Brendan Kearns is a senior network engineer at Eircom who provides technical leadership for Eircom's IMS tender and heads up related initiatives like an RCS trial. He previously led the replacement of Eircom's intelligent network platform with an open Java-based service creation environment. Brendan also works on Eircom's service network strategy and sees potential in reusing Internet APIs for telecom products, having previously worked as a business consultant and engineer in other industries.