"Hippo" was born on 1st October 2015. It's mission is to create affordable excellence in everything that it does.With our fantastic technical and marketing team we have our work cut out for the next few years to establish "Hippo" as the go-to authority on email address data cleansing solutions. Our technology and infrastructure is built on that from the early days of 2009 where "Rolosoft" email checker delivered the first self service online batch email validation service. Since 2009, our technology has processed in excess of 3.5 trillion email addresses and eliminated 935 million bad email addresses.In April 2020, "Hippo" is extremely proud to be awarded The Queens Award for Innovation.

Products and services include:IPN Easy.NET*****************Integration software for PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) specifically designed for .NET solutions. Provides native support for enterprise features such as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Workflow Foundation (WF). More info at http://www.ipn-easy.com.Bulk Email Address Checker*********************************The first and presently the only online, self service bulk email address checking services. Created for .NET 4.0 and leveraging custom multi threaded server software developed in Visual Studio 2010. This high performance solution has the capability to actively check in excess of 1 million email addresses per day and can be dynamically scaled over multiple servers to increase performance to meet demand. Service runs on Windows server 2008 and utilises ASP.NET, Ajax, IIS7, MSMQ, WCF and WF technologies. More info at http://www.email-checker.com.Email Address Intelligence*******************************Online, subscription based service aimed at SME's with email lists.- Checking, validation and research on individual email addresses. Integration with Google AJAX API to provide detailed search on email addresses providing related web search, video, blog and local information.- Email address extraction (file, web page, copy paste)Hosted on Windows Server 2008, IIS7 .NET framework 4.0. Developed using Visual Studio 2010 Professional, SQL Server 2008 Web Edition, Google AJAX API, JQuery, JavaScript. Ecommerce integration provided by IPN Easy.NET (See above).More info at http://tools.email-checker.com

Director of development of in-house software and infrastructure for data cleansing services.Responsible for architectural design of eVerify's portfolio of data services to help our customers improve email delivery ratios through the intelligent use of cloud based service technology.eVerify Ltd provide robust services for both high volume (batch) and low volume / real time use case scenarios. eVerify Ltd has developed and own the Intellectual Property to all of our server side software / services.eVerify Ltd is a fast growing a UK based company competing globally at the leading edge of exploiting the newest technologies including:- Parallel processing, async high performance systems- Distributed data processing architecture- Cloud hosted domain logic- REST WCF API, WCF- Integration of disparate platforms- 100% up-time cloud systems, clustering, availability sets- Self adaptive / real-time "aware" systems- Persistence (SQL, BLOB, MEM, CACHE)- Azure Service Bus, Queuing- RxThe development team's most exciting daily challenge (to pioneering service development) is: "Googling sometimes brings zero results!"

Business system IT development lead. Responsible for the company in house development team.Developing, integrating, extending and enhancing mission systems including HR, payroll, CRM, quality control.

Software and Infrastructure consulting for UK retail sector.Assignments include:Infrastructure Designer (Marks & Spencer)*************************************************Central (back office) Integration, data storage and analysis of all Point Of Sale (PoS) data from the M&S enterprise.Responsible for design and implementation of data integration services to service many key areas of the business including financial reconciliation and financial service (&more credit card).Directly responsible for data services capable of near real-time processing up to 300 transactions per second including:- Near real-time de-duplication of individual transactions against history of in excess 3 billion existing records- implement transactional mechanisms to ensure ACID compliance for maximum concurrency and performance, minimum locking and best fail safe conditions.Anti-Fraud**********Design and implementation of retail anti-fraud systems:Clients include:- Marks and Spencer- Tesco- Sainsbury- MetroThe Sysrepublic anti-fraud RTI system reduces global fraud of more than £128 billion in 2015.Chip & Pin (Dione)*********************Dione supply pinpad payment services to retail. Consultancy to asses existing software and infrastructure from the perspective of performance and scalability in order to support Dione's rapid growth in pinpad deployment.Analysis of software and infrastructure and in depth engagement technical staff. Recommendations to Dione CIO for software and infrastructure to be able to support increased concurrency, improved performance and a scalable data storage design that would grow with business needs.Other activities included staff mentoring in federated SQL databases, replication, log shipping, .NET middleware, and appropriate and effective data locking strategies for improved concurrency and performance.

Application Service Provider (ASP) - Lead Developer************************************************************Responsible for design and development of CRM system.Custom implementation of Onyx CRM for use over internet hosted on IIS and written in classic ASP, COM+, SQL. Onyx CRM was primarily designed for Intranet deployments. Many design modifications were needed to enable Internet use. Changes and modifications included:- GUI (ASP) and business logic (COM+) to cater for a wide range of customers requirements.- Performance optimisations needed to session management modules to improve performance. Many of my changes have been incorporated into the code Onyx software releases.- Changes to enable automatic provisioning using company central provisioning system.

Permanently in consultancy assignments to assist clients with direct development needs in Microsoft server and desktop software including:- Excel (97)- Access (2.0 & 97)- SQL Server (v6)- Visual Basic (v6)- COM+- Windows NT4Clients included many City based investment, fund management and commodity banks and my work included overseas assignments to Hong Kong and Chicago.Systems that I worked on included:-Front office decision making apps (Reuters terminal + Excel)-Research tools (MS Access, Excel, SQL Server)-Back office reconciliation (MS Access)-Commodity Trade Tracking (Classic ASP, COM+, SQL)

Power Industry - Static VAR Compensators (SVC's)***********************************************************Technology Overview************************Static Volts-Amps-Reactive (VAR) compensators balance the power efficiency of transmission systems as the demand for power fluctuates. Over the medium to long term, SVC's can save power distribution companies money and have therefore become strategic components in modern power distribution architecture.Client: National GridWork: Installation of new equipment in existing power infrastructureResponsible for day to day running of contracts up to ~ £5M including:- Preparing and maintaining project budgets following handover from Sales department.- Customer management (reporting progress, identifying and resolving issues).- Supplier management including negotiating price, terms and then progressing fulfilment.- Reporting to director level on project progress.- Working effectively with internal departments (e.g. planning, manufacture, test, design, shipping, dispatch) to deliver the project on time and to budget.- Effective use of IT solutions to deliver cost reductions and efficiency improvements to the project.