Phil Wilkins

Current

Applications Integrator at Specsavers

Past

Development Manager & Architect at SeeWhy Software
Consultant at Hi-Q Systems
Senior Engineer / Team Leader at EDS

Snr Developer at EASAMS
Developer at Marconi Radar Systems

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Phil Wilkins’s Summary

Phil Wilkins is a software architect and project manager with a wealth of experience in enterprise and time sensitive applications, with over twenty years experience in the software industry. Prior to joining Specsavers Phil managed development at SeeWhy and architected the integration layers. Havinf previously been the technical/architect lead at Hi-Q for developing a middleware product for adoption across the back office applications within the UK armed forces. Before this Phil performed technical and team leading roles for EDS and GEC group on a range solutions, from military mobile radar through to Trans-Atlantic ATC and innovative operational displays of real-time synthetic environments, employing a diverse mix of technologies from Ada with X/Motif to Java (SE/EE) and Oracle.

As a side line Phil runs several websites for community organisations using CMS based technologies.

For more detailed information on skills and experience please visit my website.

Phil Wilkins’s Specialties:

Java, J2EE, JBoss, XML, JMS
Databases - MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server
Websites - CMS, wikis
Software Design & Architecture
Systems Integration e.g. ESB, MQ
Software Development Processes - RUP, Agile

Phil Wilkins’s Experience

Applications Integrator

Specsavers

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

January 2009 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for the Application Platform Team (APT) whose scope crosses multiple project boundaries within Specsavers addressing issues such as common frameworks, global systems integration using ESBs and messaging across the company's retail, supply and financial systems. APT also oversee the majority of the Continous Integration software build systems.

In addition to managing this specialist team Phil has an enterprise level architectural input into projects as needed.
Development Manager & Architect

SeeWhy Software

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2003 — January 2009 (5 years 4 months)

Responsible for managing the development for the companies core product. Architect for the integration and notification aspects of the product. Client liason in support of the CTO and Technical Services Manager, particularly for aspects of product integration.
Consultant

Hi-Q Systems

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2004 (4 years )

Army Interface Manager - Software Architect
Consultant for iWork Group covering integration technologies CORBA, J2EE, Web Services etc
Senior Engineer / Team Leader

EDS

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 2000 (5 years )

Development & Team Leader a several different projects

Iris
An X400 based comms system. Responsible for the development of the core of the user interface.

Joint Operational Picture (JOP)
Leading (staff & technically) a client based team developing a Joint Operational Picture which provided an advanced multi-user display solution with novel display techniques. This development programme worked to very tight time scales, and working closely with the customer to identify requirements, and presentation to the client’s various customers.

Air Traffic Control
Team Leader and Assistant QA roles on a large multi-million pound development programme. Starting with preliminary design based on a formal requirements capture from the customer and progressing through detailed design and implementation phases for the user interface and later comms subsysterms.
Snr Developer

EASAMS

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

January 1994 — February 1995 (1 year 2 months)
Developer

Marconi Radar Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MONI; Telecommunications industry)

September 1989 — January 1994 (4 years 5 months)