Jeremy Quinn

Jeremy Quinn

Digital Artisan

London, United Kingdom

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Education
  • London College of Furniture
  • Furniture Maker's Apprenticeship
  • Millfield School
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Jeremy Quinn’s Summary

A highly skilled IT professional, with a wide range of experience in web technologies both on the client and the server.

Specialises in applying open source and open standards to projects and excels at conceptualising problems at all levels of abstraction.

Has a strong track record of successful collaboration, equally he can independently take a project from initial ideas through to implementation.

Jeremy Quinn’s Specialties:

AJAX, Apache (Ant, Cocoon, HTTPd, Lucene, OJB, Maven), CMS, CSS, Dojo, DTD, Hibernate, HTML, J2EE, Java, JavaScript, JMS, JSON, JSONP, LDAP, Spring, SQL, STX, W3C Standards, WebDAV, XML (numerous languages), XSD, XSLT

Jeremy Quinn’s Experience

  • Member

    Apache Software Foundation

    (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

    2005 — Present (4 years)

    Comitter on Apache Cocoon.
    Given talks at Apache Events.

  • Proprietor

    WebSpace Design (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Design industry)

    January 1994 — Present (15 years 7 months)

    Software design and development services, specialising in Open Source support for industry.

  • Associate Designer

    O2 Global Network

    (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Design industry)

    1991 — Present (18 years)

    O2 is an international sustainable design network.
    I have developed and taken part in exhibitions, seminars, workshops and design experiments during many years of voluntary involvement.

  • Consultant

    Associated Northcliffe Digital

    (Public Company; Online Media industry)

    May 2009 — May 2009 (1 month)

    The company is developing a publishing engine using Open Source tools (Cocoon, JCR etc.) for Associated Newspapers in London.
    They just finished a prototype and asked me to review it before they take it into production.

  • Software Developer

    Agile Partners

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    December 2008 — April 2009 (5 months)

    Implementing a research reporting schema and data-synchronisation tool, on top of an existing Java-based knowledge system for helping manage the treatment of diabetes in Asia.

  • Software Consultant

    ABN AMRO

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ABN; Banking industry)

    December 2007 — February 2008 (3 months)

    Working in collaboration with Hippo to seek and implement performance enhancements.

  • Software Consultant

    Mindquarry GmbH

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    December 2006 — January 2007 (2 months)

    Developed infrastructure for rich Web 2.0 experience in their product, utilising Dojo Toolkit and Apache Cocoon, etc. Developed the architecture and implementation in collaboration with their team.

  • Software Consultant

    VNU Business Publications

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; VNU; Publishing industry)

    2004 — 2007 (3 years)

    Developed the infrastructure for their massive news publishing portal that is being rolled out over their European operation. The job has involved planning, developing and implementing a complete re-deployment of their site using Apache Cocoon and other Open Source frameworks, developing a reusable component framework that their designers are able to build and maintain for themselves.

  • Software Consultant

    Hippo

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

    March 2006 — May 2006 (3 months)

    Auditing best practices, writing documentation and developing application skeletons.

  • Speaker

    Apache Software Foundation

    (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

    Speaker on "Leveraging LDAP in your projects" at CocoonGT, Amsterdam

  • Design Consultancy

    O2 France

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

    2006 — 2006 (less than a year)

    Developed concepts for "Changer d'Ère", an exhibition on sustainable design at Cité de Science, La Villette, Paris

  • Lead Developer

    Luminas

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    2003 — 2005 (2 years)

    Lead the design and implementation of numerous complex web applications, publishing projects and content management for commercial, academic and government clients, based on Open Source and Standards technologies.

  • Speaker

    Apache Software Foundation

    (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

    Speaker on "Best Practises in Cocoon" at CocoonGT, Ghent

  • Software Consultant

    inIVA

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

    2001 — 2003 (2 years)

    Developed architecture and infrastructure for managing inline editing of their website and it's huge media archives. The job involved planning, developing and implementing a complete re-deployment of their site using the latest Open Source technologies for display and management, consistently meeting WAI AAA and other standards across an enormous and diverse project.

  • Module Leader

    University of Westminster

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    1994 — 2002 (8 years)

    Ran a module on the Hypermedia Studies MA Degree course at Westminster University. Developed the course, the materials, gave the lectures, tutorials and conducted assessments. Held a 0.5 Research Post in the Dept of Media & Communications.

