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Previously, I have worked as a Principle Engineer/Technical Architect using .Net or Java technologies in AWS/Azure Cloud or OnPrem. I have now retired from full-time work and work part-time as CTO for NeighbourNet Ltd. @ NeighbourNet Ltd
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Previously, I have worked as a Principle Engineer/Technical Architect using .Net or Java technologies in AWS/Azure Cloud or OnPrem. I have now retired from full-time work and work part-time as CTO for NeighbourNet Ltd.My IT career spans a total of 44 years spent mainly on the technical side. Wide experience of design, architecture, implementation and security of systems, tools and applications used in information systems. I have worked for companies in Media, Retail Banking, Telecoms, Corporate Finance, Product Development and Securities Trading. I have been involved in the design and implementation of intranet/internet systems since 1993.● 36 years of experience from setting up one of the first WWW servers and applications in BT to developing Internet Applications and Intranet Information Systems for companies including Reed Exhibitions, EuroMoney, BBC, NeighbourNet, BT, Energis, Citibank and Barclaycard.● Extensive experience and knowledge of tools and technologies used in developing web based solutions, including recent detailed experience of .Net, Java, J2EE Technologies, cloud Technologies and Content Management. ● 10 years experience in TV & Radio, including Video Processing (Transcoding), Digital TV (DSAT), Digital Radio, Production, Scheduling, HR, Finance, Web, Content Management, Data and Metadata Management (SMEF). ● 20 years+ experience in local media (hyperlocal) news sites, developing platforms and applications● In recent years approx 20-50% of my time has been spent on low level design and coding. Have recent experience of C# .Net, Java, XML.● 20 years experience in working on agile projects and contributing at all stages in the agile process.● Led small to medium size teams as Team/Project leader to Development Manager of a team of 50 developers.

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NeighbourNet Ltd

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Previously, I have worked as a Principle Engineer/Technical Architect using .Net or Java technologies in AWS/Azure Cloud or OnPrem. I have now retired from full-time work and work part-time as CTO for NeighbourNet Ltd.
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Tony Steele Work Experience Details
  • Neighbournet Ltd
    Cto (Part Time)
    Neighbournet Ltd Jan 1999 - Present
    London, United Kingdom
    Neighbournet provides a network of local online News sites in West London , my responsibility includes the redevelopment of their current publishing system and infrastructure to run on Azure using .net Core technologies
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  • Reed Exhibitions Limited
    Senior Principle Engineer
    Reed Exhibitions Limited Sep 2016 - Oct 2024
    Since 2016 I have worked as Principal and Senior Principal engineer in developing a new platform as part of a digital transformation program to support the RX's 600 events worldwide. The platform ran on AWS cloud and used .net core technologies.
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  • Paydashboard Ltd
    Technical Team Leader
    Paydashboard Ltd Feb 2016 - May 2016
    London, United Kingdom
    PayDashboard is a start up, implementing an online payslip product in the Azure environment who had just released their first product implemented by a team of contract developers. My role was to transition the development team from contract to a permanent team, review the technical implementation and implement agile development processes and tools to support the team going forward. Achievements :- Assisted in the recruitment of a permanent technical team of developers.- Introduced Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), implemented a scrum-based agile development process based on VSTS and continuous integration and deployment to azure from VSTS.- Reviewed and moved the feature backlog into VSTS and put in place a process to manage the backlog.- Reviewed the current Azure architecture and subscriptions, started a process to reorganise the architecture for greater reliability and security and to utilise Azure subscription credits.- Started the process to make a number of overall changes to the technical implementation of the product.Skills & Tools: Agile team Leading .Net, Azure, Visual Studio Team Services,
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  • Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc
    Technical Architect
    Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc Mar 2013 - Nov 2015
    Lodon
    Defining the Technical Architecture for both Infrastructure and Business based projects. Working on projects to produce an implementation architecture to allow the development of new products in an agile manner. Projects included:• A new financial analysis tool for BCA Research (http://www.bcaresearch.com/bca-edge) That combined editorial content with semantic tagging to produce a detailed analysis of financial markets to its users.• Implementation of a SEDA based architecture to improve the assessment and publication of metals prices for Metal Bulletin. The internal price assessment system and pricing database is live, the first user application for AMM (American Metal Markets) view metals prices is currently going live.• Technical Architect and for the last 6 months Product Manager for Euromoney’s content store, using REST API’s to access content stored in Marklogic, and pushing new content to search engines (Solr/ElasticSearch) and Semantic Datastores (Owlim). • My main contribution to Euromoney technically was the introduction of SEDA based techniques for the processing of content and the technical infrastructure to support it such as introduction of RabbitMQ as a messaging system. Other contributions included a LogStash based logging system for applications and the use of Dataflow techniques using the Microsoft TPL library. The projects were all used agile methods and a Git/CI based development infrastructure.Skills & Tools Used: C#, Web.API, NUnit, SpecFlow, SQL*Server, ElasticSearch, Solr, Owlim, RabbitMQ, REST, Thinktecture IdentityServer, GitHub, Stash, Octopus, Teamcity, UML, Writing User/Technical Stories.
