Peter Ellis

Current

Head of Web and Technology at WARL Group Ltd

Past

Application Developer then Lead Developer at NetServices Plc
Web Developer at Pod1
Analyst (Java/J2EE Web Developer) at Serco

Industrial Placement Engineer at BAE Systems

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Education

The University of Manchester
Hartford College, Northwich

Connections

20 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

Peter Ellis’s Summary

Currently:
Managing a team of front to backend designers and developers within the new digital development team at WARL (WARL Digital Group).

My Interests:
Web Developer, Applications Developer, Digital Design, Photography. An active interested in cutting edge digital design and web technologies.

Peter Ellis’s Specialties:

Java, PHP 5, Building bespoke CMS systems, SQL, Building new web application architectures, Managing developers, SEO, Digital Viral Campaigns, delivering projects on time and in budget

Peter Ellis’s Experience

Head of Web and Technology

WARL Group Ltd

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

November 2007 — Present (9 months)

Currently Head of Technical for WARL Digital, a division of WARL Group.

Over see and manage all aspects and development of our online digital sites and marketing campaigns for clients which include; Tesco, Procter & Gamble and BBC

Work closely with the creative marketing and design team within the agency to help realize creative solutions whenever there are technical or web based aspects of design involved. I utilize agile methodologies and approaches to all digital projects.
Application Developer then Lead Developer

NetServices Plc

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 4 months)

www.netservicesplc.com/voice.php

Firstly as a Java developer working within a team on the development and design of a Java based desktop call center application which was built using Netbeans 5 RAD framework. Also developed a web module for their in-house CMS system which handled the management of licenses for the software we developed. Finally took the project over until completion as a lead developer which involved managing 2 senior developers.
Web Developer

Pod1

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

January 2007 — November 2007 (11 months)

Working within a team at Pod1 to develop and produce online e-commerce strategies for for some of the fashion industries most high profile clients which include:

- www.kurtgeiger.com
- www.uniqlo.com
- www.reiss.com
- www.letssubscribe.com

Helped scope out the build of the CMS systems required for these sites.
Analyst (Java/J2EE Web Developer)

Serco

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

September 2004 — August 2006 (2 years)

www.serco.com

Initially taken on as a graduate analyst which I successfully completed before becoming a senior analyst. My skillsets were quickly identified within SERCO and I was deployd to work on the design and build of a J2EE based set of portals for a large national online transport project. This required me to produce JSP pages, write my own JSP tags and transform XML using XSLT stylesheets.
Industrial Placement Engineer

BAE Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BA.L; Defense & Space industry)

June 2002 — May 2003 (1 year)

www.bae-systems.com

The placement at BAE SYSTEMS formed part of my BEng (HONS) industrial placement degree.

Worked within a team for the communications and behavior department, on a Java based 3D simulator for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). My main role here was spent working on the interactive side of the system which involved developing the control interfaces and creating 3D models. The final project was then shown to a leading group of researchers at Airbus/BAE and was met with great success.

Peter Ellis’s Education

The University of Manchester

BEng, Software Engineering (HONS), 2000 — 2004

Produced a 3D evacuation simulator which I developed in Java and Java3D. This work was a continuation from some of the work I did while on placement and British Aerospace for Agent Based Modelling (ABM). The project was well accepted by my allocated lecturer and fellow students.

Activities and Societies:

Member of the computer departments Computer Graphics Club (MCGC)
Hartford College, Northwich

HND, Design and Multimedia, 1997 — 1999

Completed a HND in Design and Multimedia and Hartford College, Northwich where my last year modules were in Web Development and Interactive Design. Was awarded a Distinction certificate upon completing the course and my end of year work was show cased at Hartford Art and Design Gallery.

Additional Information

Peter Ellis’s Websites:

Peter Ellis’s Interests:

New Media, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Web Applications (Web Apps), Online digital marketing, Digital Web Strategies, Digital Ad Campaigns, Business Ventures, Technical Architectures, Project Management