Senior Solutions Consultant at Talis
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- Senior Solutions Consultant at Talis
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- Programme Manager at Talis
- Technical Lead at Talis
- Software Developer at Morse
- Senior Developer at Talis
- Junior Programmer at Midlands Electricity Board (MEB)
- Education
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- University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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Andy Latham’s Summary
I am an experienced senior software developer, solutions architect, team leader and IT consultant. My main areas of technical speciality are JEE server side development and architecture – with over 10 years of experience in this field. As a Senior Solutions Consultant I also bring other 'soft' skills to the feast, such as customer facing consultancy, pre-sales, full life cycle project management and all of the usual good stuff associated with a customer facing role, like thinking on my feet in stressful environments and also dealing professionally with difficult situations and conflict. I’m a coder in a suit :-)
My current area of focus is Service Oriented Architecture, web services and business integration. I am heavily influenced by agile software development principles such as test driven development, pair programming, continuous integration and agile project management. I also get bored very very easily.
I have been developing enterprise-scale J2EE applications for large clients in the telecommunications, banking and legal sectors on technologies from Sun, IBM and Oracle and I am currently working in the area of automated library management systems. I get a real buzz from plugging systems together which were never designed to be plugged together.
I am a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Certified SCRUM Master and as a Senior Solutions Consultant at Talis, I am currently leading my customers with integration problems to being successful customers with integration solutions; who have realised all of their benefits of cost savings, efficiency improvements, more jointed up services and better end user experiences – all on a seamless, interesting and fun project journey… Success to me is not always money in the bank, but having a successful customer who had a problem which really made the cogs turn in my head….
Andy Latham’s Specialties:
OO Design and Development, Java, J2EE (JSP,Servlets,EJB), Hibernate, Spring, Web Services, SOA, XML, XMLSchema, XSLT, XPATH, SOAP, WSDL, REST, WS-SECURITY, SAML, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, Apache, Tomcat, Ant, Axis, JUnit, CruiseControl, JMX, JDBC, RMI, Portlets (JSR-168), UML, AOP, AspectJ, LDAP, Linux, Solaris, Shell Script, SQL, Stored Procedures, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, iPlanet, JBoss, WebSphere, Eclipse, CVS and Subversion.
Andy Latham’s Experience
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Senior Solutions Consultant
Talis
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
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Programme Manager
Talis
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — December 2007 (1 year)
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Technical Lead
Talis
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — December 2006 (2 years)
I take responsibility for delivering system integration solutions. This includes design, development, team leadership, project management, customer facing consultancy, recruitment, mentoring and appraising. I am also involved with driving changes in software engineering methodology, corporate technical strategy and the recruitment and retention of talented people. As a Technical Lead my goal is to play a pivotal role in the team and add real value to the overall culture of evolving quality products to exceed the expectations of an evolving and demanding market.
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Software Developer
Morse
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2004 (4 years)
Software Developer on numerous projects for large clients in telecommunications, banking and legal sectors.
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Senior Developer
Talis
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2004 — December 2004 (5 months)
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Junior Programmer
Midlands Electricity Board (MEB)
(Utilities industry)
August 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 3 months)
This was a paid industrial placement year as part of my Computer Science degree programme. Being my first "real" job in the software industry, this is where I really began to learn my trade and begin to understand the pressures and responsibilities of a software engineer - I also got to do some funky things with the old IBM mainframe. The technologies and the languages I used are nothing like I do today - but the lessons learned were the foundation for and a springboard to a very enjoyable career.... I had some happy times at the MEB…
Andy Latham’s Education
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University of Wales, Aberystwyth
BSc (HONS), Computer Science, September 1996 — June 2000
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Andy Latham’s Interests:
I do enjoy a life outside of work too :-) I'm an avid reader and will read anything from Umberto Eco to the back of a shampoo bottle. I enjoy meals out and nights in with my gorgeous girlfriend, long walks in the country - and being a Brummie I’m always eager to get somewhere where there is water – the west coast of Scotland being one of my favourite places in the world. I enjoy travelling on my stomach: I’m happy to go anywhere to experience new and exciting foods and enjoy getting a sense of culture from the different places I visit – next stop is Bulgaria! Also in my spare time I enjoy Freemasonry and pumping iron in the gym and playing with my dog. I’m a big fan of live music and live comedy I enjoy the cinema and the theatre, especially the big musicals. Family and home life are important to me as are my friends. And of course I also enjoy getting a few beers in with the boys when I can....
Andy Latham’s Groups:
Scrum Alliance
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IT Architects Network
Andy Latham’s Honors:
BSc (HONS) Computer Science, Sun Certified Java Programmer, Certified SCRUM Master
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