Pete Franklin

Current

• Director, Lifecycle Services at Capgemini

Past

• WebSphere Technical Sales at IBM
• Senior IT Architect at IBM Global Services
• System Design Engineer at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

• Developer at Tetra Pak
• Developer at Bass Brewers
• Technical Consultant at Hoskyns
• Programmer at British Gas

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Pete Franklin’s Summary

IT Architect with experience from mainframe to J2EE via VAX and client-server, in programming, support, design, sales and now management roles. Now focusing on building distributed teams, evangelising agile approaches and bridging the gap between Enterprise Architecture and Software Engineering.

Pete Franklin’s Experience

• Director, Lifecycle Services

  Capgemini

  (Public Company; CAP; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2004 — Present (5 years)

  Rejoined Capgemini as a Senior Architect in the IBM and Java business unit, becoming Head of the Java Development unit within Technology Services in January 2006 and for the whole Development team in January 2007. Now responsible for Methods and Tools for software development in the UK, day to day management and strategy for Lifecycle Services unit and still retaining some customer-facing architecture engagement from time to time.

• WebSphere Technical Sales

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 2002 — July 2004 (2 years)

  Technical Sales support and enablement for the WebSphere brand in the UK, with a particular focus on GSIs (Global System Integrators).

• Senior IT Architect

  IBM Global Services

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

  April 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 5 months)

  Senior IT Architect within IBM Global Services Telco practice in the UK.

• System Design Engineer

  Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

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

  June 1993 — April 2001 (7 years 11 months)

  Technical manager then founded the System Design Engineering (SDE) team. SDEs had responsibility for technical quality on a project, ensured by their expertise in process, methods and tools.

• Developer

  Tetra Pak

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Packaging and Containers industry)

  1991 — 1993 (2 years)

  Another long contract, working in West London as part of a multi-national distributed team (other sites in Sweden, Paris, Tokyo and Chicago) writing a system that would run all of Tetra Pak's business - personnel, accounts, the lot. Well ahead of its time, it was n-tier client-server, with a GUI provided by Apple Macs running Hypercard, business services in DEC ACMS/COBOL with an DEC RDB database.

• Developer

  Bass Brewers

  (Public Company; Food & Beverages industry)

  1990 — 1991 (1 year)

  I was a contractor working as part of a big team in West Bromwich developing a distribution system, written in VAX COBOL using TPMS/FDMS with a VAX DBMS database. Certainly the best development job I ever had because the office banter was awesome, as were the characters. The lunchtime baltis at Memsahibs were pretty good too. Simon the Superior Programmer, where are you now?

• Technical Consultant

  Hoskyns

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1987 — 1989 (2 years)

  Mostly VAX VMS COBOL, Pascal , Assembler with DBMS and FMS - what fun.! We successfully built and slightly less successfully sold an MRPII package written in COBOL which, thanks to an abstraction layer called Strategic Architecture ran on IBM MVS, DEC VMS, ICL VME and HP 3000 (write once, run anywhere :-)). I looked after SA on the VAX platform and installed the product for a couple of customers.

• Programmer

  British Gas

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1986 — 1987 (1 year)