Roger Pettett

Current

Principal Systems Architect at Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Consultant at DECIPHER Consortium
Owner at PsyPhi Network Web Solutions

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Past

Team Leader, New Pipeline Development at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Project Leader, Web Systems at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Senior Web Developer at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Webmaster at The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Software Developer at Chadwyck-Healey Ltd
Junior Systems Administrator at Addenbrookes NHS Trust

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Education

University of Nottingham
The Perse School, Cambridge

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Industry

Computer Software

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Roger Pettett’s Summary

Currently producing web-based systems to support next-next-generation sequencing.

Interests are in distributed, scalable architectures for massively parallel sequence data handling. Analysis pipelines, workflows, LIMS, leveraging cloud & grid technology.

Scalable web systems; Service-oriented architecture (SOA);
Rapid application development with Perl, Apache, Linux;
Spearheading agile software lifecycle & tools.

Roger Pettett’s Specialties:

"Next-gen" sequencing data management / information strategy
Scalable software/data services
Agile Perl application design & development,
Apache installation & configuration,
MySQL RDB design & configuration,
Linux - Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu
X/HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery

Roger Pettett’s Experience

Principal Systems Architect

Oxford Nanopore Technologies

(Nanotechnology industry)

February 2009 — Present (11 months)
Consultant

DECIPHER Consortium

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

Performance and security optimisation involving systems & services architecture and application & database refactoring.
Owner

PsyPhi Network Web Solutions

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2000 — Present (10 years )
Team Leader, New Pipeline Development

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

(Non-Profit; Research industry)

May 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 10 months)

Managing a small development team to design, implement and maintain pipeline systems for running 30 high-throughput, next generation sequencers producing 40TB+ data per week. Rapid implementation in Perl, MySQL, Template Toolkit and Prototype.js using agile methods.
Project Leader, Web Systems

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

2003 — May 2007 (4 years )

Responsible for building scalable web systems handling traffic from 100k hits/week in 1999 to 15m hits/week in 2007.

Instituted site-wide software quality control measures for all centrally deployed web applications.
Senior Web Developer

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

2002 — 2003 (1 year )

Responsible for architecture, design, rapid development and coordination of a very wide variety of web-based software applications, primarily written in Perl.
Webmaster

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Biotechnology industry)

1999 — 2002 (3 years )
Software Developer

Chadwyck-Healey Ltd

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Software developer for electronic literature delivery systems built with C++, OpenText SGML and Netscape Commerce and Enterprise servers.
Junior Systems Administrator

Addenbrookes NHS Trust

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Two consecutive summer jobs. Member of the IT support team responsible for data recovery, networking and PC hardware support. Sole responsibility for augmenting the site's X400 email system with a sendmail SMTP server on Slackware Linux.