Duncan Cragg

Current

• Web Application Architect at The Financial Times

Past

• Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks Ltd
• Research Leader at 2020me Ltd
• Middleware Architect/Developer at Chase Manhattan Bank

• Front End and Middleware Developer at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson
• Architecture Developer at Nomura Research Institute
• Researcher at Psilog Ltd
• Architecture Developer at Nomura Research Institute
• Consultant at ICL
• Researcher, Developer at British Telecommunications
• Researcher at EASAMS Ltd.

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Education

• Imperial College, London
• University College, London

Connections

251 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog

Duncan Cragg’s Summary

I am currently working on Web 2.0 projects.

Duncan Cragg’s Specialties:

Declarative, asynchronous, distributed architectures, including rule- and event-driven systems. Specifically, REST and Web 2.0 technologies.

Duncan Cragg’s Experience

• Web Application Architect

  The Financial Times

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  July 2007 — Present (11 months)

• Senior Consultant

  ThoughtWorks Ltd

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2002 — July 2007 (5 years 4 months)

  Agile Software Consultancy: all stages of lifecycle from first contact to rollout.

• Research Leader

  2020me Ltd

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

  July 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 6 months)

  'Dot-Com': Research and Development of advanced query systems, including fuzzy and symbolic logics. J2EE and C.

• Middleware Architect/Developer

  Chase Manhattan Bank

  (Public Company; Investment Banking industry)

  September 1998 — July 2000 (1 year 11 months)

  Contract; FX trading: EAI: Message Broker Architecture; Rendezvous, RVCM; XML; Java 2; CORBA; Versant; Swing; Sybase/Oracle JDBC; HTTP; Rule-Programming; XML Transformations; Pluggable Architectures; Data-Driven, XML-based Business Logic

• Front End and Middleware Developer

  Dresdner Kleinwort Benson

  (Public Company; Investment Banking industry)

  January 1998 — July 1998 (7 months)

  Contract: Basket/Portfolio Equities Trading; Java, CORBA, HTML

• Architecture Developer

  Nomura Research Institute

  (Public Company; Investment Banking industry)

  September 1997 — January 1998 (5 months)

  Contract: Middle Office; C++; UML; Rose; ObjectStore; Sybase; MetaData

• Researcher

  Psilog Ltd

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  August 1996 — August 1997 (1 year 1 month)

  Own 'Dot-Com': exploring new technologies - research and consultancy. Psilog is still an active project.

• Architecture Developer

  Nomura Research Institute

  (Public Company; Investment Banking industry)

  August 1995 — August 1996 (1 year 1 month)

  Contract; Middle Office: C++; RV (Rendezvous); TP-TIB (aka TX/ETX/Transaction Express); Orbix/CORBA; Metadata; Sybase; Data-Driven Programming

• Consultant

  ICL

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  January 1995 — April 1995 (4 months)

  DAIS/AnsaWare/CORBA; C; C++

• Researcher, Developer

  British Telecommunications

  (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

  October 1990 — December 1994 (4 years 3 months)

  Rapid prototyping section: Declarative Programming; Lisp; C++; Asynchronous Distributed Systems; ATM; SDH; GUIs; pre-UML OO Design Methods; Rose; Manager of small sub-contract team.

• Researcher

  EASAMS Ltd.

  (Public Company; Defense & Space industry)

  October 1989 — October 1990 (1 year 1 month)

  C; C++; Neural Networks; Rule Systems; compilers

Duncan Cragg’s Education

• Imperial College, London

  MSc, Logic, September 1988 — October 1989

• University College, London

  BSc., Electronic Engineering and Comp. Sci., September 1983 — July 1986

Additional Information

Duncan Cragg’s Websites:

• My Blog