  • Software Consultant

    Risk2Risk

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

    2000 — 2001 (1 year)

    The job involved evaluation, research and development. The primary role was to develop the XSLT stylesheets and XML languages that the content developers used to build the Risk2Risk.com Exchange, also to write the Apache Cocoon tag libraries to hook up to the JINI JavaSpace back-end as part of the Open Source Crudlet.org project.

  • Designer

    University of Cambridge

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

    2000 — 2000 (less than a year)

    Exhibited website as part of the Noise Exhibition at Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge. The project was to map relationships between the work of artists and scientists. I developed software in Java, XML and XSLT to extract and render what turned out to be more relationships than the curators (Dr. Simon Schaffer & Adam Lowe) realised existed.

  • Speaker

    Danish Design School

    (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Research industry)

    1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

    Speaker on services and immaterial design

  • Workshop Leader

    O2 Global Network

    (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Design industry)

    1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

    Provided a 4 day workshop at O2 Sustainable Business Challenge, Rotterdam, on Connected Products

  • Speaker

    Royal College of Art

    (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Design industry)

    1996 — 1996 (less than a year)

    Speaker at the RCA's Centre for Design, on web design issues

  • Speaker

    University of Aarhus

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

    1995 — 1995 (less than a year)

    Guest speaker at CyberDesign'95 in Aarhus, Denmark

  • Designer

    RMIT University

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    1995 — 1995 (less than a year)

    Exhibit work, speak and give workshops in sustainable design

  • Designer

    British Council

    (Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Education Management industry)

    1995 — 1995 (less than a year)

    Exhibit several pieces of work at Siggraph'95 in Los Angeles.
    J's Joint, Jamiroquai, Sony Music
    FSOL Online, Virgin Records
    Exquisite Corpse, HyperMedia Research Centre

  • Designer

    Virgin Records

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Music industry)

    1994 — 1995 (1 year)

    Designed and developed a website for the Future Sound of London.
    Exhibited at DEAF'95 in Rotterdam, Siggraph'95 and awarded "Best Website" by Music Week Awards.

  • Multimedia Designer

    TripMedia

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

    1992 — 1994 (2 years)

    Designer on the production of several early immersive multi-media interactive narratives for Philips. My work included 3D design and modeling, video editing and special effects.

  • Speaker

    British Council

    (Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Education Management industry)

    1994 — 1994 (less than a year)

    Guest speaker at Art in Transit in St.Petersburg, Russia

  • Proprietor

    Jeremy Quinn Design (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Design industry)

    1986 — 1992 (6 years)

    Furniture design and manufacturing.
    Specialising in sustainable design.

  • Designer

    O2 Global Network

    (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Design industry)

    January 1992 — April 1992 (4 months)

    Joint exhibition of work at the Milan Furniture Fair

  • Curator

    O2 Global Network

    (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Design industry)

    1991 — 1991 (less than a year)

    Joint curation and exhibition of work 'O2 New Ways' at Seibu, Tokyo

  • Industrial Designer

    Hancocks Ltd

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

    1984 — 1986 (2 years)

    Designed professional photographic lighting products for mass production.

Jeremy Quinn’s Education

  • London College of Furniture

    HND Furniture Studies , Furniture Making and Design , 1979 — 1981

  • Furniture Maker's Apprenticeship

    Hand made furniture 1977 — 1979

    Apprenticed to Donal Channer of Bath

  • Millfield School

    A'Levels 1975 — 1977

    Activities and Societies:
    Fencing Team

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Jeremy Quinn’s Interests:

Sailing, Diving, Photography, New Technology, Sustainable Design

Jeremy Quinn’s Groups:

Member of the Apache Software Foundation,
Member of the O2 Global Network,
Co-founder Hypermedia Research Centre, University of Westminster

  •    ASF

Jeremy Quinn’s Honors:

Awarded "Best Design", Cyberia Internet Design Awards, 1994.
Awarded "Best Website" for FSOL Online, Music Week Awards, 1995.
Held a 0.5 Research Post in the Dept of Media & Communications, Westminster University 1999 - 2002.
Elected as a committer to Apache Cocoon, 2000.
Elected as a member to Apache Software Foundation, 2005.

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