Office of the CTO

Michael Enrico - Chief Technical Officer

 Michael Enrico received his BSc and PhD degrees in physics from Lancaster University in 1991 and 1995. His PhD work involved experimental studies on superfluid helium at ultralow temperatures. After a couple of years working as a research associate, he took a change in career direction and moved into telecommunications. In 1997 he joined what is now BTexact Technologies, working mainly on the study and development of innovative broadband access network architectures based on hybrid fibre-copper infrastructures. He then moved onto working on BT's wholesale broadband platform, focusing on the shorter term requirements of highly scalable IP network transport solution designs.

In 2000, he joined a telecommunications startup as a network architect, where he had responsibility for designing a novel platform capable of supporting wholesale secure broadband access and VPN services with a pan-European footprint.

Guy Roberts - Senior Transport Network Architect

 Guy Roberts received his BEng degree from RMIT University in Australia in 1991 and his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2006.  His PhD research into semiconductor optical amplifier based optical switching for computer interconnect applications was conducted in collaboration with Intel Research Cambridge.  He has wide ranging commercial experience in the telecommunications sector beginning in Australia in Telstra’s SDH transmission project group where he was involved in introducing SDH technology into their network.  In 1995 he moved to Fujitsu Australia where in his product architecture role he contributed to the development of Fujitsu’s multiservice access platform, the FSX2000. In 1999 Guy relocated to the UK to work for Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe where he was their key technical consultant for system integration and testing of Fujitsu’s DSLAM platform the FDX.

Richard Hughes Jones - Senior Network Officer

 Richard gained his 1st class honours BSc in Physics from the University of Manchester and a PhD in Particle Physics in 1972. He then worked on the real-time Data Acquisition and Networking aspects of several international experiments at the particle physics laboratory CERN in Geneva.

He also led the e-science Grid Network Research and Development at The University of Manchester, focusing on the high performance, high throughput data transfers and real-time requirements of European Union and UK e-Science projects and the needs of the Radio Astronomy Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and High Energy Particle Physics communities, as well as other e-Science users.

Richard is an area director for infrastructure in the Open Grid Forum standards organisation and a co-chair of the Network Measurements Working Group. He is also a co-chair and TNC member of the annual international workshops “Protocols For Long Distance Networks” from its inception in 2005. He is a program committee member of the IEEE Real Time Conference series.