Product Management as a discipline sits at the intersection of business need, user experience and technology. A consistent Product Management strategy is necessary for delivering a viable and sustainable product. When the Product Management strategy deviates with every Product Manager hire then the focus and investment can become confused, and you end up a bit… Continue reading AI Product Management as a Markov Chain
Medical data ownership needs to pass from the trust to the patient to enable ML diagnostics and better research collaboration. The best way of achieving this without being compelled by the hyper-scalers is to move to a persistent container based architecture.
The following is my costed solution architecture for delivering an equivalent to Operation Moonshot based on RT-LAMP testing and experience from the Francis Crick Institute
There have been 10 UK Government U-Turns so far in 2020. Each change will have had an associated IT change cost. This is my best personal assessment of what each of these changes would likely have cost. I will provide justification for each of my assumptions and will tend towards a lower possible range. I… Continue reading Calculating UK Gov Cost of Technology Change
I really enjoy working at the Francis Crick Institute and I am really proud to have worked on the SARS-CoV-2 Testing Service. It's all quite different from mobile networks Find out how @TheCrick worked with @uclh NHS Foundation Trust and Health Services Laboratories to set up a SARS-CoV-2 testing service in just two weeks that… Continue reading SARS-CoV-2 Testing Service
The UK is trialling its Covid-19 contact tracing application which tracks human interactions. The app uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communications between smartphones for registering handshakes' duration and distance. This data is then uploaded to a centralised database so that if a user self-registers as Covid-19 positive, the centralised service can push notifications to all… Continue reading How do Covid-19 tracing apps work and how do they comply with EU-GDPR?
The Francis Crick Institute has repurposed its laboratories as an emergency Covid-19 testing facility. The Crick is helping combat the spread of infection and allow key workers to perform lifesaving duties and remain safe. Crick repurposed PCR testing lab One of the main technologies the Crick is using in this effort are Polymerase Chain Reaction… Continue reading Unit Tests for Covid-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction Software
My personal experiences of working with Huawei at the UK's largest mobile operator.
Mobile Network Operators have an opportunity to provide a secure UK Open Banking Service using their location services, 5G Network Slicing and Password-less Multi-Factor Authentication
As a Google Cloud Platform certified architect I really should blog some more about my actual usage of GCP. One of my favourite tools is Dataproc as it provides a managed Spark & Hadoop environment and enables a lambda architecture suitable for complex network event processing and function remediation. A mobile radio network is a… Continue reading Google Cloud managed Spark & Hadoop for Mobile Network Performance
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