Michael Ryding

Current

Solutions Consultant at AXA UK

Past

Project Leader at AXA Insurance
Senior Application Developer at Provincial Insurance
Executive Officer (MoD) at HMS Centurion

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Education

Brunel University

Recommended

1 person has recommended Michael

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Michael Ryding’s Summary

I’ve been fortunate enough to have been involved with IT for more than thirty years. I consider myself to be privileged to be part of a technical revolution that continues to change the way we conduct and process our business lives. From this foundation of experience I have learnt just how important IT is to an organisation and so I am completely engaged with the responsibility that this brings.

It is due to this responsibility that I chose to research and specialise in the overlaps of human behaviours, social interactions and systems development. I believe this trio of disciplines is essential to the success for any modern IT professional and any forward thinking organisation.

Michael Ryding’s Specialties:

Doctorate in Information Technology (Social Computing)
Collaborative Technologies
Practical Social Computing
Innovation and Virtual Worlds

Michael Ryding’s Experience

Solutions Consultant

AXA UK

(Public Company; AXA; Insurance industry)

January 2000 — Present (9 years 11 months)

Intranets, Internal Communication and Collaboration, Social Computing, Technical Strategy, Solution Architecture. Mentoring and Coaching.
[HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, JS, Java, Oracle, LDAP, PHP, MySQL]
Secure Development, Vulnerability and Penetration Testing
Project Leader

AXA Insurance

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1993 — 1999 (6 years )

Project Management Methodologies, People Management, Managing Business Relationships and Technical Delivery.
Senior Application Developer

Provincial Insurance

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1987 — December 1992 (6 years )

ICL 2900 Cobol, QuickBuild, SCL, IDMSX, IBM AS400, I90 - Motor, Home and Commercial Insurance
Executive Officer (MoD)

HMS Centurion

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1983 — December 1986 (4 years )

Mainframe ICL 2900 series, Cobol, Quickbuild - Programming and Analysis role for Payroll and Pensions

Michael Ryding’s Education

Brunel University

PhD , Information Technology (Social Computing) , 2003 — 2006

Subjects included: Social Computing, Social Navigation, Recommender Systems, Human Collaboration and Intranet Systems.

Final Thesis:
The Collaborative Index. Available from Brunel University

Additional Information

Michael Ryding’s Interests:

Sailing, Photography, Bird watching, Coaching, Social Computing, and generally living my life.

Michael Ryding’s Groups:

Professional Member of Automated Computer Machinery(ACM), Royal Yachting Association - Coastal Skipper,
British Hangliding and Paragliding Association - Paraglider Pilot,