Contracted to help mentor a team of junior developers on best practises using Agile, Spring, JAXB and Test Driven Development.

Jan 2009 – Mar 2009
Lead developer on a bulk batch file processing system developed using the Active MQ JMS framework and Spring to distribute processing of customer information for various banks into the Monitise mobile banking platform.

Oct 2008 – Dec 2009
Lead developer in a team of 3 working on various projects related to improving development process and system builds. I was responsible for introducing and training the development team on a new build tool based on Java and Ant, to help configuration of the application server. This tool improved system build times for all developers.

Aug 2007 – Oct 2008
Lead developer in a small team of 4 integrating the Metavante Bill Pay System XML API to allow mobile customers to pay bills via their phone. Developed using the Spring framework and JAXB which was new to the team so helped in mentoring team members in the frameworks. After the successful launch of the system in the US I worked on a second project to integrate Metavantes faster payments functionality into the solution.

April 2007 – Aug 2007
Integrated WDS Globals Over The Airways (OTA) XML API software into Monitise to allow automatic configuration of mobile phone settings. Developed a XML schema of WDS system and then used JAXB and Apache HttpCLient to call the system. This functionality was then exposed to other systems using the Axis web services framework.

Feb 2007 – April 2007
Working with the Product Team developed a proof of concept to provide SMS banking functionality to mobile phones using a combination of Struts and EJB technology.

Apr 2005 – Dec 2006
Joined Betfair’s new Gaming product team as development lead to create a revolutionary new product suite of Exchange based games. I mainly developed the web services aspects of the product, which included money transfer, user authentication, currency feeds and a number of batch processing jobs. The service used the GLUE web services framework to call EJB beans and AXIS as a client. I also built the caching functionality of the system using the Tangosol Caching Framework which helped to improve resilience and performance. In addition I helped develop a REST interfaces to expose web site functionality to third part developers.

Mar 2005 – Apr 2005
I worked with the Betfair infrastructure team to investigate porting of Betfair JBoss J2EE application to various other J2EE application servers. Work involved identifying and replacing where Betfair application broke various J2EE compliances and used JBoss specific features. Project also involved liaising with various application server providers to work out what benefits could be gained by using their products.

Jan 2005 – Mar 2005
Development lead and architect for implementation of new Chinese payment gateway and website. This involved the development of a micro site and web service using the Java GLUE framework to integrate into the One Pay payment system.

May 2004 – Decr 2004
I worked on various software project releases helping to identify performance bottlenecks and functionality enhancements to the Betfair J2EE application. This included creating an internal web service in Java using the Axis and GLUE frameworks to support a call centre application, adding Tangosol Caches to improve performance of heavily requested information and development of a new accounts management system.

Jan 2004 – Apr 2004
Member of a small team that designed and developed Betfair’s first external web service. The product integrated Cryptologic’s WagerLogic Poker software into Betfair‘s J2EE application. It was developed using the GLUE web services framework deployed within JBoss 3.2.3. The service exposed existing Betfair J2EE functionality but also required the extension and the development of new services to manage users and security.

Mar 2003 – Jan 2004
Member of a small highly technical team tasked with moving the existing website and DiTV applications from BroadVision to the JBoss Application Server. I introduced the use of Apache Struts, JAXB, Ant, JUnit and JMS to improve performance and development process. I also mentored 6 developers in the use of the new technologies.

Feb 2003 – Aug 2003
Led the design of the NTL and Telewest DiTV solution this involved leveraging the code developed for Sky by reusing JSPs, JavaBeans and then applying new XSLs to create the NTL / Telewest front-end code. My role was primarily in the design phase, however I maintained an active mentoring role during the development phase.

Nov 2002 – Mar 2003
I worked as part of a select team to improve performance, stability and scalability of the original BroadVision system. The project involved the redesign, rationalisation and development of various parts of the site including infrastructure, front-end and back-end code and data feeds.

Apr 2002 – Oct 2002
I joined Arena to manage an existing team of 6 developers working on a DiTV application that was deployed on Sky’s WAP DiTV framework using Sky’s new Automated Broadcast Builder. The applications backend was based on BroadVision 6.0 application server and Informix database utilising JSP, JavaBean, SQL and XSL to deliver WAP content to the DiTV broadcast. My role included leading design, problem solving and mentoring the team on J2EE, DiTV and XSL issues.

Jan 2002 – Apr 2002
As part of a small architecture team I was involved in analysing and re-designing the existing website front-end and back-end processes to use BroadVision 6.0 Application Server with Java, SQL, JSP and Servlets.

Jul 2001 – Dec 2001
Designed and developed a new flight search facility that employed JavaBeans and XML in order to query availability on Amadeus. The return data was then transformed into HTML, using JavaBeans and XSLT. The project required my liaison with Amadeus on various technical issues.

Dec 2000 – Jun 2001
Lead developer on the integration of content from various third party suppliers, such as Accuweather and Maporama into the Airmiles website using BroadVision JavaScript, Java, XML, XSL and SQL.

Jun 2000 – Dec 2000
I worked on the integration of various backend transaction systems into the Airmiles BroadVision 5.0 website; leading the design, architecture, development and testing of these various projects which involved the use of the following technologies Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, BroadVision JavaScript, Perl and HTML.

Feb 1999 – Mar 2000
Managed a team of 5 developers who were building a number of integrated n-tier Java based tools, which allow SME's to manage their intranet and Internet sites

Jul 1998 – Feb 1999
Developed Calleo’s pan European intranet using SQL, VBA, IIS4, ASP, HTML, Perl and JavaScript my responsibilities covered the development, design and management of the project, which consisted of a team of 4 and required international collaboration with the company's European management teams.

Nov 1997 – Jul 1998
IT consultant for Calleo at a Dresdner Kleinwort Benson where I developed their Y2K and EMU System databases in MS Access and SQL this involved managing a team of offshore programmers from India.