Charles Oldham Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

No change in role but with the rebranding of our product from EXFO Ontology to EXFO Nova Context it's time to update the company links here!Projects undertaken to date in the current role:* Re launching our traditional server install platform to a more cloud native approach on K3S* Completely new "living docs" approach based on mkdocs using a GitLab CI/CD.

Following the departure of our Product Manager the role was split into TPO (Technical Product Owner) and PLM (Product Line Manager) to reflect the general EXFO structure and I was successful in an internal application for the TPO role.In this structure broadly the TPO represents the technical interests and demands of the product and the PLM represents the.

Position as before but updated to reflect the new ownershipAdditional responsibilities:* Maintaining and replacing our partner collaboration and build platform* Migrating internal infrastructure and project practise to more visualised and devops based approaches* Improving internal community knowledge capture and discussions

Roles and Projects:* Architect on revenue assurance project with a telecoms client driven by aligning disjoint billing, provisioning and planning data.* Lead Architect on project to support evolution of new data driven sales platform with a broadcast client driven by aligning and reconstructing data from legacy CRM and billing systems.* Lead Architect on.

Following the merger of Tideway Systems into BMC I remain a member of the ADDM (Discovery) Architecture Group. The group is responsible for setting the direction of the next generation product and coordinating the technical approach on all projects.Personally focused on overall system design and operation, the system data model and lifecycles and.

Founding member of the Architecture Group along with Chief Software Architecture and Senior User Experience Engineer. The group is responsible for setting the direction of the next generation product and coordinating the technical approach on all projects.Personally focused on overall system design and operation, the system data model and lifecycles and.

Responsible for the management of sessions and early analysis to define and size work for the next 2 releases of current product as well as being a key member of the next generation product team.Was a member of the interview panel for the new VP Engineering and have helped ease his integration into the company.Have represented the engineering side of the.

Senior Software EngineerSubject matter expert in product fingerprinting and application modeling and for providing innovation for improvements in this area.Responsible for design and architecture engineering, representing the engineering side of the company at Customer Advisory Boards and for researching and publishing white papers for future direction in.

Joined Tideway Systems as it was just establishing itself as a going concern.Responsible for a critical feature, the new Application Modelling system, it became apparent towards the end of the development cycle that it could not work effectively with the design that predated me joining the team. Led a team of software developers to rapidly analyse design.

OMC-U Systems Engineer and Technical LeadResponsible for the systems engineering and technical lead function of the company. Working directly with the customers engineering team to define, implement and deliver 2 project extensions – an ATM allocation sub system and a data model Audit and Alignment sub system. This involved onsite collaborative work in the.

OMC-U Application DeveloperOMC-U Platform (Operations and Management Centre – UTRAN) is a management platform for the UMTS 3G wireless network. Developed as an OEM partner with an existing Network Equipment provider. Platform involved Oracle, SEM and CORBA technologies. Responsible for developing the Python based Configuration Management layer for the.

ERP/SAP Bridging Team (Technical)Member of Technical Team responsible for developing, building and delivering bridging solutions in conjunction with the Analysis Team using a central Data Warehouse running on new Oracle 8I and Sun Enterprise 10,000 systems.Responsible for; CA Unicenter Scheduling within technical team, tuning of long running SQL queries.

ERP/SAP Testing TeamTechnical Lead of 3 person team that deployed the initial automated testing tools (Mercury Interactive TestDirector / WinRunner).Work involved liaising with the various implementation teams and training team developed the testing strategy for the project. This included creating and delivering training in the tools, installing and.

Fortran, Unix scripting/admin, numerical modelling, data presentation, project delivery

Pgce, Secondary Science

Activities and Societies: As BSc Postgraduate Certificate of Education is the professional degree required to teach in UK schools. The.

Msc, Earth Observation Science

Activities and Societies: As BSc Earth Observation Science is a cross discipline field of study using remote sensing (land, air and space.

Bsc, Physics

Activities and Societies: Sailing Team Secretary (Head of Training), VP Photography Society (Head of Union Darkroom), Astrosoc (Astronomy.