Patrick Pollard Email & Phone Number

My career has been many branching - significant areas include:* Front end development - vue3, react, vanilla javascript, css* Academic Systems (UK, University based) - SITS, Blackboard etc* Web - Apache, IIS (to a degree). Site Manager, Plone, Zope, Django and Wordpress as specific CMS's. Confluence Wiki etc.* Applications - Even disregarding the above - expert domain knowledge in Ex-Libris Aleph and SirsiDynix Unicorn. Also Axiell CALM.* IDM Management - LDAP, Active Directory, propitiatory* Estates Management - CCTV, Security management. OnGuard, Salto.* Full Stack programmer - Perl, PHP, Python - all of the Javascript derived frontends - raw Javascript, Jquery, Bootstrap etc - I could go on (Phaser3 and Threejs for fun!). I am frankly language agnostic - I've left Java out of the mix, because I touch it every so often, but don't like it - the same with COBOL, or at a real push assembly. The point is, the labels are unimportant, I can program whatever the context.* SQL - Oracle as a preference, however happy with MSSQL and MySQL* SysAdmin - Solaris, CentOS, Windows (to a degree). Puppet and F5 configuration included as stuff I do above the actual machines themselves* Management - Team Leader at various points in my careers, until at each point I decided I preferred the technical side* Project management - Lots :)* Library Systems (academic) - profound domain knowledge* Financial Services (specialising in compliance) - I am fully FPC qualified* Formal Qualifications - FPC, ITILPrevious significant employers:* Legal and General* Barclays* University of the West of England (UWE)So - 5 years in Finance, 5 years in Library Systems, 14 + years in programming, application management, systems management, project management etc.Much stronger in, but still capable in, *nix systems than Windows.Client, rather than Server, side skills are a given.I am extremely happy in my current role, so please only contact me if you have an outrageous salary offering. £80K plus public sector benefits, or in kind, is the entry level for even entering into a conversation.

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  University Of Exeter

  Economics And Politics