Advisory Software Engineer at IBM Ireland
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- Advisory Software Engineer at IBM Ireland
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- Advisory Software Engineer at IBM
- Advisory IT Specialist at IBM
- Software Engineer at IBM
- Industrial Trainee at Ford Motor Company Limited
- Education
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- University of Leeds
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Adrian Spender’s Summary
In his nine years in IBM, Adrian has contributed to the design and development of a number of products within IBM's middle-ware portfolio including WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus on which he was a lead developer of the core runtime engine from the product's initial inception through two successful releases. Additionally, he has worked as a software services consultant with IBM customers throughout Europe and has spoken at various conferences and user groups on a variety of technical subjects.
In June 2007 Adrian took up a new role as a lead developer / architect working on Lotus Connections in IBM's Dublin software lab.
Adrian Spender’s Specialties:
Social computing, Enterprise social computing, Java and J2EE software design and development, UML modelling, SOA architectures
Adrian Spender’s Experience
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Advisory Software Engineer
IBM Ireland
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Lead developer / architect working on the Lotus Connections product which provides a social computing platform for the enterprise.
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Advisory Software Engineer
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — May 2007 (4 years 5 months)
Adrian was one of the lead developers of the WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus product in IBMs SOA middleware portfolio. He worked on the product from initial inception through to two successful releases as owner of the core flow engine technology.
Previously in this role Adrian worked on the Web Services Gateway component of WebSphere Application Server with specific responsibility for aspects of security including WS-Security. -
Advisory IT Specialist
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 4 months)
Adrian worked as a WebSphere Application Server consultant as part of the IBM Software Services team in Europe. Working with over thirty customers in fifiteen countries in a two year period to drive their success with WebSphere Application Server.
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Software Engineer
IBM
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
October 1998 — September 2000 (2 years)
Adrian's first position at IBM was as a Software Engineer working on a retail banking product called LANDP. In this position Adrian filed his first patent.
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Industrial Trainee
Ford Motor Company Limited
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)
June 1994 — August 1997 (3 years 3 months)
Sponsored through University by Ford Motor Company, with a total of 18 months of work experience in placements at Dagenham, Warley and Aveley in Essex, UK.
Adrian Spender’s Education
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University of Leeds
B.Sc. (Hons), Information Systems, 1994 — 1998
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Adrian Spender’s Interests:
Photography, Football, Watford FC
Adrian Spender’s Groups:
Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology
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