Julian Knight

Current

Solution Architect at CO-OP Financial Services
IS/IT Consultant, Technical Architect, Multi-System Integration and Identity Management at Klarient Ltd

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Information Technology and Services

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Julian Knight’s Summary

Update: Dec. 2009 Now in a contract until at least Feb. 2010.

I am an IT consultant specialising in designing and implementing information systems architectures. In recent years, I have been focusing on identity management infrastructures.

I am passionate about ensuring that information serves people and not the other way round.

You can see more about me in the Bio listed in the Klarient role below. You can also see more about Klarient at htto://www.klarient.co.uk

You can also contact me via my personal website at:
http://www.knightnet.org.uk/contacting.htm

Skills

Technical: Solution and technical architecture and design, Development of interoperability standards, design baselines, functional and non-functional requirements, Messaging and message oriented middleware, System test strategies, Identity management solutions, Directory integration and meta-directory solutions; Enterprise directories: X.500, LDAP, Authentication and authorisation including RBAC, PKI and smart cards, Internet and web standards (HTML, XML, XSD, XSLT, ebXML, WS-Security, SAML, W3C standards and guidelines), Security, enterprise email and networking, Application development (Microsoft Office, VBA, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, LDAP)

Business: Development of strategy, policy, standards and processes, Project assurance, Project scoping and planning, Requirements capture and analysis, Customer, user and supplier engagement, Product evaluation, Procurement support, Process improvement, Multi-supplier management, Configuration management, Business case development, Training and seminars, Technical design, Business analysis

Julian Knight’s Specialties:

• Identity Management
• Enterprise Directories
• System Integration
• IT Strategy
• Design Authority
• Solution Architect
• Technical Architect
• Technical Project Management
• Training
• Application Development
• Multi-supplier Integration
• NHS
• NPfIT
• Office Systems
• Communications at all levels of an organisation
• Managing expectations of customers and suppliers
• Sheffield, UK
• Leeds, UK

Additional Information

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Julian Knight’s Interests:

Identity Management (IdM), Corporate/Enterprise Directories (LDAP, X.500), Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Open Source software alternatives, PHP/JavaScript, Skiing, Christianity