Education
City St George’s, University of London
Engineer's Degree, Computer Engineering 1985-01-01 - 1988-01-01North Leamington School
High School, O Levels, A Levels 1979-01-01 - 1985-01-01Work Experience
Hanamaru K.K.
Current
Hanamaru K.K.
Current
Stuart Labs
Current
Stuart Labs
AXA
2008-02-01 - 2012-09-01
AXA
NTT DATA, Inc.
2003-10-01 - 2008-01-01
NTT DATA, Inc.
Digital Garage
2002-01-01 - 2003-09-01
Digital Garage
Vanguard K.K.
1999-12-01 - 2002-01-01
Vanguard K.K.
Lotus Development
1991-08-01 - 1999-08-01
Lotus Development
Lotus Japan
1991-01-01 - 1999-01-01
Lotus Japan
Newtech Co.,Ltd.
1989-01-01 - 1991-01-01
Newtech Co.,Ltd.
Skills
Summary
An IT professional and permanent resident of Japan with experience of working in Japan since 1988. Initially focused on localization, internationalization, debugging and porting software for Japanese customers as a Software engineer. Later moving into Internet facing server-side development during the dot-com boom. More recently, experience in Service Management, Solution Delivery in the Insurance Industry and consulting relating to Enterprise Internet Hosting in the Cloud. Also experience in: * source code management and quality assurance * testing of server side and client side applications, gui and we applications * working in multilingual distributed development software development teams * Mac OSX and Linux working environments * Scalability concepts * learning new programming languages * extensive software development experience * site reliability. Finding the real root causes of performance and reliability issues whether it be hardware, software or development process. One of the first generation who read "Extreme Programming" and introduced the process of using Agile methods into the work place.