Alan Foster

Experience

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  BT

  Jan 1978 - Jan 2009

  Management of a ‘Futures’ team looking at the feasibility of 3g location based services and a mobile banking portal. Liaison with current O2 business customers to gather information on possible future initiatives. Responsible for the successful delivery of the ‘E-topup’ system, allowing 02 customers to top-up their call-time securely through a number of different channels. This system was seen as critical to the success of O2 and currently handles £ms of revenue each day. The project had a £1m budget and, being marketing led, extremely tight timescales. Show less

  • Project/Support Manager

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2009

  • OSS Delivery Manager

    Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  • Project Manager

    Jan 2002 - Jan 2005

  • Delivery Manager

    Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  • Project Manager

    Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

  • Project Manager - MCI

    Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  • Systems Engineer, Software Developer

    Jan 1994 - Jan 1997

  • Systems Enginner, Software Developer

    Jan 1994 - Jan 1997

  • Development Team Leader

    Jan 1992 - Jan 1994

  • Development Engineer

    Jan 1978 - Jan 1992
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  TIBCO

  Feb 2010 - Jun 2010

  Project Manager

  Responsible for the successful implementation of a Business Process Management (BPM) solution for Lloyds Banking Group (LBG). The solution was developed using TIBCO’s iProcess product set for process modelling and Spotfire for BI analysis.

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  Telefonica

  Feb 2011 - Mar 2018

  Responsible for delivering many challenging projects and initiatives within Telefonica. Key project deliverables included:• Wholesale SIP - creating a new proposition for a B2B product ‘Wholesale SIP’ to be sold to Wholesale SIP providers.• SmartSteps – Platform resilience, security, capacity and process improvements to allow the SmartSteps capability to continue to expand. • xMNO – A UK Government initiative to minimise fraud by allowing banks and Identity Assurance Providers the ability to validate customer data.• Euro Billing - Euro billing platform enabling Telefonica customers to buy data services in Euro.• Drive from O2 - a telematics portfolio delivering consultative Fleet Management solutions to O2 customers with commercial vehicles, providing significant fleet operational cost savings. Show less

  • Project/Programme Manager

    Jan 2014 - Mar 2018

  • O2 Money Wallet Project Manager

    Jul 2011 - Dec 2013

  • O2 Priority Project Manager

    Feb 2011 - Jul 2011
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  Virgin Media O2

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  Enterprise Project Manager

  Responsible for the delivery of a number of Enterprise propositions including process and system enhancements required to support the expansion of the O2 Managed Security Portfolio by effectively re-selling Telefonica Digital (Spain) cyber security products in the UK.

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  NTT DATA UK

  Jan 2020 - now

  Project Delivery Manager

  Senior IT Programme Manager