Software Engineering Director, Symantec
Gloucester, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Director, Business Platform and Portal at Symantec
- Past
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- Technical Architect at MessageLabs
- Technical Manger at Star Internet
- Senior Software Engineer at MessageLabs
- Contract Software Developer at Natwest Insurance Services
- Contract Developer at PCL Group Ltd
- IS Manager at Bosch and Associates
- Software Developer at Bosch and Associates
- Education
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- The Open University
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John Powell’s Summary
As a professional, John draws on his 19 years of experience as a solution provider considering old and new opportunities. John manages software developers at a strategic and tactical level, providing architectural input at the organisation level.
John Powell’s Specialties:
Managing software developers and offshore teams.
C#.net, SQL, OO and web technologies.
John's keen interest in the Theory of Constraints fuels his passion for finding better ways to deliver software.
John Powell’s Experience
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Director, Business Platform and Portal
Symantec
(Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Delivering the next generation Symantec Hosted Services customer portals with a team of skilled software engineers.
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Technical Architect
MessageLabs
(Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Technical Architects at MessageLabs create and design solutions based on consumer requirements collected by the product teams. The mix of technologies and the MessageLabs context provide a creative and exciting environment for the creation of world class services, api’s and products.
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Technical Manger
Star Internet
(Computer Software industry)
2003 — January 2006 (3 years )
As part of the MessageLabs group, Star provide the MessageLabs services as a reseller, at Star I evolved my understanding of how consumers use the MessageLabs services.
As the Technical Manager I was responsible for developers and their output reporting this to the Director of Development. I was instrumental in delivering the organisations development strategy through the developers in the department. -
Senior Software Engineer
MessageLabs
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — January 2003 (3 years )
Senior Software Engineers at MessageLabs lead feature groups in building and evolving the MessageLabs services. In this post I was initially responsible for the primary COM configuration component and then instrumental in the design and building of the next generation .Net version. As part of a small skilled team of developers we rebuild the Core in record time using x-programming techniques.
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Contract Software Developer
Natwest Insurance Services
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
1997 — 2000 (3 years )
A SQL Developer at NatWest works with the development teams to deliver enhanced and new systems.
Software developers are part of a team of developers delivering enhanced and new systems.
At NatWest John was involved on the ISIS/BIS project and the IFP web project. -
Contract Developer
PCL Group Ltd
(Computer Software industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year )
Contract software developer using VB and Microsoft SQL. PCL were contracted to build a sales management system for a large pharmaceutical company, my tasks ranged from a RAS application to MSSQL scripts.
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IS Manager
Bosch and Associates
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)
October 1994 — December 1996 (2 years 3 months)
Delivered IT capabilities for the organisation through a small team of skilled staff.
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Software Developer
Bosch and Associates
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)
May 1993 — October 1994 (1 year 6 months)
Developed internal software applications on the Windows platform.
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