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Architect and leader on a project to turn a customer’s innovative malware detection solution into a product that can be sold independently of OEM’s thereby opening up £4m in additional sales opportunities for them. Technical Design Authority for the European Medicines Verification System (EMVS) and the National Medicines Verification systems of 12 European nations. The EMVS is a pan-European system to combat the problem of counterfeit medicines entering the supply chain… Show more Architect and leader on a project to turn a customer’s innovative malware detection solution into a product that can be sold independently of OEM’s thereby opening up £4m in additional sales opportunities for them. Technical Design Authority for the European Medicines Verification System (EMVS) and the National Medicines Verification systems of 12 European nations. The EMVS is a pan-European system to combat the problem of counterfeit medicines entering the supply chain. (http://www.efpia.eu/press-releases/european-stakeholder-model-partners-move-forward-implementation-european-medicines)Related Skills: BPMN, Customer Management, GAMP5, ISO 42010 Systems and software engineering, Planning, Technical Documentation, UML. Show less

Technical lead on a number of projects relating to Nokia’s processing of inbound invoices, adjustments to general ledger, and reporting tools.- Created system designs and provided technical consulting.- Ensured compliance with enterprise architecture.- Coordinated between development projects and business process owners. - Some hands on software development work.Responsible for Nokia’s system architecture for processing supplier invoices.- Automated the processing of… Show more Technical lead on a number of projects relating to Nokia’s processing of inbound invoices, adjustments to general ledger, and reporting tools.- Created system designs and provided technical consulting.- Ensured compliance with enterprise architecture.- Coordinated between development projects and business process owners. - Some hands on software development work.Responsible for Nokia’s system architecture for processing supplier invoices.- Automated the processing of scanned invoices using OCR and data capture technologies.- Improved the resilience and integrity of the process.- Initiated a gradual migration from old technology to the newer SAP CE platform.Responsible for evaluation of technology options in the implementation of new systems, including buy verses build decisions, and product assessments. - Promoted the adoption of improved ways of distributing master data.- Promoted the adoption of automated monitoring of business processes.Related Skills: BPMN, C#, Planning, RFI Preparation/Evaluation, Technical Documentation, Technology Research, UML, XML, XML Schema, XSLT. Show less

Member of the Enterprise Architecture team with responsibility defining Nokia IT’s approach to Service Oriented Architecture. - Defined the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) vision and a roadmap for adoption of the service based approach.- Specified the capabilities required from the IT systems, and described the business benefits related to each capability. - Defined approach to SOA governance, training and education. - Supported technology selection process and prepared… Show more Member of the Enterprise Architecture team with responsibility defining Nokia IT’s approach to Service Oriented Architecture. - Defined the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) vision and a roadmap for adoption of the service based approach.- Specified the capabilities required from the IT systems, and described the business benefits related to each capability. - Defined approach to SOA governance, training and education. - Supported technology selection process and prepared RFI’s and RFQ’s to suppliers.Related Skills: RFI Preparation/Evaluation, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Technical Documentation, Technology Research, UML. Show less

Technology Manager with responsibility for tracking technology and product trends related to Integration, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management.- Provided major input into the company’s general integration vision and strategy.- Wrote the Web Services section of the enterprise integration architecture.- Wrote the Web Services development guidelines.- Set up the SOA and Web Services Knowledge Community.Participated in a number of… Show more Technology Manager with responsibility for tracking technology and product trends related to Integration, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management.- Provided major input into the company’s general integration vision and strategy.- Wrote the Web Services section of the enterprise integration architecture.- Wrote the Web Services development guidelines.- Set up the SOA and Web Services Knowledge Community.Participated in a number of product procurement processes.- Evaluating initial requirements, talking to vendors and assessing products against the requirements. Carried out studies into different technologies and products. - E.g. a comparison of standard canonical data formats such as OAGIS, UBL & RosettaNet.Related Skills: Apache (Axis, Xerces & Xalan), BEA Weblogic, Eclipse, Java, J2EE, Technical Documentation, Web Services. Show less

Development team leader on mPlatform project, managing a team of up to six developers. mPlatform was a portal platform allowing mobile operators to offer consumer services via WAP.- Responsible for the concept, design and development of the Presentation Manager subsystem. This enabled operators to build multi-channel/multi-device web applications on top of mPlatform.- Responsible for the development of the web application used to administer the product.- Designed many of the… Show more Development team leader on mPlatform project, managing a team of up to six developers. mPlatform was a portal platform allowing mobile operators to offer consumer services via WAP.- Responsible for the concept, design and development of the Presentation Manager subsystem. This enabled operators to build multi-channel/multi-device web applications on top of mPlatform.- Responsible for the development of the web application used to administer the product.- Designed many of the platform’s public (web services based) developer API’s.- Performed cross project requirements and design reviews.- Supported sales with technical briefings to customers and analysts.- Supported HR with recruitment of other technical staff.Related Skills: Java, J2EE, JSP, XML, XSLT, XML Schema, WSDL, HTML, JavaScript, JUnit, WML, RUP, UML, BEA Weblogic, WAP, Rational Rose, Rational Clearcase, Borland J Builder, Apache Xalan & Xerces, Technical Documentation. Show less

Systems Engineer on various projects relating to business process support, from small reporting tools to high volume mail merge applications. - Supported a number of IT procurement projects, including running the project that purchased and set up the business unit’s first proper configuration management system (PVCS).- Responsible for design and implementation of the integration related aspects of a new CRM system developed in-house.Related Skills: C++, Java, XML, XSLT, XML… Show more Systems Engineer on various projects relating to business process support, from small reporting tools to high volume mail merge applications. - Supported a number of IT procurement projects, including running the project that purchased and set up the business unit’s first proper configuration management system (PVCS).- Responsible for design and implementation of the integration related aspects of a new CRM system developed in-house.Related Skills: C++, Java, XML, XSLT, XML Schema, Visual Basic, Rational Unified Process, UML, PVCS. Show less

Worked on the design and development of various Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) and back office systems.- StoreMaster, a system for smaller retail outlets.Part of a small development team maintaining and enhancing the product for a global customer base. - ISS400, a system for large supermarkets (such as Sainsbury’s) incorporating many networked terminals, and complex back office systems. This needed to be very reliable and operate in a near real-time manner. Required… Show more Worked on the design and development of various Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) and back office systems.- StoreMaster, a system for smaller retail outlets.Part of a small development team maintaining and enhancing the product for a global customer base. - ISS400, a system for large supermarkets (such as Sainsbury’s) incorporating many networked terminals, and complex back office systems. This needed to be very reliable and operate in a near real-time manner. Required understanding of good practice around creating efficient, fault tolerant systems.Related Skills: C, C++, COBOL, SNMP, Visual Basic. Show less