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William Beaumont

William Beaumont

Culver City, CA, United States
Member since March 23, 2017
William is an experienced software engineer with a strong track record in business and technical leadership. Throughout his varied career, he's consistently demonstrated strong communication skills and an ability to work in varied and complex environments.
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Portfolio
Experience
  • Java, 20 years
  • Team Leadership, 15 years
  • Leadership, 15 years
Culver City, CA, United States
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Windows, OSX, Linux, Visual Studio, NetBeans, Git
The most amazing...
...project I worked on was an algorithm for automatically detecting map corrections based on GPS trace data.
Employment
  • CEO ShinobiControls | COO Visiblox
    Scott Logic
    2010 - 2015
    • Ran their internal product business. Initially I led the technical development and managed the public release of Visiblox Charts—a .NET WPF/Silverlight charting component.
    • Launched a new product venture ShinobiControls—building tools for mobile development, and led it from inception to a market leading position.
    • Served as a performance manager—mentoring junior and senior staff members and doing performance reviews and career development work with them.
    • Built an internal MIS dashboard application on Groovy/Grails to support business decisions.
    • Ran numerous consulting engagements to assist with the embedding of our products in client applications; including clients such as Transocean, Adidas, Microsoft, and more.
    Technologies: .NET, WPF, Java, Objective-C, Groovy/Grails
  • Senior Software Engineer
    TomTom
    2007 - 2010
    • Worked as part of the R&D unit based in Edinburgh—developing and maintaining traffic detection algorithms, map processing, and device research.
    • Developed and maintained a custom multi-threaded, high-throughput geo database engine for a high volume throughput of data. The engine stored ~200 terabytes of map and GPS data for batch-processing. During my custodianship, I improved the throughput performance of the engine by a factor of 10.
    • Maintained the map generation process for turning the TeleAtlas map data into a custom map database format suitable for traffic detection and trip analysis. The process ran quarterly, generating maps for large parts of the globe, and maintained a maximal historic compatibility for analysis across maps.
    • Developed an algorithm for detecting map errors and new road geometry based on GPS trip data retrieved from TomTom devices.
    • Built a custom WebKit engine for use on an ARM based mobile device, as part of a new UI architecture based around HTML5. I also, as part of this project, built a prototype HTML5 front-end, and browser plugin for rendering maps.
    Technologies: Java, Bash Scripting
  • Technical Director
    Edina Software
    2000 - 2007
    • Progressed from graduate developer to being the technical director (CTO) of the business in 5 years.
    • Participated in and led numerous consulting projects in that time including a number of large systems for the Scottish Qualifications Authority—developing high school results acquisition and processing systems.
    • Oversaw the overall technical strategy for the business—including architectural decisions, technology decisions, and skills development.
    • Mentored, managed projects, and provided technical leadership as well as pure software development.
    • Acted as the CTO of an intrapreneurial startup venture, ioEng, focused on mobile workforce enablement (in the pre-smartphone era). Architected and led the development of a sophisticated data capture and processing product.
    Technologies: Java, .NET, HTML, XML
Experience
Skills
  • Languages
    Java, CSS, C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, Groovy, SQL, HTML5
  • Other
    Leadership, Team Leadership, Mentorship, Multithreading, Project Management
  • Frameworks
    Spring Boot, Silverlight, WPF, Angular, Hibernate, Grails
  • Paradigms
    Agile
  • Storage
    Ingres, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL
  • Tools
    Subversion (SVN), Git
  • Platforms
    Java EE, Xamarin
Education
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
    University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh, UK
    1996 - 2000
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