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Tim Pizey tim.pizey AT gmail.com http://tim.pizey.uk/

To contribute to the success of a forward-looking organisation; advancing its goals using my leadership, software engineering, and project management skills. I am particulalrly interested in the development of systems with lifetimes of many decades. Having worked in remote teams last century I was well placed to formalise my current twenty five person distributed team's ways of working. System ownership Backlog and Roadmap ownership Incident management Team Formation Distributed team management Individual mentoring Standups Retrospecives Solution design Code Review Requirements capture Estimating Budget running Open Source Software Agile Development Repeatable builds Continuous Integration Standards compliance Prince2 Practitioner Jira Scrum Github Servlets J2EE Django Spring Struts GWT JSP Velocity XPath, XSLT HTML JavaScript CSS Postgresql MySQL Hibernate Hyperjaxb JAXB XML SGML BerkeleyDB JUnit Cucumber PowerMock git Jenkins Gradle Maven Ant Debian packaging Jenkins promotions pipeline Linux Amazon Web Services Perl Mail - postfix, Exim, qmail Tomcat, Jetty Heroku Apache Puppet IntelliJ IDEA Eclipse Emacs RDF RDFa Jena NG4J Software Development Manager Elsevier March2019 Current 26 direct reports Blending three teams into one distributed team based in the UK and five sites in India. Having hit a high water mark of 55% female I recruit to a gender balanced team. Blending a happy team with a disgruntled one. Quite how bad is it? Ensured that all tickets were current and imposed a strict assignment of remainder. Production of the Roadmap for my three systems from JIRA and negotiaton of priorities with the Product sponsor. I am responsible not just for the development but the running in production of my four systems. Delivering on a five year project to move the Elsevier production engine (EWII) from on site to a colocation provider to AWS. Design and implementation management of a system to ensure all digital assets are scanned for viruses. Taking on a high functioning team, without disturbing a gelled team. Refreshing and refactoring a MarkLogic monolith to a three teir architecture, without changing user experience. Senior Software Engineer Elsevier March2016 February2019 15 direct reports Team Lead of a distributed team based in the UK and three sites in India. Management of common Jenkins Continuous Integration server. Training in and trouble shooting the rollout of Git to both teams. Setup of the rules in SonarQube, establishment of ways of working with SonarQube. Continuous Deployment to AWS Creation and management of githook based continuous deployment to Amazon Web Services. Development Lead Elements Software September2015 January2016 Team Lead of a UK and a Vietnam team. Two direct reports onshore, three in Vietnam. Management of common Jenkins Continuous Integration server. Training in and trouble shooting the rollout of Git to both teams. Setup of the rules in SonarQube, establishment of ways of working with SonarQube. Refactored builds to work within Docker. Continuous Deployment to AWS Creation and management of githook based continuous deployment to Amazon Web Services. Senior Development Engineer Blinkbox Music September2013 May2015 Membership of a team of engineers focussed upon code quality. Management of Jenkins Continuous Integration server, including renaming all jobs, establishing change control of Jenkins configuration and plugins. Retrofitting Cucumber tests, reviewed the book for Seb Rose. Setup of the rules in SonarQube, establishment of ways of working with SonarQube. Software Developer (Grade 8.6) Oxford University, Department of Psychiatry January2013 August2013 Membership of a small agile team of software developers using the both the Python/Postgresql/Apache/Linux stack and the Java/MSSQL/Tomcat/Linux stack to develop web applications. Working with the Lead Developer using Python and Twitter Bootstrap to further develop the existing Minimisation and Pack allocation system for the Action clinical trial. Installation of an untailored instance of OpenClinica. Responding to events and recording actions in the Department's Issue Tracker suitable for external audit. Senior Web Database Developer (Grade 8.5) Oxford University, Centre for Genomics and Global Health November2009 December2012 Using the MySQL/GWT/XML/Apache/Linux stack to develop web applications. Using Latex, R and Java to publish graphs and a data dictionary. Using HyperJaxB and Spring to build a Data Warehouse. Setup all projects to build and deploy using Maven under Jenkins. A framework for global data-sharing between clinical research groups. Project Officer (Grade 7) Oxford University Computing Services April2009 October2009 Development of an RDF backed location query engine delivering location based services to mobiles. Take-on of the Gaboto Open Source RDF store by the introduction of tests and CI. Applications for the Google G1. RDF store update interface. Systems Consultant Champion Recruitment October2005 December2008 Responsible for configuring and bespoke work on the Bond International Adapt system and web interface to it. Rewriting and restructuring a large ASP based web site. Generated Java JWebUnit tests. A parser for the Adapt command language, using JavaCC, which identified a 30% error rate in delivered code. Review and rewrite of .net website and data access layer. Senior Java Developer INSL Limited May2005 August2005 Lead Java developer for the Spheriq email cleansing service. As lead developer I had overall ownership of the codebase and a mentoring role to the other three members of the team. Adding an audit log to all configuration change events. Retrofitting Maven and Cruise Control to the existing project. Proprietor Context Computing January1994 June2004 Between my MSc and 2004 (11 years) I was a Sole Trader. Recruited a distributed team of freelancers from Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic and UK. Designed and implemented a project management and implementation portal. Part of the team that developed the Melati middleware layer. Chief Technical Officer Bibliomania.com August2000 As CTO I managed a team of distance workers in addition to implementing and supervising the rollout and continued development one of the first online full text book websites. Publishing Consultant Thompson Tax May1996 February1997 Working with Perl and SGML I wrote validation scripts for a large Tax Reference work. Senior Technical Analyst Catalyst Electronic Publishing September1994 May1997 Recruited by the Technical Director I had responsibility for all project conversions. I also assisted in sales and defined the overall approach to most projects. The majority of projects were completed in perl. Project Manager Vosper Thornycroft Support Projects Division May1982 June1992 In charge of a five million pound budget for programming labour and equipment. This post involved system design, hardware specification, negotiation with the lead contractor (British Aerospace, Warton), the MoD (Navy) and the end customer (Royal Saudi Arabian Navy) and its representatives (ex US Navy personnel). Practitioner Prince2 - Project Management November 2012 Best Practice LMS PassPass MSc Module Software Testing (Java) October 2012 Oxford University 92100 MSc Module Functional Programming (Haskell) October 2011 Oxford University 89100 MSc Artificial Intelligence October 1993 University of Edinburgh BSc Neurobiology July 1982 Sussex University First My wife and I have two daughters, aged twenty two and twenty. August 2024