Adam Purkiss

Current

Build and Deploy Manager at Intelligent Mechatronic Systems

Past

Developer at Arius Software
Developer at J2Play Ltd
Developer at J2X Technologies

Telephone Service Representative at NuComm International
Quality inspector at Dana International
Software Engineer at Elan Computing Ltd
Software Engineer at QinetiQ

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Education

Loughborough University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Adam Purkiss’s Summary

Build management, Java, web and database application developer in a wide variety of business applications. I have worked on a number of big projects and acted as both team leader and team member. I am particularly interested in taking a more active role in the design and development of software as well as process improvement.

Adam Purkiss’s Specialties:

* Java development including J2SE, J2EE and J2ME
* Build management
* Software testing - including writing of test frameworks and emulators
* Database development with SQL Server and MYSQL
* Continuous Integration with Hudson
* Agile development with Scrum
* Profiling - JProbe and Visual VM
* RUP and UML
* Configuration management with CVS and Sub Version
* Web development including ASP, JSP, Servlet, HTML, DHTML, XML and JavaScript
* Report writing
* MS Office
* Windows
* Linux

Adam Purkiss’s Experience

Build and Deploy Manager

Intelligent Mechatronic Systems

(Privately Held; Automotive industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

• Build management
• Design and implement automated testing framework for the purpose of application unit, regression and stress testing
• Work on QA improvement and automation initiatives
• Work with research and development team on implementation of robust unit testing practices
• Implement test management tools
• Lead application software build process improvement and automation
• Actively participate in application stress testing and benchmarking activities
• Design and implement continuous integration initiatives.
Developer

Arius Software

(Computer Software industry)

September 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 4 months)

My tasks here included:
- Improving the development tools used by the other developers in order to reduce the overhead of projects and increase productivity.
- Improving the underlying framework of the core product
- Writing and maintaining MaxQ automated test scripts
- Writing and maintaining JUnit tests
- Writing new components for and maintaining the front end application
- Creating a SyncML mapping so that company PDAs can be kept in sync with their SugarCRM system.
- Profiling code
- Building Test and Production releases
Developer

J2Play Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Games industry)

December 2006 — January 2007 (2 months)

As a contractor I am helping to fix outstanding issues with a number of their games and the game servers and underlying framework.
Developer

J2X Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 2006 — August 2006 (7 months)

Developement of the J2Play web to mobile community gaming platform including:
* The J2ME UI toolkit
* A web portal using Liferay
* The J2SE server backend
* Two different versions of Texas Hold'em Poker, both the client and server sides.
Telephone Service Representative

NuComm International

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

October 2005 — January 2006 (4 months)

Data processing and client follow up if required
Quality inspector

Dana International

(Automotive industry)

August 2005 — October 2005 (3 months)

Quality control of engine parts
Software Engineer

Elan Computing Ltd

(Computer Software industry)

June 2005 — June 2005 (1 month)

Contracted out to QinetiQ for a two week contract after I moved to Canada
Software Engineer

QinetiQ

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2000 — April 2005 (4 years 8 months)

I worked on a number of big Java and Web Projects as well as numerous smaller projects. These included a Train Information system, various health care realted systems and knowledge management software

Adam Purkiss’s Education

Loughborough University

BSc(Hons) , Computer Science , 1997 — 2000

Graduated with Honors in Computer Science

Activities and Societies:

Roleplay club, Sci-Fi library