Andy Piper

Current

Consulting IT Specialist at IBM

Past

Senior IT Specialist at IBM
Middleware Consultant at Post Office IT Services

Education

University of Oxford

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

Andy Piper’s Summary

Andy has been with IBM Software Group since 2001. He is part of the Software Group Development Laboratories, and works on defining product futures, closing sales, producing collateral and improving software consumability, particularly around the WebSphere brand.

For the first seven years, he was a member of IBM Software Services for WebSphere, and worked 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.

Andy Piper’s Specialties:

AIX, Linux, Windows
Messaging middleware - MQ, WebSphere Message Broker
WebSphere and Java

Andy Piper’s Experience

Consulting IT Specialist

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Software Group Development Laboratories
Senior IT Specialist

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2001 — September 2008 (7 years )

Consultant working for IBM Software Services for WebSphere in the UK
Middleware Consultant

Post Office IT Services

(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1994 — August 1997 (3 years )

Developer and middleware consultant for the UK Post Office.

Andy Piper’s Education

University of Oxford

Modern History , British political history, European history (19th and 20th century empires), Commonwealth history , 1994 — 1997

Attended Brasenose College

Additional Information

Andy Piper’s Websites:

Andy Piper’s Groups:

The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
Association of Virtual Worlds
Eightbar
BCS Young Professionals Group
Virtual Worlds Professional
IBM WebSphere Enthusiasts
WebSphere SME's
Twitter
IBMers
Webshere Business Integration
MQSeries
Enterprise SOA
Tweeple
BCS Membership Group
BCS Chartered IT Professional
Tweeters
IBM Virtual Universe Community
IBM Certified SOA Specialists
SOA Group
Oxford University Alumni
twitter innovators Innovation & Creativity Network of Tweeters
WebSphere MQ
VirtualWorlds
SOA Governance
Smarter Planet
IBM Smart Work
IBM SOA Architect Summit