Press release
YouView today announced new appointments in technology and operations to further strengthen delivery teams ahead of its consumer launch.
In operations Andrew Burdess, formerly BT Vision Operations Director and Head of Service Operations at NTL, has joined as Director of Operations. He will take responsibility for developing all consumer facing aspects of the platform and ensuring technical resilience of back end services.
The technology team has already successfully defined the technical environment, built the user interface, established a framework for content providers and developed the core technical specifications for developing YouView set top boxes.
As the programme moves into its next phase, Anthony Rose, the current CTO, is stepping down from this role and YouView have appointed Youssef (Sef) Tuma as Head of Technical Delivery. Sef brings a wealth of experience of delivering similar programmes globally. Anthony Rose will continue to inform product development in an advisory capacity.
Greg McCall remains Launch Director and Jeff Hunter continues in his role as Chief Architect.
Richard Halton said:
"These changes are about strengthening our technology and operations teams to ensure we deliver YouView in good time and in great shape. We are ensuring that in key project management areas such as technology and operations we are expanding capacity to ensure we meet the demands of this exciting project.
"As we move into this next phase of our development I want to pay tribute to the brilliant work Anthony Rose has done to shape the consumer proposition and I am pleased that he has agreed to continue to advise the project.
"We are delighted Sef is being seconded into our leadership team. He has a hugely impressive track record of successfully delivering major integration projects in our industry. We now have a highly experienced technical delivery team committed to developing an exciting new service."
