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Dr. Nicholas Allott PhD, BSc (Jt Hons) MIAP, MBCS Profile An experienced technology leader and strategist, whose experience spans both consultancy and product development. Exemplary record for delivery, including many award winning products. Thorough understanding of the software development process and the nuances of software architecture. Very fast learner. Market sensitive with extensive, international client facing experience. An industry expert recognized through standards work and participation in at trade conferences. Experience fastmobile inc 2002–Present CTO (UK), Director of Strategy Motorola 1999-2002 Chief Technical Architect, Director of Technology Shell (Kalido) 1998-1999 Senior Consultant Corporata Group 1997-1998 Principal Consultant, Director Dorling Kindersley Multimedia /Pearson Group 1995-1997 Technical Team Lead, Senior Software Engineer Neural Computer Sciences Southampton, UK 1994-1995 Senior Software Engineer, Solutions Analyst Skills/Expertise
Industry Experience
Education PhD Artificial Intelligence, Nottingham BSc (Jt Hons) IIi Computer/Cognitive Science, Nottingham 4 A Levels, 9 O Levels, Barclays Scholarship Secondary Education PROFESSIONAL activity n Technical Standards: OMA: PoC (Push over Cellular) /Mobile Gaming n Conferences: Experienced Speaker International Conferences Detail BIOGRAPHICAL Information
Date of Birth: 16/10/70 Nationality: British Tel: +44 (0)2380 275289 Fax: +44 (0)870 1358700 Email: nick.allott@coreid.com experience fastmobile 09/02-present CTO (UK), Director of Strategy Company: fastmobile $15million VC invested startup providing Value Added Services such as push to talk, instant messaging, push email, video/picture messaging, blogging and dating. Winner of Best In Show at GSM congress. Role: covers identifying new products and new markets to sustain both long term growth and as interim holding strategies. Architectural leadership Management of European engineering resource. Building client and server roadmap.
n Oversaw the development and successful launch of fastchat in Europe: and integrated communications utility incorporating Voice over IP push to talk functionality n Active part of the business team that has taken to trial with over 35 European operators. 7 commercial launches. And 5 in progress including international brand Portals and ISPs. n Spearheaded the development of “enhanced features”: always on push email, picture messaging and voice attached email within the core product line. n Initiated and responsible for the Gaming and Enterprise product lines. n Initiated and managed partner relationship for IBM, Sun, Logica, and Game Companies. n Developed business plan and model for gaming infrastructure for submission to Samsung Board. n Performed due diligence on a series of high technology companies, on behalf of Venture Capital investors ______ Motorola, Internet Technologies Division 09/99-09/02 Director of Technology (acting)/ Chief Technical Architect Company: ISCG is Motorola’s internet division which deals with all client device, server technology and technology standard activity that relates to internet. Role: technical and architectural authority across product lines, senior technical sales representation
n Managed delivery to market of fully internationalized VoiceXML Browser, to full commercialization, utilizing distributed team of 30+ engineers of over four countries. ($4m dev project) n Delivered J2ME download server to market, culminating in full launch with O2. ($5m+ opportunity) n Design and delivery of voice applications framework, which reduced development cost by factor of four n Managed multiple fee-earning, bespoke developments, fronting customer engagement: such as voice driven email reader, corporate directory dialing, voice news browsing. n Contributed to content of and Motorola’s strategic position to standards activities including: MServices, WAP, VoiceXML, IMPS, Wireless Village, MGIF, SyncML. n Formed part of the customer engagement team, presenting product at up to board level to carriers across Europe, formulating customized propositions, and assisting with the formal purchase process. n Provided technical and strategic consultancy on several acquisitions. ______ Shell (Kalido) – Global Consultancy Practice 08/98-07/99 Senior Consultant
Company: MIDS department within shell provides information and strategic consultancy across the organization. Kalido specifically is a super-scale data warehouse with decision support tools, aimed specifically and multinational FMCG, where producing distilled views from across the entire organization using traditional tools can be a challenge. Kalido is now an Accenture invested spin-off. Role: technical architecture, implementation consultancy and client facing application consultancy.
n Architectural contribution to the ontological foundations of the generified, time variant data structures upon which Kalido is based n Design and architecture of the N-tier framework, upon which scalability is dependant n Implementation of custom data locking architecture, to improve on the inherent limitations of Oracle n Streamline software development processes, providing rapid quality turnaround. n Provide consultancy to customers on how to use, analyze and mine their data effectively. ______ Corporata Group 03/97-08/98 Principal Consultant / Director Company: providing architectural and implementation consultancy services to companies operating at the cutting edge of technology. Role: acted as fee earning principle consultant, business development activity. Client Projects: n WK Engineering: hardware based automated testing equipment, port from OS2 to Win32 and transition to component software technologies. n Deutsche Bank: investment bank. Provided consultancy on techniques for solving non-linear equations. Specifically an implementation of a genetic algorithm that could be embedded for use from Excel, to model and analyse financial performance data n Dorling Kindersley: multimedia Company, implementation of autonomous agents for intelligent navigation across non-linear surfaces, used in CD for simulated planetary navigation. n RMC: Case tool company, consultancy provided on software process and data mining activities. ______ Dorling Kindersley / Pearson Group 02/95-03/97 Technical Team Lead/ Senior Software Engineer Company: International publishing company, part owned by Microsoft, working within the Multimedia and Internet department. Role: overseeing title development and programming. As well as responsibility for specific titles, provided technical leadership on 3D programming, databases and intelligent search technologies n Managed teams of up to 30 personnel. n Successfully product managed the delivery of 3 award winning multimedia CD titles. n Development of multi platform 3D graphics engine, used in all subsequent titles. n Architecture development of the database engine and text searching algorithms used across titles. n Successful management of outsourced software development - Atlas product. ($1.5 million budget) n Instrumental in defining the company Internet strategy and transition from CD technology. n Managed 2 high profile projects where DK was specifically selected by Intel and Microsoft to work on “Top Secret” entertainment titles developed to prime the market for the next wave hardware and software: ______ NeuSciences 01/94-02/95 Senior Software Engineer/Solutions Analyst Company: Software house specialising in AI consultancy and data analysis software. Role: consultancy and programming as required. n Successful delivery, implementation of highly complex product within 9 months development. n Consultancy provided to 3rd parties on utilisation of platform and data processing techniques generating revenue for company. n Coordinated technical collaboration with European partners on smart card based voice identification product EDUCATION The Nottingham Trent University Nottingham 07/92-01/94 PhD Artificial Intelligence/ Natural Language Processing Natural Language Processing Framework for Automated Assessment n PhD was obtained studying part time while simultaneously working. n Lectured and created courses in C/C++ and program design
Nottingham University Nottingham 10/89-07/92 BSc (Ht Hons) Computer and Cognitive Science IIi n Final Year Project: A Neural Model of Music Harmonisation implemented in 68000 assembler.
Poole Grammar School Poole 10/86-10/89 4 A Levels, 9 O Levels n Barclays Bank Scholarship for Secondary Education. Professional Activities Standards Activities n Member of Core Architecture Committee for Mobile Gaming Interoperability Forum (within OMA) n Project Managed the delivery of 1.0 MGIF specs. Sub-Committee lead for DRM, Presence and Location groups n Contributions Attendance at to: WAP, VoiceXML, PoC, Wireless Village, SyncML, standards
Professional Memberships: n Member Institute Analysts and Programmers n Member of British Computer Society n Member Society Study Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Publications n Commercial and academic publications: book chapters, journals, conferences n Experienced Speaker International Conferences: most recently for the of game and voice recognition industries n Full details available on website
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