Joseph Wilk CV

October 1st, 2007

Joseph Wilk

Education

MEng Computing | 1999 - 2004

Imperial College London
1st Class Honors

Main courses:

Computer Architecture I & II, Declarative Programming, Logic, Advanced Object Orientation, Networks & Communication, Databases, Advanced Databases, Advanced Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Network Security, Management- Organisation and Finance, Law and economics, Operating Systems I & II, Multi-agents, Compilers, Software engineering I, II & III, Software engineering Methods, Human Computer Interface, Discrete Mathematics, Statistics, Distributed systems, Concurrency and Grid computing

Awards

My final year project was selected as one of the best projects this year at Imperial scoring over 80%. The project looked at taking conventional workflow management systems and applying cutting edge artificial intelligence research.

Awarded to students who have overcome adversity and have still achieved outstanding results.

I lead a team of 6 where we developed and presented a real entrepreneurial opportunity. We had to produce a full business plan and presentation. I gain the opportunity to pitch to 5 of Europe’s largest venture capitalists. We were the only undergraduate team in the final competing against MBA students.

  • Finalist in the 2004 Global Lee Kuan Yew Competition
  • BT award for best MEng group project

In this project in which I was group leader, our goal was to produce a new portal for the department of computing using a content management system. A testament to project is that Imperial have adopted it as their new computing site.

Projects

  • Masters Thesis on Intelligent workflow management (iWFMS).
  • Tanaka 2004 Business proposal
  • Content management system for Imperial College

A-Levels | 1997 - 1999

Richmond upon Thames College

A grade Maths, Business studies and Computing.
First student to achieve 100% in business studies module

GCSEs | 1995 - 1997

Teddington School
9 A*-C grade.

Work Experience

  • January 2006+ | Eshopworks | Current employment

I took on the role of Senior Technical Architect. Managing developments over .net, php, python and ruby. Dealing with Joomla, Ruby on Rails, Django, Zope, Symphony and CakePHP frameworks. Performing such activities as R&D within the CMS field, managing software engineering process, development practices and managing source control. Such sites as 32Red.com, phaidon.com and moneyweek.com where some of the projects worked on.

As part of my role I have interacted, managed and contributed to Open Source projects, partially - Rspec, Cucumber

  • October 2005-January 2006 | Privately Funded Venture

I developed an idea, created a business proposal and then managed to seek out private financing. The main technical challenges in the project involved artificial intelligence (specifically Neural Networks) and image recognition. From a business perspective issues such as managing finances and managing funders expectations were dealt with.

  • October 2004-October 2005 | Lastminute.com

I joined the graduate programme at Lastminute.com. Rotating around 3 departments: Dynamic Packaging, CMS and Product Entry. The core development languages and tools where Java, specially J2EE, Python and Informix. I worked within teams looking at areas such as customizing the Zope CMS, building a Petri net workflow systems and adding functionality to existing JBOSS services.

I was responsible for establishing good software engineering principles in a young software company and working on research and development for their website content management system. I gain experience in all the processes of the software engineering cycle and the management of projects. I also learnt a lot about business practices and process such as protecting against liability. One of the larger projects I was working on was an oil pipeline avoidance system.

  • July-August 2001 | North West London Hospitals

The brief was to produce a website for the R&D department that automated a previous paper based application process. This website was challenging as the content of the site had to be compatible for disabled users, specifically blind browsers.

  • July-August 2000 | Ealing Hospital

I was employed by Ealing hospital to produce a website for their R&D department. This gave me the opportunity to undertake all the roles I witnessed in my past experience of working in the web industry. From interviews with staff and from gaining an understanding of what users of the site expected I developed the structure of the website. This was a challenging website in which I was working on both the client side and developer side.

I spent this period as head of testing at Traffic. This was mainly testing on different operating systems and different browser versions. I was working on sites such as FT.com finger Olympics, Deluxe, Persil, Iwix and the Australian commonwealth bank.

Whilst working at Wheel I gained enormous insight into the structure of a new media company and developed my own key areas of interest in new media. Whilst I worked in several departments the majority of my time was spent in design producing bill-able work for Homebase, Rank and Marks and Spencer.

  • July-September 1998 | Quintessential Ideas

Technical Skills

  • Experience of Linux/Windows/OS X
  • Experience of Apache/Tomcat/IIS
  • Experience of using Photoshop 6.0
  • Experience of using Macromedias Dreamweaver 3.0/4.0
  • Experience of using Flash 4.0 for web sites and screen savers
  • Programming in C, C++ and C#
  • Programming in Java
  • Java RMI, J2EE web services, Hibernate and JBOSS
  • Programming in Javascript (JQuery & Prototype)
  • Programming in Pascal/Delphi
  • Programming in Object Orientated Turing
  • Programming in Prolog and QuProlog
  • Programming in Haskel
  • Programming in PHP, ASP, JSP and Perl
  • Programming in Python and Ruby.
  • Web Frameworks used: RoR, Django, Pylons and Zope
  • Tesing Tools: Junit, PyUnit, Twill, Selenium, Funkload, Rspec & Rbehave
  • Database usage with Postgres, Informix, MSSQL and MYSQL
  • Creating design/content separate websites.
  • Designing Web pages using HTML, DHTML and CSS

Additional Qualifications

Elementary Japanese (International language house), Drama LAMDA Grade 1 Distinction: Grade 2 Honours. Several Sports awards in Tennis, Basketball, Hockey, Squash, Badminton and Cross country.

Interests

Japanese language, Japanese culture, Tennis, squash, basketball, pool, badminton, all music, literature, creating short films, sailing, socializing and seeing the world.

References

First class references available on demand.