Nick Pearson Email & Phone Number

Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

Lead architect for US Real Time Payments system

London, United Kingdom

Owning the current and target state global architecture for Payments Processing. Reporting to the global head of payments services architecture, aligning the core payments platform system architecture in the EMEA, APAC and US regions. Ensuring that projects and change are conformant with the target state and highlight risk and remedial action required to current state. Communicating directly with senior IT and business stakeholders to clearly understand requirements and constraints, on both sides, and propose relevant solutions.This included the design and development of the mass volume SEPA payments platform. Through initial concept, requirement analysis, vendor selection and integration into existing legacy platforms.

London, United Kingdom

Managing the development of the GPI Gold Solution, with resources based in GLT (India) and the UK.Scoping the content of the phased delivery and producing comprehensive project plans to support the planned deployment.Managing headcount and other resources to align with budget requirements.Working alongside incumbent vendors to ensure HSBC requirements are met.Evaluating other vendor solutionsProducing proof of concept project with IBM Process Server.

London, United Kingdom

Managing the implementation of the build system within Product Delivery.• Coordinating effort between development and implementation teams• Integrating test strategy into deployment plan to achieve faster deployment• Meshing internal and external requirements to achieve company goals• Ensuring smooth hand over between systems to minimize impact• Ensuring Linux compatibility of external releases.

London, United Kingdom

• Managing the company’s Build and Release department• Reporting to the Senior VP Engineering.• Directly managing teams in Seattle, San Francisco, London and Tianjin (China)• Managing the external delivery of all end products to wireless operators including; Vodafone, T-Mobile, Rogers, China Mobile and others. • Creating a global release process that allows 24 hour cover for building and releasing all internal and external deliveries including:• JAVA server components (NOC – network operations centre)• C++ Windows components (VES – Visto Enterprise Server , DAC – Data Access Client)• Symbian S60v3, S60v2, UIQ, S80 client applications.• Windows Mobile client applications.• J2ME client applications• Palm client applications• Implementing a global SCM system and code line management processes to allow Development to adopt a ‘follow the Sun’ methodology.• Setting up a new office in Tianjin, China.• Hiring and training new release engineers in China.• Deploying and managing SCM proxies of servers in US and UK• Deploying the initial IT infrastructure• Training development staff on company process• Implementing, modifying and enforcing all engineering processes to allow engineering to operate as a global department.

London, United Kingdom

The Vega project was setup to develop an enterprise solution for synchronising EPOC mobile devices with corporate MS Exchange Servers. It was an always on, GPRS push solution that would synchronise Emails, contacts and calendar entries. The client side was primarily developed for the Nokia series 60 and Windows Mobile platforms and was later extended to Symbian UIQ / Palm / J2ME platforms.Design and Implementation of Build and Integration System• Developing EPOC and .NET build systems• Developing automated PYTON build scripts• Documenting and enforcing build process• Deploying Perforce SCMDesign and Implementation of Test and Development Infrastructure• Developing a multi-domain network that allows synchronization between MS Exchange servers and Symbian and Windows mobile devices.• Installing and maintaining Windows 2000 servers• Installing and maintaining multiple instances of Exchange 2000 Server• Developing a network topology that allowed Development, Testing and Product Demonstrations to run in parallel.• Sourcing, justifying and purchasing hardware for the network• Ensuring timely and efficient roll out of all subsystemsDesign, Implementation and Maintenance of Defect Tracking System• Sourcing, installing and maintaining defect tracking software• Designing defect workflows• Documenting and rolling out defect management process• Producing weekly defect metrics

London, United Kingdom

The Hildon Project was set up to perform a fast track development of the Symbian Hurricane, Tornado and Typhoon EPOC OS releases into a Nokia smart phone platform (series 60/ series80). It was tasked with designing the UI layer and developing all the applications that will sit on top of the OS layer.• Design and Implementation of Defect Tracking System:o Sourcing Team Track defect tracking system.o Designing defect workflow.o Implementing Team Track on remotely hosted SQL server.o Rolling out system to Hildon and 3rd party companies.o Maintaining and upgrading the system.• Defect Management:o Managing the Hildon triage team.o Defect assignmento Defect reportingo Metric reporting.o Setting up defect flow between Nokia, Symbian and Hildono Producing defect projections for all components in the project• Change Controlo Implementing the Change control database on Lotus Noteso Change control process creationo Ensuring that the process was adhered too Implementing changes to the system

London, United Kingdom

Symbian produces and maintains the Symbian OS for mobile devices and Smartphones.• Connectivity Testingo Testing EPOC Connect software for ER6 and ER6.1o Writing test scriptso Developing the test environment• Connectivity Developmento Developing components in C++ for EPOC Connect 6 and 6.1o Writing test codeo Assisting in build and integrationo Smoke testing new builds• Partner Programmeo Liaising with 3rd parties to produce software for the EPOC platform.o Tracking defects raised against the EPOC platformo Writing process documentso Supplying 3rd party developers with software solutions

London, United Kingdom

First line technical support for all Psion products, including connectivity softwareo Working on a call centre support lineo Manning the email support lineo Writing help documents for Psion hardware and software products