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Wal McConnell
March 2011 - Present - Amazon Web Services
Cloudwatch Monitoring Alarms Team
2009 - Mar 2011 - Contrast - Exceptional
getexceptional.com is an error tracker for Ruby apps. Exceptional has grown its user and traffic count 400% from Aug 1999 - Aug 2010
2009 - Mar 2011 - Contrast - Client Projects
Working as a Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer on all of Contrasts client projects.

I should list them here I guess!

2010 - Contrast - Open Source
My various open source projects are located here and here
2009 Twick-Twock.com
Twick-twock.com is an OAuth based temporary unfollow service for twitter.

Handy if someone is at a confrence and filling up your feed with stuff you dont care about. Currently > 2000 users!

2005 - 2009 - The TAS Group - Dealmaker
Dealmaker is a methodology and technology platform aimed at improving the sales effectiveness of sales organizations. Dealmaker integrates the TAS selling methodologies into customer's CRM environment.

I was a senior member of the Dealmaker engineering team and subsequently responsible for customer integration and deployment. I implemented the Microsoft .NET integration with the excellent Microsoft Dynamics platform at some point in there too.

2005 - 2004 - Mobile Orchestrator
IONA Technologies spun off the 'Mobile Orchestrator' business unit un 2005. MO was a software platform for building 'occasionally connected' mobile applications. The innovative technology was piloted at American Airlines, Dalkia and Snap On Tools.
2004 - IONA Technologies - Orbix Connect
I led the development of the worlds first standards based J2EE to CORBA Bridge (Orbix Connect) based on new functionality in the J2EE specification (JCA - Java Connector Architecture). Released 2004.
2003-2002 - IONA - Java Messaging Service
IONA proudly had the worlds first J2EE 1.4 certified J2EE application server. I was responsible for the implementation and integration of the CORBA based Messaging service into the J2EE stack. Released 2004.
2003 - IONA - SOAP Web Services
Developed the web services integration features for the new IONA J2EE server. Released and in production early 2003.
2002 - IONA - Servlet/JSP Engine
Worked with a highly talented team on the re-development of a scaleable CORBA based J2EE compliant servlet engine. Released and in production early 2003.
2000-2002 IONA Professional Services Consulting
Java/J2EE/C++/Distributed Transaction Management consulting engagements in Europe and USA at HP, IBM, UBS, Merrill Lynch, AT&T, Telefonica, TIM Mobile, Siemens, Winterthur, Swiss Re.
1999 - 2000 - IONA Professional Services Training
Helped develop training material for and taught the IONA Java CORBA and J2EE training courses.
1999 - Final Year Project

'Backlets', a distributed, network based http web browser, where the functionality of the web browser was distributed across API based, registered servers on the internet.

Awarded Ludgate Prize for #1 Project in year.

1998-1999 - IONA Technologies Intern
As a college intern, I Developed Internal web based license key generator, and developed of a Lotus Notes based portal for the IONA Partner Program.