Andrew Hancox
Totara Development Team Manager at Kineo
- Location
- Brighton, United Kingdom
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Andrew Hancox's Overview
- Current
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- Totara Development Team Manager at Kineo
- Past
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- Senior Technical Consultant at Kineo
- Analyst at tlmNEXUS Ltd
- Freelance Consultant at Self-Employed
- Senior Web Developer at The Digital Property Group
- Senior Developer at Madgex
- Software Developer at Varndean e-Learning
- Network Manager at Varndean School
- Education
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- The Open University
- Greensward Academy
- University of Sussex
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University of Exeter
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Cardinal Newman School
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Andrew Hancox's Summary
Analyst from a development background with strong experience of high traffic classified sites gained working on the market leading Job Board platform for major UK media clients and the number two UK property web site as lead developer and architect.
Specialties
C#, VB.NET, Umbraco, ASP, WebForms, LINQ, XML, XSLT, Actonomy XMP, JavaScript, jQuery, Ext JS, AJAX, MySQL, SQL Server (2000-2008), WCF, CSS, PHP, Zend, WordPress, Continuous Integration, TeamCity, MSBUILD, Linux, Solr, EC2, AWS, Apache, Tomcat
Andrew Hancox's Experience
Totara Development Team Manager
Kineo
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; E-Learning industry
March 2012 – Present (3 months) Brighton, United Kingdom
Senior Technical Consultant
Kineo
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; E-Learning industry
August 2011 – March 2012 (8 months)
Analyst
tlmNEXUS Ltd
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry
January 2011 – July 2011 (7 months)
At Nexus I was involved in every stage of the project life cycle from pre sales analysis, through system design to delivery, demonstration and sign off. I worked with UML and wireframing tools to document existing processes, domains and systems as well as to design new ones.
Freelance Consultant
Self-Employed
February 2010 – January 2011 (1 year)
I'm available (depending on commitments from my permanent positions) for consultancy on any issue where I can deliver value; clients so far include:
Glyndebourne Productions: CV sifting and interviewing, strategic advice, requirements elucidation, snagging, deployment and hosting (S3 + traditional)
Mike Weatherley MP: Specifying, designing, building and hosting http://www.mikeweatherleymp.com plus delivering face to face training on the use of Wordpress CMS.
Qualifa Sales Acceleration: Development of a solution to automatically aggregate contacts from many Google Docs spreadsheets into a central database and a web application to search it via a SOLR index through faceted browse and search forms. Development of a call centre management application built with PHP/Zend and hosted on an EC2 instance to manage campaigns, leads and reporting across a team of 50 agents.
TerraMar Networks: Carrying out bug fixing and enhancements on the tracpoint asset tracking and fleet management system - a web application built in PHP and Ext Js, running off MySQL.
Senior Web Developer
The Digital Property Group
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Real Estate industry
January 2010 – January 2011 (1 year 1 month)
In this role I worked on a project to rebuild Primelocation.com using ASP.Net Webforms and the Umbraco CMS.
Alongside this I evangelised and implemented new developer tools including:
SVN - I ran training sessions for staff and migrated several large projects from VSS to SVN.
Teamcity - I implemented Teamcity to deliver continuous integration, pushed a unit testing strategy and developed autodeploy scripts using MSBuild.
• VB - Having not used VB for some time it was illuminating to use version 3.5 for a major project.
• C# - Whilst VB was used where existing libraries were of value new code is mainly C#.
• WCF - I had to rebuild an emailer application in order to make it scale and for this I choose a broker/client architecture based on WCF.
• Javascript/JQuery - Prior to this role I had always relied on front end coders to deliver javascript, however, I picked up the language swiftly and added several pieces of AJAX functionality to the site as well as building a plugin for Google Chrome.
• Unit testing - A great deal of the backend code produced at TDPG has unit tests created to go along with it and I have enjoyed the opportunity to learn the discipline of unit testing and been reassured by the confidence it can give you.
• Opensource - GeoCoordConversion is a library I developed for internal use that I got released under GPLv3. For this to happen a suite of unit tests had to be built and the code had to comply with FxCop.
