October 2000 to February 2009
Senior Software Engineer
Semantico Ltd, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton BN1 3FE
Cutting edge online reference development company. Clients include: Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Blackwell, Taylor & Francis Informa, Palgrave Macmillan, Brill NV and the Modern Language Association
- Planning, development, deployment, maintenance and support of large-scale on- and off-line publishing solutions for all of Semanticos clients.
- Anaysis of very structured XML and other input data.
- Production of simple architectures that provide understandable solutions.
- Production of reusable code libraries, tools and frameworks.
- Improvement, integration and better use of already-developed code.
- Development and maintenance of the company's core products: SAMS (access management tool) and SIPP (publishing platform).
- Leadership and support of development teams in the production of complex solutions.
- Maintenance of a high level of quality assurance (QA) and testing, using the following methods:
- Automated tests
- Test driven development
- Development of specification-based tests
- Peer review
- Jira (issue tracking, QA and project management tool)
- 'Use Case' studies
- Effective customer technical support to live environments both in and outside office hours.
- Liaison with customers in relation to technical support issues, bug resolution, specifications, customer data and feedback.
- Support documentation and customer documentation.