Edward Thomas Email & Phone Number

Stroud, Gb

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Alphen Aan Den Rijn, Nl

As an Applied Research Engineer, my main responsibility is to look for new technologies and apply those to business problems within Wolters Kluwer. I work with business units to try to understand their needs, and then match these needs to practical adoption of advanced technology. The group works closely with user experience and product development teams to ensure that the outcomes are inline with the strategic goals of the enterprise, and have a clear route to production.As well as working with business units, I also work with other technical consultants within Wolters Kluwer to guide the adoption process and onboard new technologies into the standard product suite at Wolters Kluwer. I am an active participant in the Architecture Forum which is an international cross business team responsible for advancing the software architecture of Wolters Kluwer's global platforms.

Alphen Aan Den Rijn, Nl

When I joined Wolters Kluwer it was as a Content Semantics Architect. My primary role was to help Wolters Kluwer transform their content standards and technologies to a more semantic model. In this role I worked with the publishing businesses to help them understand and implement semantic technologies in their pipeline. In addition, I helped the core platform development team exploit these new semantics in the content management, search, and discovery platforms.

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Gb

I worked as a research fellow on the MOST project - aiming to bring together semantic and software engineering technologies. This was a European research project that brought three Universities (in Scotland and Germany) together with three enterprises (in Germany, Poland, and Austria).My role in the project was to work on improving the available reasoning capabilities, and optimizing the techniques used to improve performance. As well as this, I contributed to other work packages through regular meetings and workshops, and helped to drive collaborative innovation between the different project members.I worked on several new project proposals for the university, attended international conferences and seminars to present my research, worked as a teaching assistant for several courses, and helped to develop the lectures and coursework on semantic technologies at the University.

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Gb

I joined the University of Aberdeen in October 2004 as a Research Assistant on the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) project. During the time I worked on this project, the primary focus of my research was understanding how reasoning over rich semantic models could be made more computationally tractable, by employing optimizations such as semantic approximation. I also worked with other researchers to develop techniques for reasoning over fuzzy and probabilistic models.On the AKT project, I was collaborating with researchers at six other centers of excellence across the UK. As well as this I was working as a teaching assistant in the University, primarily on courses focusing on software engineering and semantic technologies.

Cynosure Design was a company I founded out of University with two co-directors. Our goal was to create amazing websites for our clients, going beyond the offerings of local providers at that time. During this time I worked with many diverse technologies to deliver these sites, and produced work as diverse as online testing solutions, the technical solution for a dating startup, websites for the local newspaper group (their first venture into direct online publishing, as well as hosting their classified adverts). As technical director I was also responsible for finding and hiring talented people.As the business evolved, I provided consultancy and technical services for many local SMEs, as well as some major national and multinational companies. We also collaborated with Scottish Enterprise, the local Enterprise Trust, Chamber of Commerce, and the Princes Trust, to provide free consultancy and reduced price services to small businesses and startups in the region.

Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Computation