  • Bbc Future Media
    Technical Lead (Content Store Team)
    Bbc Future Media Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
    London, United Kingdom
    Technical Lead for a new team developing an internal service to manage writing of documents to MarkLogic databases across multiple data centres. The service provided a REST API for clients to write documents, it used Atomikos Transaction Manager to write the documents to copies of the database. A REST management API was also provided to allow administration of failed transactions via the Atomikos JMX interface. The service ran as a Tomcat webapp on multiple servers across multiple datacentres using Spring 3.2 MVC REST and the Atomikos Transaction Manager. I took the project through the initial architectural, design and implementation to its first release on the BBC forge platform.The project used agile methods: short sprints, pair-programming, TDD and BDD.Skills & Tools Used: Java, Spring 3.2(Spring MVC, Spring JMS), Tomcat, REST, XML, Json, Netbeans, SVN, Jira, Maven, Hudson/Jenkins, Cucumber-jvm, Groovy.
  • Bbc Future Media
    Technical Lead (Syndication Manager Team)
    Bbc Future Media Jul 2012 - Dec 2012
    London, United Kingdom
    Technical Lead for a team developing a new system to syndicate BBC content (News, Financial, Travel, etc. information) internally and externally. The system extracts content in XML, transforms/aggregates the content and sends it to the syndication clients. I took the project through the initial architectural, design and implementation to its first release on the BBC’s forge platform. It was implemented as a number of services running on multiple servers interconnected using ActiveMQ queues. Each service was a Java application implemented using a Camel/Spring framework. The XML used XProc to pipeline XML transformations. The project used agile methods: short sprints, pair-programming, TDD and BDD.Skills & Tools Used: Java, Spring 3.1 (Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring JMS), ActiveMQ, Camel, Hibernate, Tomcat, Rest, XML, XProc, REST, Json, Netbeans, SVN, Jira, Maven, Hudson/Jenkins, Cucumber-jvm, Groovy.
  • Bbc Sport
    Senior Developer (Torch Relay Team, 2012 Olympics Project)
    Bbc Sport Nov 2011 - Jun 2012
    London, United Kingdom
    Working in a team developing a web application and services to track the progress of the torch relay around the UK. My responsibility was to design and implement the backend services to map the torch route and provide real-time location of the torch on the map. The service ran as a Tomcat webapp on multiple servers using Spring 3.1 MVC REST.The project used agile methods: short sprints, TDD and BDD.Skills & Tools Used: Java, Spring 3, Tomcat, REST, XML, XML Schema’s, Json, Netbeans, SVN, Jira, Maven, Hudson/Jenkins, Cucumber, Groovy, Geolocation.
  • Bbc News, Future Media
    Senior Developer (Audio Visual Team)
    Bbc News, Future Media May 2009 - Oct 2011
    London, United Kingdom
    Working in a team developing a BBC News Media Publishing System, which transcodes and publishes video and sound clips to the BBC Web sites in a variety of formats. Main work during this period was extend the system to use distributed transcoding farms and multiple transcoding technologies (Flipfactory, Rhozet and Elemental transcoders), migrate the system from JBoss to Tomcat/Spring environment, implement new transcoding formats for High definition, mobile (iPhone and android) and ipTV, develop and maintain the windows/c# front-end, implement new development processes (build/release using Maven, continuous integration using Hudson/Jenkins). The project uses agile methods: short sprints, pair-programming, TDD and BDD.Skills & Tools Used: Java, C#, Spring, J2EE, JBoss, Tomcat, JMS, SOAP, Rest, XML, XML Schema’s, XSLT, Oracle 10,Cayenne, Hibernate, Windows server, UML, Netbeans, Eclipse, Visual Studio 2010, SVN, Jira, Maven, Hudson/Jenkins.
