Neil Sherman

I have designed and implemented a number of web services for both internal and third party consumption.

WSDL, JSON, Google Protocol Buffers and RESTful services were created.

I have experience of using JAXB, AXIS2, CXF, and JACKSON for implementation.

Hosting of API services via Azure API Manager.

I was the main lead in a project to revamp existing desktop applications, to a web based solution including iOS and Android apps.

Use of the Ionic framework, Angular, Prime NG, Bootstrap and custom Angular components were used to achieve this.

Integration with Drupal for CMS content was also implemented.

The use of Jira and Bamboo was implemented to keep track of project progression, and to ensure code was automatically built, tested and deployed.

I wrote a custom Bamboo plugin to simplify the deployment process. This integrated with the Bamboo Deployment Plans, and provided a one click solution to deploy build sites to different environments (i.e. Development, Demo, Staging and Production). It was also possible to deploy to customer sites from the plugin via SSH.

I leveraged knowledge of Apache Lucence to proactively design and develop a location gazetteer that utilizes the existing knowledge of the company to provide significant advantages over the Google geocoder.

Collaborated to create a JNI interface with a legacy C++ application to integrate journey planning technology into web based systems, and thus extend the life of the product.

I spent much time communicating with a Polish outsource team to hold sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and sprint backlog grooming sessions.

I made a number of visits to Poland and the outsource team to discuss the design of key projects.