Nic Pegg

Current

• Software Engineer at MINISIS Inc
• Director at Random Idea
• Technology Specialist at Thoughts in Motion

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Past

• Independent Technology Consultant at Isotrak
• Senior Developer at Cambridge Assessment
• Developer at Capita Education Services

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Education

• The Open University

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Industry

Computer Software

Nic Pegg’s Summary

Technology Specialist with over 10 years experience working within the computer software industry.

Currently working on various projects leveraging cutting edge .Net and Python technologies.

Nic Pegg’s Specialties:

• Microsoft .Net
• Microsoft BizTalk
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft InfoPath
• Oracle
• XML
• Web Services
• IIS
• Apache
• Python
• (X)HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• Pylons
• Open Office

Nic Pegg’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  MINISIS Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

• Director

  Random Idea

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  Random Idea is a small, fun IT consultancy firm set-up to create, design and code web sites and applications. Random Idea also provides specialist technology advice.

• Technology Specialist

  Thoughts in Motion

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Thoughts in Motion creates affordable software for schools and local authorities to aid them in their management of student information. I am working as a consultant with a small team of developers using cutting edge Python web technologies on a project to create a management website for music services. The software is using the Pylons framework, which is based upon the underlying WSGI (www.wsgi.com) standard.

• Independent Technology Consultant

  Isotrak

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2008 — May 2009 (1 year 1 month)

  Isotrak are a leading supplier of services to the freight transport industry in the UK and increasingly overseas. Isotrak system installations account for over 70% of UK retail sector fleets, as well as many household names in the general logistics and parcel delivery marketplace. I joined to help optimise Isotrak’s Active Transport Management Software (ATMS) and to develop bespoke solutions tailored to each client’s requirements. All the projects are focused around Agile methodologies.
  
  I moved to Vancouver in November 2008 but continued to provide Isotrak with offline solutions to continue enhancing the ATMS platform. All work has been accomplished from home over their VPN.

• Senior Developer

  Cambridge Assessment

  (Non-Profit; Education Management industry)

  April 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 2 months)

  UCLES is a department of the University of Cambridge, and a not-for-profit organisation. They are Europe's largest assessment agency and incorporate three major examination boards.
  
  I joined as a senior developer to work on UCLES’
  Interchange project. Interchange is an UCLES extranet that links OCR (an examinations awarding body) with examiners and moderators to enable them to carry out day-to-day tasks for examination administration. The project team consists of several developers, business analysts and testers. The users are engaged throughout the phases of the development programme. The project is run utilising an Agile method and the major components are constructed using Microsoft .NET and BizTalk technologies.

• Developer

  Capita Education Services

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  June 1998 — April 2007 (8 years 11 months)

  Capita Education Services (CES) is the leading supplier of information systems to the education sector. The company provides a range of software and services to over 22,000 schools, over 146 local authorities and over 180 further and higher education institutions.
  
  I joined CES’s Children’s Services Directorate to work on a project to link their Extended Management System to other local authority systems. Working with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and other software providers, I’ve been involved in the design and construction of these SOA-based information-sharing standards. These systems utilised Web Services, SOAP, OASIS WS-* standards and other government E-Gif models to share and analyse information about children at risk. I worked closely with the product and business analysts, systems analysts and testing teams and also acted as a technical team lead for a team of offshore developers that were used to complete some of the work.

Nic Pegg’s Education

• The Open University

  Bsc Computing , Computing , 2005 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  Completed 2 core modules:
  
  M150 - 90%
  T175 - 85%

Additional Information

Nic Pegg’s Interests:

snowboarding, trekking, traveling and learning the arcane mysteries of Python

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