John Whipp Email & Phone Number

Mytholmroyd, England, United Kingdom

• Note: In total I worked for 23 years with the organisation that today is Thomson Reuters, including the roles at Sweet & Maxwell and Legal Information Resources, although LinkedIn groups those separately.Thomson.
• Following a major internal restructure, I was one of three staff members of an entire department retained to support the transition of their complex technology estate of in-house applications and server systems to new.
• This included high level and sometimes deep engagement with a wide range of technologies and languages such as bash, java (including Spring), Delphi, MongoDB, Oracle, MySQL, JavaScript/typescript, python, various linux.
• This also involved supporting the new teams in dealing with a plethora of global technology initiatives that were simultaneously taking place, necessitating change to many of the systems, enabling the business to.
• Simultaneously I operated as a management conduit of information, translating between domains and working as a familiar point of contact to various parts of the business, bringing overarching and often deep familiarity.
• At the end of my role I presented a series of knowledge-sharing sessions via MS-Teams.

Mytholmroyd, England, United Kingdom

• Role summary:
• High-level exploration and estimation of upcoming software projects (typically of a 3-12 team-month size) for business planning.
• Delivery to the business of more than 200 project estimations and work-breakdowns over a 3-year period, across the company’s entire UK legal content estate, meeting the needs of all stakeholders.
• In a managerial capacity, working with stakeholders across the business (involving a lot of communication), shielding development teams from excessive distraction.
• The role also included some departmental R&D work such as exploration of Big Data using Hadoop and xml Linked Data on the web.

Mytholmroyd, England, United Kingdom

• Sweet & Maxwell was a major and market-leading London-based legal publishing company with a 200-year heritage and continues to exist as a brand within Thomson Reuters. As well as a range of esteemed flagship book.
• Leading small development teams, sometimes with offshore team members, mostly on Westlaw UK's content publishing systems. Later, this tended to be in an increasingly managerial capacity, working with various.
• Hands-on in-house software development on a succession of projects, mostly on back-end / server-side systems with xml and other content, including development in java, python, bash, SQL (Oracle and MySQL), and applying.
• Amongst many others, a notable success was the rescue of another team’s failing project. The project’s purpose had been to build an editorial tool for working with a complex taxonomy for UK legislative texts. Its.
• Another notable project was a complex data migration, successfully completed over a 2-year period with a 4–8-person team. This involved merging content from two market leading products to result in a single unified.
• Java 1.2 certification (passed, 89%), Open University refresher module on software systems and their development including concurrent systems (confidently passed, no grading given), and an additional GCSE, in Law.

Mytholmroyd, England, United Kingdom

• Legal Information Resources was a small legal publishing company that had recently been acquired by Sweet and Maxwell in London, itself a part of Thomson that would later become Thomson Reuters.Role summary:
• Development of legal publishing and editorial systems that contributed to the launch of the flagship Westlaw UK product. These were internal and back-end systems built using Delphi, Oracle, and C amongst others.
• Design and implementation of an Oracle relational database replacing an assortment of legacy desktop datasets holding a slice of mission-critical content.

Birkenhead, England, United Kingdom

• Crowder & Co (now known as Crowder Consulting, and previously George Crowder Associates) provides consultancy and professional fieldwork services to the global water industry and developed the Netbase software that is.
• Reporting directly to the managing director throughout the employment.
• Day-to-day leadership of a small software development team, working on the redevelopment of the company’s flagship Netbase software as a Windows product.
• The hands-on creation of software modules within Netbase, including a new version of the Netbase Geographic mapping module that would overlay water supply networks on Ordnance Survey maps, with full database.
• Co-delivering regular presentations and software demos to the company’s clients, with extensive preparation work, and co-delivery of training courses, and delivering on-site installations of the software for clients.
• Inhouse IT support.

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom And Hoylake, England, United Kingdom

• Role summary:
• Continuing to work with George Crowder Associates, this was a secondment to University of Liverpool for 2 years as part of a local business / education partnership.
• Proof of concept and development of the pre-Windows version of the Netbase Geographic mapping module, to create maps of water supply networks with database-connected components, using the MicroStation CAD platform with.

Hoylake, United Kingdom

• Role summary:
• Reporting directly to the managing director throughout the employment.
• The hands-on co-creation of core software modules of the company’s flagship Netbase software, with development in CA-Clipper around a DBF database system on an MS-DOS platform.
• Team leading responsibilities for a team of up to 4 developers
• Co-delivering regular presentations and software demos to the company’s clients, usually alongside the company’s managing director.Note: The company later changed its name to Crowder Consulting.

Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom And Fareham, England, United Kingdom

Development of an in-house support-call handling system, as a student project, using VAX Pascal, Vax Rdb [now Oracle Rdb], DECforms and DATATRIEVE. This also included writing 200-page functional and design specifications and other waterfall-style documentation using standard templates, and a structured handover to the following year’s students.

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Pre-graduation work as a computer programmer, during school/college holidays. Development of a stock control system written in BASIC, and a later version written in Turbo Pascal, using plain files for storage of custom-written data structures.