e-mail: don.cooke@teamr-cal.co.uk Testimonials/Project case studies can be found via LinkedIn and Ecademy or upon request Holds a clean UK drivers license Book, ‘Inside Distributed Teams’ written by Don was published in January 2008 Summary: A highly motivated technical team leader who combines a passion for innovative technology and the ability to manage corporate technical teams. A proven track-record of delivering both technical infrastructure and software development projects. I work well with people at all levels within an organisation to achieve business aims and objectives, through the application of Information Systems. My technical skills give me a great advantage in technical management roles as I can understand the problems and appropriate solutions required through effective service delivery. My recent experience has honed and refined my leadership skills and business planning abilities through budget and project management. Combining all these skills means I can successfully identify strategic direction, manage and implement IS projects, and build team structures as required. I have a lot of experience and enthusiasm to bring to any situation and together with a cool head, and a wealth of technology and team leading experience. Project delivery and development experience includes many projects delivered using Java/J2EE and Enterprise Visual Basic combined with a sound knowledge of Object Orientated Analysis and Design (OOAD) and UML based, Agile and DSDM software design and development cycles, Web 2.0 design and development. Also proficient in SQL, XML, SOA, Oracle, and SQL server database environments. Commercial Experience Summary CAL (2004 to present) Title: Principal Technical Consultant Role: Responsible for the successful delivery of a number of demanding technology focused development projects. These included the design and implementation of corporate communication infrastructure for a UK wide team of technical, consulting and sales staff. Also responsible for the technical architecture, design and development teams of web service based J2EE and LAMP based solutions. Design of these products required extensive market research, detailed user requirements analysis and subsequent delivery to web 2.0 and collaborative technology arenas using Agile/SCRUM practices and extensive UML modelling methods. Project achievements included Hampshire County Council Project management of a web based portal for companies looking to reduce operating costs through adoption of smart/flexible working. A php, mysql web 2.0 project integrating with a J2EE application server. Project included market and sector research carried out in conjunction with the client, user requirement analysis and capture, structured design and iterative deliver of the product using Agile. East Sussex County Council Developed a mentoring programme looking at smart/flexible working technologies and practices for SME businesses in the county. Project managed a team delivering a web based portal for best practice mentoring to SME’s in the county VoxIQ Working with this ambitious start-up company in the voice recognition sector on all aspects of their product development, infrastructure hardware and software procurement. Responsible to board level for the day to day running of teams’ technical infrastructure and the strategic design and development of the core product being brought to market by the company. Involved In the assembly of configuration management and shared software repository resources used by outsourcing partners in the USA and India. This solution delivered utilised J2EE, Java Core and Jboss JRules technology. Intrinsic / SAS Institute (2000-2004) Working as a product designer/architect on the companies Visual Basic then java/j2ee based CRM solutions. Duties included UML design level composition work followed by Visual Basic and Java.J2EE based product design. Elf (1998-1999) Software Designer/Lead Developer on the internal Gas billing application for the company during its expansion of operations in the UK. Work included UML design and development of the solution – porting of the system for Microsoft enterprise technologies and liaising with client user groups ensuring that schedules and functionality with delivered to specification and budget. Powergen (1993 - 1997) A contract software designer/developer within the Energy Management Centre facility for PowerGen (now eon) in Warwick. Projects included Oracle, VB and Java based metering systems, daily bidding solutions and general legacy application support. Computer Assets Ltd: Senior Consultant (1990-1992) Working on a variety of corporate projects for clients such as MySys, Informix and the UK National intervention board using smartware and Visual Basic technologies. Reed Personnel (1984 – 1989) Analyst Programmer – Promoted to Senior Developer for branch systems Location: Tolworth, Surrey o Role: Worked as part of a designing, developing and the subsequent 60 branch deployment and support of the Reed internal branch level automated systems.