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1. BACKGROUND –PAUL DONOGHUE - EMAIL VISYS1@AOL.COM MOBILE 07538329672
I am an experienced System Architect/Developer with in-depth knowledge of systems
operations and communications. I have designed and implement working systemsolutions
that meet the needs of a wide range of clients.
Some of the clients that I have developed systems for include: JP Morgan,
Barclays,RBS,NASA, Thales, IBMand British Telecoms. I have worked at the design level
through to the implementation level. I have been team leader and I often mentor the young
members of the team. I am familiar with Rational and Rhapsody UML design tools and have
used System Architect(UML) to produce systems at Royal Bank of Scotland.
I have experience ranging from concept development through to team lead and project
management in a corporate environments. I have nineteen years of C++, Java and three
years of C# , twelve years of core Java contracting experience I also have over twenty
years of database SQL design and implementation prior to which I had ten years of
experience at Senior Associate level at IBM.I have experience in XPATH,XSLT,Groovy and
XML with BT and Smart Office . I am British and have been security cleared for several of
my contracts. I have basic disclosure (Scotland). I have strong interpersonal and
communication skills. My technical abilities have been developed at the cutting edge of real
applications that allow clients to move their business forward and succeed. Examples of
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 CGI Edinburgh. Senior developer July 2015 to date.
Senior developer. Java J2EE,Spring Hibernate system for Large government project
developing and systemto administer grants to farmers under the common
agriculture project. JBOSS FUSE,Portal. Spring SQL hibernate.
 Airbus Space and Defence,Newcastle. Senior developer May 2015 -July 2015.
Developing GUI using Java J2EE. SQL Spring MVC GUI used for control of large
government project upgrading active tag for restriction of offenders not in jail.
 Cognitive Geology Senior Developer February-April 2015 c# development of plugin
for Petrel subsea exploration software. MVC DESIGN ,C# OOD. PRINCIPLE SYSTEM
ARCHITECT.

2.  Lockheed Martin, Senior Developer, July 2014 to November 2014, Skills included
Java, javafx,Swing, Agile dev, Luciad Lightspeed Lockheed Martin are a List X military
defence supplier. I was developing a realtime GUI in JavaFX for an anti missile system.
Details restricted under the official secret act. Responsibilities included Design of
OOD (Object Oriented Design) and code implementation and Junit Test Driven
Development(TDD). GUI Team Lead responsible for GUI delivery to Team. Test
driven architecture and development. Responsible formentoring of junior
developers.
 Sabio Ltd, Glasgow. Senior Developer, April 2014 to June 2014,
Java,JBoss,Spring,TCPIP,Rest architecture. Agile Scrum. Sabio are a major supplier of
Telecomcontrol system. I was responsible for an upgrade of the Eisec systemuse by
the Metropolitan Police. This upgrade was to supply telephone callers location
automatically on the receipt of a 999 call this include mobile calls throughout the
police area and UK. Agile development with OOD and TDD. Team lead and design
authority.
 Crown Office Procurators Fiscal Service, Edinburgh. Senior Developer ,Jan 2014 to
March 2014, Java, Agile Scrum The Crown Office Procurator Fiscal Service is
responsible for the execution of the legal systemin Scotland. I was involved in the
development of a Java -Oracle based systems used to control the court systemin
100+ courts in Scotland. Java Web site based on Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
Responsible for design and delivery of system to other departments as “customer”.
TDD and ODD development. Mentoring of junior team members. Oracle SQL
RDBMS
 Curtiss Wright Controls, Letchworth. Senior Developer ,September 2012-Dec 2014 ,
Java, Agile Scrum, GIT I was involved in the development of a Java based control
systemfor the Verdi real time video systemto be used on the Orion capsule using the
new Space Launch System (SLS) the replacement for the Space Shuttle. Total design
responsibility and team lead of GUI development. Agile and TDD development.
 G.E Ltd Livingston Senior Developer ,May 2012 to August 2012 C#,C++, Java , perl,
Oracle. G.E supply power grid monitoring systemto 98% of the UK and globally. I was
developing a “smart grid“ systemcalled Fusion. This systemmonitors the grid power

