CV -- Jamie Matthew Lentin

Employment:

2010~present:

Director of Shuttle Thread Limited, a newly-formed consultancy providing Plone solutions and bespoke software engineering

As part of our Plone focus we have:-
- Created highly stylised sites such as Lime pictures' corporate prescence using Plone & Varnish
- Created the underlying architecture for SOS Children's Villages' Our Africa website
- Ensured the company gives back to Plone; Making significant contributions to the Dexterity type system, the Deco templating engine and future UI iterations.
Other projects have included:-
- Test strategy consutancy for BBC Homepage, forming a strategy for QA within the department and bootstrapping a BDD process a Cucumber/Capybara-based test suite in Ruby.
- Data migration consultancy for CBBC, scripting transformations between CMS systems using XSLT and writing new XSD schemas.

2010:

Principal Software Engineer for the British Broadcasting Corporation in FM&T OTG. Roles include:-

Architecting a new wave of CPMS tools for the BBC as a whole, integrating the proven Alfresco CMS with the BBCs new platform and utilising open source projects such as Apache Solr.
- Build and customisation using Java, Spring IOC, Maven, Apache Tomcat
- Designing PHP libraries to ensure smooth integration with MVC projects using the CMS.
- Using continuous integration tools such as Hudson
- Using scrum methodology for iterative development
Lead developer on database toolkit service to enable more rapid prototyping within the BBC.
- Using Java, Spring MVC, JDBC
- Working with a 3rd party to ensure specifications were met
- Mentoring members of team, introducing them to Java coding practices

2008~2010:

Senior Software Engineer for the British Broadcasting Corporation in FM&T Vision. Roles include:-

Lead software engineer for the internal CPMS for Bitesize, History, CBeebies & many more.
- OO-Perl, based client/server architecture using SOAP & REST communication, mod_perl and WxWidgets
- Increasing stability and speed of existing code, through unit-testing and continuous integration techniques
- Opening data using modern web standards such as RDF, SPARQL and providing REST interfaces
- Project-managing a small team of contractors and permanent staff, using agile techniques
- Streamlining support process, providing expert advice for department's XSLT and XSD queries
Representing the department in pan-BBC projects such as the Identity sign-in project
Scoping out the technical element of projects and providing advice for the Learning department
Mentoring junior members of the team, introducing test-driven-development and other engineering concepts to improve output

2006~2008:

Software Engineer for the British Broadcasting Corporation in Interactive Factual & Learning. Roles include:-

Designing and creating the "QECR" framework for fast, flexible DB-driven moderation / data input systems
- Operating on both Oracle 9i & MySQL
- Using standards compliant XHTML, Javascript and DOM manipulation, with graceful degradation
Architecting the image, audio & video pipeline solution for Blast, CBBC me & my movie and more
- Implemented with Oracle 9i & bespoke data pipelining tools
- Using open source video tools such as ffmpeg, mencoder
Helping maintain the BBC Modules published to CPAN
Radically improving many of the departments CPS and data pipelining tools
Developing the /apps/ifl toolkit, used in Recipes, CBBC, and many other parts of bbc.co.uk

2005~2006:

Software Developer for the British Broadcasting Corporation in Manchester Entertainment. Developing:-

The RTS award-winning New Talent website. Perl based data-pipelining scripts for New Talent and The Last Laugh competition with functions such as psychometric test marking, Word Document modification and batch printing, Spreadsheet / text document output.
ASP-based plug-ins for internal content management system including a "matchmaking" system, article submission system.
Page build for sites such as Bank of Mum and Dad, using semantic HTML/CSS, mod_include.

2004~2005:

IT Director for OSM Consulting partners, with contracts including

Developing further JSP web applications for the Baxter Healthcare Logistics dept.
Instructing Armada Surveys on methods for publishing their drawings on clients' intranet websites.

2002~2003:

Intranet Analyst for Baxter Healthcare Ltd., Logistics Dept to redesign the supply-chain intranet website to use JSP, as per company policy.

Tightly integrated with an Oracle 8i database.
Designed for very rapid application development within the website, making full use of current XML technologies, CSS and XSLT.
Culminating in a week-long training course given to teach other employees the Java, JSP and XHTML knowledge required to write web applications.

Implemented using Java & JSP on a standalone Apache Tomcat webserver, XHTML, CSS, XSLT, Javascript and DHTML.

2001~2002:

Volunteer work assisting the production of the IC student magazine music reviews section.

1999~2001:

Temporary programmer over Easter & Summer breaks for Baxter Healthcare Ltd., Logistics Dept, consisting of redesigning a secure, database-driven supply-chain intranet site from scratch, featuring:-

Per-user access policies for applications.
Web-based administration for every aspect of the website.
Dynamic menus, and a user customizable favourites bar.
Common tools for database reporting applications, interfacing to an Oracle 8i database.

Implemented using ASP on an IIS server, DHTML, Javascript, and an Access Databse for website configuration.

1998~2000:

Volunteer work for Quidenham Parish Church, helping organising and running a children's holiday club, consisting of:-

Acting & Presenting the week to the Children.
Sourcing, setting up and controlling Audio-Visual systems
Scriptwriting for short plays
Creating Audio & Visual Material (eg. Jingles, Sound-Effects, etc)

1998~1999:

Volunteer work as a member of St. John's Ambulance

July 1998:

Kitchen Help / Waiting for Jenkinsons Caters (Stafford) Ltd.

Mathematics:	Grade A
General Studies:	Grade A
Further Mathematics:	Grade B
Physics:	Grade B
Geography:	Grade C

Computing-related Skills:-

Open Source:

I am a keen supporter of open-source and open-standards, and have ensured code has been published wherever possible. Projects I have contributed to include

The Linux Kernel, contributing support for several computers
Dexterity, the Plone type system and Diazo, the Plone templating system
Perl CPAN modules, both BBC e.g. Email::MIME::CreateHTML and others, e.g. XML::Compile

Programming:

Web programming using OO Perl, with CGI, mod_perl and higher-level frameworks such as Catalyst
Web programming using Java, with Spring framework, JSP & Servlet API
Advocate of Test-Driven Development, utilising test frameworks such as JUnit and Test::More and CI tools such as Hudson
Utilised source control, a must for development, using CVS, Subversion & Git
Portable UI programming in OO Perl using the WxWidgets API
Win32 development using RAD tools such as Delphi

OS/Unix Experience:

Over a decade of using unices on a daily basis; GNU/Linux (Debian, CentOS/RHEL), Solaris, IRIX & BeOS

Practiced with everyday UNIX tools; awk, grep, bash scripting
Participant in Linux development. Have contributed to the kernel, familiar with increasing hardware support, and use Linux as an embedded OS in various devices
Sysadmining Linux servers; installation, networking, apt/rpm management systems
Using Linux as an environment for multimedia processing and presentation

Database Experience:

Highly proficient in designing futureproof DB schemas for most major DB products

Oracle 8i/9i: Decade of schema design & optimization experience. Formally trained in Oracle Administration & PL/SQL.
MySQL 4/5: Performant schema design for both backend and live systems on bbc.co.uk
Use of both DB products via. JDBC & DBI.

Web/XML Technologies:

Pracical experience of modern techniques in web development

Familiar with using current semantic web concepts; RDFXML, RDFa, SPARQL
Have implemented semantic markup, using XHTML, XML, CSS and behavioural overlays with Javascript
XML manipluation languages; XSLT, XML Schemas, XPath

Jamie Matthew Lentin