CV / Resumé
Ian’s CV
As you can see from my portfolio, I’ve worked with some of the UK’s most prestigious companies, including BP, Jaguar, Currys, Halfords, BT and Hewlett Packard.
I’m often hired by large companies with their own IT departments. Often, company IT departments are engaged in managing internal systems or projects, so it’s good business for them to bring in a specialist for a particular project. I’m very good at working with in-house IT teams and it’s often the in-house team that will specify the requirement. I also work with small businesses or individuals too of course, and I have the advantage of big business experience to bring to the table.
I’ve been in the Internet business since 1990. At that time, there were no suitable methodologies for managing Internet production. We had to invent them. There was no “secure download” mechanism for a project we needed to build for a large client – we had to invent one. This culture of innovation has stayed with me and been enhanced by time I spent meeting with key figures like Alan Kay (a founder at Apple), Prof. len Kleinrock (inventor of packet-switching), Doug Englebart (inventor of the mouse), BT’s lead researcher for many years, Peter Cochrane and co-founder of MIT’s Media Lab Nicholas Negroponte (among many others).
If you’re interested in a more detailed CV, here it is:
Overview
Analyst / Programmer with 20 years experience of client/server software and internet related business and project management methodology, including some of the UK’s most prestigious technology projects. Experience of managing large development teams up to 80.
Developed client/server applications for Jaguar Cars, British Telecom, British Airways, Honda, BP (Oil) Dun & Bradstreet, Morgan Stanley, Nokia, Halifax and Britannic Building Societies. Developed UK’s first ever secure online transaction for Software Warehouse.
Experienced in:
- PHP / MySQL (LAMP) developer in both OO and procedural styles.
- MySQLi (improved) interface.
- MVC frameworks (CakePHP)
- SOAP XML transactions
- Cloud services such as Salesforce
- XHTML/CSS/JQuery/AJAX.
- HTML5 video elements (iPhone/iPad compatible).
- Experienced Linux and Apple Xserve server admin, with emphasis on web, mail and database server installations. Linux distributions used include Trustix, Red Hat, Debian and Ubuntu.
- Apache web server administration.
- Payment processing with Paypal, Google and custom APIs.
- Experienced in web design using Adobe Photoshop, and Flash.
- Experienced Wordpress developer (installations, mods and plugins).
- Develops using Mac and PC platforms on own professionally hosted Linux servers.
Projects include many event registration systems utilising PHP / MySQL to promote and take registration details for delegates attending conferences. Includes pre-population of website content based on user login. Variable logic based on user type. Credit card transactions using Paypal, Google Checkout and various banks own payment gateways.
Acted as Systems Analyst, Project Manager and technical lead for BP’s new Health and Safety training Intranet, utilising h.264 video streaming. Management reporting was extensive and included the necessary integration with BP’s existing user database.
Produced Staff and product training system for PC World, again utilising video streaming and an extensive bespoke content management system for PC World trainers to manage course and product content. This project involved considerable business process re-engineering in order to eliminate the old ’shared spreadsheet’ method which was a significant resource waste for PC World.
As Operations Director for tw2.com, integral to growth of business from 6 to 115 staff. Skilled in Project Management, Systems Analysis, Development methodology and Q.A. from specification through to implementation.
Managed development of critical systems for Global businesses. Managed Windows product development for best-selling PC software, including PC-Cillin, Win Fix-It and Sidekick.
Acted as technology consultant for British Telecom during specification of their new Broadvision-based Intranet.
Acted as technology consultant for Granada Television.
Key Skills include: Total management of workflow and development processes, strategic planning, product and team development, solutions development, project management and team coaching, business development, business process re-engineering and interface design. Also client-facing consultancy roles with strong sales skills.
Specialist in information management solutions and their application to business processes with an emphasis on solving business problems and human-computer interaction issues (usability).
Design and implementation of workflow and management reporting systems. Definition of efficient business process methodology, audit tracking and production optimisation, process definition. – “Redefining the way businesses think about information management”.
Excellent communication skills – commissioned to write article about usability and interface design for US magazine “Journal of Work Process Improvement”.
Professional Associations: Member of Technology Transfer Institute, California. (www.ttivanguard.com) A “think tank” of some of the world’s leading technologists and futurologists, including Peter Cochrane (Ex Chief Technologist, BT Labs) Alan Kay (V.P. Disney imagineering) Gordon Bell (senior researcher, Microsoft) and Len Kleinrock (inventor of packet-switching and professor of computer science UCLA). The association manages workshops for senior executives in the technology sector and enables brief participation in leading research projects at BT Labs and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
References: On request.
Contact: By email: ian@ianrichardson.com