Judrin Phillips
Hurst,United Kingdom
Summary
Accomplished ITILv3 Certified Professional with over 25 years of progressive experience in the telecommunications, cloud computing, and DevOps industries. Proven expertise in Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform & CloudFormation), CircleCI, and Git, complemented by a strong foundation in CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Travis CI, and CircleCI.
Demonstrated success in architectural design, technical leadership, and team management across diverse global projects. Spearheaded network transformation and cloud migration initiatives for leading telecommunications organizations, including Ericsson, Nokia, Nortel, EE, Three UK, ICE.net Norway, Telefonica (O2 UK), Google UK, Vodafone UK, and Huawei UK.
Hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies, including 3G, 4G (EPC), 5G, IMS, vIMS, VoLTE, and VoWiFi, leveraging AWS and edge computing solutions to design scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructures.
Key Strengths:
Architectural Leadership: Designed and implemented scalable cloud-native and edge-computing architectures for critical applications in Telco and other industries.
Strategic Management: Directed cross-functional teams, driving the successful delivery of complex technical projects on time and within budget.
Recent Contributions:
Mavenir: cloud-native network software enabling 5G deployments and multi-cloud implementations for global telecom clients.
NECSWS: cloud infrastructure projects for UK government, ensuring robust DevOps practices and compliance with regulatory standards.
Wind River: edge-computing solutions for critical applications, driving innovation and operational efficiency.
UK Telecoms Lab (UKTL): Managing the 5G Core network and serving as a subject matter expert to enhance UK telecom network security.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
5G Core Consultant
UK Telecoms Lab (UKTL)
Birmingham
11.2023 - 11.2025
- Currently working at the UKTL Lab in Birmingham as part of the wider team ensuring the uk telecom network security. My responsibility includes managing 5G Core network in the lab and supporting other teams as subject matter expert for 5G Core network.
- Ericsson Dual Mode 5G Solution
- Kubernetes
- Networking
- Ericsson OSS
Founder & Consultant
TELE-IT UK
Reading
11.2014 - 11.2025
- Provide technical consultancy services to IT and telecommunications sector (vendors / operators)
- Customer portfolio includes:
- Telenet Belgium
- Google UK
- Telefonica UK
- ICE.NET Norway
- EE UK
- 3UK
- ERICSSON
- NOKIA
- NORTEL
- Huawei UK
- Vodafone UK
Senior Operation Lead
Mavenir
Reading
04.2022 - 11.2023
- Responsibilities include deployment and maintenance of cloud native applications, supporting customers with cloud native technical queries and Root cause analysis. Documentation and Knowledge transfer session is very much integral to this role. Most of our customers are moving from legacy networks to Containerised cloud native applications and expect high level of support and subject matter experience from Mavenir. This is very hands on role and require very intense day to day customer interaction. We work with Project manager for go live activities and collaborate with other regional deployment team, R&D, Post sales, Support and Engineering teams to deliver the service as per requirement
- Red hat Openshift
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Helm
- JIRA
Senior DevOps Consultant
NEC Corporation
11.2021 - 03.2022
- Currently working as Senior DevOps Engineer for NECSWS and responsible for
- Software Release
- IaaC architecture (Terraform & CloudFormation)
- Circle-Ci workflows
- JIRA tickets
- CI/CD Pipeline with Git
- Confluence
- AWS
- I am part of a small team, we work with software developers and architects to create & Define Infrastructure as code templates in Terraform & Cloud Formation and responsible for DevOps automation using Git/Circle-Ci.
