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With 25 years experience of technical & business development, and an engineer by training, I have a thorough and broad skill-set to spearhead and support your business.
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| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £72.22 per hour |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £577.78 per day |
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| Seller ID: | 319248 |
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With 25 years experience of technical & business development, and an engineer by training, I have a thorough and broad skill-set to spearhead and support your business, by identifying need and developing a co-ordinated solution.
As a consultant on contract, I am available to offer:
• Technical, Information & Business Architecture
• Product Development
• Business & Technical Operations Development
Excellent communication skills - able to interpret complex information and present to technical, business and management staff in an accessible and appropriate way, including delivering structured training.
Analytical and operational skills - experience of working at the highest level with large corporate systems.
Industry Experience: mobile payments, mobile telecommunications, pensions, finance, credit card, banking and brokerage trading industries.
Technical Proficiencies: Java, JE55 with EJB3, JBoss Seam, JBoss AS, Hibernate, Amazon EC2/S3, Microsoft Office, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Linux, JSF.
Client History
Employment History
(2008 & ongoing)
Produced Service Delivery Model as part of RFQ response to operate a new UK Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MNVO) for a leading supermarket. Established strategy for partnership working governance and defined KPIs for performance monitoring.
(1999 & ongoing)
Developed the technical architecture for a successful £60m programme that implemented a consumer credit card global operation.
(2004 to 2009)
Developed and tested products, strategies, applications and technical infrastructures to establish m-commerce for a new enterprise. As CTO, I also reduced costs by 90% whilst improving capability and flexibility for growth, by using open source technologies and deploying into Amazon EC2.
(2004 to 2005)
Vodafone UKLead the functional and technical infrastructure upgrades for the core wholesale billing systems for a UK mobile network operator. Developed strategy to dramatically improve the utilization of computing infrastructure.
(2000 to 2003)
PrudentialGuided the replacement of a legacy mainframe Defined Benefit administration system on a £17m project for a pensions company that reduced their running costs and risk liability. Trained staff and established best-practice for business support team to analyze, design, develop, test, and release software.
Previous Employment
Mobile Sense
Slough CTO of a new enterprise that developed mobile payment technologies. Oct. 2004 - Apr. 2009
Centrica (British Gas Services)
Staines Infrastructure architect for internal network security strategy and a pricing rules engine implementation. Oct. 2007 - Jan. 2008
Jan. 2009 - Mar. 2009
Vodafone
Theale Technical architect to plan and implement major hardware and software upgrades to core billing systems. Feb. 2004 - Feb. 2005
American Express
New York & London Technical architect to investigate and improve the performance of a large internal HR web application. May 2003 - Aug. 2003
Prudential & Hazell-Carr
Reading Technical Architect to implement and support third-party pension administration system. Jun. 2001 - Dec. 2002
Mar. 2000 - Nov. 2000
American Express & American Express Sharepeople
London Technical architect to determine business requirements for online brokerage capability. Nov. 2000 - Feb. 2001
American Express
Brighton Technical architect for a global programme to implement credit card processing capability in new markets. Jan. 1999 - Oct. 1999
BT Alex.Brown Intl. (formerly Natwest Markets)
City of London Developer for principle back office equities settlement. Team leader of Y2K remediation effort. Aug. 1997 - Dec. 1998
United Distillers
London Lead designer and developer of a duty-free price analysis system. Mar. 1997 - Jun. 1997
Lombard North Central
Redhill Team leader of a performance development group for a customer finance agreement system. Sep. 1995 - Mar. 1997
Cellnet (now O2)
Slough Team leader of core wholesale billing application development. May 1993 - Sep. 1995
Midland Bank (now HSBC)
Sheffield Developer that improved performance, reliability and serviceability of the OS/2 mortgage quotation application. Aug. 1992 - Dec.1992
IBM
Hursley Developer of an OS/2 device driver for ISDN PC card. Jun. 1900 – Mar. 1992
Education
B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with option in Computer Engineering University Of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada Sep. 1983 - May 1988
Canadian born 16 September 1963
Naturalised British Citizen, resident in the UK since 1990
Categories & Freelance Skills
IT & Internet
Categories
- Application Development
- Database Development & Admin
- Enterprise Systems
- Foreign Languages
- IT Management
- IT Support
- IT Tools/Middleware
- Networks
- Operating Systems
- Programming
- Web Design & Usability
- Web Development/Prog
- Web E-commerce
Skills
- 10G (Database Development & Admin - Oracle)
- Analysis (IT Management - Business Process)
- Application Architecture (Application Development)
- Application Integration (Application Development)
- Automation (IT Management - Business Process)
- Business Process (IT Management)
- Capacity Management (IT Management)
- Catalyst (Web Development/Prog)
- CentOS (Operating Systems - Linux)
- Change Control (IT Management)
- Change Management (IT Management - Business Process)
- Consultancy (IT Management)
- Design (IT Management - Process)
- Disaster Recovery (IT Support)
- Enterprise (IT Support)
- Exchange Server (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- Fedora (Operating Systems - Linux)
- Improvement (IT Management - Business Process)
- Java
- Leadership
- Linux (Operating Systems)
- Mapping (IT Management - Process)
- M-Commerce (Web E-commerce)
- Microsoft (IT Tools/Middleware)
- MS Access
- ODBC
- Online Payment Systems (Web E-commerce)
- Oracle (Database Development & Admin)
- Oracle (Enterprise Systems)
- Outsourcing (IT Management)
- Portuguese (Foreign Languages)
- Process (IT Management)
- Re-engineering (IT Management - Business Process)
- Release Management (IT Management)
- Service Level Agreements (IT Management)
- SOAP (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Software Evaluation (IT Management)
- Software Implementation (IT Management)
- Software Selection (IT Management)
- Solutions Delivery Management (IT Management)
- Strategy Management (IT Management)
- TCP/IP (Networks)
- Team Leadership (IT Management)
- Technical Management (IT Management)
- Technical Standards Development (IT Management)
- Visio (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- Web Design (Web Design & Usability)
- Web Development (Web Development/Prog)
- Website Strategy
- Wintel (Operating Systems)
- Wireless (Networks)
- XHTML (Web Development/Prog)
