Andy Brook

Current

Applicaiton Development Manager at Dolby Laboratories Inc. (UK)

Past

Software Developer at Xebec-McGraw Hill
GC9 at GCHQ

Education

Cheltenham College
Lancashire Polytechnic

Connections

9 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

My Company

Andy Brook’s Summary

I've been developing with Java since 1.1 (10+ years) in various environments (applets, applications, servlets, webapps, ejb, Eclipse Rich Client). Just starting to dabble with GWT.

In my current role Im responsiblew for maintenance and continued work toward integration of Atlassian products such as Confluence, Jira, Fisheye, Bamboo etc within my corporate net. In this work I have create several Open Source 'plugins'.

Goals include continuing to get paid to develop innovative solutions for my employer, or under separate contract.

Andy Brook’s Specialties:

- Open Source software (the art of getting something to do what I want with as little effort as possible)
- Java, Eclipse, Eclipse Rich Client Platform, Linux (Ubuntu)
- Atlassian applications (Confluence, Jira, Fisheye, Bamboo, Crowd)
- DB2, mysql, SQLserver
- Server Architecture, Software Design, Software Development Life-Cycle, Project Management, System Backup/bare-metal restore

Andy Brook’s Experience

Applicaiton Development Manager

Dolby Laboratories Inc. (UK)

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; DLB; Consumer Electronics industry)

March 2002 — Present (7 years 11 months)

I work in IT, typically back-office stuff, using Java/Jboss/Eclipse/Linux + too many API's to mention. I also manage the companies Confluence and Jira instances.
Software Developer

Xebec-McGraw Hill

(E-Learning industry)

May 2000 — March 2002 (1 year 11 months)

Working mostly on windows, using Tomcat and Java/JSP. Business was based on a n e-Learning product (a java applet), did some work on that and tools to support editing and development. Introduced first linux server in the company that crunched software builds allowing first 'diff' between builds, auto generation and deployment of javadoc documentation. Managed Solaris 8 system.
GC9

GCHQ

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1991 — September 2001 (10 years 1 month)

I could tell you but I would have to kill you :)