 2004 — August 2004 (4 months)

    Technical Design Authority and Architectural Assurance role in RWE Group Shared Services IS division.

    Responsible for diligence and technical assurance process across a wide variety of projects throughout the Thames Water, Innogy and npower estates

  • Technical Project Manager

    Freeserve

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    March 2004 — May 2004 (3 months)

    Responsible for architecture, design and implementation planning for new offshore call centre infrastructure

  • Design / Integration Manager

    Centrica PLC (Automobile Association)

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Utilities industry)

    January 2004 — February 2004 (2 months)

    Responsible for design assurance across a £3m multi-vendor integration project involving mobile data (GPRS), Broadbeam ExpressQ, Weblogic Server, Oracle, J2EE/JMS and EAI with multiple legacy systems including SAP

  • Technical Architect

    Wanadoo UK

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

    October 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 4 months)

    Architect and TDA to various major initiatives: Email platform migration, call centre relocation offshore, subscriber management platform, broadband provisioning. Worked closely with product marketing to bridge gap between business/product strategy and technical platforms. RFP process - supplier evaluation.

  • Technical Architect / Manager

    Fish4 Ltd

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

    2002 — 2004 (2 years )

    Drove design and implementation of leading-edge advert search functionality and automated profiling/categorisation functionality.

  • Technical Architect

    Cable & Wireless Communications

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

    1998 — 2002 (4 years )

    Technical architect for Email, AAA, web hosting, data warehouse and IDTV platforms

  • Committee Member

    Microsoft Messaging International User Group (MSMIUG)

    (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    1997 — 2001 (4 years )

    MSMIUG was a UK-based organisation representing UK and European corporate users of Microsoft Exchange. Its main activity was organising 3-monthly events around the UK for networking and information exchange.

  • Director

    Verity R&D UK Ltd

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; VRTY; Computer Software industry)

    1996 — 1998 (2 years )

    Director of the UK development office of Verity, Inc., the search and retrieval software vendor. Managed development and sales teams.

  • Technical Director / Co-Founder

    InSite Computer Technology Ltd

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    1994 — 1996 (2 years )

    Software development consultancy founded around Groupware solutions - Lotus Notes, MS Exchange. Grew company to 20 people, with clients such as Microsoft, Intel, Glaxo. Business was sold to Verity, Inc.

  • Technical Solutions Manager

    Planning Consultancy Ltd

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    1991 — 1994 (3 years )

    Headed up Solutions arm of PCL, developing and delivering solutions around Lotus Notes, cc:Mail, Oracle.

  • Senior Consultant / Product Manager

    Computacenter

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Networking industry)

    1988 — 1994 (6 years )

    Provided consultancy to Computacenter's corporate clients in email, groupware and other advanced networking topics.

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