Alan Hill Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Organizes and hosts online and in-person events for the Flutter Vancouver and Flutter Toronto meetups.

Canada

It was an awesome year, I learned a lot and worked with some great people. Sadly it came to an unplanned end.I worked primarily on the Quantified Citizen Mobile Apps which were built with Flutter and used BLoC extensively.I implemented new features, enhanced the user experience, fixed bugs and worked with back-end developers to implement new API endpoints. I was also resonsible for release management and submitting apps to the stores.On to the next challenge...coming… Show more It was an awesome year, I learned a lot and worked with some great people. Sadly it came to an unplanned end.I worked primarily on the Quantified Citizen Mobile Apps which were built with Flutter and used BLoC extensively.I implemented new features, enhanced the user experience, fixed bugs and worked with back-end developers to implement new API endpoints. I was also resonsible for release management and submitting apps to the stores.On to the next challenge...coming very soon. Show less

North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Providing consulting services to advise and assist with the upgrade and deployment of Grails based ERP applications.

North Vancouver

Working mainly with Grails and java to develop custom apps and enhance existing webapps.Heavily involved with upgrading to latest version of the University ERP which comprises a number of Grails based apps.Extensive debugging, fault-finding and investigation into issues and working with software providers to implement fixes and workarounds.Regularly helping less experienced team members with their tasks.

Vancouver, Canada Area

CanWaCH (Canadian Partnership for Women and Children't Health)Created a Project Data Engine for entering and visualizing partner data.Grails 3, Postgresql, AngularJS, OpenLayersNEP (National Evaluation Platform)Created data importer to allow data relating to Women and Children's health to be imported into DHIS2 for analysis and reporting.Grails 2, DHIS2IRC (International Rescue Committee)Created a tool to allow data collected on mobile devices to be imported… Show more CanWaCH (Canadian Partnership for Women and Children't Health)Created a Project Data Engine for entering and visualizing partner data.Grails 3, Postgresql, AngularJS, OpenLayersNEP (National Evaluation Platform)Created data importer to allow data relating to Women and Children's health to be imported into DHIS2 for analysis and reporting.Grails 2, DHIS2IRC (International Rescue Committee)Created a tool to allow data collected on mobile devices to be imported into DHIS2Grails 3, AngularJS, Postgresql, DHIS2PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief)Created dashboards for displaying data related to AIDS funding, expenditure and results.Front and back end web development using Grails 3, MongoDB, AngularJS and C3/D3 Charts. Show less

Burnaby

Developed Management Console web-app for managing network devicesBuilt with Grails 2.

Gastown, Vancouver

Effectively worked from home-office and on-site to design, develop and enhance web applications for leading UK art publishing, printing and framing company. As the sole provider of web applications for King & McGaw, tasked with project management, analysis, design, server and client-side development, configuration, deployment, support, maintenance and enhancement work.Major Projects:KMPRINT• Conceived, designed, developed and enhanced web-based Java application for… Show more Effectively worked from home-office and on-site to design, develop and enhance web applications for leading UK art publishing, printing and framing company. As the sole provider of web applications for King & McGaw, tasked with project management, analysis, design, server and client-side development, configuration, deployment, support, maintenance and enhancement work.Major Projects:KMPRINT• Conceived, designed, developed and enhanced web-based Java application for processing, fulfilment and tracking of orders.• Collaborated effectively with King and McGaw, their customers and customers’ IT providers (HP, Pixology, PNI Digital Media).• Interfaced seamlessly with multiple third party systems using Web Services (Custom XML and SOAP).• Designed and developed a new XML based interface to fulfil print on demand orders from new and existing customers.• Introduced a new streamlined route through the factory to reduce the amount of paper and number of processes involved. • Improved efficiency, increased client base (50+ in five years) and reduced processing timescales (2 weeks – 1 week).• Succeeded in implementing time saving and efficiency improvements in many areas of the business.King & McGaw Website redesignWebsite rebuild to allow existing and new trade and retail customers to order custom and predefined products, making use of the following applications and databases developed to support the new website; image database, product catalogue, product catabase.Designed to be main marketing tool and negating the need for an expensive paper catalogue, resulting in additional savings.Think Pictures WebsiteAn online store for selling products to retail customers and to create awareness of the King & McGaw range of images and products. This system is no longer maintained but is, however, still live.King & McGaw WebsiteClone of Think Pictures for trade customers. Show less

The BIG Picture Library was an online photo gallery with clean, simple, flash based templates. Originally written in Java using Struts, Spring & Hibernate, it was later integrated with the Grails framework. This was provide additional back end admin functionality and ultimately to speed up the development process for future enhancements. Grails is able to seamlessly use existing Hibernate mapped domain classes within generated controllers, services and views.

Joined the Java team within the Information Systems Development team at Honda's UK headquarters • Developed internet & dealer extranet web applications using Java deployed to WebSphere.• Worked closely with business analysts and end users.• Produced System specification and test plan documents.• Server side, database and client side design and development.• Excelled in producing creative solutions to complex problems.• Implemented procedures for configuration… Show more Joined the Java team within the Information Systems Development team at Honda's UK headquarters • Developed internet & dealer extranet web applications using Java deployed to WebSphere.• Worked closely with business analysts and end users.• Produced System specification and test plan documents.• Server side, database and client side design and development.• Excelled in producing creative solutions to complex problems.• Implemented procedures for configuration management, source code control, code release and deployment.• Consistently delivered projects on time and within budget.Returned to Honda in February 2010 for a three week contract; implemented enhancements and resolved application issues.Major Projects:• Car Builder: New Car Specification Section of Honda Website with visual enhancements to show options and accessories.• Used Car Stock Locator: Search tool for locating dealer stock of used vehicles.• New European Warranty System: Web based front end to CICS/COBOL back end to allow dealers to create warranty claims.• Motorcycle and Power Equipment Sales: Pan-European web based front end to SAP back end for dealer ordering.• New Car Sales: Web based front end to CICS/COBOL back end to allow dealer to order and track new vehicles.• New European Warranty System: Web based front end to CICS/COBOL back end to allow dealers to create warranty claims.• Motorcycle and Power Equipment Sales: Pan-European web based front end to SAP back end for dealer ordering.• New Car Sales: Web based front end to CICS/COBOL back end to allow dealer to order and track new vehicles. Show less

Based at IBM Hursley Research Labs, worked on web based projects, based both on site and at customer sites, worked with teams of developers and designers, absorbing their knowledge and experience to quickly build a firm foundation of core web skills. Projects included HMV, Sainsbury’s Supermarket, Equifax and BAA.

After work placement with Data Sciences as part of MSc, invited to join as a graduate and worked on projects for the House of Commons, Finland Air Traffic Management and a number of research projects.

Msc, Communicating Computer Systems

Bsc. Hons, Systems Engineering

Education record

Activities and Societies: 7 GCE O-Levels Including Mathematics, English Language and Physics 3 GCE A-Levels Pure & Applied Mathematics.