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Willis Towers Watson (Formerly Towers Perrin) – Evalue
Applegate Directory
James Tyrrell – Resume / C.V.
Years of Management
Years of language training
AWS Certificates
Years OF Dev Experience
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
University of Kent Canterbury
Degree: BSc(Hons) 2:1 Multimedia, Technology and Design.
https://www.kent.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/2020/226/multimedia-technology-and-design
Training Diploma
IATQuO: Internationally recognised TEFL certificate in teaching English
English writing, teaching, public speaking, and communication skills
Working as a director of a language school for 8 years and with over 10 years of TEFL teaching experience I am capable of clear, culturally sensitive writing with an eye for detail.
French, speaking, comprehension and communication
Having been a resident of France for 10 years and working on getting my citizenship, I am capabale of communicating on broad range of topics. Currently I’m studying hard to achieve my B2 (Upper Intermediate DELF).
AWS Certificates
Currently I am working through all the fundamental AWS training courses to get fully qualified and confident on a wide selection of AWS service options.
CLOUD ESSENTIALS
- AWS Cloud Economics
- AWS Technical Professional
COMPUTE AND CONTAINERS
- AWS Compute Services Overview
- Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Introduction to EC2 Auto Scaling
SECURITY, IDENTITY AND COMPLIANCE
- Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
DATABASE
- AWS Database Offerings
DEVELOPER TOOLS
- AWS Development Tools Services Overview
PARTNER ENABLEMENT
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
COST MANAGEMENT
- Introduction to AWS Billing and Cost Management
STORAGE
- AWS Storage Offerings
SERVERLESS
- Introduction to Serverless Development
- AWS Lambda Foundations
NETWORKING AND CONTENT DELIVERY
- Network Ninja to Cloud Ninja
MIGRATION AND TRANSFER
- From Migration to Modernization
SOFTWARE & TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages and Libraries
“The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.” – Dennis Ritchie
Java 5(Core language, JSP, JSTL, JDBC, Swing, Servlets, Struts, OOP, Hibernate, Spring, Lucene, Log4j), PHP 7 (Core language, OOP, PEAR), SQL, PL/SQL (Oracle), Perl (system maintenance), Command Line (Bash and Shell scripts), Python, JavaScript, AJAX.
Mark-up Languages
“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use XML.’ Now they have two problems.”
- HTML(4-5) XHTML,
- CSS,
- XML, XSLT.
- Json, REST
Projects & Platforms
“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.” ~ Denis Waitley.
WordPress, Content management systems, various shopping carts, customer relationship managers, website search engines (lucene), various financial applications, stochastic forecasting, graphs representing complex data and graphical interfaces.
Current Situation
Auto-Entrepreneur
October 2020 – Present
- SIRET: 889 487 021 00012
- APE: 6201Z Programmation informatique
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Director of a language training center working on all aspects of management, marketing and web development. Teaching English at numerous companies and schools.
Sadly the company went into adminstration due to the COVID-19 epidemic disrupting the industry.
Professional English coach – Teaching business English to engineers, managers and marketers in companies such as IBM, Capgemini, IFAG, DGAC, SII and many more.
Willis Towers Watson (Formerly Towers Perrin) – Evalue
June 2006 – November 2008
Evalue provides customers with the technology and our pioneering asset model to help their customers make better informed decisions about their finances. Evalue has subsequently became a private venture at https://www.ev.uk/
Software developer – building Java and web applications for financial institutions, high street banks and industry leaders, working in a fast paced, high pressure environment requiring a careful eye for detail. The work involved creating graphs and charts that covered great complexity in simple visual ways. It also mandated large amounts of work on a variety of Java libraries and APIs.
Applegate Directory
July 2004 – June 2006
Applegate has been the home of business buying for decades, creating value for buyers by sourcing quotes from a comprehensive range of suppliers, saving them time and money.
Software developer – created and maintained numerous kinds of websites and applications for medium sized businesses and internal usage using multiple languages (sites that appear in everything from Japanese to English). This included shopping carts, home grown CMS solutions and even a search engine.
