James Rayner Email & Phone Number

Winchester, Hampshire

Chief Architect and co-founder of a small but perfectly formed consultancy in the video and interactive solution domains.We primarily deliver outsourced R&D projects for digital TV companies including Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, Nagravision and Lionsgate Studios.

London Area, United Kingdom

James has helped establish the technical foundations for BBCS’ new Media Supply Chain, with a focus on integration between internal and partners’ systems to perform video editing and localisation activities. He has also helped evaluate the use of AI/ML in the supply chain.

London Area, United Kingdom

James headed up the eCreation team responsible for delivering the highly-successful Freeway product, based on AWS serverless tech and CI/CD principles. Freeway started life as a platform to handle the movement of media between production companies, playout partners, and edit houses. It expanded to replace the Media Asset Management system and to offer tooling to support Compliance and Social Media processes.

London Area, United Kingdom

Responsible for the technical design of Arqade, an interchange/marketplace for linear TV channels and (typically sports) events, James specified an efficient, serverless solution which allows household names to self-serve media pipelines which move live content between sites/continents in a cost-effective and highly reliable manner.

London, United Kingdom

James worked on Sky Network Services team as a Java EE developer utilising:• Java EE 5/6 (Jetty, Tomcat)• Spring Core, MVC • REST• RADIUS• LDAP• Maven• TeamCity• Agile with Jira

Cambridge

In his second contract at Alcatel-Lucent, James developed a small digital TV integration platform which provides a normalised view of programme guide and VOD catalogue data to digital TV clients as well as facilities to manage client provisioning, authentication and video encryption.• Java EE 6 (Glassfish)• JPA • JAX-RS client - for ingesting feeds• JAX-RS server - for serving clients• MySQLJames evolved an existing standalone iPad application used to demonstrate the (Apple HLS) adaptive streaming and content encryption capabilities of the Velocix CDN. He contributed the following features:• Dynamic EPG for broadcast TV aspect of app• Video On Demand catalogue and player• Customer provisioning workflow• Enhanced user interfaceJames also carried out requirements analysis for the revamped Velocix Console (CDN management software):• Agile project• Interviewed stakeholders• Created product backlog during project initiation phase

London, United Kingdom

As a very 'hands-on' architect at Nagra, James co-designed the award-winning NAGRA Media Service Delivery Platform, which integrates digital TV clients (Set-Top Boxes, PC based media players) with video servers and CDNs, CAS (Conditional Access Systems), CMS, CRM and OSS/BSS systems. Today, this platform supports millions of subscribers across the globe.• JBoss application server• Spring• JSF• JCA• JMS• CORBA• AOP• SOAAlso at Nagravision, James had sole architectural responsibility for – and was heavily involved in the development of – what became known as OpenTV 4 Client Middleware, a suite of APIs for Linux based devices to allow portable digital TV applications to be written either natively (C or C++) or in an HTML or SVG browser.• ANSI C• C++• DirectFB• Embedded Linux• Broadcom and ST Microelectronics silicon• Board bring-up• HTML, SVG, Javascript, AJAX, JSON

Maidenhead

In his first contract at Alcatel Lucent, James designed and developed browser-based IPTV (TV over internet) applications. He was involved in successful deployments at the telcos Sistema (Russia) and Chung Wa Telecom (Taiwan).• JSPs, servlets, taglibs• Business and persistence logic (iBatis)• Solaris• Oracle 9i inc. PL/SQL• HTML/JavaScript

Livingston, Scotland

James worked as part of a large team (>50 developers) producing a Customer Relationship Management system based predominantly upon the Chordiant CRM framework.• Websphere Application Server• Websphere MQ• Swing based client• Server-side business logic (EJB tier)• Database design and query optimisation (Oracle 8i).

Maidenhead

At 3, James worked on the following:• CRM system back-end, deployed on the WebLogic application server and exposed to the rest of the enterprise using the Tibco messaging platform.• Management reporting tools based upon Spring MVC framework, Spring Web Flow, JSP, JSTL, servlets, LDAP and Hibernate.• Distributed caching framework to store frequently accessed static data, utilising JMX and JMS.• Agile/XP including some pair programming

Bracknell

James provided guidance, support and training to customers deploying Bluestone J2EE application server (later, the HP Application Server – HPAS).• Added improved EJB clustering capability to application server.• Contributed to end-user J2EE projects throughout Europe including Friends Provident, Gas Natural (Spain) and Royal Insurance (Italy).• Pre-sales support.

Bracknell

At Simware, James helped create a dealer communications system for General Motors, enabling dealers to share each others’ stock rather than ordering from a central depot.• Implemented in Java, running in Salvo application framework• Multi-lingual web front-end for two mainframe applications• VT220, IBM 3270 protocols• Deployed in over ten countries

Bsc (Hons), Cybernetics & Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science And Cybernetics