3. status in real time and report faults with automatic isolation and rectification to
minimise the loss of supply to consumers. Responsible for research and
development of algorithms and design implementation intoexisting systems. Agile
and TDD development.
 Amor Group, Inchinnan, Senior Developer ,Jan 2012 to April 2012 Java, spring,
Hibernate. I was working on the gas control systems based in England. Spring MVC
based using Hibernate and JSP GUI development. Communication and integration
with external realtime systems.
 Henry Schein, Dumfries,Senior Developer , Nov 2011 to Jan 2012 ,systemarchitect,
java Servlets, XML. I was working on the development of customer order receipt
systems for real time XML based messaging. Java, UNIX software. XML messages
from external web systems integrating into HS systems. Complete design
responsibility and team lead for this system.
 Barclays Bank, Knutsford,Senior Developer , Canary wharf, Feb 2011- Nov
2011 Compliance Java systems. I was working on the development of
customer screening systems and sanctions upholding systems. Java,PHP
UNIX awk software. Java web mining systems. Complete design
responsibility and team lead on this project.
 Royal Bank of Scotland. Southwark London, Senior Developer , Nov 2010 Feb 2011.
System Architecture design and Senior Developer Java SWING GUI development.
SWIFT Message protocols. Development of a java swing based customer facing Web
GUI for the rapid processing of corporate customer on a global basis. This entailed
understanding of many interdependent retail banking systems. Complete design
responsibility and team lead on this project.
 JP Morgan Bank Glasgow. March 2010-November 2010. Senior Developer ,
Middleware database development, SWIFT messaging ,Straight through processing
transaction processing (STP analysis). Java and C++. The task was to redesign the
Oracle RAC grid computing stack. This uses a highly reliable low latency database
systembased on the Oracle grid cluster architecture (RAC). The Mercury systemuses

4. a Java/C++ unix based solution to receive trades and communicate and integrated
with external banking systems. Messages used the SWIFT message protocol.
 Thomson Reuters, London, May 2010 December 2010 Senior Developer ,Low latency
stock exchange data acquisition C++,C# development. Design and Development of
real time data systems for stock exchanged data feed to banks and other financial
organisations. Low latency data collection architecture and distribution to worldwide
clients
 Thales Glasgow. October 2007 to February 2010. Senior Developer , C++ realtime
Vision systems, systemarchitect, Matlab computer simulation systems. Design and
development of realtime tcpip (RTP) based video systems. Using windows with
sockets to create a live video feed of video monitoring.
 State St Bank, Canary wharf, London, October 2006 to September 2007,Senior
Developer , Java development STP analysis workflow systems. Design and
implementation of the AWD customer web base GUI workflow system that I
developed. Java development of banking system.
 British Telecom (BT).March 2004-October 2006. Senior Developer ,Java C++ GUI,SOA
Oracle. The control and routing of Telephone calls in business using the 0800 system.
This is created through the Inbound Architect. The project was to move this onto a
web based platform.
 BNFL Sellafield August 2001 to March2004. Senior Developer ,C++ process control
systems, manufacturing. I was developing automatic equipment for the
manufacturing and inspection of the nuclear fuel rods.
 Prior to 2001 Development, project management and systemarchitect
ten years permanent work with IBM. Team Lead. International travel and
large corporate project management.
EDUCATION
 B.Sc Electrical, Electronic Engineering 1975 University of Paisley. MSc. 1992.
 Clean driving license
 Disclosure Scotland valid.

5.  Approved to work on nuclear plant.
SKILLS SUMMARY
Technical Skills
 Java, J2EE 1.6,1.7,JSF, STRUTS, JSP, XML, XPath, DOM, SOA, SOAP, JDBC, J2EE, RMI,
Portals, Java Servlets, Applets, EJB , PHP, Maven, EJB, Spring, Swing, AWT, Unix,
Tuxedo, AWD, Spring, Flex framework ,Hibernate ORMDesign –SQL,GWT(Google
Web Toolkit java ) ten years plus experience
 JBUILDER, ECLIPSE, NETBEANS, AWD WORKFLOW (2 YEARS), CRUISECONTROL JAVA
GWT UI DESIGN
 C / C++ C# Oracle 7-11g,SYBASE,DB2,MYSQL,POSTGRES -PL/SQL DEVELOPMENT TEN
YEARS +
 MFC Visual Studio C++
 XML, HTML, JSP, MQ Series, COM, JMS.
 Geneva Billing Systems
 VB6 ,Visual Studio C#, ASP.NET, Lotus Notes.
 Rhapsody Rational Application Development (RAD UML Design),
 TCPIP, Sockets, BOOST Libraries
PERSONAL INTERESTS
Some of my hobbies include: studying Astronomy, reading Science Fiction, Travelling and
socialising with friends and family. Four children all adults.
References available on request.