Senior Developer
Madgex
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry
April 2007 – December 2009 (2 years 9 months)
Whilst in this job I worked on two major projects for the Guardian. The first was the Guardian's job board (jobs.guardian.co.uk), on which I was made lead developer after I oversaw the launch and performed a great deal of emergency database performance tuning. The second was CV servces (jobs.guardian.co.uk/cv-services) a CV database that I architected, saw from requirements gathering and project inception through to launch and subsequent white-labelling. These two projects required me to run a team of developers, liaise with the wider business and occasionally the client directly.
• XML, XSLT, XSD - I used these technologies a great deal developing a system to consume and generate HRXML documents.
• Web-services - Madgex's clients receive a great deal of data via web-services so these had to be developed to securely and reliably consume data in various forms.
• SQL - prior to the company’s appointment of a dedicated DBA I was responsible for performing post launch tuning on several high traffic databases whilst feeding changes into our platform. This required the analysis of execution plans, optimization of stored procedures and looking at the creation and maintenance of indexes.
• C# - All of the company’s solutions are developed in C# and so I have a great deal of experience working in this language from the perspective of bug fixing and enhancing legacy projects as well as building greenfield systems.
• MVC Frameworks - Prior to the release of ASP.Net MVC Madgex developed an in house routing and rendering engine to deliver the same functionality, helping to build the rendering engine gave me great insight into the design patterns behind these tools..
• Java, XMP - The final project I worked on was based around an indexing framework built on top of Lucene in Java, I had to work extensively with this which gave me experience with J2EE and Eclipse.
Software Developer
Varndean e-Learning
May 2005 – April 2007 (2 years)
Varndean e-Learning is a small company developing products for key stage 3 and 4 ICT teaching. Since I was one of two technical staff out of a total of five employees I was required to fulfil a variety of functions:
• Developing web services in C# and VB .Net
• Developing web sites using ASP Webforms, C# and VB .NET
• Designing, building and maintaining databases using SQL Server 2000 and 2005
• Developing multimedia applications in Macromedia Director
• Managing several internal servers (IIS, SQL, Exchange, DNS, Active Directory
• Providing technical support via email and telephone
Network Manager
Varndean School
September 2003 – August 2005 (2 years)
Varndean School is a large secondary school in Brighton with a specialism in technology. In my post as network manager I was in charge of a network of over 600 machines with around 1400 users and had a number of duties:
• Managing several servers (IIS, SQL, Exchange 2000 and 2003, DNS, Active Directory, ISA)
• Managing and developing network infrastructure. Whilst in my post the number of computers doubled which required me to manage the installation of several new IT suites and WLAN coverage. I managed the upgrade from Exchange 2000 to 2003.
• Dealing with external contractors. I dealt with the deployment of a great deal of new cabling, power and a new phone system.
• Training users. As well as running a CCNA evening class I enrolled and trained new staff in the use of the network.
• Providing technical support face to face and via telephone.
• Maintaining and deploying software using Norton Ghost
Andrew Hancox's Skills & Expertise
Andrew Hancox's Education
The Open University
PGCert, Technology Management
2008 – 2010
For this qualification I complete three courses:
'Technology management: an integrative approach' - looking at integrative approaches to innovation and organisational learning, how technology can be managed for competitive advantage, how to model a company/system/business process to effectively analyse it and how to effectively run a technical project.
'Analysis and Design of Enterprise Systems' - Looking at the analysis and design of enterprise systems covering various development methodologies but focusing on using UML and OCL to analyse, design and document solutions and Agile/Waterfall to manage their delivery.
'Web Systems Integration' - Looking at the use of various technologies to complete enterprise integration projects including SOAP, Python, Perl, XML, RPC, RMI, CORBA, BPEL, Integration Servers, Messaging Systems and JavaBeans as well as the development methodologies involved.
Greensward Academy
CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), Networking
2005 – 2006
I completed a CCNA and trained as an instructor, this has given me an excellent grounding in the fundamentals of computer networking that has proved invaluable.
University of Sussex
MSc, Theoretical Physics
2004 – 2005
I studied part time for an MSc in Theoretical physics for two terms before realising that it was the computational elements that really interested me and that I would be better off pursuing a career as a software developer. In spite of this I really enjoyed building on the knowledge of Quantum Theory and Crystallography I had gained during my batchelors degree.
University of Exeter
BSc, Physics
2000 – 2003
I gained a degree in Physics during which time I did work programming in C developing simulations of scientific phenomena and data processing tools.
Cardinal Newman School
1993 – 2000
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