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Mark John Williamson
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Ulverston, United Kingdom
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I have a wide range of software development experience from real time telemetry on F1 cars to large scale legally defensible capture of web evidence. I'm a creative thinker with a strong user focus. Recent projects involve a scraping service to integrate accounting information into a companies offering and iOS music software.
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English
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2006 - 2019
job
CTO
Hanzo Limited.
(board member 2006 - present) - I was the technical founder of Hanzo, built all the initial versions of the software and managed development and product. Web Archiving
software, collecting websites in a legally defensible way with an execution based capture from scalable
infrastructure in AWS. Software built in primarily in Python with a lot of Postgres too. Extensive and broad
experience on product development side as well as company strategy, dealing with the ins and outs of investment and growth. Worked on & managed the technical side of EU research projects: LIWA, LAWA and DIACHRON. Delivered a large project with The National Archives including archiving of London
Olympics assets and interactions with Cabinet Office and wider government. Company went from just me and a co-founder to over 50 people when I left. Left because it was time to move on and hand over to a
fresh team for next phase of growth and exit.
software, collecting websites in a legally defensible way with an execution based capture from scalable
infrastructure in AWS. Software built in primarily in Python with a lot of Postgres too. Extensive and broad
experience on product development side as well as company strategy, dealing with the ins and outs of investment and growth. Worked on & managed the technical side of EU research projects: LIWA, LAWA and DIACHRON. Delivered a large project with The National Archives including archiving of London
Olympics assets and interactions with Cabinet Office and wider government. Company went from just me and a co-founder to over 50 people when I left. Left because it was time to move on and hand over to a
fresh team for next phase of growth and exit.
Python, AWS, Product development, Websites, Research, It, Cto, Growth, Infrastructure, Development, Office, Software, Postgres, Web, ME, Founder
2004 - 2006
job
Project Manager/Engineer, Web Archiving Programme
British Library.
Ensuring that the Library was prepared for the Legal Deposit legislation requiring them to archive the UK web space.
Liaising with international partners and representing the library in the International Internet Preservation
Consortium. Involved in managing relationships with 3rd party suppliers working on the current archiving
infrastructure and design and procurement of software for large scale archiving. Building software to
gather and provide access to archived material, including distributed indexing, large scale crawling and preservation. Python.
Liaising with international partners and representing the library in the International Internet Preservation
Consortium. Involved in managing relationships with 3rd party suppliers working on the current archiving
infrastructure and design and procurement of software for large scale archiving. Building software to
gather and provide access to archived material, including distributed indexing, large scale crawling and preservation. Python.
Design, Python, Project Manager, Procurement, Infrastructure, Software, International, Web, Internet, Manager, Crawling
2003 - 2004
job
Development Manager
Vamosa.
Took the product from a pre-version one project based
solution to stable mature product. Put in place an XP derived methodology, bug tracking systems and being involved in cross departmental groups interacted with marketing and professional services. J2EE,
Python, C#
solution to stable mature product. Put in place an XP derived methodology, bug tracking systems and being involved in cross departmental groups interacted with marketing and professional services. J2EE,
Python, C#
Marketing, Python, C, J2EE, Development, XP, Manager
2001 - 2003
job
Chief Technical Architect
Appropria.
heading up the development team and to be the primary architect on the product. The product was built using its own agent based infrastructure - using
Jini/CORBA for inter-agent communications incorporating scripting, connectors to a number of 3rd party
systems and a sophisticated business object model and task oriented portal system. Java, Python
Jini/CORBA for inter-agent communications incorporating scripting, connectors to a number of 3rd party
systems and a sophisticated business object model and task oriented portal system. Java, Python
Python, Java, Scripting, Infrastructure, Development, Portal, Agent, UP
1999 - 2001
freelance
Consultant
Druid PLC.
