Tim Watson

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Tim Watson’s Summary

Multi-disciplinary technologist, researcher and itinerant software engineer. A gifted craftsman and disciplined computer scientist with a diverse career history, I am currently engaged in the services of British Telecommunications.

I have worked in various sectors, ranging from financial services and retail, through logistics, energy and pharmaceuticals. My employers have included telecoms giants, FTSE 100 ISVs, large financial intermediaries, small agile consultancies, local government and one of Europe's largest engineering conglomerates.

My technical background spans a broad range of platforms and architectures, almost a dozen programming languages and a wide range of engineering disciplines, including XP, Scrum and Feature Driven Development. I am an active open source contributor and free software advocate.

Tim Watson’s Specialties:

My core skills embrace distributed systems architecture and design, systems integration, business intelligence and data warehousing. I have a diverse range of business facing experience, which includes market cost/price analysis, regulatory compliance management, infrastructure modeling and life critical medical/health-care systems.

My technical skills run the gammot of industry standard tools, with a particular focus on functional programming in Erlang/OTP, Haskell, and OCaml.