Internet Technologist
London, United Kingdom
Internet Technologist
London, United Kingdom
London, UK based specialist in the design, development, management and maintenance of web sites, web services and Internet systems.
Ten years commercial experience within corporate, small business and non-profit environments, including the finance, telecom, legal, media and entertainment industries.
Java, Spring, XML, XSL, PHP, Perl, Apache, WebSphere, Tomcat, Oracle, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Linux.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TRIL; Information Services industry)
September 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)
Technical lead for multi-million pound legal business and infrastructure projects, working closely with developers, product managers and system architects across the world.
Practise a consultative style of management with a team of 11 UK-based developers, both permanent and contract, including tracking performance and providing feedback.
Utilise scenario-based interviews to recruit pragmatic, business-focused employees.
Member of the international senior management team, providing project updates and progress reports directly to the CTO.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Music industry)
July 2003 — August 2003 (2 months)
Provided technical consultancy to Universal's Classics & Jazz division, including continued maintenance of existing Perl-based content management system.
Implemented a successful customer relationship database in 2003 to enable cross-marketing capability.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
April 2001 — June 2003 (2 years 3 months)
Lead developer and junior staff mentor for Java and Perl web-based financial tools including comparison, purchase and alert services at moneyextra.com and money.msn.co.uk
Integral to the design and build of a flexible benefits application for Sony UK using J2EE technologies JSP/EJB/XML/Struts) and Oracle 9i within tight timescales.
Responsible for a multi-channel customer registration system, including UML and schema diagrams, migration of data from MySQL to Oracle 9i and a distributed XML-RPC interface.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
September 1998 — April 2001 (2 years 8 months)
Responsible for Orange's customer relations presence on the Internet, including designing and maintaining the owner section of the Orange web site.
Developed web-based support for Orange Today using case-base technologies and tools from the Rational Unified Process (RUP).
Technical architect for Perl and SQL Server call-supporting and project management Intranet systems.
BSc (Hons) , Computing Science , September 1995 — July 1998
BSc (Hons) , Computing Science , September 1996 — June 1997
Official Glastonbury Festivals web team member.
Nominet UK member.
IT Industry Awards 2008 - Finalist in the Systems Developer and Web Technology categories.
Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS).
Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP).