Darren Duke

Current

• Technical Lead, BlackBerry and Lotus Technology Division at Simplified Technology Solutions, Inc

Past

• Senior Consultant at Eagle Technology Consultants, LLC
• Developer at Total System Services

Education

• University of Teesside

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• IBM Lotus

Darren Duke’s Summary

Over 12+ years of real world IT services consulting and application development experience. Yes, 12+ years....I know but I still look young for my age. Honest! I have been able to feed myself based on my integrity and skills for a long time, and there's a reason for that.

Development and administration of Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes since 1996 (R3!!!), including Domino on AS400, AIX, Linux and VMware.

IBM Certified Advanced System Administration (up to 8.5)
IBM Certified Advance Application Development (up to 8.5)
IBM Lotus Certified Quickr 8.1 System Administration
BlackBerry Certified Enterprise Server Consultant
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

One of the original founders of Simplified Technology Solutions, Inc. Now I'm really just the "spiritual leader" of the company tasked with leading the technical side of the business and keeping it honest, ethical and a great place to work.

Follows the "10,000 hours" to be an expert rule and the "Do the right thing" methodology.

BSc in Software Engineering (how many Domino guys have that?)

Darren Duke’s Specialties:

Lotus Notes / Lotus Domino development, Lotus Domino administation, Lotus Sametime & Lotus Quickr.
Crystal Reports. SQL. BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

IBM Licensing expert, both PVU based and Express.

Experienced with Lotus Mobile Connect.

Subject matter expert on Domino Attachment and Object Service (DAOS) and ID Vault. Two new, must have, features of Domino 8.5 and higher.

Lotus portfolio on any platform including iSeries (AS400), pSeries (AIX), Linux, Windows and VMware.

Darren Duke’s Experience

• Technical Lead, BlackBerry and Lotus Technology Division

  Simplified Technology Solutions, Inc

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)

  Simplified Technology Solutions, Inc is THE premier provider of services for BlackBerry and IBM Lotus technologies including development, infrastructure and consulting services in the US.
  
  Application development, administration and integration for BlackBerry, IBM Lotus Domino and Java.
  Crystal Reports. MS SQL, Oracle.
  BlackBerry Mobile Data System (BlackBerry MDS).
  
  STS is a BlackBerry Alliance Member, an Advanced Level IBM Business Partner, a VMware Professional Partner and a Microsoft Partner. Please be sure to check the IBM site for partners "purporting" to be Premier level. If they lie about that, imagine what else they are not telling you.
  
  Wide and deep knowledge of IBM Lotus Domino almost every platform it can be run on including Windows (who doesn't?), Linux (including CentOS), i5 (or AS400 or iSeries) and AIX (or IBM pSeries).
  
  Presented at the 2008 BlackBerry Developer Conference in Santa Clara, CA on "Advanced MDS Studio Development Techniques"
  
  Deep expertise in moving Lotus portfolio to and from various platforms, including VMware (you need some real planning when moving high transaction servers, like mail to virtualization).

• Senior Consultant

  Eagle Technology Consultants, LLC

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1999 — April 2005 (5 years 11 months)

  Comprehensive application development in Java, Lotus Domino and wireless. Managed clients & projects in all manner of industries from 5 users to 5000 users. Subcontracted by both Lotus Professional Services (LPS) and IBM Global Services (IGS).

• Developer

  Total System Services

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; tss; Computer Software industry)

  June 1996 — June 1999 (3 years 1 month)

  Lotus Notes developer. Lead team that rolled out application that replaced the paper based software methodology.

Darren Duke’s Education

• University of Teesside

  BSc , Software Engineering , September 1994 — June 1998

  Software development methodologies. Java, C, project management.

Additional Information

Darren Duke’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• IBM Lotus

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