Technical Consultant - Edge Cloud
Wind River
09.2020 - 11.2021
- Technical Consultant Wind driver UK
- Member of the Professional services team working on Flagship WRCP platform and STARLINGX opensource platform
- Primary focus of the role includes installation and configuration for WRCP Edge Cloud deployment architecture including
- AIO Simplex/Duplex (Virtual/BareMetal)
- -Distributed Cloud
- Skills
- Ansible Playbooks
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Ubuntu / Centos
DevOps Engineer
Grass Roots
08.2019 - 07.2020
- Git Version Control
- CI/CD Tooling
- Built and deployed Docker containers
- Container Orchestration with Kubernetes
- Solution Architecture with IaaC
IMS Technical consultant (Contractor)
Huawei
Reading
01.2019 - 07.2019
- Virgin Media have embarked on a multi-year initiative called 21st Century Voice (21CV) whose goal is to transform the delivery of telephony services, migrating away from a legacy TDM infrastructure to a next generation network (NGN) of SIP-based voice over IP (VoIP).
- Supporting Virgin media account Rollout activities for 21 CV Project
- Trouble tickets & Change management (REMEDY)
- IMS (CSCF, ATS, MGCF)
- U2000 NMS
- I-SBC,A-SBC
- Emperix
- Service Provisioning Gateway
NFV/SDN Technical Lead (Contractor)
Vodafone
newbury
07.2018 - 12.2018
- Cloud Migration
- IMS Core Virtualisation of vSBG,vBGF,vSAPC elements
- VNF on boarding
- VCLOUD director
- Service transition, Service Operation
- HP, VMWare, Ericsson
Senior Technical Project Manager Mobile Core and VAS (Contractor)
Telenet
Brussels Area
09.2017 - 04.2018
- Senior Technical Project Manager Mobile Core and VAS
- Project management from Project initiation to operational readiness (Full Project lifecycle)
- Responsibilities include budget responsibilities, Resources, Project plan, Project Documentation, Risk analysis, Stake holder Management, Supplier Management and implementation
- Projects
- BMID (Belgian Mobile ID) (VAS Project)
- PGW Migration (Network Project)
- IP V6
Technical Project Manager (Contractor)
Google
01.2017 - 08.2017
- Currently working on implementation of You tube data plan API for African Mobile network operators
- The key project is centred around specifying an API that improves data transparency to allow applications to optimize the user's experience and data usage. The applications communicate with the mobile network operator using HTTPS and the API encodes data plan information in an extensible JSON-based format.
- Responsibilities.
- > Managing project activities
- > Organising and attending project meetings
- > Preparing project documentation & slides for presentation
- > Managing stakeholder expectations
- > Aligning Resources internally and externally
- > RAID management
Consultant Core Networks (Contractor)
O2 (Telefonica UK)
02.2016 - 12.2016
- Senior Tech Lead/Consultant (VoLTE & VoWiFi, IMS, BSS Systems) Telefonica UK is currently establishing the overall network readiness for VoLTE & VoWiFi launch in June 2016 E2E Solution Architecture & Design E2E Test & Integration Billing & Provisioning In Life Support Responsibilities - E2E HLD & LLD implementation - VoLTE/VoWiFi E2E Billing Test Specification - VoLTE/VoWiFi E2E Billing testing - VoLTE/VoWiFi E2E network testing - Pre pay online charging - Post-pay off line charging
Technical Project Manager (Contractor)
ice.net
Oslo Area
06.2015 - 12.2015
- ICE.NET is third largest operator in Norway and currently swapping from CDMA to LTE and moving toward VOLTE solution Responsibilities - Technical project manager reporting to programme manager - Coordinating activities between vendor and ICE -Achieving key project mile stone - e2e testing delivery Activities - Vendor management - Internal team management - Creating strategic test plan - Creating project mandate - Project progress reporting to programme management This objective of the project is to deliver seamless migration of ICE customers from CDMA to LTE and toward VOLTE solution Technical project manager is part of the project team delivering transition from CDMA to LTE and is the main interface between technical teams ( EPC core /IP /RAN/OSS) and other department (Sales/Product/Customer service ) Requirements based on customer journey is raised by Sales/Product/Customer service teams and technical project manager is responsible for coordinating activity between different part of the business and delivering the requirements. I work closely with all stakeholders to deliver the requirements , This role requires technical skills ,management skills and team working Agile JIRA MS Project Power point Excel
