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Leighton Buzzard, Gb

Leighton–Linslade, England, United Kingdom

My primary role with the group is as their treasurer, as such I am also one of the charities trustees. Additionally I drive for the charity, making food parcel deliveries and/or collections of food for the Community Fridge or Foodbank.I also firmly believe that giving back to the voluntary sector is a highly rewarding activity that has significantly broadened my social awareness.

London, England, United Kingdom

Assist customers in making the move from On-Premise systems to Cloud based solutions. I work alongside the Cloud Solution Architect to produce a cloud based Minimum Viable Product to demonstrate the advantages of Cloud based computing.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Level 3 Support Engineer working on IBM InfoSphere Information Server, a market-leading data integration platform. Responsible for the prioritisation and resolution of customer satisfaction issues, to a global customer base in a timely manner, liaising with customer representatives when required. • Strong commitment to customer satisfaction • Triage of customer problems to ensure correct focus and timely resolution • Salesforce, Rational Team Concert, Clearquest, Github… Show more Level 3 Support Engineer working on IBM InfoSphere Information Server, a market-leading data integration platform. Responsible for the prioritisation and resolution of customer satisfaction issues, to a global customer base in a timely manner, liaising with customer representatives when required. • Strong commitment to customer satisfaction • Triage of customer problems to ensure correct focus and timely resolution • Salesforce, Rational Team Concert, Clearquest, Github for issue tracking • Git/Github, Clearcase for source code management • Multi-language development Java, VB6, C, C++, JavaScript, uniVerse BASIC • Use of online training materials to gain understanding of cloud and containerisation strategies • Early adopter and advocate of mobile devices to improve productivity • DataStage integrated into Information Server suite using Websphere Application Server • Working with multi-national teams Show less

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Continued DataStage support/development • Increasing support load due to customer numbers and size of deals • Development of a metadata importer for sequential files • Development on Windows install using InstallShield • Growth in knowledge of ETL, Data Cleansing, Connectivity • Performance enhancements to sequential file handling • IBM purchased product to gain traction in ETL marketplace

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Ardent Software started shipping the DataStage ETL tool based on its uniVerse engine. • Built up small team of support engineers to fix customer identified problems in DataStage • Use of formal bug tracking systems to identify problems and fixes • Introduction of Clearcase/Multisite as source control system

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Integration of PI/Open into VMark uniVerse product • Successful implementation of in-place hashed file migration utility • On site testing with customer volume data • Porting of uniVerse to Windows NT

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Prime Information Devlopment and cross platform porting • Porting of Prime Information from Prime 50 series to Prime Unix platform • Feasibility study of moving to multi-vendor UNIX systems, PI/Open introduced • Creation of PI/Open product demonstration for product launch

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

System and Kernel level Unix development in C on Intel based hardware • Self development from requiring significant supervision to Independent team lead • Successful running of a project from planning through to delivery to specified timescales • Software Testing and Shipment Readiness reviews • Strong inter-departmental liaison to achieve release schedules

Hertfordshire

Compiler and operating system implementation: • Development and Testing of Pascal 83 Compiler semantic analyzer • Regular integration of teams work to produce new baseline versions • Reporting of problems and potential solutions to design authority for remediation • Member of team involved in assembly coding a secure communications processor • Coding and review of code to rigorously enforced standards

Ba, Humanities, Honours, First Class

Majored in Philosophy and Religious Studies

Doctorate, Design Of A Distributed Filesystem, Pass

Bsc, Computer Science, Honours, Upper Second Class