senior server developer

• Mar 2016 - Present

Organizer

• Oct 2013 - Present

In October 2013 I joined a new meetup group with 30 members that had not had any meetings. In March 2014 the leadership resigned and I took over the role. In March 2016 and 10 meetups later there are 473 members and rising. It's grown into a community in Manchester that is the go to place for technical matters regarding velocity, volume, variety and veracity of data and the associated issues of ingesting and analysing. The group consists of Developers, DBAs, Architects, Statisticians, Mathematicians meeting regularly for sessions on latest technologies in and around the Hadoop eco system. Show less

Director

• Feb 1989 - Present

Contract software development since 1989. From 2003 to present in the enterprise Java arena. Interests in low latency, high volume data processing, Hadoop and the science of data 1989 - 2002 IBM midrange (System 3x, AS400, iSeries) I have added a few of the major projects to my linkedIn profile to show the breadth of commercial experience. Get in touch if you want a full CV. Contract software development since 1989. From 2003 to present in the enterprise Java arena. Interests in low latency, high volume data processing, Hadoop and the science of data 1989 - 2002 IBM midrange (System 3x, AS400, iSeries) I have added a few of the major projects to my linkedIn profile to show the breadth of commercial experience. Get in touch if you want a full CV.

Cloudera Certified Developer in Hadoop (CCDH)

• Jun 2013 - Present

Attained CCDH 25th September. Formal Hadoop training on the Cloudera 4 day course at the training centre in London Sept 10-13. I have spent many weeks looking into the Hadoop eco system and the various distributions and use cases. I am particularly interested in the science of data analysis i.e. recommendation, clustering, classification in contrast to my many years of “sales orders by week” aggregation. I have completed an online Coursera study given by John Hopkins University, Washington DC in Computing for Data Analysis using R. I received a statement of accomplishment with distinction. Show less

Vehicle information and telematics insurance

• Jan 2012 - Apr 2013

Agile development environment with both Scrum and Kanban methodologies employed as necessary. Two major projects. Vehicle data B2C via premium rate SMS text messaging. Integration software between telematics data collection and insurance policy management systems. Application domain:· Spring 3.1.2-RELEASE· Drools 5.4.0· Oracle 11g· Hibernate 3· MongoDB 2.2.3· Tomcat 6/7· Jasper Reports Environment· IDE – STS 2.9.1· Dependency / build – Maven 3.0.4· Code coverage - EclEmma· Testing - Junit, Mockito, PowerMock, SoapUI· Source control – SVN mainly (some git)· Continuous Integration - Jenkins· Task tracking – Jira· Documents – Confluence· Source Quality – Sonar, FindBugs· Repository - Nexus Show less

Grails development

• Mar 2011 - Nov 2011

Development to provision a white label, “daily deal” internet based software solution. A public facing UI for customers to browse, buy and manage their deal vouchers. A secured “dashboard” for the publishers and advertisers to manage and report on the deals. Application domain:· Grails 1.3.7· MongoDB 1.8.0· Amazon S3· Jasper Reports· Tomcat 6· nginx Environment:· IDE – IntelliJ 10.5· Testing - Grails testing, Spock· Source control – Github· Continuous Integration - Jenkins· Issue tracking – Pivotal Tracker· Documents – Google Docs Show less

Websphere commerce Suite development

• Jul 2008 - Apr 2010

The e-commerce solution was based on IBM’s Websphere Commerce Suite V6 framework(WCS). Apache fronted IBM Websphere Application Server instances with data persisted to DB2. The infrastructure hosted on Windows 2003 Server clusters for HA. Product data cleansing via bespoke Grails application prior to upload to WCS. The e-commerce solution was based on IBM’s Websphere Commerce Suite V6 framework(WCS). Apache fronted IBM Websphere Application Server instances with data persisted to DB2. The infrastructure hosted on Windows 2003 Server clusters for HA. Product data cleansing via bespoke Grails application prior to upload to WCS.

J2EE development

• Apr 2006 - Oct 2007

Enhancements to middle-tier software (referred to as Jackpot API) for interfacing to third party gaming vendors for online gaming and poker. This utilised Axis 1.2 web services for client facing, Stateless EJB for transaction control and iBatis (SQL Maps) for the database access. This was deployed on Weblogic 7 application servers. Sybase, MS SQLSever and UniVerse databases provided the persistence. Enhancements to middle-tier software (referred to as Jackpot API) for interfacing to third party gaming vendors for online gaming and poker. This utilised Axis 1.2 web services for client facing, Stateless EJB for transaction control and iBatis (SQL Maps) for the database access. This was deployed on Weblogic 7 application servers. Sybase, MS SQLSever and UniVerse databases provided the persistence.

SAP Basis infrastructure

• Jan 1997 - Apr 2002

Designed, installed and supported the SAP R/3 system landscape for finance and retail. Started in 1998 with migration of SAP R/2 finance from IBM mainframe on to AS/400. In 1999 installed SAP R/3 retail landscape. Detailed server sizing carried out between myself, IBM and SAP. Designed, installed and supported the SAP R/3 system landscape for finance and retail. Started in 1998 with migration of SAP R/2 finance from IBM mainframe on to AS/400. In 1999 installed SAP R/3 retail landscape. Detailed server sizing carried out between myself, IBM and SAP.