Name: Richard Frederick Caller
Address: 44 Third Avenue
Bolton
BL1 4LS
Phone: 07984 464556
Date of Birth: 08/08/1972
Skills:
Technical: Skilled in a wide range of technologies including operating systems (eg.Linux, Solaris), languages (eg. Perl and Ruby) and databases (eg. MySQL, Oracle)
Management: Co-ordinating and managing technical, multi disciplinary and international teams,Planning for both small and long term projects.
Business: Experienced with working individually and with teams of various sizes. Skilled at working directly with customers from varying backgrounds.
Employment history:
Sep 2006 – Present: Transitive Ltd / IBM
Senior/Lead Developer
• Technical lead for the development of a large scale automated test and development infrastructure.
• Designing and developing systems and processes to improve the efficiency of the companies development efforts.
Oct 2002 – Sep 2006: Guardian Media Group
Developer
• Working as part of a small team developing and managing a large number of products for internal and external customers.
• Design and development of subscription systems enabling the online sale of archive content via a variety of subscription models.
• Technical design and development of a modular ecommerce system suitable for selling multiple product types. Integration of ecommerce system with a number of business processes and systems. The new system achieved a doubling of ecommerce income by simplifying the buying process and allowing the sale of new products.
• Design and development of a content management system giving production staff control over site structure without the requirement for development intervention.
• Responsible for the migration of multiple websites to an XML based content management system.
Oct 2001 – Oct 2002: Elsevier Science (London)
Lead Developer, the Lancet
• Managing the team migrating the Lancet web site to a new XML and Java based ES Health Sciences system.
• Upgrading the content management, ecommerce and CRM systems to allow various speciality journals to be launched using the same software as the Lancet website.
Lead Developer, Embase
• Managing the English section of an international team maintaining the Embase website and infrastructure.
• Leading the technical design of changes to the Embase infrastructure to handle multiple specialised products to be developed.
• Planning the development and managed the international team responsible for developing the BioTechnoBase product.
Feb 2000 - Oct 2000: Elsevier Science (London)
Developer II, the Lancet
Due to a change in corporate structure the Lancet was to be moved into the responsibility of the London office of Elsevier Science.
• Migrating the Lancet systems from the Solaris/Apache/PERL systems used by ES Oxford to the NT4/IIS/C++ systems used by ES London.
• Responsible for both maintaining the existing web site systems running in Oxford and developing the new technology required for the Lancet systems in London.
• Developing an integrated online system that allowed users with minimal technical skills to manage a complex site through a simple web based interface.
Apr 1999 – Feb 2000: Elsevier Science (Oxford)
Lead Analyst Programmer, the Lancet
• Resource management for the developers available to the project, negotiation with other project managers.
• Responsible for ‘Technical Tips Online’ providing coordination of developers in Oxford performing maintainance on the product with developers integrating it into a larger product based in London.
• Coordinating a complete redesign of the Lancet web site to respond to the user feedback and advances in web design standards.
• Implementing an e-commerce system to allow purchase of both physical and electronic products online.
May 1998 – Apr 1999: Elsevier Science (Oxford)
Analyst Programmer, the Lancet
• Developing new features for the Lancet website.
Education:
Oct 1994 – May 1998: UMIST
Research: Investigating the use of laser generated ultrasound to diagnose arterial disease.
Sept 1993 – Oct 1994: UMIST
MSc Instrumentation and Analytical Science
Sept 1990 – July 1994: Manchester University
BSc Physics (2:1)
Dulwich College – A Level (Physics A, Maths A, Chemistry B)
O Level/GCSE (11 inc. English language (B1), Maths (A)
Hobbies:
Live Roleplaying (LRP)
• Part of a team involved in the planning of an event that will have over 1000 attendees. I have been involved in running LRP events since 1994. Organising events involves working within a variety of organisational structures including elected committees and small teams. We aim to produce entertaining and original interactive events for our players.