Applications Integrator at Specsavers
Reading, United Kingdom
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- Applications Integrator at Specsavers
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- Development Manager & Architect at SeeWhy Software
- Consultant at Hi-Q Systems
- Senior Engineer / Team Leader at EDS
- Snr Developer at EASAMS
- Developer at Marconi Radar Systems
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Phil Wilkins’s Summary
Phil Wilkins is a software architect and project manager with a wealth of experience in time sensitive applications, with nearly twenty years experience in the software industry. Prior to joining SeeWhy Phil was the technical lead in developing a middleware product for adoption across the back office applications within the UK armed forces. Before this Phil performed technical and team leading roles for EDS and GEC group on a range solutions, from military mobile radar through to Trans-Atlantic ATC and innovative operational displays of real-time synthetic environments, employing a diverse mix of technologies from Ada with X/Motif to Java (SE/EE) and Oracle.
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Phil Wilkins’s Specialties:
Java, J2EE, JBoss, XML
Databases - MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server
Websites - CMS etc
Software Design & Architecture
Systems Integration e.g. ESB, MQ
Software Development Processes - RUP, Agile
Phil Wilkins’s Experience
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Applications Integrator
Specsavers
(Privately Held; Retail industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
Responsible for the Application Platform team who scope crosses multiple project boundaries within Specsavers addressing issues such as common frameworks, and integration of the different products within the retail portfolio.
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Development Manager & Architect
SeeWhy Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2003 — January 2009 (5 years 4 months)
Responsible for managing the development for the companies core product. Architect for the integration and notification aspects of the product. Client liason in support of the CTO and Technical Services Manager, particularly for aspects of product integration.
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Consultant
Hi-Q Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2004 (4 years)
Army Interface Manager - Software Architect
Consultant for iWork Group covering integration technologies CORBA, J2EE, Web Services etc -
Senior Engineer / Team Leader
EDS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years)
Development & Team Leader a several different projects
Iris
An X400 based comms system. Responsible for the development of the core of the user interface.
Joint Operational Picture (JOP)
Leading (staff & technically) a client based team developing a Joint Operational Picture which provided an advanced multi-user display solution with novel display techniques. This development programme worked to very tight time scales, and working closely with the customer to identify requirements, and presentation to the client’s various customers.
Air Traffic Control
Team Leader and Assistant QA roles on a large multi-million pound development programme. Starting with preliminary design based on a formal requirements capture from the customer and progressing through detailed design and implementation phases for the user interface and later comms subsysterms. -
Snr Developer
EASAMS
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1994 — February 1995 (1 year 2 months)
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Developer
Marconi Radar Systems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MONI; Telecommunications industry)
September 1989 — January 1994 (4 years 5 months)
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