Adrian Nicholson Email & Phone Number

Staines-Upon-Thames, England, Gb

Bradford, West Yorks, Gb

Member of the architecture team at Morrisons, working with the data and wholesale work streams.Within the data work stream my responsibilities included leading a team of off-shore/3rd party developers to migrate Morrisons’ on-premise Operational Data Store (ODS) to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This was a challenging project as the source code for the on-premise system had been lost sometime ago and therefore the executable SQL code had to be reversed engineered and used as the baseline requirement for the GCP implementation. I was required to not only understand Morrisons (data) operating model but also quickly gain knowledge of GCP products and services.Within the wholesale work stream I was responsible for integrating external customers with Morrisons’ system to enabling distribution of Morrisons wholesale products. This included integration of 3rd parties and cloud (Amazon Web Service) services with on-premise order processing and dispatch systems.

London, England, Gb

Team leader position in a geo-dispersed/multi-discipline team.Responsible for communicating the architecture to people of all levels and ensuring that everyone understands the architectural vision and solutions proposed. This includes championing solutions to the business to enable early adoption. The aim is to ensure that IT projects correlate with and support IT strategy, utilising the most appropriate hard/software and architectural designs to facilitate efficient delivery of service.Performed the role of Solution Architect on a number of projects, specifically -Disaster Recovery: Redesigning William Hill's DR solution to ensure it meets the aggressive RTO and RPO metrics set by the programme stakeholders.Single Sign On (SSO): Design and development of a Single Sign On solution. Initially implemented across William Hill’s Mobile web and native platform. I ensured the solution was of enterprise quality, supportable and integrated with multiple vendor products. A successful implementation saw a 19% increase in cross-product activity and associated revenue.‘Carve Up’: Design of a framework to enable a generic UI interface for all mobile and web products. Cross Channel payments: The Carve Up framework allowed for the seamless and deeply integration of common payment functionality across all channels thus reducing time to market for the introduction of new method. Tracking: Building on my experience and knowledge, I spearheaded the tracking solution and integration into multiple products and platforms on mobile in conjunction with teams in Tel Aviv to deliver a tracking solution that would integrate with the composite mobile systems, comprising of pixel tracking affiliate tracking, first deposit and registration and SEO tracking.PDS: Product Data Source – designed a sporting data repository which allows William Hill to control the hierarchy of events, selections and markets.

London, England, Gb

Senior member of William Hill Online's Architecture team responsible for the delivery of business driven IT solutions on mobile and web channels.Providing enterprise level governance and guidance to strategic initiatives and projects to ensure compliance with Current and Future State Architecture.Successes included - The integration of William Hill's account and betting services with a number of high profile 3rd party iOS and Android applications. This include centralisation of payment functional to maximise reuse and reduce development required by external parties. Integrations included Racing Post, Racing UK, the FA and Virtue Fusion (Bingo). The migration of William Hill's mobile Sportsbook on to the Mobenga platform. For this I designed an architecture that abstracted the underpinning business logic and services away from the Mobenga platform. This de-coupled implementation has enabled reuse of these services by other William Hill systems. Designed and oversaw the development of APIs which consume William Hill’s various back-end systems and exposes their functionality as services in a generic, consistent and robust way. This simplified the integration of 3rd party services and systems thus decreasing delivery time.

London, England, Gb

Responsible for the architectural integrity of William Hill Online's systems. The core system is the Orbis OpenBet platform.

London, England, Gb

Heading up the internal development team my responsibilities included establishing and continuously improving William Hills internal standards and working practices as well as keeping abreast of emerging technologies and practices within the software development industry.

London, England, Gb

Leading a team of 5 - 8 analysts I worked with the business analysis team to translate the business needs into system requirements. These requirements were documented in System level Use Cases, non-functional requirements, business rules and UML diagrams and managed via Rational Requisite Pro and Enterprise Architect.

London, England, Gb

Working with a team of developers on William Hill's various remote channel offers. Some of the highlights were -• developing a multi-language Sportsbook web site for the 2002 Korea/Japan World Cup• porting the company’s existing WAP site across to a Java platform utilising a 3rd party product - Volantis Mariner• Introducing of Flash based fixed odds betting games to the Sportsbook web and WAP sites• developing a Java based Interactive Digital Television application for the newly launched William Hill satellite channel - Channel 425

Leeds, Gb

Key member of the development team responsible for migrating the transfer of data, between First Direct and HSBC, from magnetic tape to online messaging. I was involved in all stages of the system development life cycle from functional design to implementation & support.All systems have been written in DataBasic, SQL or Application Builder (4GL) all running under jBase (a pick emulator).