tim hawkins

Employer:	Fav.or.it
Position:	CTO
Time period:	July 2008 - Present
Description:	Managing a team of enthusiastic engineers, building the next generation blogging content aggregation product

Employer:	GTG group
Position:	Lead Developer
Description:	Created Ventura Database Publisher distributed with Ventura Publisher by Xerox, sold to Corel.

Employer:	Pagitek
Position:	Lead Developer
Description:	Responsible for development of networked journalist systems, “Edition” Quark XPress based pagination system. PagiTerm – Book and Dictionary pagination terminals.

Employer:	LinoType
Position:	Lead Developer
Description:	Working on Linoterm pagination terminals, System 5 Commercial Jobbing systems, Linotron 202 – PhotoTypesetter.

Employer:	UK Civil Aviation Authority
Position:	Air Traffic Control Engineer Grade II
Description:	Responsible for remote nav-aid control systems, internal CCTV systems, and external interference monitoring systems in various airports in UK.

Employer:	Bejant.com
Position:	Systems and Infrastructure architect
Time period:	February 2008 - July 2008
Description:	Pre-funding startup, servicing the student graduate recruiting market. • Responsible for system architecture and design. • Responsible for liaison/management of contract development team (outsourced) • Responsible for writing “Runbooks”, Operational manuals • Responsible for setting up Communications, Code management, ticketing and processes for development cycle • Responsible for mentoring Agile teams and operating as scrumm-master. • Performed migration of application to Amazon AWS/EC2 with dynamic scalability features. • Responsible for SEO • Responsible for supporting the Web design team with code, tools and test/qa infrastructure. Solution PHP, AJAX, MYSQL, AWS S3, EC2, SQS, Memcachd, FFMPEG for video

Employer:	Yahoo International
Position:	International Solution Architect
Time period:	November 2007 - February 2008
Description:	- In addition to Prime Solution Architects Role…… - Help to create strategies for building and hosting international yahoo properties. - Support Engineering teams in International with migration to several new Yahoo internal standards. - Evangelise the use of agile product development techniques to international engineering teams. - Evangelize the use of Frameworks inside Yahoo Engineering, especial the ySymfony framework, built on top of the open source framework of the same name. - Create Presentations on various topics at external events such as BarCamp and The Yahoo Open Hackday. - Assist in the design of the next generation of Yahoo platforms by vetting and providing consultancy on i18n and l10n.

Employer:	Yahoo Europe
Position:	Prime Solution Architect
Time period:	March 2006 - November 2007
Description:	- New role family in Yahoo, I am responsible for starting up and creating the Solution Architecture group within the shared services group supporting Yahoo International Engineering. - Assisting internal groups to navigate and prepare documents that conform to the International process. - Vetting projects top ensure compliance with product standards agreed during 3 monthly negotiations with the global architecture group. - Provide consultancy and Presentations support to internal workshops aimed at providing product teams with insights into potential integrations between yahoo platforms. - Work with the product innovation specialists to structure proposals to maximise global platform adoption potential. - Design of content middleware services for broad adoption globally. - Support of Yahoo EU’s Tech PR initiatives through creation of Yahoo “Hackday” events in conjunction with the BBC. - Support the Patent generation process in EU. - Assist EU teams in understanding global direction of Yahoo Products developed in other regions. - Define and document proposed solutions to common issues experienced by multiple groups inside yahoo, and feed back solutions to global platforms group.

Employer:	Yahoo Europe, London UK
Position:	Regional Engineering Manager – Non media products and portal services
Time period:	January 2005 - March 2006
Description:	- Took on responsibility for all non-media related activities in EU engineering, Homepage, MyYahoo, Comms (messenger, mail), Search, Local search, Communities etc. - Team expanded to 22 indirect, 5 direct. - Responsible for all localisation of global products delivered in EU region. - Responsible for identifying potential Products in yahoo international orgs, that could be re-factored to be delivered on a global scale. - Responsible for assisting corp. dev in identifying potential 3rd party companies, that would make good candidates for acquisition. And assisting with due diligence, worked extensively on producing technology insight reports for the 2005 acquisition of “Where on Earth” by yahoo, global scale mapping and geo-coding supplier. - Responsible for the design and strategic direction of the Yahoo “Local Search” product in the EU. Built up the team, managed the acquisition of baseline technology from another yahoo regional development area (korea). - Responsible for all EU billing systems and security. - Report directly to VP of engineering Europe.

Employer:	Yahoo Europe, London UK
Position:	Engineering Manager Search, Communities, Communications
Time period:	June 2004 - December 2004
Description:	- Added responsibility for Communities and Communications products to existing role. - Team expanded to 14. - Responsible for identifying new team roles and hiring and training managers. - Responsible for assisting in shaping new roles and functions in European engineering restructuring. - Platform is Unix based, Apache, FreeBSD, PHP, MySQL, Oracle

Employer:	Yahoo Europe, London UK
Position:	Head of Search Engineering (Europe)
Time period:	June 2003 - June 2004
Description:	- Responsible for technical provisioning of search on Yahoo portal in 6 European countries. - Performed initial Analysis on Yahoo “Knowledge Search” product in korea, and provided the initial plan for globalizing the product, product launched as “Yahoo Answers”. - Responsible for i18n and l10n provision of Search Services. - Managing team of 7 engineers, 2 in UK, 3 in Germany, 2 in Bangalore - Responsible for evaluating new search products for European suitability. - Responsible for operation of Search Farms hosted in Europe and US. - Responsible for metrics and reporting on European Search. - Responsible for Disaster recovery and Business Continuity Planning. - Responsible for revenue reporting. - Report to VP Engineering, and Search Business Unit MD. - Platform is Unix based, Apache, FreeBSD, PHP, Custom Template Language

