Emerging Technology Specialist and Senior Inventor at IBM
Southampton, United Kingdom
- Current
- Past
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- Software Engineer, WebSphere MQ System Clients Development at IBM
- Software Engineer, WebSphere MQ Explorer Development at IBM
- Software Engineer, WebSphere MQ System Test at IBM
- Software Engineer, WebSphere Message Broker Development at IBM
- Education
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- University of Southampton
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
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Gareth Jones’s Summary
Gareth is an Emerging Technology Specialist for IBM, producing innovative technical solutions and prototypes using leading edge technologies. Gareth specialises in social software, Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web but also works with a wider range of technologies. Innovation is another area of interest to Gareth; he regularly contributes to IBM's patent portfolio and is a Senior Inventor, which involves encouraging innovation at IBM by reviewing internal invention submissions and innovation mentoring.
Gareth Jones’s Specialties:
Web development: XHTML, AJAX, Javascript, CSS, PHP, Java EE, REST, SOAP, JSON, XML
Semantic Web: RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL, Jena, ARC
Software development: Java ME/SE/EE (SE Sun Certified), Python, Eclipse, SWT
IBM products: WebSphere MQ (IBM Certified), WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Application Server, MicroBroker, MQTT
Operating Systems: Linux (mostly Ubuntu), Windows, Unix
Gareth Jones’s Experience
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Emerging Technology Specialist
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Producing innovative technical solutions and prototypes using leading edge technologies
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Senior Inventor
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Encouraging innovation within IBM through reviewing peer inventions and various forms of mentoring, as well as regular contribution to the intellectual property portfolio
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Software Engineer, WebSphere MQ System Clients Development
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2007 — July 2007 (3 months)
Developer of several new WebSphere MQ (http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wmq/) Java client APIs
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Software Engineer, WebSphere MQ Explorer Development
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 1 month)
Developer and owner of the WebSphere MQ Explorer (http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wmq/explorer/) JMS administration component, and owner of WebSphere MQ development team's relationship with the IBM Eclipse team
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Software Engineer, WebSphere MQ System Test
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2004 — May 2005 (9 months)
System tester of multiple new features for WebSphere MQ (http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wmq/)
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Software Engineer, WebSphere Message Broker Development
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year)
Student summer placements, 2001 and 2002
Developer of multicast statistics feature and sample Java plug-ins for WebSphere Message Broker (http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wbimessagebroker/)
Gareth Jones’s Education
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University of Southampton
MEng , Software Engineering , 2000 — 2004
Graduated with First-Class Honours
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