Ian Williamson Email & Phone Number

Cold Norton, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Leading the engineering and development of the Mantis product suiteMantis is a suite of ad tech and user engagement products, built around a core contextual analysis and brand safety engine, used by major publishers and advertisers across the world. It combines a flexible rules engine with best of breed machine learning models and the latest AI innovations to deliver an unrivalled solution for publishers, audiences and marketers.

London, England, United Kingdom

Leading the Commercial Development within Reach Solutions, with teams working across - core advertising platforms- partner and affiliate integrations- Mantis product development and integrations- Neptune data platform and recommender- new commercial product innovations.

London

Leading the commercial solutions development department.Responsible for all commercial product deployments and projects, across programmatic and direct channels.Key projects include:Development and integration of our Mantis Brand safety and contextual data platform and the Neptune content recommender.Commercial data management and integration across the corporate Customer Value Strategy.JW video integration - player, video CMS and recommendations platform.Implementation of GDPR user consent management platforms.Development of header bidding solutions for display and video advertising.Alignment of technologies and systems across platforms following Northern and Shell acquisition (Express, Star and OK publications).Management of all 3rd party commercial integrations across 60+ national and regional digital publications.

London, United Kingdom

Tech Lead working across national and regional publications and commercial work streams, delivering websites and backend systems for 50 newspaper publications. Also managing a team of developers.Projects include:Leading the redevelopment of advertising and commercial components across the sitesIntegration of Gigya Social User Management system.Publishing of content to Apple News.Integration of Brightcove HTML5 video player.Development of data visualisation/charting tools for editorial content.Creation of tools to generate content for data driven articles such as regional schools and crime data.New integrations with social platforms Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp.Enhancements to 'Whats On' event listingsEnhancements to polls & Quiz functionality.New Headers and navigation across sites to improve user engagement.Integration of editorial content from national platform with new football live match centre for the World Cup and Premier League football season.

Edinburgh And London, United Kingdom

Assisting Wood MacKenzie in the selection of a Taxonomy Management System to integrate with their CMS, search and client portal platforms. Development of vendor RFPs, analysis of the submitted proposals and delivering solution recommendations. Design of content authoring, indexing and delivery services.

London, United Kingdom

Head of Java Development within Digirati, reporting to the MD, with a remit to define best practice, tools and techniques, evaluate products and technologies and develop the overall Java practice and competencies within the organisationBusiness Analyst, Project Lead and Technical Project Manager on various projects, specialising in Content Management Solutions, Search and Knowledge management, Access Control, Rights Management and eCommerce, Social Media and Enterprise Collaboration. This includes pre- and post-sales consultancy, requirements analysis and development of quotes and tenders, resource planning, staff recruitment and line management.

Leading a project to redevelop the Online Resource Centres web application for Academic Higher Education Business Group.

Planning and implementation of an Enterprise Collaboration platform using the IBM Connections system.

Implementing a new content managed website for the 'Wales the True Taste' awards.

IT Consultant, Developer, Analyst and Solutions Architect, working across a variety of business areas including, finance, news and publishing, eCommerce, Internet and knowledge management, mobile applications, telecoms and real-time data processing.

Providing technical solutions consultancy to NGN (News Group Newspapers) for implementation of paywall for NGN titles (News of the World, The Sun) - extending previous work for TNL (Times Newspapers Limited) to implement paywall for the Times titles.

Leading a project to develop a new multimedia newsroom site for the central government Department of Communities and Local Government website:http://www.communities.gov.uk/newsroom/

Technical Project Management for a new Content Management System and eCommerce implementation. Managing a mixed team of Digirati and English Heritage developers.http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/

Providing consultancy services to a mixed NI in-house and outsourced project team, using the Scrum methodology; Design and development of authentication, access control and ecommerce billing systems for digital delivery of national newspapers and related content (The Times Paywall). Providing technical consultancy, domain and product knowledge to the project team.

Development of OUP sites using the Mediasurface / Morello CMS with a Java delivery framework.Macrovision/Atypon eRights Suite integration across multiple sites, migrating the access control and right management solution from a bespoke in-house solution.

Leading a project to integrate a Google Search Appliance with the Communities and Local Government Internet and Intranet sites, searching across 2 main sites (each with CMS and Community Server sections) and 8 sub-sites.

Mediasurface / Morello data migration and CMS development.

Architect and lead developer for mobile application services.Our mobile applications included live football scoreboards for Euro 2004 and the 2006 World Cup (published in partnership with News International and provided free to readers of The Times, The Sun and News of the World).

Enterprise Applications and Content Management Systems developer.

An independent project to develop software applications and implement hardware infrastructure for the Helen Rollason HEAL cancer charity.

City Of London

Building and leading a team of 25 developers, designers and user experience specialists creating and managing Enterprise Content Management solutions.

City Of London

Responsible for the design and development of both client-facing and internal projects. Working closely with other senior management, sales staff and project managers in a pre-sales consulting and business development role.Andel specialised in designing, developing and managing (as a hosted service) Enterprise Content Management Solutions for clients including Reuters, the 3i Group, BT PLC, Investis, Plan International, AlertNet, Atriax, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the British Bankers Association, the FSA and Deutsche Bank

Consultant developer building the Reuters Web, which provided a platform to implement web products for Reuters Users on Reuters global private network.This included custom development of an authentication and permissioning system for web clients using C, C++, Java and Oracle SQL.

Lead a team of developers working on the Telecoms Network Planning System (TNPS). Supporting an inexperienced Project Manager, in order to achieve a successful project delivery on time and to budget.

Developer on the high profile Work Manager project using C++ and Oracle. This project was developing the systems which schedule the work for many thousands of BT engineers.

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

X-Windows user interface and database applications developer in the software department of a direct marketing agency (part of the global WPP group)

X-Windows user interface developer working on the Financial Information Systems Toolkit (FIST) product.

Developing software for Air Traffic Control Radar display and recording systems

Bsc, Computer Science

Graduated with a Degree BSc(Hons) in Computer Science from the University of York The course included digital electronics and computer.

A-Level, Mathematics, Physics And Chemistry