Senior architect and lead developer for web applications and platform integration - using Clojure.

Technical and business leadership for the US arm of Railo Technologies, the support and services organization behind the open source project.

Freelance consultant specializing in web application and middleware architecture.

VP Engineering for the collaboration and communication product suite that provides an easy-to-use, affordable platform for businesses.

Building a top-tier technical team and a high-scale web application platform.

Responsibilities:* Architectural vision: assist in creating an efficient and reliable global infrastructure.* Requirements analysis, design & development (SQL, ColdFusion).Accomplishments:* Architected (and built) core web services infrastructure behind Adobe Acrobat Connect and Adobe Document Center (2006-2007).

Responsibilities:* Architectural vision: assist in creating an efficient and reliable global infrastructure (previously for IT).* Standards & Policies: work with senior IT staff to create cross-team policies for EAI and best practices.* Requirements analysis, design & development (Java, SQL, ColdFusion).Accomplishments:* Architected (and built) real-time volume order management infrastructure on top of Oracle Applications (2004-2005).* Developed policies for EAI as groundwork for shift to SOA (2004).* Chaired IT architecture council (2004-2005).* Architected (and built) XML standards-based data interchange infrastructure for order management on top of Oracle Applications (2003-2004).* Created Web Technology Group to rebuild macromedia.com as a "zero-downtime" technology showcase for Macromedia products (2001-2003).* Championed JMS-based enterprise messaging and created a system integration roadmap based on XML standards (2001-2005).

Responsibilities:* On-site consulting.* Recruiting & staff management.* Requirements analysis, design & development (C++, Java, SQL, BroadVision).* Project management.* Mentoring other developers.Accomplishments:* Created a top-class BroadVision development team that built a number of successful ecommerce and portal sites, as well as sample applications for BroadVision Inc to ship with their products.

Responsibilities:* On-site consulting.* Requirements analysis, design & development (C++, Java, SQL, BroadVision).* Project management.* Mentoring other developers.Accomplishments:* Worked with a number of high-profile clients on requirements for ecommerce and portal sites (Toyota, Oracle, Thomas Cook, Toshiba, Vodafone).* Lead architect for Thomas Cook's ecommerce site - a custom C++ / BroadVision system. The site far exceeded all their success metrics.

On-site consultant as part of my role at I S Solutions. Assisted in the design and implementation of various BroadVision showcase sample applications.

Represented the UK to the International Standards Organization C++ Committee, mostly as Principle Expert.

Voting member of the X3 J16 ANSI C++ Standards Committee. Secretary of the committee from 1996 to 1999.

Responsibilities:* Design & development (C++).Accomplishments:* Contributed to the design and development of the world's first "no contract, pay-as-you-go" cellular phone system.* Re-engineered portions of Vodafone's core C++ libraries.

Responsibilities:* Design & development (C++).* Mentoring other developers.Accomplishments:* Designed second generation C++ parser and template analysis engine for QA C++.

Responsibilities:* Manage developers and support staff.* Short and long term project planning & product roadmaps.* C and C++ programming.Accomplishments:* Represented the company interests on the BSI and ANSI C++ Standards committees.* Designed and developed QA C++, a C++ source code analyzer.* Developed C and C++ coding guidelines for clients in Europe and America.* Conducted automated code audits for clients that often pinpointed bugs their teams had been trying to diagnose for weeks or even months.* Reduced customer support ticket closure time from three weeks to one week.

Responsibilities:* Design & development (C).Accomplishments:* Designed and developed a compiler for an actuarial formula language that targeted the Inmos transputer and achieved near-linear scalability up to 16 processors.

Responsibilities:* Compiler and code optimizer design and development.* C and assembly language (SPARC, 88000, 68881) programming.Accomplishments:* Co-designed and developed the first ANSI-validated C compiler.