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Andrew Ellis

Andrew Ellis

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Software Engineer at Liberty Information Technology

  • Education

    • The University of Edinburgh

      2000 - 2004
      B.Sc. (Hons.) 2:1 Computer Science

      Kodak Prize (06/04), Microsoft Prize (09/03), Citigroup Prize (05/03)

  • Experience

    • University of Edinburgh, School of Physics and Astronomy

      Jun 2002 - Aug 2002
      Physics Scholarship

      Built and configured a network of Linux terminals for a Computational Physics lab with Kickstart. Devised simplified API for scientific data representation. Wrote online tutorials, documentation and example sources for teaching purposes.

    • IBM

      Jun 2003 - Sept 2003
      Software Engineer (Summer Internship)

      Developed a remote helpdesk tool in the Research and Development lab. Used ActiveX and XSLT to transform XML into DHTML representation. Investigated transform efficiency and library dependencies. Developed COM object in C++ that incorporated the MSXML XSLT processor.

    • BBC

      May 2005 - May 2012
      Software Engineer

      Worked in diverse areas ranging from BBC Market Data, Interactive TV and Democracy Live to BBC Weather, Location Services and Media Publishing Services. Responsible for developing applications for processing third party feeds for presentation on the BBC News website, Ceefax and BBC Interactive TV as well as developing and maintaining content management systems for BBC Audio & Music and BBC Interactive TV.

    • UTV

      May 2012 - Jul 2014
      Web Applications Developer

      Developing Struts2 Web Applications for PropertyPal.com, UTV Drive, Belvoir Lettings and Recruit NI. Involved Struts2, Hibernate, MySQL, Geotools, Google Maps API and JQuery.

    • Intel Corporation

      Jul 2014 - Nov 2015
      Software Engineer

    • Allstate Northern Ireland

      Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
      Applications Developer

    • Liberty Information Technology

      Aug 2016 - now
      Software Engineer

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Sun Certified Java Programmer, Standard Edition 5.0

      Mar 2009

    • CELTA - Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults

      Cambridge English Language Assessment
      Dec 2015

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Andrew Ellis
      Kodak Prize - Jun 2004 For my Final Year Project, "Distributed Motion Sensing using Specknets", I created an interactive and animated Swing representation and was awarded the Kodak prize for the accompanying website, http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/undergraduate/projects/andrewellis/
    • Awarded to Andrew Ellis
      Microsoft Prize - Sep 2003 Was awarded the Microsoft prize for performance in the 3rd year Individual Programming Project.
    • Awarded to Andrew Ellis
      Citigroup Prize - May 2003 Awarded for 3rd year System Design group presentation.