Rowland Watkins

Current

• IT Consultant at Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong

Past

• Senior Research Engineer at University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre
• Student at Cranfield University RMCS Shrivenham

Education

• University of Southampton
• Cranfield University, RMCS Shrivenham

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Industry

Computer Software

Rowland Watkins’s Summary

Accomplished technical lead with expertise in inter-enterprise SOA design and development. Strong experience in technical project management and marketing communications. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with proven project lead success in pan-European and Chinese-European projects.

Rowland Watkins’s Specialties:

Inter-enterprise SOA, Web Services, Grid security, PKI management, Web Service Interoperability

Rowland Watkins’s Experience

• IT Consultant

  Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Technical Project Manager for provisioning of a new CRM solution for the Chamber. Security consultant for third-party service provisioning.
  Software Architect ensuring necessary integration of CRM with existing components and business processes.

• Senior Research Engineer

  University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre

  (Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2005 — March 2008 (3 years)

  Technical leadership (workpackage leader) on EC, DTI, and commercial consultancy projects in the areas of real-time online gaming and e-training, and inter-enterprise Grid middleware interoperability, concurrent design engineering, and domain-based security.

• Student

  Cranfield University RMCS Shrivenham

  (Computer Software industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years)

Rowland Watkins’s Education

• University of Southampton

  PhD , Computer Science , 2001 — 2007

  PhD Thesis: Watkins, E. R. (2007) Trusted Collaboration in Distributed Software Development. PhD, Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/14202/
  
  Key words: Semantic Web, Provenance, Cryptography, Grid Computing
  
  Other publications can be found here: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk using "watkins" as the search keyword.

  Activities and Societies:

  Light Operatics Society - Publicity Officer (2002-2003), Choral Society President (2003-2004)

• Cranfield University, RMCS Shrivenham

  BEng 2:1 (Hons) Command & Control, Communications & Information Systems , computer science, management, complex systems, design methodologies , 1998 — 2001

Additional Information

Rowland Watkins’s Interests:

web technology, semantic web technology, SOA interoperability, enterprise security, mono, sci-fi, hill walking, squash

Rowland Watkins’s Groups:

HK Web Wednesday, Hong Kong Bach Choir, IT&T Committee - Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong

•    High Performance & Super Computing
•    Merb

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