David Wilkinson

Current

• Director at Lumen Services Limited

Past

• Co-founder and Technology Director at Avenida Technologies
• Senior Consultant at Parallax Solutions Limited
• Software Developer at Fulcrum Telecommunications Limited

• Software Developer at GEC Plessey Telecommunications

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Education

• Liverpool University

Recommended

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Connections

79 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• Flickr
• Utata

David Wilkinson’s Summary

A first class software system architect and developer with an excellent in-depth understanding of Internet-based technologies and their application to business problems. Has long been at the forefront of the application of technologies and is constantly active in assessing the potential of new and emerging technologies in electronic commerce.

Played leading roles in several major commercial Internet-based developments and has been in the vanguard of the movement towards the use of the Internet as a serious commercial tool since long before Netscape invented the cookie.

Comprehensive knowledge of a wide range of technologies, complemented by a thorough understanding of the commercial needs of the business.

Author of "Flickr Mashups", a hands-on guide to building applications with the Flickr API. Published by Wiley under their Wrox imprint in February 2007.
ISBN-10: 0470097744
ISBN-13: 978-0470097748

Other activities:

Operations Manager for Utata (http://www.utata.org/), looking after all of the back-end systems and responsible for creating and maintaining the software that drives the site and its integration with Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/).

Regular photographer at the Loft Theatre in Leamington Spa, taking photographs for use in in programmes, front of house and marketing collateral.

David Wilkinson’s Specialties:

Java, J2EE, .NET, C#, PHP, ASP, Perl, MySQL, SQL Server, Flex, AIR, Flash, Actionscript, Javascript, AJAX, XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, HTML, CSS, C, C++, SQL, Web 2.0

David Wilkinson’s Experience

• Director

  Lumen Services Limited

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  Independent Software Consultant specialising in Internet technologies

• Co-founder and Technology Director

  Avenida Technologies

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

  June 1998 — March 2006 (7 years 10 months)

• Senior Consultant

  Parallax Solutions Limited

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 1993 — June 1998 (4 years 8 months)

• Software Developer

  Fulcrum Telecommunications Limited

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  October 1992 — October 1993 (1 year 1 month)

• Software Developer

  GEC Plessey Telecommunications

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MONI; Telecommunications industry)

  October 1986 — September 1992 (6 years )

David Wilkinson’s Education

• Liverpool University

  BSc (Hons) , Mathematical Physics , October 1983 — June 1986

  Won Derby Scholarship for Mathematics (1984), for highest examination marks of year.

Additional Information

David Wilkinson’s Websites:

• My Blog
• Flickr
• Utata

David Wilkinson’s Interests:

technology, photography, theatre, food, cooking, reading

David Wilkinson’s Groups:

Flickr, Utata

•    New Media, Social Media, and Social Networking Participants
•    Utata

David Wilkinson’s Contact Settings

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