Andy James

Current

Member at Microsoft Architects Council
CTO at Solidsoft

Past

Secretary at Microsoft UK SOA BPM User Group
Consultancy Manager at Solidsoft
Architecture & Design Lead at Solidsoft

Develpment Consultant / Project Manager at Solidsoft
Development Manger at Sage
Development Consultant at Data Engineering
Engineering Officer at Royal Navy
Engineer at Royal Navy

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Education

RNAS Manadan

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Andy James’s Summary

Following on from a successful electronic enginering career, I have now risen to the dizzy heights of CTO helping set the Technology Strategy for my company.

I am a 'jobing' CTO who still likes to get his hands dirty! I am involved in a number of key advisor teams including V.next BizTalk, MS Cloud (Azure and on) and all things connected.

I have skills covering a range of areas from Enterprise/Solution Architecture, BizTalk development, custom development, web development and Project Management

I can often be found presenting on all these topics and enjoy a healthy blog and twitter world

Andy James’s Specialties:

Microsoft BizTalk 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2006 R2 2009
.Net Development 1.0,1.1,2.0,3.0,3.5,4.0
Software Architecture
C#
VB6, VB.Net
Microsoft SQL Server
Sharepoint
MOSS 2007
WCF, WF, Silverlight
Azure!!!
Live Services
Software as a Service
Software + Services

Andy James’s Experience

Member

Microsoft Architects Council

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)
CTO

Solidsoft

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2004 — Present (5 years 11 months)

Recently elected to the Microsoft UK Architects Council, drives the Technology Strategy Group for Solidsoft. A member of the Microsoft .NET Partner Advisory Council. Active member of a number of Microsoft TAP programmes in the Connected Systems space.

Technologies interested in include:

BizTalk 2006, Oslo, SQL Server, MOSS, Sharepoint Services, WCF, WF, WPF, Silverlight, Ajax, Web 2, C sharp, VB, .Net 3, 3.5.
Secretary

Microsoft UK SOA BPM User Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2008 — March 2009 (1 year )

Secretary for newly created Microsoft UK SOA BPM User Group.

The group exists to enable its members to maximize its understanding of the Microsoft SOA and BPM product and partner landscape through:

Knowledge Sharing
Networking
Leveraging the collective real world experience of members
Consultancy Manager

Solidsoft

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2003 — May 2004 (1 year 2 months)
Architecture & Design Lead

Solidsoft

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2001 — April 2003 (1 year 11 months)
Develpment Consultant / Project Manager

Solidsoft

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1998 — April 2001 (2 years 10 months)

Various
Development Manger

Sage

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1997 — July 1998 (1 year 2 months)
Development Consultant

Data Engineering

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1996 — June 1997 (1 year 5 months)

Development lead for a number of projects
Engineering Officer

Royal Navy

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

June 1988 — February 1996 (7 years 9 months)

Many roles covering:
Tactical Weapons Officer
Project Manager in MOD
Trials Officer
Trials Director
Engineer

Royal Navy

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

September 1973 — June 1988 (14 years 10 months)

Royal Naval Artificer cover Radio and Radar Engineering, progressing to Navigation Computers and SatNav Computers

Andy James’s Education

RNAS Manadan

0 , Electronics, Matns, RFP, Computer Technology, Radar Principles, Sonar Principles , 1988 — 1989

Activities and Societies:

Achieved HND squared! (2 HND'S)