Charles Weir

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Consultant and Researcher in Secure Software Development @ School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University
Lancaster, GB
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Carlisle, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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I am passionate about improving the effectiveness of software development teams. From working with me, more than a hundred project teams have become more productive, been more reliable, and had more fun.As mentor, technical lead, manager, author or consultant, I deliver. Whether the need is for team agreement, technical change management, software architecture or improved processes, my engaging approach and positive drive get the results needed. I helped introduce object-oriented and agile methods to the UK; was technical lead for the world’s first smartphone; and led a company providing outsourced app development for fifteen years. That company, Penrillian, was praised both for effective delivery of superb software and for being a great place to work. My book, Small Memory Software, is the only general purpose guide for people working with software memory limitations. I am currently based near England's Lake District, and working with one of Britain's top academic Software Security teams. We’re creating techniques to help software developers to create the secure software we need for the 21st century.

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School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University

School Of Computing And Communications At Lancaster University

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Consultant and Researcher in Secure Software Development
Lancaster, GB
Website:
lancaster.ac.uk/scc
Employees:
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Charles Weir Work Experience Details
  • School Of Computing And Communications At Lancaster University
    Senior Lecturer
    School Of Computing And Communications At Lancaster University Sep 2015 - Present
    Lancaster, United Kingdom
    My mission at Security Lancaster is to provide practical help to the 300,000 software developers in the UK (and the many more overseas) to improve their software security. Based on rigorous research canvassing a wide range of industry experts, we have developed a package of workshops, Developer Essentials, that is both remarkable effective at improving a development team's delivery of software security, and inexpensive for all concerned. So far, this package has empowered over 100 software developers in 11 commercial, charitable and government organisations to improve the security of their developed software. In the process, we trained 13 ‘package deliverers’, several of whom are continuing using the same techniques within their organisations to reach a much larger number of developers.Could Developer Essentials help you? Contact me on +44 (7876) 027350 or via LinkedIn.
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  • Penrillian
    Chairman And Technical Director
    Penrillian Sep 2015 - May 2017
    Penrith, Uk
    Penrillian entered new and exciting phase of growth. We introduced new management, and developed an inspiring product strategy, marketing secure transport ticketing, financial services and identity apps through a range of industry partners.
  • Penrillian
    Founder And Managing Director
    Penrillian 2000 - Sep 2015
    Penrith, Uk
    They said it couldn’t be done. Outsourced software development in the beautiful Lake District, 300 miles from the centre of UK software development – never! But we gave our utmost, and in Penrillian we built up a 30-strong app development team as good as any in the country. For fifteen years, we’ve been delivering bespoke applications to industry giants: Vodafone, EE, Nokia, O2 and to a host of smaller companies. They tell us they love our interactivity and our can-do attitude; we tell them we love solving problems and developing leading-edge software!
  • Symbian
    Consultant Technical Lead
    Symbian 1995 - 2000
    London, United Kingdom
    For 5 years I spent the majority of my consultancy work with Symbian, helping this phenomenally successful company develop the technical skills needed to deliver the world’s foremost smartphone operating system. We’ve provided training courses to all Symbian’s developers in basic and advanced programming skills; helped introduce agile methods of working; solved cross-platform issues in design and performance, and architected the Ericsson R380, the first smartphone.
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  • Object Designers And Independent
    Consultant
    Object Designers And Independent 1992 - 1999
    I love the challenges and variety of consulting. Object Designers was a consultancy set up to introduce to industry a new way of designing software: object orientation. We have empowered teams in companies ranging from banks to cable manufacturers. Our role is to nudge, introduce ideas, review positively, and occasionally help design. When the project’s done, the team say ‘we did it ourselves’. Though Object Designers closed down in 1995 to allow the founders to take other roles, my consultancy work has continued. Apart from my work with Symbian, my teams provide bank risk management and deal tracking systems. They need mentoring, training courses and occasionally project reviews; I provide that, and the teams deliver.
  • Reuters
    Analyst And Programmer
    Reuters 1984 - 1991
    London And Chicago
    Reuters is the foremost provider of financial trading information in the world. I work on terminal software, designing and implementing the software that provides the complex displays used by traders in dealing systems worldwide. Much of our work is leading edge: from early Microsoft software (Windows 1 anyone?) to reusing the inexpensive children’s BBC Micro as a financial terminal, or designing efficient ways to download software through 1-way satellite links. Our clients’ need for real-time, fail-safe, software make for a challenging implementation environment. We’ve learned to meet these challenges, and to measure and prove that we have.
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Charles Weir Skills

Agile Methodologies Software Development Mobile Applications Mobile Devices Android Object Oriented Design C++ Javascript Java Symbian Design Patterns Scrum Test Driven Development Architecture Mobile Technology Ios C Xml Software Design Web Applications Software Engineering Iphone Web Development Architectures Eclipse User Interface Design Uml Mobile Internet Tdd

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