Alan Spencer's Biography - Continued
The following is an outline of the areas of Alan Spencer's expertise:
- Managed contracts involved in system design, software systems, OSS/BSS systems, infrastructure design, transmission design, network planning and upgrade, network implementation, delivery, business change, major roll-out and migration programme's, product development, relocations and website design.
- Project management involving writing, tracking or managing PIDs, Change Requests, Contracts, Business Cases, Contract Change Notes, Prince 2 Project Structures, Financial Planning, Modelling, Project Plans, Risks and Issues, Lessons Learnt, Penalty Clauses, Consequential Damages, Service Credits, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Stakeholder Management.
- Network and equipment design - Signalling (ISDN, QSIG, DPNSS, DASS2, SS7, ISUP, MAP, INAP), SIGTRAN (SCTP and all UAs- such as M3UA and IUA, SDH (and next generation SDH), SONET, DWDM, CWDM, MSPP, V5.1 and V5.2, ATM, xDSL/Broadband, NGA, Frame Relay, VoIP, SIP, H.323, H.248/MEGACO, MPLS, VPNs, TCP/IP, IPv6, ENUM.
- NGN and 21CN design and vendor evaluation - including specification and evaluation of Call Agent/Call Server; Bandwidth Manager; Source Based Router/Numbering Database; Home Subscriber Server (HSS); Signalling Gateway; Media Gateways; Trunk Gateway; Customer Gateways; Analogue Gateways; Border Gateways/Session Border Controllers (SBCs); Multi-Service Access Nodes (MSANs) and Media Servers.
- RFI/RFQ/ITT bids and tenders document writing and scoring matrix; vendor solution evaluation; handling clarifications; vendor negotiations; procurement and cost analysis.
- Licensing, regulatory and standards issues relating to EC Directives, ITU-T, Ofcom, TSG, 3GPP, DTI, ETSI and other bodies and organisations. Numbering, number portability, indirect access, carrier pre-selection, local-loop unbundling, wholesale line rental and other carrier services and issues.