VanillaPlus is delighted to announce that John Cummings, director, Software Engineering, 21CN, Global Networks and Computing Infrastructure, BT Innovate & Design has joined the VanillaPlus Editorial Advisory Board.
VanillaPlus is delighted to announce that John Cummings, director, Software Engineering, 21CN, Global Networks and Computing Infrastructure, BT Innovate & Design has joined the VanillaPlus Editorial Advisory Board.
As the software engineering director for BT 21CN, global networks and computing infrastructure, John is responsible for delivering the operational support systems (OSS) for network plan and build; service design and inventory management; network activation and configuration; and the associated platform-based IT strategy for all the businesses within BT Group.
John’s IT platforms are at the heart of BT’s plan and build, lead to cash and trouble to resolve processes for all of the firms key products and services such as superfast broadband. In his role he works with many IT application vendors and system integrators in order to meet the requirements of BT Group as a whole, leading a global team with people based in the UK, India and China.
John has 25 years’ experience in IT systems implementation and prior to his current role was the IT director responsible BT’s application integration infrastructure, including the creation of BT’s business to business gateway capability, which enabled CSPs to trade electronically with the firm.
