I worked with Mendeley alongside a team focussed on user authentication and authorisation. The project covered the implementation and extension of OAuth2 services and integration with the wider Elsevier OpenID Connect system.The work involved the development of ECS based microservices in Java 8 and Node, as well as driving the unit and Cucumber test coverage surrounding the continuous deployment pipeline.The role also included working closely with other teams to assist with… Show more I worked with Mendeley alongside a team focussed on user authentication and authorisation. The project covered the implementation and extension of OAuth2 services and integration with the wider Elsevier OpenID Connect system.The work involved the development of ECS based microservices in Java 8 and Node, as well as driving the unit and Cucumber test coverage surrounding the continuous deployment pipeline.The role also included working closely with other teams to assist with technical queries and I quickly established a good working relationship with the 2nd line Support teams to ensure that any complex user facing issues were resolved as soon as possible. I also shared my knowledge with other Elsevier teams based in the UK, the Netherlands and the United States who were working towards similar goals. Show less

I was a Senior Java Developer in an agile feature team working on a high profile digital service for the DWP. This involved working closely with product managers, business analysts, UX and QA to develop a resilient microservice based system and delivering well tested features on an iterative basis.

I was the technical lead for a number of backend services for News Online, including the results systems for the May 2016 elections and the EU Referendum, (using Java, Apache Camel and PostgreSQL). I was involved in the full lifecycle of the agile development process, liaising with journalists and product owners on a daily basis as well as working with the front end developers who were creating the presentation layer. These systems were deployed to AWS in order to be able to support scaling of… Show more I was the technical lead for a number of backend services for News Online, including the results systems for the May 2016 elections and the EU Referendum, (using Java, Apache Camel and PostgreSQL). I was involved in the full lifecycle of the agile development process, liaising with journalists and product owners on a daily basis as well as working with the front end developers who were creating the presentation layer. These systems were deployed to AWS in order to be able to support scaling of resources as and when required. I was also responsible for managing the team's AWS infrastructure for all projects.Also within this team I worked as a developer on the system that provides feeds of the News and Sports editorial content in a custom format for the BBC's mobile apps and advised and helped out on this project on an ongoing basis.Previously I was the technical lead for the results system for the General Election 2015, the Scottish Independence Referendum in September 2014 and the Local Council Elections in May 2014. Show less

In this role, I worked on the primary in-house content management system used by journalists to create content for many of the BBC's online sites, including News and Sport. I developed and supported backend services in Java to process and transform the data to support new features as they were added to the online sites.I was also technical lead for a project to expose this content in a more re-usable format, to be consumed by any other systems in the BBC. I designed a scalable system… Show more In this role, I worked on the primary in-house content management system used by journalists to create content for many of the BBC's online sites, including News and Sport. I developed and supported backend services in Java to process and transform the data to support new features as they were added to the online sites.I was also technical lead for a project to expose this content in a more re-usable format, to be consumed by any other systems in the BBC. I designed a scalable system that provided standard format JSON or XML feeds via a set of well documented REST endpoints, and then led a small team of developers in implementing it. This system is still providing the backend feeds for the News and Sport websites, as well as the mobile apps. Show less

As technical lead for the main sports feeds systems for BBC Sport online, I led the delivery of a new Football results system as well as enhancing the existing services for tennis, golf and horse racing stats.This role involved working with third party data suppliers and required special attention to be paid to the throughput capacity of the systems, particularly for the football statistics feeds that had a very high volume of updates during a typical Saturday afternoon.These… Show more As technical lead for the main sports feeds systems for BBC Sport online, I led the delivery of a new Football results system as well as enhancing the existing services for tennis, golf and horse racing stats.This role involved working with third party data suppliers and required special attention to be paid to the throughput capacity of the systems, particularly for the football statistics feeds that had a very high volume of updates during a typical Saturday afternoon.These systems were developed in Java, and used Apache Camel and ActiveMQ to implement a scalable architecture for feed processing. Show less

I was a key member of the team during the early days of Interactive TV, (also known as "red button"​ services) where I built systems to process feeds and editorial content to be rendered on set top boxes. I created innovative solutions for several high profile BBC interactive TV applications, including Wimbledon, the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics.As the platform matured, I moved to a more specialised role where I provided direction for the architecture of new and existing… Show more I was a key member of the team during the early days of Interactive TV, (also known as "red button"​ services) where I built systems to process feeds and editorial content to be rendered on set top boxes. I created innovative solutions for several high profile BBC interactive TV applications, including Wimbledon, the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics.As the platform matured, I moved to a more specialised role where I provided direction for the architecture of new and existing products, particularly with regards to latency of updates to the viewers' set top boxes.As part of this I designed and implemented a system that synchronised the overlay of interactive TV quizzes with the live television broadcast. One example of such a quiz was Test the Nation in which viewers could answer the questions as they were posed in the studio, and be given an IQ score at the end of the quiz. Show less

At BT I worked on a variety of web based information and knowledge management systems, focussing on personalisation in particular. Examples of the software that I created included intelligent agents to proactively search the web, a system encourage the sharing of knowledge around a community of users and a fully personalised web portal.I also co-authored three research papers, which were presented at external conferences, and gave a large number of customer presentations at a variety of… Show more At BT I worked on a variety of web based information and knowledge management systems, focussing on personalisation in particular. Examples of the software that I created included intelligent agents to proactively search the web, a system encourage the sharing of knowledge around a community of users and a fully personalised web portal.I also co-authored three research papers, which were presented at external conferences, and gave a large number of customer presentations at a variety of locations. Show less