Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry

March 2011 – January 2012 (11 months) DUMBO, Brooklyn

Building the HowAboutWe iPhone application:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id439078709?mt=8

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TRI; Information Technology and Services industry

January 2010 – March 2011 (1 year 3 months) New York, NY

As part of the cross division New Ventures team we build new products through the use of technology, design and user research.

My day to day role consists of defining the technology architecture and leading the engineering team to build a Personal Finance service (as a sibling site to reuters.com) for users to manage all their finances (bank accounts, 401k, brokerage accounts, mortgages etc).

Technologies: Java, Spring, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, memcached, Continuous Integration (C.I), Objective C (for iOS), REST APIs.

Context: Personal Finance and Wealth Management, Agile Team Leadership, Security, E-Commerce, Product Management and Design.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TRI; Information Technology and Services industry

September 2005 – December 2009 (4 years 4 months)

Reuters Labs is a sandbox for showcasing new media initiatives for feedback and analysis. We focus on innovating around content aggregation, delivery and publishing across the web (reuters.com), mobile (m.reuters.com and apps), IPTV and B2B delivery platforms.

The role of Head of Labs Development and Senior Technologist involves investigating and prototyping new product ideas through the use of technology and user experience research.

Achievements :
- Thomson Reuters iPhone application - built the APIs (http://reuters.com/iphone)

- Helped define the Media Content/API Strategy.

- Mobile Journalism - developed a mobile journalism platform so journalist could file stories (text, video and pics) through the Nokia (symbian) devices.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2007/oct/23/reutersmojoexperimentswith

- Spotlight APIs - exposed the Reuters.com content through a set of REST APIs to encourage innovation around Reuters content to outside developers (http://spotlight.reuters.com). These developer APIs went on to feed the NewsPro iPhone and iPad apps.

- Set up an off shore development team in China for the Media Technology team.

- Devise the content strategy for the Media group.

- Innovated other new products with the focus on user behavior and technology - hands-on development of prototypes.

Technologies: Open Source technologies, Internet Architecture, Java, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Struts, JSPs, Objective C, Windows, Mac OS X, Digital Video Encoding Formats and delivery, Mobile, IPTV, iPhone, Web Services (SOAP/REST APIs), CMS (Drupal, Wordpress, etc), OpenCalais/ClearForest.

Context: Media, Internet News Agency, Mobile, Scalable Internet Architecture, Agile Methodologies, Team Leadership.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TRI; Information Technology and Services industry

January 2004 – September 2005 (1 year 9 months)

Working as part of the Reuters Innovative Program to investigate and deliver new innovative concepts and technologies into the Reuters core business segments.

The position held consisted of researching and identifying new technology concepts and trends. The work consisted of engaging various products and capability teams using prototypes and workshops based around scenarios, personas and brainstorms to encourage ideas and involvement.

Audio – User centered researched on how people use audio as a passive medium - including usage, demographics and delivery mechanisms. The results identified we could reach consumers through digital media devices and mobile phones at times we previously had no presence - prototyped the first Reuters podcasts.

Content Based Routing – Researched emerging technologies based around routing XML content intelligently. Built a number of prototypes to demonstrate the technologies and wrote papers of recommendation for the architecture and content groups.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TRI; Information Technology and Services industry

December 2002 – January 2004 (1 year 2 months) London, United Kingdom

Working as part of the Development group in the Fundamental and Reference Data arm of Reuters.

The role of Lead Developer / Architect on the Search Capability project consisted of designing and developing a Search Capability for Reuters fundamental and reference data. Working with the Reuters architecture and development group both in the UK and US, as well as the Norwegian based search company, FAST.

Technologies: Architecture, .Net Framework, C#, Windows, Web Services, SOAP, XML, Internet Architectures, Search Technologies.

Context: Fundamental and Reference Data, Search Paradigms, High Level Technical Architecture and Design practices, Development Lifecycle and Technical Leadership.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TRI; Information Technology and Services industry

December 1999 – December 2002 (3 years 1 month) London, United Kingdom

Reuters supplies financial markets and news media with information products and transactional solutions, including market data, research and analytics, trading platforms, investment data and analytics plus news in text, video, graphics and photos.

I joined the Reuters Consulting arm of Reuters and worked as part of the Field Development team as a Consultant Developer. My work consisted of consulting, designing and developing financial systems for clients as part of project based teams.

NASDAQ – Worked as part of team developing the NASDAQ Europe Super Montage Exchange. Primary task was Lead Developer in designing and developing the Trading GUI application. Worked client based as part of a multinational team located in London and Palo Alto US – I worked in both locations.

Technologies: Java, Swing, Servlets, Oracle, C++, UNIX, Windows, Apache, Tomcat, STL, ASP, XML, MQSeries, Tib RV, SQL

Context: Market Data, Equity Markets, Consulting, Reuters and Tibco Technologies

Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry

July 1999 – December 1999 (6 months) London, United Kingdom

Symbian, the software licensing company, are the supplier of the advanced, open standard mobile operating system - Symbian OS. Worked as a Software Developer as part of the Messaging Team. As part of the Messaging team I helped develope the email, SMS, FAX and MMS messaging capabilities for the Symbian OS.

Technologies: C++, EPOC (Symbian OS)

Context: Mobile and Pocket PC Industry, Mobile Technologies, Mobile Development.

August 1997 – July 1999 (2 years)

OpenTrade Technologies are a company that provides complete Trading solutions to their customers; data feeds, platform and desktop suites. Starting as a graduate, as part of the OpenTrade graduate scheme, to became an established and respected member of the Desktop Development team.

- Added new and enhanced existing functionality on the desktop applications.

- Developed various stand alone application, including, an Instrument Limit Minder, a News Contributor and a Template Generator.

Technologies: C++, STL, UNIX, Windows, MFC, COM/DCOM, Win32 API

Context: Trading, Market Data, Software Development Lifecycles