  • Siemens/Bbc
    Development Manager/Architect Bbc Digital Fabric Project
    Siemens/Bbc May 2006 - Apr 2007
    London
    Responsible for the development and testing of the software components within the Digital Fabric EAI infrastructure to support SOA throughout the BBC. Responsibilities included:● Planning the development work and scheduling the work of 8 developers and testers.● Production and implementation of Development and Configuration Management Plans. ● Architecture and High Level design of the project. ● Production of Technical proposals/Bids for Implementation projects based on the infrastructure.● Design and implementation of a SOA services directory within the BBC.● Design and Implementation of Pilot application to automate news media file acquisition, transcoding and storage from outside supplies. The infrastructure was based on IBM WebSphere, MQ, Message Broker, WPS and Sun Servers. The first phase of the infrastructure went live in March 2007.During this time I also was the technical lead for a number of Siemens proposals to the BBC.Skills & Tools Used: IBM WebSphere, IBM MQ, IBM Message Broker, IBM WPS, SOA, SOAP, Java 1.5, J2EE, XML, XML Schema’s, XSLT, SOAP, Oracle 10, Sun Solaris, UML, Eclipse, Rational Software Modeller, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Maven.
  • Bbc Technology/Siemens
    Variety Of Roles From Technical Architect To Senior Developer
    Bbc Technology/Siemens Nov 2001 - May 2006
    London, United Kingdom
    Worked on a large variety of BBC systems and rolls within AMS or matrixed out to other areas The systems have covered most applications of technology within the BBC and include the areas of Digital TV (DSAT), Digital Radio, Production, Scheduling, HR, Finance, Web, Content Management, Data and Metadata Management (SMEF), spanning from individual applications to the enterprise level. My rolls have included Consultancy, Technical Bid Management, Technical Architect, Design and Development. Skills & Tools Used: Java 1.3-1.5, J2EE, JSF, EJB (Session),Spring, Borland AppServer, JBoss, CORBA, XML, XML Schema’s, XSLT, .Net, SOAP, Oracle 9i,, Hibernate, SQL Server, Apache Tomcat, Sun Solaris, Linux, W2003, UML, Eclipse, Netbeans, Borland JBuilder, Rational Rose, ClearCase, XMLSpy, Maven, OpenText LiveLink, Documentum, Rochade, DSAT, MPTS
  • Bbc Technology, Professional Solutions
    Technical Team Leader, Architect/Designer/Implementer (Metalink Project)
    Bbc Technology, Professional Solutions Dec 2001 - Oct 2002
    London, United Kingdom
    Two objectives – 1. Synchronise BBC programme information across a number of operation systems 2. Integrate the data into an XML based Datamart to allow an integrated view of the programme data to be presented to the user via a browser. The first was achieved using a EJB/CORBA messaging framework written in Java to propagate events and apply business rules across the operational systems. The second was archived by replicating the data into an Oracle 9i database and using materialised and xml views to integrate the data, EJB application to provide the access layer and the Apache Cocoon XML/XSLT publishing engine for the browser interface. Set up and managed the configuration management system, this consisted of the integration of ClearCase/ClearQuest/RequisitePro with the design and development tools.Skills & Tools Used: Java 1.3, J2EE, EJB (Session & Entity), Borland AppServer, CORBA, XML, XML Schema’s, XSLT, SOAP, Oracle 9i, Apache Tomcat & Cocoon (XML Publishing Engine), Sun Solaris, Linux, W2000, UML, RUP, Borland JBuilder, Rational Rose ClearQuest RequisitePro & ClearCase, XMLSpy, DreamWeaver
  • Calleo Uk
    Technical Team Leader
    Calleo Uk Feb 2000 - Oct 2001
    London, United Kingdom
    Two Projects:- In-house web application & content management system for developing Internet systems for clients. It was developed based on the Apache Cocoon and Slide tools and using Java/J2EE/EJB/XML/XSLT/Servlets. This was integrated with an in-house workflow system to provide a complete content management and web application framework. This was used to implement a Shopping Portal for Barclaycard.– eCommerce Shopping Portal for Barclay Card, Responsible for the Design and development of the Web Portal and Product Search Engine. The search engine utilised Oracles 8i IntermediaText to index and search Product information in XML.On both of the above projects my time was split 50/50 between Teamleading/Design and Low Level Design/Coding.Skills & Tools Used: Java 1.2/1.3, J2EE, EJB, JMS, RMI, Servlets, JSP, HTML, Sun J2EE Server, IPlanet, WebLogic, JBoss, XML, XML Schema’s, XSLT, Oracle 9i/8i, Apache Tomcat & Cocoon (XML Publishing Engine), Sun Solaris, Linux, W2000, UML, Borland JBuilder, Rational Rose & ClearQuest, XMLSpy, DreamWeaver
  • Citibank Us
    Technical Team Leader, Architect/Designer And Developer
    Citibank Us Jul 1997 - Jan 2000