Employer:	Loot.com/Associated Newspapers, London UK
Position:	Systems Architect/Development Manager
Time period:	October 2001 - June 2003
Description:	- Responsible for design of a migration strategy for Loot.com to a 3rd party delivery platform. - Integration with Windows DNA 2000 based application and external 3rd party content management system (Media Surface). - Evaluation of .NET architecture for suitable platform for Loot.com service. - Assisted in migration of Loot Publishing systems to Media Planner/CCI

Employer:	Loot.com/Scoot UK Ltd, London UK
Position:	Content and Systems Integration Manager/Development Manager
Time period:	January 2000 - October 2001
Description:	- Responsible for planning and managing the merger of systems between LOOT.com and Scoot UK Ltd when company was acquired, re-architected web applications hosted by Scoot to conform to Loot Ltd standards, and supervised their re-implementation, re-launched service in June 2001. Designed complete geographically distributed hosting architecture and software system that minimised any risk of down-time. Extensive use of Replication on 9 x SQL server data repository. - Responsible for designing content architectures and structures to allow syndication of Loot/Scoot content base to other companies, as well as being able to aggregate content from other suppliers.

Employer:	Loot.com, London UK
Position:	Systems Architect/Development Manager
Time period:	January 1994 - December 2000
Description:	- Designed and implemented LOOT.com, at the time, the UK's most trafficked classifieds site, which won many awards, including the Lotus Work the web award, and the Professional Publishing Association awards. Completed design and implementation of both the software running on the site, plus the complete hosting system, loot.com was hosted completely in-house, Responsible for set-up of DNS, Web farm, load balancing systems, database systems, monitoring and alerting, SMTP mail systems and complete staging facilities. Wrote the search engine used on the site. - Loot.com takes about 30-35 million hits (pages) per month. And about 0.5 million unique users. - Application circa 120,000 lines of C++, 80 Main Classes. - Skills: Visual C++, SQL server 6.5 + 7.0. NT 4 and win2k (beta program), XML, ISAPI. - Built complete integrated e-Commerce solution based on MS site server 3.0. From 1998 onwards responsible for creation of new technical frameworks, including digital television distribution (Liberate on TeleWest and NTL) and WAP integration. LOOT was the first interactive WAP application hosted in the UK. - Skills: Site Server 3.0 Commerce edition, C++ (pipeline components), Data cash payment gateway. SQL server 7.0. Transaction server. - Extensive use of UML as a design Modelling Tool, generation of requirements, Use cases, Test cases, QA schedules. Tools used "Enterprise Architect" and "Object Engineering Workshop”. - Managed a team of 3 Development engineers and 2 Operations/Service engineers.

Employer:	Loot.com, London UK
Position:	Publishing Systems Development Manager
Time period:	January 1991 - December 1994
Description:	- Design and implementation of Loot's internal pagination system Eagle. Eagle is a unique windows based application that uses an object orientated database system (OODBMS) to model the physical and logical characteristics of a classified paper. A powerful pagination system folds advertising pulled through programmable 'Portals' from ODBC based databases, into fully made-up and ready to output artwork representing a complete classified newspaper. Eagle reduced a job taking 11 people 3 hours using Quark Xpress, to 1 man taking 1 hour on an Eagle system. - Responsible for complete architecture and design of application, managed team as a manager/programmer of 3 people during implementation phase. Responsible for generating about 50% of the code base. - Application circa 150,000 lines of C++, 180 Main Classes. - Skills: Borland C++, POET OODBMS, Oracle, SQL server, NT (on first beta program).

Employer:	NTG 2000, Cheltenham UK
Position:	Technical Director (Publishing Systems)
Time period:	January 1989 - December 1991
Description:	- Based in the Cotswold town of Cheltenham, NTG2000 provided custom PC based solutions for the graphics arts industry. The two main products where. Operated as Director/Lead Engineer - A PC based Postscript raster imaging system, optimised for large format colour page output and high quality magazine formats. (Zortech C++) - A DOS based newspaper pagination system with advanced "live" connectivity to advertising feeds. Distributed design allowed additional workstations to be added to increase overall processing power of the advertising cluster. (Zortech C++, Phar Lap 32Bit DOS-Extender system). - System was used extensively in Milan by Italian publishing group “Secondamano”. Spent 1 year on site supervising installation and roll-out. - A Postscript page imposition system used by the Office of Official Publications of the European Union to prepare plates for reports of proceedings in the European parliament. (Borland C++)

Employer:	Miles 33/Pagitek Inc, Tewkesbury UK
Position:	Senior Marketing Engineer
Time period:	January 1988 - December 1989
Description:	- Responsible for providing sales group with technical backup and "prototypes" of custom software solutions and content management systems. Pagitek was a leader in the production of book pagination systems and journalist entry system for newspapers. - Responsible for evaluating customer requirements and generating proposals and designs to suit. - Responsible for auditing/vetting proposals generated by the Marketing/Sales group to ensure accuracy and suitability for implementation. - Designed and Implemented "Edition" a Macintosh based Quark xPress extension designed to automate layout of pages using page layout imported from external page planning package. (CodeWarrior)

Hobbies:

Design and implementation of Content storage, Presentation, Management and Syndication Systems. Personal project to construct a distributed universal content exchange system based on peer to peer syndication using standard protocols such as ICE and PRISM. Authoring via WebDAV, DeltaV and DACS. Using Object Database system to store content in each replication node. Uses XSLT for presentation management. Art and Design, Video Editing and 3D Graphics animation. Book illustration. Blogging. Social Networking Systems Media Systems, Home media servers, content storage and video distribution in home.