Experienced IT Solutions Architect, Software Engineer and Educator

Good communication and presentation skills – able to present and negotiate at board level. Good listener and able to communicate complex technical ideas and processes to any audience. Gained from working on complex projects in many countries. Running computer science teaching course for GSCE level and A level students at local schools.

Able to lead large team – project or operations – good leadership skills. Have led up to 45 people as group leader in SAIC. Proven Project Management skills. Able to work in pre-sales and organise bids and tenders as required.

Solid technical knowledge of a wide range of middleware and infrastructure technologies gained from working on many different projects for over 30 years. Started programming assembler and building digital devices – good knowledge from bottom up. Moved into infrastructure design in 2004 but able add significant value by understanding application integration issues. Have a solid consultative approach to business and technical problems alike - recognised and proven.

I am a

Websphere IBM MQ Certified Solution Architect

Programming competency in virtually all popular languages – C, C#, Objective C, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript and Fortran. Middleware and integration speciality with MQ, Citrix, Oracle. I apply this knowledge to ensure that applications are designed and written to run properly on infrastructure solutions as I believe that most issues relating to application failure and recovery are caused by application design and lack of cooperation with modern cloud infrastructure platforms. Strong Interest in embedded systems on Arduino. Run teaching course including Arduino- with various projects including GPS tracking systems

Learned to play lead guitar age 44 – formed rock band. Made a study of MIDI technology and sequencers and formed rock band using synthesizers and drum machines. Now regularly perform. Teaching robotics and programming at local schools and helping with new curriculum