Peter E.

Experience

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  Intouch Telecommunication, Inc.

  Sept 1997 - Jun 1998

  Technical Director

  Brought in to address various technical issues with the company infrastructure. Company is an 'alternate carrier' and major provider of calling cards and other value added services. Responsible for all technical matters relating to provision of voice traffic and value added services including management, design and implementation of Pre Payment Card services. Systems based on Switches and routing of calls worldwide using E1/T1/PRI cards.Major achievements were personally coding a LCR calculator based on the latest log data in order to optimise the profitability of the infrastructure on a more regular basis. (This literally took over a day to run due to the speed of PCs in those days and the amount of time required to import the log files!)This was combined with (more) automated reporting ensuring the Finance Director had greater visibility of the amount of 'prepaid' cards that had not already been spent at any particular time. Show less

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  Bell + Howell MMT

  Jul 1998 - Aug 2000

  European Project Manager

  Primarily taking mailing projects from preorder through to successful implementation. Also included stabilising of 'problem' installations. Successes include:• Project managed initial installations of £22 million contract of Olympus Mail Sortation Systems for Bell and Howell Sorter Division in Europe. System involved analysis and integration of image and voice recognition across TCP/IP network within a billing, mailing and sorting environment. Responsible for significant increases in reliability and functionality and for significant reduction in mis-sorts. Systems sort millions of items per day, and now competes with Royal Mail. • Responsible for programming a number of solutions to identify causes of problems 'next day', resulting in substantial cost savings. Made significant reductions in installation costs for each system ensuring that these were well within budget.• Successfully 'stabilised' and completed £10 million customer mailing/billing integrated solution for EDS, by improving maintenance responses to achieve 98%+ scheduled uptime of equipment in 7x24 environment. • Addressed the company concerns over the Y2K bug. (A bit of a non event for this area of the company).• Went on to manage and was responsible for some very high profile projects related to Pensions Mis-selling requiring ridiculously tight schedules imposed by the regulator.• Saw the potential for the OCR technology that we were using for checking on road tax and car insurance and this was discussed with the Berkshire Police (who considered the concept to be too intrusive and Orwellian - How the world has changed!)• Left just prior to the company being purchased by Pitney Bowes. Show less

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  Self Employed

  Jan 2003 - Sept 2022

  Information Technology Consultant

  Whilst I have now taken on a full time role, I still carry out consultancy services. Payment for this type of work is now generally in the form of sponsoring various animals at an agreed rate (Snow Leopards at Linton Zoo are now onto additional sponsorship plaques!).Strong links to multiple startups in the various Cambridge science parks acting as an enabler to get initial IT strategies in place.Unusual skills or topics that that I have been involved with include:• Technical architect for "Motion map" - a contribution to the Government 'SMART City' projects. https://smartcambridge.org/transport/map/ https://www.mksmart.org/• Data recovery - down to replacing heads in old 'rusty' hard drives. Also managed a server room flood recovery in Waterbeach....the hint is in the name?• Abuse of graphics cards for password cracking and reverse engineering code.• Management of change and implementation of systems agreed.• Telephony optimisation exchanges and configuration• Area wifi solutions• Robotics• Cordova based Android apps• Embedded controllers - I rather like playing with ESP32s atm• Lasers and CNC• Hydroponics systems• Solar and other associated power supply systems.• Server installation, configuration and commissioning - Primarily use HP, but have dabbled with Dell and other makes.• Installation and configuration of Crypto mining systemsWhilst the following links are old: https://www.experts-exchange.com/expertAwards/?year=2006 (Top for linux worldwide) - also various other Sage and other awards from the site See: https://www.experts-exchange.com/members/pjedmond.htmlI've continued to develop my professional skills every year resulting in a fairly diverse skillset. Show less

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  STEM Team East

  Jan 2014 - now

  STEM Ambassador (volunteer)

  Providing (prior to COVID), school visits and demonstrations to showcase the delights of technology in a hands on manner. Generally having fun with computer/robotics orientated things and cloning wifi/infrared systems, and have demonstrated how to break in into a/my Peugeot 206 car. Occassionally playing with the physics EMF side of things and building a motor from scratch, or seeing just what can be done with a very powerful magnet.DBS screened.

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  Unipart Digital

  Oct 2016 - Oct 2022

  Founding Member/Head of Web Technologies Group

  Role: Working directly to the CDO as a senior technical specialist responsible for strategic financial decisions and the ongoing implementation and follow on work required. Key individual in the growth of the organisation from its inception to over 70 people.Responsible for Unipart Digital cybersecurity, systems compliance, and incident response/disaster recovery/business continuity. This included accreditation of a number of systems for UK and American defence work, plus work required to get systems certified and approved for work within the NHS Information Governance Toolkit framework, resulting in sensible SLA decisions.Technical input: Server configuration and management (primarily CentOS and Ubuntu LTS for servers). Worked with initial Openstack design, configuration and implementation. This has now evolved as a core component for the services offered, providing the option of making contracts more competitive, or more profitable. Web technologies and hosting primarily based on OpenStack, but some Digital Ocean and AWS Open Source specialist - various contributions which tend to be 'bitty' as I fix what I need to fix. Python work (targetting RPA and other problems) plus a bit of Django inc Python C interfaces for RPA use resulting in significant man days savings. Embedded controllers - ESP32 Optimisation of various hybrid enterprise software systems and their associated databases and infrastructure. Safety critical communications projects for UK Rail Currently experimenting with abusing Zynq 7010s in recycled BTC mining systems BTLE/Wifi controller systems Robotics Mobile Apps - Android (Cordova and some Java) Mainly digital electronics VoIP (asterisk exchange) Various licencing servers Installation and support of an MES kubenetes cluster based on Centos 7, and some interfacing work (for IoT devices) CRM support and development work. (PHP) Show less

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  Startup

  Sept 2022 - now

  CDO

  An extension of my "Information Technology Consultant" work, in a new start up reporting to the CEO.Passionate about problem solving and using technology as an enabler or skills multiplier.