Web Development Team Lead at TUI UK
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
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- Web Development Team Lead at TUI UK
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- Technical Team Lead at BView
- Senior Java Developer at Xbridge
- Java / J2EE Developer at Virtue Fusion
- Java / Web Developer at Prudential
- Education
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- University of Bath
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Andrew Eells’s Summary
I am a Senior Developer (Sun Certified) with strong technical skills and a proven ability to find a working solution to business challenges. I have 8 years experience in Internet-related technologies, predominantly in the Insurance sector, and am a strong negotiator with excellent business-facing communication skills.
I also take a great pride in my work and attempt to instill the same values in my team and colleagues.
Andrew Eells’s Specialties:
Java, J2EE, Oracle 9i / 10g, SQL, PL/SQL
Andrew Eells’s Experience
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Web Development Team Lead
TUI UK
(Public Company; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
November 2008 — Present (9 months)
I am responsible for 10 of TUI Travel's ski and lakes websites including www.crystalski.co.uk, www.thomsonski.co.uk and firstchoice-ski.co.uk. These generate about 300,000 bookings per annum.
As well as responsibility for production systems, I am currently the technical lead in an Agile team re-architecting the TUI web platform. -
Technical Team Lead
BView
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 8 months)
Technical Team Lead on a greenfield b2b / b2c project that successfully launched Q1 2008. The aim of the company is to disrupt the UK search market utilising a mix of best-in-class data provision and social networking capabilities. As of writing www.bview.co.uk has 10,000 visitors daily.
My role was to recruit and run the Technology team (7 direct reports including 4 Java / web developers) as well as maintain responsibility for the overall technical architecture of the site. -
Senior Java Developer
Xbridge
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years)
I spent 2 and a half years at Xbridge working my way through various projects and up to Senior Developer.
The biggest achievement I feel I took away from Xbridge was probably not technical, rather I am proud to have helped to change the culture of the company from a tech-startup to a stage where it is able to compete as a leading provider of UK online insurance brokering.
The most interesting project of note for me personally was probably the 6 months I spent outside the development process as part of a Database Taskforce Team, working closely with the Architect and the Systems Team, attempting to bring some clarity and scalability to the Oracle database (schema refactoring, performance enhancements, data integrity, migration etc). -
Java / J2EE Developer
Virtue Fusion
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years)
This small and fast-paced interactive gaming development company enabled me to break out of the larger company environment and learn to recognise which of the techniques and practices I had learnt in a large-scale application development environment could be brought to bear and successfully employed in a much more streamlined business.
Again, what really excited me about this opportunity was the possibility of working with some experienced and keen Senior Developers and Architects. -
Java / Web Developer
Prudential
(Internet industry)
1999 — 2002 (3 years)
After joining Prudential's Graduate Recruitment Programme, I was selected in 2000 to join the new "dot-com" department, formed in partnership with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). The relationship with Andersen's introduced me to some extremely professional colleagues which coupled with the support from the Prudential gave me a very solid grounding in internet application development techniques and practices.
After a couple of months bespoke training at Sun's Training Centre on London Bridge, i spent some weeks cutting my teeth on a web-TV insurance application, followed by a leading role in launching egg's Life and Critical Illness Cover website.
I also worked with some exceptional architects as part of the Middleware Enablement Project - the design and build of a strategic J2EE framework to enable a platform for various Customer Service applications.
Andrew Eells’s Education
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University of Bath
2(i) BSc. Hons , Physics , 1994 — 1997
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Andrew Eells’s Interests:
Java and Oracle technologies, and Internet-related developments, I particularly enjoy finding working solutions to business challenges. I am also a keen cyclist (best 1h 23min Alpe d'Huez), and snowboarder when the time and weather permit.
Andrew Eells’s Groups:
SCJP, SCWCD
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Sun Certified Java Programmer
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