Paul Crisp

Senior Enterprise Architect

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Profile

Paul joined Opencast as an Enterprise Architect in 2020, with three decades of experience in the industry. He has a degree in history from UCL and moved across into IT via advertising and publishing in the 90s. He has worked across projects large and small, spanning many industry sectors.

Paul has a geospatial specialism, and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society as well as a TOGAF-certified architect. His biggest interest is in creating frameworks in which the extraordinary people at Opencast and at our customers can excel.

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A holistic approach to CIAM: balancing security and user experience

Establishing a user’s identity and access rights is a fundamental capability of any IT system, underpinning secure permissions, reliable records, and optimising user experience. In this blog, Paul Crisp, an Enterprise Architect at Opencast, explores the importance of bringing a holistic service design mindset to Customer Identification and Access Management (CIAM).

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I was Opencast’s first secondee into government – here’s how it went

This summer, Senior Enterprise Architect Paul Crisp became the first Opencast employee to complete a secondment into government through the Civil Service Digital Secondment Programme – after spending a year at National Savings and Investments (NS&I). He describes his experiences, including the challenges, opportunities and lessons he’s learned.

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Government

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Two people sit facing each other in a small meeting area with high-backed seats on either side of a narrow table. A laptop is open on the table between them, and one person is writing in a notebook. Large windows fill the background, and a tall floor lamp is visible on the right.
Open Perspectives Logo

A holistic approach to CIAM: balancing security and user experience

Establishing a user’s identity and access rights is a fundamental capability of any IT system, underpinning secure permissions, reliable records, and optimising user experience. In this blog, Paul Crisp, an Enterprise Architect at Opencast, explores the importance of bringing a holistic service design mindset to Customer Identification and Access Management (CIAM).

IT Architecture

|

UCD

|

Cyber Security

Read more

Blog post

I was Opencast’s first secondee into government – here’s how it went

This summer, Senior Enterprise Architect Paul Crisp became the first Opencast employee to complete a secondment into government through the Civil Service Digital Secondment Programme – after spending a year at National Savings and Investments (NS&I). He describes his experiences, including the challenges, opportunities and lessons he’s learned.

IT Architecture

|

Government

Read more