Stuart has spent 18 years in IT, of which 10 years have been with CGI (formerly AMS) in a variety of roles encompassing technical and functional architecture, project management, offering development and pre-sales (on one occasion all of these at once). He was a founding member of the AMS Technical Architect community and is active in the CGI Technology Focus Network. Functionally his expertise is in telecommunications - mostly mobile. He has worked on projects for many different European telcos in pretty much all areas of OSS and BSS. He likes variety and thrives on it. Over the last few years he has been something of an evangelist for SOA. Before IT, he tried very hard to make a living playing music but never quite made it. Stuart has a son aged 14 who plays rock guitar. He is a dedicated distance runner and an unrepentant hippy.