    London, United Kingdom
    Developed Intranet based Data Warehousing and Management Information systems in the UK for Citibank US. Responsible for two projects: a US wide Financial Data warehouse and Financial Reconciliation System for NewYork bank.All development was done in java and used Oracle as the database.● This included a distributed server application that scheduled and monitored data warehouse processing across multiple systems. This had a graphical and form based front written in Java. ● All processing of data from source systems into the warehouse.● A Java Swing based Financial Reconciliation System.● A number of small Web based projects including a document management systemSkills & Tools Used: Java 1/1.2, Swing, HTML, JavaScript, Oracle 7/8/8i,PL*SQL, UML, VisualCafe, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Designer 2000
  • Energis
    Data Warehouse & Mis Project Engineer
    Energis 1996 - 1997
    Reading, United Kingdom
    Technical Architecture/Design of Energis's New Data Warehouse and overseeing the implementation of Oracle Express Datamarts from external suppliers. Gave advice to projects in Energis on the technical aspects of WWW architecture.
  • British Telecom, Group Finance
    Data Warehouse & Web Designer/Team Leader
    British Telecom, Group Finance 1993 - 1996
    London, United Kingdom
    Responsible for the Technical Strategy, Architecture, Design & implementation of two financial data warehouses, one being a Data Warehouse across the whole BT (both organisationally and geographically). This was designed as an intranet based client server system capable of supporting the analytical needs of 4000 users.
  • British Telecom
    Development Manager & Technical Authority, Oracle/Unix System Development
    British Telecom 1992 - 1993
    Bracknell
    Responsible for 50 developers working on products mainly aimed at external customers. This included resource, budget and customer management.Responsible for approving technical solutions for projects and providing technical direction. Introduced Object Orientated methods and tools into the unit, project managed a trial project using the BOOCH method and Rational Rose tool.
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  • British Telecom
    Technical Manager
    British Telecom 1991 - 1992
    Bracknell
    Responsible for the technical aspect of a contract to deliver a large voice network management system to the Army. The system was a large distributed client/sever system with a number of large regional Unix/Oracle systems processing high volumes of call records and sending summarised information to a central system.
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  • British Telecom
    Technical Bid Manager/Systems Designer
    British Telecom 1990 - 1991
    Bracknell
    Senior technical person on a small team( technical, commercial and sales) replying to tenders and preparing proposals for corporate directory and voice network management systems
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  • International Stock Exchange
    System Architect/Senior Designer
    International Stock Exchange 1989 - 1990
    London, United Kingdom
    Defining a business and technical strategy for both the delivery of Stock Exchange information to the user sites and the systems situated at the user sites.Defining the overall technical architecture with respect to the application, communication and network management infrastructures for system to integrate all the Stock Exchange securities information services into a single point of access at the customers site.
  • British Telecom
    Project Leader/Designer
    British Telecom 1988 - 1989
    Bracknell
    Responsible for a project to develop a pilot Corporate Directory system using Oracle for use for BT and customers.
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  • Smith New Court Plc
    System Architect - Securities Trading/Back Office Systems
    Smith New Court Plc 1987 - 1988
    London, United Kingdom
    Member of a team of four set up within a Market Maker to investigate architectures for dealing systems and specify requirements for an infrastructure to support present and future dealing system, back office and analysis applications.
  • Trading Technology
    Senior Designer - Securities Trading System
    Trading Technology 1986 - 1987
    London
    Design and implementation of applications in a real time client server securities dealing system.
  • Communications And Military Companies
    Designer/Software Engineer
    Communications And Military Companies 1980 - 1986
    Computer Systems designer and Software Engineer in mainly the Communications and Military Applications.

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Tony Steele Education Details

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    University
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