Senior Engineer Innovation and Partnership (Contractor)
EE
Bristol
01.2015 - 05.2015
- Currently working on live network testing of IMS products including Vo-wifi & VOLTE also responsible for writing tests and managing programme requirements which include writing reports & working with other stakeholders to finalise test requirement
Senior Solution platform Engineer
3
05.2007 - 11.2014
- Worked in Testbed (3 UK) my duties include validating new design before implementing in the live network , implementing LLD in test bed , HLD review, performing maintenance upgrade , implementing emergency patches , troubleshooting complex issues, writing exit reports , writing test plans maintaining the data build of the test bed This is a multifunctional role including integration testing, Regression testing and acceptance testing of new HW and SW.I work closely with design team to implement new solutions as requested by the customer. In my capacity as Mobile packet core Engineer , I am responsible implementing and approving the new design I have also worked as test lead for numerous projects and have excellent hand on experience on the Packet core network elements in the test bed include Samsung SAE-Gateway ,Nokia cSGSN , Nokia FLEXI ISN , Nokia 3G SGSN , Nokia GGSN , Nokia CMD , I have also working knowledge of Nokia Netact, Alcatel –Lucent OCS, Radius server, DNS server
Technical support specialist
Nortel Networks
04.2004 - 04.2007
- I worked as Packet core Technical support specialist in the Network Technical Support team (EMEA) supporting the UK& IRELAND wireless network operators . Technical Support has the responsibility for support & maintenance of the customer's live network. This activity is governed by the Case Management process and provides the first point of contact and escalation for Nortel customers on technical support. The process is also responsible for insuring that SLA metrics for problem resolution times are met EMEA NTS Engineers work in teams which are responsible for providing technical support to our Customers, in order to meet or exceed the relevant performance targets with the most efficient use of the available resources I am also in the 24x7 team for supporting critical network issues on the live network for one major UK network operator
Education
BEng (Hons) - Telecommunication, Electronics and Telecommunication engineering
London Metropolitan university
Skills
- Kubernetes
- 5G
- AWS
- AWS CloudFormation (IaaC)
- Terraform
- Docker, Kubernetes Ansible
- Git/Circle-Ci
- JIRA/Confluence
- SDN/NFV
- Ubuntu/Centos
- 3G, 4G, IMSvIMS
Certification
- Help to grow Oxford Brookes University 07/2024 - Present
- Youtube partner content strategy by Google Google 01/2017 - Present
- ITIL V3 Service Management Foundation BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT 12/2013 - Present
- AWS Solution Architect Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Kubernetes and Docker Udemy
Timeline
5G Core Consultant
UK Telecoms Lab (UKTL)
11.2023 - 11.2025
Senior Operation Lead
Mavenir
04.2022 - 11.2023
Senior DevOps Consultant
NEC Corporation
11.2021 - 03.2022
Technical Consultant - Edge Cloud
Wind River
09.2020 - 11.2021
DevOps Engineer
Grass Roots
08.2019 - 07.2020
IMS Technical consultant (Contractor)
Huawei
01.2019 - 07.2019
NFV/SDN Technical Lead (Contractor)
Vodafone
07.2018 - 12.2018
Senior Technical Project Manager Mobile Core and VAS (Contractor)
Telenet
09.2017 - 04.2018
Technical Project Manager (Contractor)
Google
01.2017 - 08.2017
Consultant Core Networks (Contractor)
O2 (Telefonica UK)
02.2016 - 12.2016
Technical Project Manager (Contractor)
ice.net
06.2015 - 12.2015
Senior Engineer Innovation and Partnership (Contractor)
EE
01.2015 - 05.2015
Founder & Consultant
TELE-IT UK
11.2014 - 11.2025
Senior Solution platform Engineer
3
05.2007 - 11.2014
Technical support specialist
Nortel Networks
04.2004 - 04.2007
BEng (Hons) - Telecommunication, Electronics and Telecommunication engineering
London Metropolitan university