Ian Kennedy

Current

Director at Fossa IT Ltd

Past

Web Services Technical Consultant at International Baccalaureate (IB)
Senior Solutions Architect at Orange
Technical Project Manager at Practiv Applied Software

Senior Developer / Technical Lead at Practiv Applied Software
Technical Architect / Team Lead at Wizcom / 2020 logistics (Part of the Caudwell Group)
Extreme Developer at Kizoom Ltd

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Ian Kennedy’s Summary

An expert Agile/XP practitioner, with over 9 years proven expertise in software development, architecture and technical leadership. A flexible, self-motivated and creative individual with excellent communication and organisational skills.

Extensive commercial experience of the complete project life-cycle, with an in-depth knowledge of object-oriented analysis, design and architecture. Proven ability to construct successful and reliable software to a deadline, and learn new skills quickly and effectively.

Ian Kennedy’s Specialties:

Agile, XP, Test First Programming, Systems Design & Architecture, Design Patterns, SOA, WebServices, Java, JEE

Ian Kennedy’s Experience

Director

Fossa IT Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Web Services Technical Consultant

International Baccalaureate (IB)

(Non-Profit; Education Management industry)

December 2008 — August 2009 (9 months)

Providing Web Services consultancy services to the IB to enable them to automate their existing assessment processes.
Primary responsibilities where to architect and implement a SOA integration platform to expose/process data required to fulfil the automation of their existing examination and assessment systems.
Senior Solutions Architect

Orange

(Telecommunications industry)

May 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Working at Orange as a Senior Solutions Architect I was responsible for re-architecting their ecommerce systems for their mobile and broadband products. The system was implemented using the ATG commerce suite.
Technical Project Manager

Practiv Applied Software

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2006 — May 2007 (1 year )
Senior Developer / Technical Lead

Practiv Applied Software

(Computer Software industry)

April 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 3 months)
Technical Architect / Team Lead

Wizcom / 2020 logistics (Part of the Caudwell Group)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 8 months)
Extreme Developer

Kizoom Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2000 — August 2003 (3 years 5 months)