John Alden

Current

• Freelance Web Engineer (Self-employed)

Past

• TPM Team Leader at BBC
• Software engineering team leader at BBC
• Software engineer at BBC

• Software developer at Oxford Glycosciences

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Education

• University of Oxford
• University of Oxford
• Sir James Smith's School

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

John Alden’s Summary

John Alden’s Specialties:

business analysis; solutions architecting; technical project management; server-side programming in Perl, C or C++; client-side programming in Javascript and Actionscript

John Alden’s Experience

• Freelance Web Engineer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  See http://www.workingedge.co.uk/projects.shtml for a list of recent projects.

• TPM Team Leader

  BBC

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  September 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 5 months)

  In charge of team of 8 technical project managers. Responsible for growing team from about half this size (recruitment, training, mentoring and general line management), redefining the role of the technical project managers and standardising working practices.

• Software engineering team leader

  BBC

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  2001 — January 2007 (6 years )

  Built up a team of 9 software engineers. Achievements included: devising the server-side software strategy for the BBC's factual and educational websites; providing content management tools for a web development department of ~100 people; infrastructure design, purchase and administration of departmental unix infrastructure for content production and software development (~10 solaris & linux servers); setting up a software engineering process; pioneering the BBC's Perl Open Source effort; set up departmental intranet; hands-on programming mostly in Perl (modules, cmdline scripts, CGI/mod_perl scripts, unit tests) with Oracle and MySQL databases.

• Software engineer

  BBC

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  Perl CGI/mod_perl programming with Oracle on Solaris

• Software developer

  Oxford Glycosciences

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Biotechnology industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

  Lead programmer on the company's flagship data analysis software package for windows NT - C++/ATL & VB Activex controls.

Additional Information

John Alden’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company