Paul Snook MBCS MRAeS

Experience

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  YEP Computer Services

  Oct 1984 - Sept 1986

  Programmer

  Programmer working on accountancy systems and early office admin systemResponsibilitiesSoftware codingTesting

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  THAMES COMPUTER SERVICES LIMITED

  Sept 1986 - Dec 1990

  Programmer

  Programmer for a software house specialising in systems for the media industry.Responsibilities:Developing accountancy based systems and specialist back-office software written in BASIC & C running on manufacturer propriety hardware.Customer supportWorking on-site for various customer resolving technical issues Hardware support

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  British Airways

  Nov 1990 - Jun 1996

  Senior Programmer

  Sole developer working, in C, on interface software project to extract engine operating data from flight data recorders (black boxes) for use in ground-based engine performance monitoring software.Software was initially used with the Boeing B777 fleet and then push out to other fleets (A320, B737). Upon successful implementation, the software was adopted by engine manufacturer General Electric.Responsibilities : Translating customer (BA Engineering) requirements into working solution. Liaising with customer technical lead to ensure ongoing requirement changes were fed into project Liaising with engine manufacturer to resolve technical aspects.Facilitating customer acceptance tests. Developed short-haul cabin crew scheduling system. A data analysis system, written in C, to allow crew scheduling department to crew BA's extensive flight schedule according to parameters best matching current market situation (least crew v. least cost).Responsibilities : Translating customer (BA Crew Scheduling) requirements into working solution. System development and testing. Facilitating customer acceptance tests. Ongoing customer support. Show less

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  Itheon

  Jun 1996 - Nov 2008

  Chief Architect (Director)

  Departmental headTeam leaderSpecification creationSoftware design and implementationThird-line customer supportDesigned and created protocols, architecture and applications to allow the company's system monitoring product to forward and centrally process its raw data using a rule based language.The extensible architecture allowed a suite of notification and alerting applications, written in C, to be created.For the second generation product, I design and built (this time using C and C++ components and a MySQL database) a massively multi-threaded central core that could handle many hundreds of inbound connects and dozens of outbound notification systems (screen, console, e-mail, SMS,etc...)Designed and built a system management console for Windows accessible via serial interface and/or TCP/IP connection (prior to introduction of Microsoft's own components). Won best product in show : Microsoft Tech-Ed 2000 Show less

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  Storage Fusion

  Nov 2008 - Dec 2016

  Head of Engineering / Storage Specialist

  Specification creation Software design and implementationData storage subject matter expertSystem documentation creationWorking from an initial prototype, transformed it into the company's primary product offering multi-vendor storage array analysis and reporting.Gained extensive knowledge of the architectures of the leading storage systems on the market, EMC, HDS, IBM, HP & NetAppCurrently working as part of a team developing the software-as-a-service second generation offering. Show less

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  SII UK

  Jun 2017 - Dec 2019

  Technical Manager

  Responsible for all technical and team aspects of the project group and also customer liaison.

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  MBDA

  Dec 2019 - now

  Software Project Leader

  Guiding software projects to successful delivery on time, on cost and on quality.Managing significant packages of work, ensuring defined goals are achieved whilst continually maintaining quality of the product and the high performance of staff within the team.