Head of Labs Development
Greater New York City Area
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- Head of Labs Development at Reuters
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- Innovation Technologist at Reuters - America (New York)
- Lead Developer / Architect at Reuters
- Consultant - Developer at Reuters
- Developer at Symbian
- Developer at OpenTrade Technologies
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- Queen Mary, U. of London
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Head of Labs Development
Reuters
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; RTR; Online Media industry)
September 2005 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Reuters Labs is a sandbox for developing and showcasing new media initiatives into services for user feedback and statistical analysis. Reuters Labs focuses on innovation for the Media business, which includes the publishing of content through editorial, and the delivery through web (reuters.com), mobile, IPTV and B2B delivery platforms.
The role of Head of Labs Development and being a senior technologist at Reuters involves investigating new technology concepts and ideas around Reuters business processes and implementing them. It also includes a rich understanding of web architecture, web standards, software development, delivery platforms and data content.
Technologies: Open Source technologies, Internet Architecture, Java, Struts, PHP, Ruby on Rails, C#, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Windows, Mac OS X, Digital Video Encoding Formats and delivery, Mobile, IPTV.
Context: Consumer Media, Internet News Agency, Scalable Internet Architecture, Agile Methodologies, Team Leadership. -
Innovation Technologist
Reuters - America (New York)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR; Financial Services industry)
January 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 9 months)
Working as part of the Reuters Innovative Program to investigate and deliver new innovative concepts and technologies into the Reuters core business segments.
The position held consisted of researching and identifying new technology concepts and trends. The work consisted of engaging various products and capability teams using prototypes and workshops based around scenarios, personas and brainstorms to encourage ideas and involvement.
Audio – User centered researched on how people use audio as a passive medium - including usage, demographics and delivery mechanisms. The results identified we could reach consumers through digital media devices and mobile phones at times we previously had no presence - prototyped the first Reuters podcasts.
Content Based Routing – Researched emerging technologies based around routing XML content intelligently. Built a number of prototypes to demonstrate the technologies and wrote papers of recommendation for the architecture and content groups. -
Lead Developer / Architect
Reuters
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR; Financial Services industry)
December 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 2 months)
Working as part of the Development group in the Fundamental and Reference Data arm of Reuters.
The role of Lead Developer / Architect on the Search Capability project consisted of designing and developing a Search Capability for Reuters fundamental and reference data. Working with the Reuters architecture and development group both in the UK and US, as well as the Norwegian based search company, FAST.
Technologies: Architecture, .Net Framework, C#, Windows, Web Services, SOAP, XML, Internet Architectures, Search Technologies.
Context: Fundamental and Reference Data, Search Paradigms, High Level Technical Architecture and Design practices, Development Lifecycle and Technical Leadership. -
Consultant - Developer
Reuters
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR; Financial Services industry)
December 1999 — December 2002 (3 years 1 month)
Reuters supplies financial markets and news media with information products and transactional solutions, including market data, research and analytics, trading platforms, investment data and analytics plus news in text, video, graphics and photos.
I joined the Reuters Consulting arm of Reuters and worked as part of the Field Development team as a Consultant Developer. My work consisted of consulting, designing and developing financial systems for clients as part of project based teams.
NASDAQ – Worked as part of team developing the NASDAQ Europe Super Montage Exchange. Primary task was Lead Developer in designing and developing the Trading GUI application. Worked client based as part of a multinational team located in London and Palo Alto US – I worked in both locations.
Technologies: Java, Swing, Servlets, Oracle, C++, UNIX, Windows, Apache, Tomcat, STL, ASP, XML, MQSeries, Tib RV, SQL
Context: Market Data, Equity Markets, Consulting, Reuters and Tibco Technologies -
Developer
Symbian
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
July 1999 — December 1999 (6 months)
Symbian, the software licensing company, are the supplier of the advanced, open standard mobile operating system - Symbian OS. Worked as a Software Developer as part of the Messaging Team. As part of the Messaging team I helped develope the email, SMS, FAX and MMS messaging capabilities for the Symbian OS.
Technologies: C++, EPOC (Symbian OS)
Context: Mobile and Pocket PC Industry, Mobile Technologies, Mobile Development. -
Developer
OpenTrade Technologies
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
August 1997 — July 1999 (2 years)
OpenTrade Technologies are a company that provides complete Trading solutions to their customers; data feeds, platform and desktop suites. Starting as a graduate, as part of the OpenTrade graduate scheme, to became an established and respected member of the Desktop Development team.
- Added new and enhanced existing functionality on the desktop applications.
- Developed various stand alone application, including, an Instrument Limit Minder, a News Contributor and a Template Generator.
Technologies: C++, STL, UNIX, Windows, MFC, COM/DCOM, Win32 API
Context: Trading, Market Data, Software Development Lifecycles
Andrew Lister’s Education
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Queen Mary, U. of London
BEng, Computer Engineering, 1994 — 1997
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