CTO/Team Lead/Senior Java Developer
Server Side Java, Tomcat, HTML, VMWare ESXi Virtualisation
CTO/Team Lead/Senior Java DeveloperServer Side Java, Tomcat, HTML, VMWare ESXi Virtualisation |
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Founder and CTO of Our Technical Guys Ltd. |
BSc 2:1 Hons Computer Science. |
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Cloud Specialist (VMWare ESXi), Java developer, company/team lead, lousy designer.Previous positions include Addison (WPP), Reading Room, LastMinute.com, BZW, BT and GEC. |
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Email Phil@Hanchet.com, Linked In Profile |
Tel/Voice: 0845 260 1064 |
| Name | Phil Hanchet |
| Postal Address | PO Box 39281 Blackheath London SE3 9WY |
| Phil@Hanchet.com | |
| Tel | 0845 260 1064 |
| Education | University of Kent At Canterbury (BSc Hons Computer Science) |
| GEC Accelerated Apprenticeship (HNC) | |
| Westcliff High For Boys Grammar School | |
| Qualifications | BSc Hons Computer Science (2:1) |
| HNC Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Merit) | |
| A Level Physics | |
| 8 O levels inc. Maths and English |
Career Summary |
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April 09 - present day: Founder and CTO of Our Technical Guys Ltd; we specialize in Umbraco and Percussion Content Management Systems and Java/.Net Web System development - clients include Norton Rose, the Dogs Trust, the IET, the GPhC, the Bank of England and Percussion. The founding principle of OTG was to allow brilliant developers the chance to communicate with clients directly. Doomed to failure perhaps - and it took a while for the word to get out admittedly - but smart clients + smart devs turns out not to be the disaster predicted. For more information please see OurTechnicalGuys.com |
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Feb 08 - April 09: Senior Java Developer, Systems Architect & Team Lead for Addison Corporate Marketing Ltd, SE1 My role at Addison was both varied and enjoyable - the division's aim is to deliver world-leading financial reporting websites for major clients such as Vodafone, WPP, AstraZeneca (about 40 sites per year) to high compliance and accessibility standards. Acting as CTO, I reported directly to the Financial Director and was responsible for all aspects of the design, solo development and clean-running of the web site auto-generation tool called XML2Web. XML2Web is a Java system that automatically renders high quality Financial Reporting websites from XML exported from Adobe InDesign. The new system allowed Addison to increase its output and drastically reduce its reliance on freelancers during the busy financial reporting season. Heineken's Annual report is a good example of the quality of the system's output. In detail my role consisted of:
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April 2000 - June 2008: Director of One Stop Web Systems Ltd, a software house specialising in Java application development and outsourcing of SME's Internet requirements (Part Time Webmaster Service, Mail-shots, SEO & ecommerce, PHP development etc.). Over the seven years that the company has been growing, my role has changed from 100% Java development to encompass all aspects of running a small organisation; accounts, tax, invoicing and bookkeeping, sales and marketing, design inception, specification and implementation, server build & maintenance, LAN configuration and machine and server management (build/backups etc.). The main result of six years development is a thousand+ class Java library of increasingly well-tested and generic code that allows us to rapidly build and deploy on line systems and to accurately quote for new work. |
| Nov 2007 - Feb 2008: Technical Project Manager for Reading Room Ltd, Soho. My roles were to problem solve on the technical side of multiple projects of up to £400k value, manage individual projects and staff, provide input into process (from version control to deployment) and assist with the creation of ITTs PQQs and proposals for public sector work. I worked in a client-facing position, including attending pitches and requirements gathering workshops on an international basis. Resigned on good terms to return to freelancing on Feb 18th 08. |
| Feb 2007 - Nov 2007: Java Developer for RiverrunSystems.co.uk Ltd, London. Aside from development and support of a Java-based options and futures trading system, (specifically using AspectJ to gather performance statistics across the system, and Javolution to improve throughput and responsiveness), I was responsible for the generation of new business leads in the public sector. |
| Oct 1999 - April 2000: Senior Developer for Lastminute.com's new version of their high throughput ecommerce system. The role was to design and implement the new middle tier in a migration from a two-tier to a three-tier architecture, implemented using ATG's Dynamo Application server over an Informix database. The role was focused on caching strategies, data feeds (e.g. Pegasus) and use of the middle layer to optimize query performance. As Senior Developer in the early days of the project, I had diverse responsibilities including product assessment; mid and low level design, machine configuration, training and team leadership responsibilities. The team grew to over a hundred strong. Three month contract, renewed. |
| Oct 1997 - Oct 1999: three six month contracts, in the UK and US, developing a power utility billing system in Java / CORBA / NT, followed by a permanent job offer in San Diego. |
| Oct 1995 - Oct 1997: Developer at BZW, a Merchant Bank and market leader in the City of London, developing and supporting their GILTS trading system. |
| I joined BZW from British Telecom, where I had worked as a Management Professional implementing or managing medium scale projects (6 to 18 months) destined for the intelligent network. |
| Before BT, I spent three years at the University of Kent, gaining a 2:1 hons degree in Computer Science. I was sponsored through the degree by GEC, to whom I returned every break for placement work. GEC had employed me straight from school, age 19, first as an accelerated apprentice (2 years intensive training instead of four), and once I had completed my HNC in Electronics & Computing, as a wireman, and then as a Software Engineer, prototyping imaging systems for later production. |
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