James Stinchcombe Email & Phone Number

Guildford, United Kingdom

Solution architect working on bids within the Defence and National Security business unit.

Lead Technical Design Authority (reporting to the Chief Engineer) for a large secure project within the DII(F) contract being provided by the Atlas Consortium for MOD.Responsible for leading design assurance work, identifying key issues, proposing solutions to those issues and gaining approval from the customer that these are an appropriate balance of.

Lead Architect for the Project ISAAC bid for the Cabinet Office (later renamed to "public sector Flex"). This highly competitive bid was to meet the ICT needs of the Cabinet Office for 7 years and to provide a shared service framework to allow ICT services to be provided to any public sector organisation. Responsible for all technical aspects of the bid.

• Various design authority roles within the Fujitsu account providing IT solutions to the UK Post Office. These included:
• ADSL project to migrate 14,000 Post Office branches to ADSL, Post Office is now the largest ADSL business user in the UK.
• Performance and Migration for releases of new functionality including electronic top ups for mobile phones, bureau de change, online checking with DVLA of car tax details, EMV (chip and pin) for banking and debit cards.
• Infrastructure part of the solution for the HNG-X project that was undertaking a technology refresh of the business applications, data centre infrastructure and branch systems that support the Post Office’s 35,000.

• Performance analyst and designer for:
• Initial project to provide the systems required to automate the UK Post Office branch estate of 17,000 branches – the largest retail estate in Europe.
• Subsequent Network Banking project to provide banking services to the 37,000 counter positions. This had to support transaction rates in excess of 200 transactions per second, making it the largest banking system in.

• Systems Engineer working on various IT servers being developed by the High Performance Systems Division. Responsibilities included:
• Performance of a new range of ccNUMA platforms based on Intel technology running SCO UnixWare - specifically the platform’s hardware, OS and main database (Oracle).
• Low level design to make the Distributed Lock Manager for Goldrush (a massively parallel database server running Oracle) resilient to failure of a processing element.
• SCSI driver for Goldrush disk, tapes and libraries.

A number of placements in British Gas while being sponsored through University. These included designing hardware and software, maintenance of computer networks and work related to offshore projects.