Integration of a clients web software with call centre technology and work on e-shopping software for a failed dot com. Java, Web
Java, Integration, Technology, Software, Web
1997 - 1999
freelance
Consultant
Gamut Technologies Limited.
including work on a call center for Scottish
Telecom using Intranet technologies, An intranet based Quotes system for Scottish Equitable (including a writing scripting language called QL) and Secure distribution of client confidential drugs research over the internet for Quintiles. Mostly Java
Telecom using Intranet technologies, An intranet based Quotes system for Scottish Equitable (including a writing scripting language called QL) and Secure distribution of client confidential drugs research over the internet for Quintiles. Mostly Java
Java, Writing, Research, Scripting, Telecom, Call Center, Internet
1996 - 1997
job
Software Engineer
Newell and Budge.
I worked on a Scottish Telecom project - I wrote
one of the applications that made up their call center software. C++
one of the applications that made up their call center software. C++
C, Telecom, Software, Call Center, UP
1995 - 1996
job
Software Engineer
unknown.
The system I worked on for
Williams was a telemetry system. A large amount of data is recorded on the car. The system transmitted
this data over spread spectrum radio to the pits where the data was collected and displayed. I wrote all the PC software for the system and was heavily involved in the development of the code in the hardware
and its subsequent debugging. C++/Assembler
Williams was a telemetry system. A large amount of data is recorded on the car. The system transmitted
this data over spread spectrum radio to the pits where the data was collected and displayed. I wrote all the PC software for the system and was heavily involved in the development of the code in the hardware
and its subsequent debugging. C++/Assembler
C, Radio, Hardware, Development, Software, Assembler, PC
1994 - 1995
job
Software Engineer
Yorkshire Water.
working on a massive object oriented and distributed
system to manage their extensive (both physically and in terms of scope) asset system. I did a large
amount of work on the design of this system and looked at how to deploy it over limited bandwidth
channels. C++
system to manage their extensive (both physically and in terms of scope) asset system. I did a large
amount of work on the design of this system and looked at how to deploy it over limited bandwidth
channels. C++
Design, C, It, Software
1993 - 1994
job
Software Engineer - The Electric Brain Company
Electric Brain Company.
was setup to exploit commercially the research being done in the field of AI and Education. I wrote two products for
them - Iris which was a tutor for specific Medical Examinations and Ecal which was a general multimedia
authoring tool which included intelligent sequencing of material which geared itself to the viewer
depending on their understanding and knowledge. I was also involved in EU Research programs TIDE
and DELTA looking at, amongst other things, maths work stations for blind people and other uses of technology for disabled people. C++
them - Iris which was a tutor for specific Medical Examinations and Ecal which was a general multimedia
authoring tool which included intelligent sequencing of material which geared itself to the viewer
depending on their understanding and knowledge. I was also involved in EU Research programs TIDE
and DELTA looking at, amongst other things, maths work stations for blind people and other uses of technology for disabled people. C++
Research, C, Technology, Ai, Software
1991 - 1993
job
Director
positive limited.
a company started by myself and a partner. We brought to market the first commercially available programming editor for Windows. This product had a built in macro
language and was totally configurable. In addition we did a large amount of work for various academic
people in and around Leeds. This led at one point to my writing a full implementation of the language
prolog. C++
language and was totally configurable. In addition we did a large amount of work for various academic
people in and around Leeds. This led at one point to my writing a full implementation of the language
prolog. C++
Writing, C, Windows, Implementation, LED
1988 - 1990
job
Software Engineer - System based around AutoCAD
C&A.
The
system was used to lay out their shop floors using semi automatic processes and to do costing and component breakdowns. Lisp, C
Hobbies - my main hobby is making electronic music (including a fair amount of open source coding, I
ported a eurorack module called Kria from embeded C++ to Lua
https://github.com/junklight/misc/tree/master/dust/code/Kria and have code in Pure Data libraries and elsewhere). I also read widely and enjoy walking and swimming outdoors
system was used to lay out their shop floors using semi automatic processes and to do costing and component breakdowns. Lisp, C
Hobbies - my main hobby is making electronic music (including a fair amount of open source coding, I
ported a eurorack module called Kria from embeded C++ to Lua
https://github.com/junklight/misc/tree/master/dust/code/Kria and have code in Pure Data libraries and elsewhere). I also read widely and enjoy walking and swimming outdoors
Autocad, C, Github, Open source, Software, Music, Costing, Lua, Processes, Pure Data, Autocad
My education
?
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1988
Computing Leeds University
BSc, N/a
BSc, N/a
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