Gavin Churcher

Gavin Churcher

Agile Developer on STORM

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Current
  • Agile Developer at BT
  • Freelance Photographer and Imageer at AnEyeForDigital.com
Past
  • Researcher in Complex Event Processing and Event Driven Architectures at BT
  • Geospatial and Pervasive Technologist at BT
  • Student, BSc and PhD at University of Leeds
Education
  • University of Leeds
  • University of Leeds
Connections
43 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Gavin Churcher’s Experience

  • Agile Developer

    BT

    (Public Company; BT.A; Telecommunications industry)

    September 2009Present (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!

  • Freelance Photographer and Imageer

    AnEyeForDigital.com

    (Photography industry)

    January 1997Present (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.

  • Researcher in Complex Event Processing and Event Driven Architectures

    BT

    (Public Company; BT.A; Telecommunications industry)

    March 2007July 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.

  • Geospatial and Pervasive Technologist

    BT

    (Public Company; BT.A; Telecommunications industry)

    November 1997July 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.

  • Student, BSc and PhD

    University of Leeds

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    19911997 (6 years )


Gavin Churcher’s Education

  • University of Leeds

    PhD , Dialogue Modelling in Speech Recognition Applications , 19931997

    Activities and Societies:
    TAGB Taekwondo
  • University of Leeds

    BSc Hons , Computing with Artificial Intelligence , 19901993


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Gavin Churcher’s Interests:

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.

Gavin Churcher’s Groups:

  •    British Telecommunications - BT

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