David Mcnicol Msc Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Wrote and designed products that combine advanced mathematics with software engineering, working with 3rd parties to market and sell the resultant products and services.Valloop (Fintech)• Designed an A.I. solution to assist their portfolio managers identify SMEs that fit the profile of their fund as they prepare to expand their business.• Responsible for the A.I. design and integration with the Valloop Investment fund infrastructure. The requirement is acknowledged by the business owners as the key to scaling their business.• Designing and costing a solution based on Transformer and neural network A.I. architecture.Merlin A.I.• Designed and built the Merlin A.I. Subtitle translation, synopsis generation and Audio detection application based on Transformer, Machine Learning, architecture. System reduces the cost of subtitle translation by 70 percent and the translates 10 times faster than traditional translation methods.Natter Ventures• Designed and wrote a 2-D gaming engine designed to be personalised and gifted as a game to end users over mobile. Integrated with PayPal, Twitter and SMS. Game marketed and sold by Natter Ventures 2017 – 2021.

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London, England, United Kingdom

Designed and wrote multiple integration systems to enable the migration of all European National Geographic and general entertainment content to the Disney platform.• Designed and wrote the software integration suite that processed and controlled the metadata of over 400,000 program assets migrated from 6 legacy hubs across Europe to Disney’s centralised Media Asset Management system.• Wrote a collection of REST services enabling Electronic Program Guide, workflow, Media Asset Management and other systems access to schedule, program, synopsis, and other meta data for 130 channels and 30 languages. • Designed and wrote a real time application to manage permissions to contract documents produced and attached to the Disney Affiliate Contract Sales system EMEA. • Designed and wrote A.I. multi language subtitle and audio detection system based on Transformer A.I. architecture. Tested by Disney engineers as one of two prospective on-premises solutions achieving accuracy between 94% and 100% language detection rates before Disney decided to move to a SaaS solution.• Wrote a front-end application that interfaced with multiple systems that dynamically identified inconsistent data between legacy and the newly implemented systems.• Co-authored design and build of a SOA infrastructure (micro services) workflow system to support integration of multiple media asset processing systems across Europe.

London, England, United Kingdom

Initially project managed the implementation of the new MAM with role changing to development. • Wrote the migration software to migrate from the various broadcast Management systems to Media Genix What’s On Application.• Wrote a migration framework to migrate metadata from EMEA and Asia legacy systems into the new Sony MAM.• Wrote software reports for operational and engineering staff extracting data from the following systems: Imagine Vision, Interra Baton, Telestream Vantage and Wip Pro Xen. • Project managed the relocation of the MAM, Storage (~4 petabytes), Transcoders, File Based QC, and associated sub systems from on premise to a private cloud.• Project managed the selection and implementation of the new Sony MAM.

London, England, United Kingdom

Mirriad is a software start-up in the machine learning domain with Television Ad insertion. Systems architect to assist in rationalizing some of their rapidly expanding internal software REST services.• Design work focused on a domain driven design to organise 100+ REST services into logical bounded contexts. The design documentation was presented to their new CTO as a starting position for their new platform post their latest round of investment.

London, England, United Kingdom

A combined role of system architect and project manager. Initially designing the required solution and thence managing the build through the contract development teams.• Systems architect and project manager for Music Reporting System. Project deployed ahead of schedule.• System architect for integration between the Broadcast Management system and the new digital media asset management system. Completed design to timelines and handed over to development team for build and deployment.

Master Of Science, Telecommunications & Satellite Communications

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics