Dr Robert Bingham Email & Phone Number

Farnborough, Hampshire, Gb

Farnborough, Hampshire, Gb

Houston, Texas, Us

Wrote the Project Engineering Plan that defined the overall technical solution, engineering approach (V-Model utilising feature-driven development) and systems engineering activities (for the entire software development lifecycle) required to deliver concurrent UK and export Typhoon projects (TCV ~ £50m) from a common codebase in compliance with the AMPA Quality Management System and to the satisfaction of all project stakeholders.One of four Project Technical Authorities for Typhoon AMPA who provided technical leadership, risk management and design assurance for all requirements management, design specification, code implementation and verification test artefacts produced by the 50+ development team for the delivery of these projects.Increased control and productivity of development tasks by specifying and gaining approval for work to port the legacy codebase to UCM ClearCase, replace existing conditional compilation statements with build time (RPMs) and run-time configuration, resolve extant compiler warnings, improve the Jenkins build process and automate UI testing.Technical oversight and involvement in the successful qualification of the Typhoon UK V4.1 (addition of P1E(b) aircraft support) and V5 (addition of debriefing, data distribution and GPS prediction capabilities) projects.Led 2 man team that investigated, evaluated and estimated options for upgrading the existing AMPA database. Commended by AMPA Chief Technologist and Programme Delivery Manager for the presentation of the results at Product Selection Review.Took the opportunity to leave HPE for a fresh technical challenge through voluntary redundancy on 31st March 2017.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Provided technical leadership and design assurance from the start of all aspects of the internal 3D project (£1.4m), consisting of up to 12 developers, that successfully specified, designed, developed, tested and integrated a set of generic, reusable, cross-platform, configurable components providing both 3D and side views of the geospatial domain for the rehearsal of planned and the debriefing of recorded aircraft missions. Initially integrated with the Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer AMPA variant, as part of the addition of a full debriefing capability, this led, in part, to additional contract wins totalling > £100m that resulted in the subsequent development and integration of these components with Hawk UK (FJT) and Export, Typhoon UK and Export and Tornado Export AMPA variants.First point of contact for external US sub-contractor to co-ordinate development and delivery, to meet my defined Statement of Work and Acceptance Criteria, of sequential updates of the 'Google Earth-like' open source 3rd party library that was utilised by the 3D Viewer. Successfully gained approval for it's use from HP's Open Source Review Board.Introduced & implemented SCRUM Agile software development using a product backlog, sprint planning & retrospective meetings, sprint burn-down charts, daily scrums, continuous integration (Jenkins) & automated unit testing practices to improve the team's productivity. Initially, I acted as Scrum Master but became Product Owner when the team grew in size.Utilised the feature-driven development process, defining the features and associated component requirements in DOORS, tracing to the UML design in Enterprise Architect and through to integration test cases that verified their implementation. 3D components were written in C++ using Boost extensions utilising the OpenSceneGraph 2.0, wxWidgets, libxml2 and other open source, 3rd party libraries. Google Test & Mock were used for automated unit testing and a test harness for component testing.

West Hartford, Us

Team lead of 15 developers to ensure successful delivery of the pilot build of the TRHJ application at a crucial stage of the project.Created task estimates, detailed designs, developed and unit tested code in C# and ASP .NET and T-SQL stored procedures on SQL Server 2005 for candidate selection events.Created task estimates and detailed design for the management of job profile reference data; leading a team of 3 developers that implemented this design.Managed helpdesk, during the pilot phase, to ensure calls were dealt with and resolved in a prompt, tactful and efficient manner, providing daily situation reports to management.

West Hartford, Us

Analysed (ReqPro), designed (UML in Rose), implemented (Windows XP environment using Java, Hibernate, Spring, JBoss, XML, XSD, XSLT, XPath, XQuery) and unit tested (JUnit, JMock) the Capping Board and Exercise components of the MFMIS application.Analysed customer requirements and designed a system (UML in Rose) to replicate MFMIS application data from RLI to SLI database culminating in a technical paper to the customer outlining potential solutions together with estimates of their relative costs.

West Hartford, Us

Sought after to define, develop and implement various enhancements for CRIS R10.2, to meet Audit Commission requirements for National Crime Reporting Standards, to a tight deadline that was highly appreciated by the MPS client. The solution was developed in a Windows 2000 environment using VB6, Transact-SQL stored procedures with SQL Server 2000, JavaScript, HTML and the Rational toolset (Rose, ClearCase and ClearQuest).

West Hartford, Us

Part of a 4 man team that rapidly developed a prototype application (VB and C# .NET, SQL Server 2000, Windows XP) that demonstrated the planning, control, data monitoring & analysis of sensor arrays to determine the presence, extent and spread of CBRN attacks.

West Hartford, Us

Project lead of 5 man team plus sub-contractor (QinetiQ) that delivered a series of model and UI enhancements to the SIMBRIG model (C++ using DROMAS modelling library and MFC) for Dstl. I led the successful FAT.

West Hartford, Us

Designed (UML in Rose) and implemented (HTML, JavaScript, ASP, COM+ in VB6, Transact-SQL on SQL Server 2000), using a 3-tier client-server architecture, screens, interfaces, database queries and tables for CRIS R10 using Rational UP, ClearCase and ClearQuest.Analysed SQL query plans using SQL Profiler and Query Analyzer to optimally tune query performance by adjusting SQL queries and creating SQL functions and indexes.

West Hartford, Us

Prototyped and developed an Object Editor JavaBean component (in Java using Reflection and utilising Swing) that presented a GUI, from an HTML layout stored within an XML schema, which allowed users to edit object and metadata for objects published in the JOP.

West Hartford, Us

Designed (Yourdon in StP) and developed (C++) the Message Protocol CSC to handle message routing between the proposed FDPS2 system and external destinations using a variety of protocols (NAT-OLDI, Euro-OLDI) and message sets (ICAO4444). Also contributed to the design and development of the Flight Message Processing CSC that processed flight position report information.

West Hartford, Us

Rationalised and ported the VAX FORTRAN SPEARFISH Total System Model to PC adding a GUI to provide data input and data analysis (using an Olectra Chart VB custom control).Appointed project leader, after 15 months, leading a 3 man team through the successful acceptance test and delivery of the completed SPEARFISH TSM to the DGSM client.

Teddington, Middlesex, Gb

Planned, designed and developed a research project, involving internal departments and external suppliers, to investigate the improvement in measurement accuracy obtained by weighing mass standards in a vacuum.

Four year industrial sponsorship including a pre-university year and holiday work on-site that involved numerous placements & the successful design & build of a remotely-operated, paint spraying robot.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Self-Consistent Two-Dimensional Hybrid Code Simulations Of "Small Scale"​ Comets

Bsc (Hons), Physics

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