Julian Young

Julian Young

Lead Developer Europe at Align Technology

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Current
Past
  • Project Manager,Technical Lead,Module Owner, + at Compuware Europe BV
  • Programmer & Systems Analyst at Uniface
  • Unix Specialist at Data Dynamics (formerly Jarogate)
  • Production / Installation Engineer at Arrow Computers
Education
  • University of Liverpool
  • WGIHE
  • Ellesmere

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Connections
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Industry
Computer Software
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Julian Young’s Summary

20 years experience in all phases of software development. Including; project management, architecture, systems analysis and design, development and deployment.

A "visual thinker", primarily focused on coding, by convention, architecture, modeling, Internet technologies, Ruby & Java

Advocate of Agile Methodologies in particular Feature Driven Development FDD

Developer of Open Source Education Management software

Recieved a scholarship to study for a Masters Degree in Information Technology with Liverpool University

Julian Young’s Specialties:

Coding by Convention, Software Architecture, Internet technologies, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java PHP, Symfony


Julian Young’s Experience

  • Lead Developer Europe

    Align Technology BV

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; algn; Medical Devices industry)

    September 2007Present (1 year 11 months)

    As the Lead Developer Europe for Align Technology, I am responsible for software development within Europe.

    The European IT development group provides business support software for Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific regions, Including;

    Customer relationship management (CRM) software for the international sales team.
    International B2B logistics for customer consumables and marketing materials.
    Interactive websites for an international marketing presence
    Automated internationalization / localization of business workflow and processes (idiom)

  • Project Manager,Technical Lead,Module Owner, +

    Compuware Europe BV

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CPWR; Computer Software industry)

    April 1994July 2007 (13 years 4 months)

    2004 Module Owner: NetBeans Integration – OptimalJ Currency and Integration Team.
    2002 Software Engineer, OptimalJ MDA Development Lab. – Security & authentication
    2001 Consultant: Internet Technologies – B2B White box Solutions Team.
    2000 Web Specialist (Technical Lead), Delivery, Methods and Practices Group.
    1999 Technical Lead, Year 2000 Changeover Project
    1997 Technical Lead, Customer Services Portal Project.
    1996 Project Manager and Technical Lead, Intranet Project.
    1995 Project Manager, Development Services.

  • Programmer & Systems Analyst

    Uniface

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 1992April 1994 (2 years 4 months)

    Programmer, Internal Applications Group.
    Projects included the logistics order processing system with integration to the financial system.
    1994 Systems Analyst,
    Compuware purchased Uniface in April 1994

  • Unix Specialist

    Data Dynamics (formerly Jarogate)

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    November 1989December 1991 (2 years 2 months)

    Maintenance and development of the Sprite Unix source tree and device drivers
    Test and Evaluation of Unix platforms
    Second Line Unix Support
    Instructor: Unix System Administration

  • Production / Installation Engineer

    Arrow Computers

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    January 1988November 1989 (1 year 11 months)

    Production and, on site installation, of PDP11 , MicroVAX II, and Sun Microsystems equipment.
    Responsibilities also included pre sales support and the development of demonstration programs for Inmos Transputer and nCube parallel processor systems.


Additional Information

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Julian Young’s Interests:

PHP Development Fishing, Photography, Gemmology, Cooking

Julian Young’s Groups:

  •    University of Liverpool
  •    Agile Alliance
  •    Feature Driven Development - FDD
  •    Compuware Alumni Network
  •    IT Professionals Netherlands
  •    Rails NL (Ruby-on-Rails in the Netherlands)

Julian Young’s Honors:

Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award

Professional Training/Certification Highlights:
Powers of Communication - Charles Hamilton Assoc
Software Configuration Management – EduShare
Technical Project Management - Frost & Sullivan


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