Al Sutton

Current

Director at Funky Android Limited
Director at Enterprise Data Safe Limited

Past

Consultant (Self-employed)
Senior Development Analyst at Reuters
Technical Manager at SECPay

Developer at Investia Ltd
Senior Developer at Jacobs Rimell
Senior Analyst, Global Bank Security Architecture at Chase Manhattan
Senior Analyst, Global Market Technologies at Chase Manhattan
Systems Administrator, Global Market Technologies (London) at Chase Manhattan
Contact Developer at Shatz Creations
Computing Officer, Department of Computer Science at Kings College, London
Undergraduate at King's College London
Contract Developer at Intelligent Research

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Education

King's College London, U. of London

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Al Sutton’s Summary

I have been working in IT for over a decade and have experience of a wide range of working environments and systems. I have been involved in the design, development, and deployment of systems for a range of companies including TelCos', ISPs, Financial institutions and Interactive television systems.

I'm now one of the directors of Enterprise Data Safe Limited who specialise in centralised web accessible secure storage software.

Al Sutton’s Specialties:

Software and Systems Architecture

Al Sutton’s Experience

Director

Funky Android Limited

(Computer Software industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Funky Android focuses on developing solutions for Googles Android platform. It is the company behind one of the largest non-Google Android application directories in the world (AndAppStore.com) and is working with several companies to bundle the companies software into mobile devices.
Director

Enterprise Data Safe Limited

(Computer Software industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Co-founded Enterprise Data Safe limited to take the Enterprise Password Safe product from Argosy TelCrest onto the next phase of growth.

I'm responsible for all development, marketing, sales, and support activities and the company has shown steady growth in both turnover and customer base since it's formation.
Consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — November 2006 (11 months)

I had responsibility for Argosy TelCrests' Enterprise Password Safe. After analysing the fit of the EPS in Argosy TelCrests' product line I put forward creating a separate company dedicated to the product.

In November 2006 Enterprise Data Safe Limited was created with responsibility for the Enterprise Password Safe and I took a directorship with the new company.
Senior Development Analyst

Reuters

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 11 months)

- Design, development, and support of financial data testing system.
- Porting system to Linux (SLES 8).
- Administration of Windows, Solaris, and Linux servers.
- Staff representitive during Reuters takeover.

I started this position with Moneyline Telerate, but in June 2005 Reuters bought Moneyline Telerate and thus my employment was transferred to Reuters. In October 2005 reviewed the business units it had purchased and decided to close the group down and I took redundancy.
Technical Manager

SECPay

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

April 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 9 months)

- Responsibility for development and support (both internal and external)
- Led the redesign of the core system architecture which improved throughput.
- Led the move from in-house hosting to hosting at a data center.
- Introduced multi-site DR measures.
- Managed technical relationships with acquirers.
Developer

Investia Ltd

(Computer Software industry)

September 2001 — April 2002 (8 months)

- Design and development of software for interfacing with third party systems.
- Design and development of condifitional loops and functions to in-house scripting language.
- Porting system to Linux (RedHat 7.2)

I was head-hunted from this position at a time when the company was making redundancies and suffering from the economic downturn.
Senior Developer

Jacobs Rimell

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 4 months)

- Designed and developed XML Gateway into their flagship product
- Designed and developed a usage policy enforcement tool for ISPs.
- provided advice to other teams about system architectures involving Solaris and Linux.

Jacobs Rimell suffered during the post dot-com bust, and as a result of this I was made redundant.
Senior Analyst, Global Bank Security Architecture

Chase Manhattan

(Public Company; CMB; Banking industry)

February 2000 — May 2000 (4 months)

- Research into security technolgies (including PKI and Biometrics).
- Running of projects throughout the EAME region.
Senior Analyst, Global Market Technologies

Chase Manhattan

(Public Company; CMB; Banking industry)

September 1999 — May 2000 (9 months)

- Co-ordinated improvements to EAME disaster recovery facilities due to internal concerns about distater recovery capabilities.

After a disaster recovery test the improvements made were shown to have addressed the concerns.
Systems Administrator, Global Market Technologies (London)

Chase Manhattan

(Public Company; CMB; Banking industry)

June 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 3 months)

- Managing of development Unix infrastructre (approx 120 Solaris machines).

Under my management the infrastructure was standardised onto Solaris 2.6, and several machines were retired and their functionality consolidated onto fewer larger systems.
Contact Developer

Shatz Creations

(Computer Software industry)

November 1997 — June 1998 (8 months)

- Design, development, and deployment of internet related systems and software (Java, C, and C++).
Computing Officer, Department of Computer Science

Kings College, London

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1996 — November 1997 (1 year 6 months)

- Assisting the devlopment, deployment, and maintainence of system infrastructure (Windows, Novell, Linux, and Solaris).
- Included 3 month, 3 days per week secondment to the Institute of Psychiatry to develop a distance learning tool in Java running on IRIX and Windows.
Undergraduate

King's College London

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

September 1993 — June 1996 (2 years 10 months)

Studied for a BSc. in Computing in Mathematics and obtained a 2:2
Contract Developer

Intelligent Research

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1994 — January 1996 (1 year 8 months)

Part time contract developing the desktop for Two Way TVs' interactive television set (written in C for a 68000 based architecture).

Al Sutton’s Education

King's College London, U. of London

BSc. (Hons.) , Computer Science and Mathematics , 1993 — 1996

- Set up Student Premier Online Data Service with another student which offered students Dial-in access to the department and colleges facilities.
- Gave some Human Computer Interaction talks relating to the Interactive TV system I was development for Intelligent Research at the time.

Activities and Societies:

Kings College Computing Society
S.P.O.D.S.