
Agile Developer on STORM
Ipswich, United Kingdom

Agile Developer on STORM
Ipswich, United Kingdom
(Public Company; BT.A; Telecommunications industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
After research was massacred I found myself redeployed as an agile developer working on STORM - an extended JIRA. In at the deep end with Tomcat, Java, Webwork, Velocity, JSP, HTML/CSS/Javascript, JQuery, Prototype, Subversion, Nexus, etc. etc. Fun!
(Photography industry)
January 1997 — Present (12 years 11 months)
I am a semi-professional photographer with a particular interest in people and the society in which they are immersed. I can provide portraits and coverage of life events such as weddings and other occassions. I also provide a range of graphics with competence in Photoshop, for a range of projects including website design.
(Public Company; BT.A; Telecommunications industry)
March 2007 — July 2009 (2 years 5 months)
Research into event-driven architectures and in particular Complex Event Processing architectures. Leading role in the Information Networking concept and prototype demonstrators. Lead concept of CEP as a value-added service, prototype and business case exemplars.
(Public Company; BT.A; Telecommunications industry)
November 1997 — July 2009 (11 years 9 months)
Technology specialist in Pervasive ICT with a particular expertise in Geospatial technologies. Have managed a number of EU IST 5th/6th framework projects and contributed to research in the fields of geospatial pervasive ICT, language technologies, multimodal communication and adaptive content.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1991 — 1997 (6 years )
PhD , Dialogue Modelling in Speech Recognition Applications , 1993 — 1997
BSc Hons , Computing with Artificial Intelligence , 1990 — 1993
I have a near obsession with photography and design. I also hold a black belt (1st dan) in Kuk Sool Won. Other interests include playing drums with the Suffolk School of Samba and cycling.