February 2006 - current: Telecoms and systems consultancy through my own company Interweave Consulting.
April 2004 - January 2006: A consultant with the management consultancy Mentor
April 2003 - April 2004: Telecoms and systems consultancy through my own company, Interweave Consulting. This included a review of MCI marketing/portfolio strategy, and help in preparing the business case for BT OpenWorld for its SME Internet channel platform.
April 2002 - April 2003: Vice President Portfolio Development within Cable & Wireless Global Product Management. I developed the product strategy roadmap for C&W as a global provider of Business-to-Business data, IP and hosting services, and projected this strategy to customers, the industry, and internally.
January 2001 - March 2002: Joined Cable & Wireless as Vice President - Architecture in the Office of Technology. My major responsibility was defining the C&W global information systems architecture, supporting our business strategy of providing Business-to-Business data and IP services. I also managed the Operations Support Systems (OSS) and Application Platform Technologies (ISP) development groups within C&W Global. In total around 150 staff.
October 1999 - January 2001: Founded Interweave Consulting Ltd to work with Service Providers and Carriers on their transition to next-generation networking. Major focus on MPLS for traffic engineering, SIP for IP Telephony and session layer multimedia conferencing, and MEGACO for PSTN-IP internetworking. The other dimension to the consultancy was executive-level eBusiness strategy, IP products and services definition and leadership of "change" projects. I worked with Versatel, the British Gas start-up 186k, and Cable & Wireless Communications amongst a number of clients.
May 1998-September 1999: Nortel Networks working as Technical Architect, based at Cable & Wireless headquarters in Bracknell, for the £400 million "Network 2000" project which modernized the C&W U.K. network. This was a Director level appointment within Nortel Networks, where Nortel acted as prime integrator for the project. My team of 35 people were responsible for the technical direction, integrity and realisation of this project.
April 1996- June 97: Marketing Director responsible for global marketing of the Multimedia Carrier Switch, a Nortel market-entry public carrier (voice) switch optimised for advanced VPN.
September 1991-March 96: Set up and managed the Network Solutions Department working with Nortel's major customers across Europe, including Infostrada, Equant and C&W.
March 1982-August 91: Worked in Standard Telecommunications Laboratories (an ITT then STC laboratory) prior to the Nortel acquisition of STC/STL, as a researcher, project and department manager. I worked in formal software engineering, artificial intelligence and distributed computing.
1977-1982: Software Houses: programming, lecturing and formal specification.
1974-1977: Secondary Mathematics teaching in London and Liverpool.
1971-1972: Local Government work, followed by teacher training (two years, 72-74).
1985-1989: Surrey University: Ph.D.: Agent Theories and Architectures: - Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
1978-1984: Open University: BA Hons: Maths/ Computing (1st class).
1972-1974: University of London: Teaching Certificate (Mathematics Distinction).
1969-1971: Warwick University: Maths/ Physics/ Eng. (year 1); Philosophy (year 2).
1968: A(S)-levels: Bristol Grammar School, Bristol, U.K.
1966/67: O-levels: Bristol Grammar School, Bristol, U.K.
Eighteen papers published on the topics of Networking, Artificial Intelligence & human-computer interaction. I am currently completing a book “Business Strategies for Next-Generation Networks” which will be published in January 2007.
Age: 55 years.
M: 07940-800-564
E: nigel.seel@interweave-consulting.com
W: http://www.interweave-consulting.com/