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David A. B. Johnson
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| PROFILE |
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IT Consultant with over 30 years of software engineering experience. Worked in a wide variety of domains including education, travel, utilities, automotive; telemarketing; e-Commerce; scientific research; electronic & mechanical design.
Experienced in all aspects of software engineering life-cycle. Worked in organisations of all sizes from start-up to multi-nationals. Has managerial skills including board level.
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| SKILLS SUMMARY |
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Languages
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Flex, Java (12 years), C, C++, c#, Scala
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Technologies
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Java EE 5, Flex 3, J2EE, J2SE, JPA, JDBC, Swing, Client/Server, Web Services, CXF, Tomcat, JBoss, GlassFish, Lucene, LifeRay, Alfreco, Hibernate, Struts, Tiles, Spring, Jakarta Commons, Apache, Eclipse, ANT, XMLBeans, JUnit, FlexUNIT, CruiseControl, Subversion, Hudson, Mule, Google App Engine, BigTable
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Operating Systems
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Windows, UNIX / Linux (various), Solaris, OS X
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Databases
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MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, ObjectStore ODBMS, Derby
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Methods
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Agile, OMT, UML, RAD, Extreme
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| EMPLOYMENT HISTORY |
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2004 - current
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Black Pepper Software Limited Consultant
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Refined Metals Trading and Logistics System: Agile development making use of continuous integration in a c# client / Scala web services environment.
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Cross Platform Phone App. Development: iPhone (Objective-C) and Android (Java) native code development of a ‘store finder’ including JSON integration with web services.
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Commercial Foreign Exchange: Senior software engineer responsible for the Agile design and development of extensions to a CFX for card payment services and user role management.
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Government ‘Home Access’ Programme: System Architect and Business Analyst working on secondment to Becta to define interfaces with DCSF service providers to determine the authenticity of learners during the application process.
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Commercial Foreign Exchange: Developed in Flex 3 and Java EE5 / JPA for a large travel company. The development made use of short delivery cycles using Agile techniques including Junit, Hudson for continuous integration and Selenium for automated acceptance testing.
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Virgin Galactic Schools Mission: Increasing the security of a Flash / PHP /MySQL web site to be used by teachers and pupils as part of the Mission Virgin Galactic competition.
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Commercial Foreign Exchange: Flex3, Xfire WebServices, JPA,Spring, MySQL. Design and build of an RIA for Thomas Cook clients to place online orders for foreign currency. The system replaced an existing phone/fax system. Initially built using the AppFuse environment, then migrated to Tomcat using JPA, Spring and Mysql and built with ANT within Eclipse.
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Sandbourne Systems: Java, Swing, RMI. Short term attachment to assist in the development of a feature-rich shop-front application with integration to Amazon & Ebay shops, including web services. Developed using Eclipse with a large number of open source libraries.
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System Minds: Mentoring on agile methods within a Adobe Flex 3 b2 / Java EE 5 (Jboss 5b2) project integration for an OLAP project for a large loyalty card organisation. This included setting up a continuous integration environment for Flex using cruise control.
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Logistics Client: senior developer working on a Java/J2EE help desk system for a large logistics company. Followed a test driven development approach, developed using the IBM Websphere Development tool (Eclipse 3.0) and Maven for the build process.
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BECTA: project to develop a community and educational resource search Web Application for an Educational Government Agency. Primarily developed using open source tools: JBoss, Apache Commons, JBoss Cache, Lucene, Hibernate, Struts, Tiles, MySQL5. Developed on (My)Eclipse (Windows) and deployed to a JBoss Cluster.
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Thomson Holidays (TUI): Evaluation of travel industry information transfer standard (OTA/T4) and implementation of proof of concept. (Java, XML, WebLogic on UNIX)
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2002 - 2003
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DDAT
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Managing small team of developers/systems engineers developing strategies for the diagnosis & remediation of Dyslexia
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Hands-on design and development of web based screening test for Dyslexia (Flash MX, ASP.NET, C#, SQLSERVER, UNIX)
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Hands-on design and development of system for collection of data from remote clinics and graphical system to display results of Dyslexia diagnosis (Java & c# Web Services).
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1999 – 2002
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The Naming Company Ltd
CEO of P.V. funded startup whose product provided search engine extensions for discovering people’s names in many document types and providing correlation.
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1990 – 1999
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Parallax Solutions Ltd / Keane Ltd.
A wide variety of projects on a range of platforms, working with leading edge technologies. Projects included:
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Product Catalogue Authoring System for Oracle for BMW (Oracle, UNIX).
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Web based Sales Lead Prospecting System
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Integration of a Multi-Tier Demonstrator for Sun Microsystems / Parallax
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ntegration of Customer accounts system for a large insurance company.
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European Commission Funded Project in Metrics for OOD
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Car service procedures for Rover Group
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MRP engine for British Aerospace
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Point of Sale System for car Dealers, for Rover Group
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Planning of car features through time, for Rover Group
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1977 - 1990
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Marconi Research Centre Ltd.
Principle Research Engineer, involved in a variety of mechatronic, Computer Aided Engineering projects including autonomous navigation, spatial sensor systems, high performance data transfer. |
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Other Interests
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Amateur Radio (licensed 35 years)
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Amateur Satellites (design and building them, 30 years), including:
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software development mentoring for European Space Agency students
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development of software for telemetry recovery from US Nava LEO, AMSAT HEOs & the ISS.
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Flying (Private Pilot 10 years)
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Morris Dancing
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