Tony Richardson

Tony spent over 30 years working in the Telecommunications industry with British Telecom in a number of senior positions. Tony’s main area of expertise has surrounded architecting distributed computing solutions for OSS/BSS environments. In recent years he has been providing consultancy advice on the development of Operational Support Systems for operators and vendors in the telecommunications industry. Tony has also been an advisor/consultant to the European Community Information Software & Technology projects and has also contributed to a number of these projects. Tony has been involved with the definition and specification of the NGOSS Architecture for the past five years. In particular he has been responsible for developing the early NGOSS architectural approach and now manages the building of business and technical relationships with other Industry Groups to further NGOSS deveopment and industry uptake. Tony has a deep understanding of cross industry distributed computing and related standards and how to apply these in the context of NGOSS to the development of OSS/BSS solutions.