(Last updated 10 October 2005)

Edward Harman

Email: edward@harman.me.uk
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Career Objective

To solve interesting technical problems, develop innovative software, use open standards, and encourage best practice by others.

Roles

Key Skills

Employment History

IT Consultant 1997 – Present
Ciber UK Ltd (formerly Ecsoft UK Ltd)
As a consultant I have worked on many projects, adapting to each of their differing needs and environments. Details of recent projects are given here.
Lead Developer June 2005 – Present
Woking Borough Council and related organisations
'SOPIS' project, providing additional services to SAP ('Single Assessment Process') users. This helps local authorities track visits by care workers, and expands connections with other systems.
  • Developed generic XML-based interface for connections with external systems – will aid encourage take-up by more organisations.
  • Designed and developed tools for creating database report views – made it easier to use the complex schema.
Lead Developer June 2003 – May 2005
Surrey County Council and related organisations
An implementation of the 'Single Assessment Process', built on the Exsel system. This helps health and social care organisations in an area exchange data about vulnerable people so they can cooperate in their care.
  • Trained new developers for the project
  • Developed XML-RPC interface to the 'Swift' system, in cooperation with Anite – encouraged acceptance of the system.
  • Designed and developed 'Ticket' interface for single sign-on from external applications.
  • Provided customer support.
Developer March 2003 – May 2003
Marsh McLennan
A web-based application for use in insurance services. The project aggregated transactional data from various sources for use in revenue tracking.
  • Developed EJBs, JSPs and Struts components, in particular the user administration and authentication area.
Lead Developer May 2002 – February 2003
Bromley Borough Council and related organisations
Second version of Ciber 'Exsel', a multi-organisation messaging application built on J2EE. Based on an earlier application in Bromley, this is a generic version that allows new messages and forms to be defined easily using metadata.
  • Designed and implemented security layers, message delivery, message broker.
  • Ensured portability between databases and platforms – helps sell system to different customers.
Lead Developer December 2001 – April 2002
Southampton City Council
A pioneering and award-winning prototype application to show viability of using PKI via kiosks. This was a cooperative project involving several providers and technologies working together.
  • Technical mentor to customer's developers.
  • Developed J2EE Connector Architecture adapters to connect Weblogic server to E-Point and 'HMIS' system.
Developer July – November 2001
Hitachi
A J2EE application for processing employee appraisals.
  • Developed Servlet framework and JSP tag library.
  • Introduced Log4j to the team, configuring it and encouraging its use.
Developer 1997 – 2001
Older projects
Previous projects include mortgage processing applications for two banks, call centre applications and a web-based email service for Freeserve.

Qualifications

1999
Sun Certified Programmer, Java 2 Platform
Sun Educational Services
1997
BA Hons Mathematics and Computer Science 2.2
University of Cambridge, UK

Hobbies

Wargaming
Keen tabletop wargamer, e.g. Warhammer 40,000. Organised and run campaigns for local club, including campaign website with interactive map.
Music
Enjoy listening to music, going to gigs. Plays guitar.

References

Available upon request.