
Consulting IT Specialist at IBM
Guildford, United Kingdom

Consulting IT Specialist at IBM
Guildford, United Kingdom
Andy has been with IBM Software Group since 2001. His principal role is to work with customers to assist with the implementation of WebSphere products. His specialist areas are the messaging and integration families within the WebSphere portfolio. In particular, he has done a lot of work with WebSphere Message Broker, and has written articles and books on that subject. He also has a special interest in performance and scalability issues, and has worked on a number of major performance benchmarks using IBM WebSphere and DB2 technologies.
Andy has worked in both hands-on and team leadership roles, with an excellent track record of contributing to significant projects across a number of industries including finance, government, retail and media.
Andy is an evangelist for innovative Web 2.0 technologies and social software (blogs, wikis etc.). As well as writing his own blog, he contributes to a number of others which discuss leading concepts such as Service Oriented Architecture. He also works with Virtual Worlds and helps others to get started and find the value of this new medium.
Prior to joining IBM, Andy spent several years working with distributed middleware technologies such as MQ and DCE for a major communications company in the UK, and has wide experience with enterprise computing environments using a variety of platforms and standards.
In the dim and distant past, Andy programmed for the RISC OS operating system on Acorn computers, and had a business providing educational software to UK schools.
Andy’s other interests include photography, and travel - particularly to Poland, where his wife’s family live.
AIX, Linux, Windows
Messaging middleware - MQ, WebSphere Message Broker
WebSphere and Java
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2008 — Present (3 months)
Consultant working for IBM Software Services for WebSphere in the UK
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2001 — July 2008 (6 years 10 months)
Consultant working for IBM Software Services for WebSphere in the UK
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1994 — August 1997 (3 years)
Developer and middleware consultant for the UK Post Office.
Modern History, British political history, European history (19th and 20th century empires), Commonwealth history, 1994 — 1997
Attended Brasenose College