Nick Poore

Designing and Building Large Scale Analytical Systems. - Integrating multiple data sources/flows - Analyzing unstructured and semi-structured data in 100s of languages - Building not obvious relationships in data - End-user applications providing in-sights to millions of data sources - Systems built with an emphasis on speed, scale, and relevance to the end-user

- Lead a team of Architects and Engineers; building Pearson’s Global API Program Building a strategy to roll out the next generation of a global api program for 500+ services - Create a consistency of API design - Drive end-to-end visibility of all API traffic - Design and Engineer security and governance across APIs - Support highly available products/services in all customer geographies - Design and be an advocate of API Lifecycle best practices - Drive Pearson’s adoption of Public cloud going from 156+ private datacenters to 6 private + public cloud - Build a distributed global monitoring system designed for SaaS and microservice solutions allowing time to diagnosis from days/hours to minutes/seconds

Contributing and leading several areas at Pearson Education as it undergoes a major IT Transformation. Enterprise Architecture focusing on designing and building products with emphasis on high availability architecture to deliver content to a global user base. Cost reduction planning for Pearson Global Cloud footprint, leading strategic planning to move Pearson from private to public cloud. Integration of product delivery lifecycle creating/building complete solutions from service design, code delivery, to global distribution services. Mentoring Architects and Engineers to a common Pearson culture of design and implementation. Follow new trends in Architecture best practices evolution to bring those practices to Pearson. Always aware of reducing time to delivery of code/features to products and services.

Solutions Architect and developer leading customer engagements to deliver quick solutions of Internet facing production applications. I lead all phases of the project from architecture, development, and management of the solution which typically include Emerging Technologies. Expert in web and cloud solutions including java, nodejs, python, NoSQL, SQL, HTML5, Objective-C iOS, and hybrid mobile. My main focus of customer projects involve solutions on IBM's new Platform-as-a-Service Bluemix which is based on CloudFoundry. Previously delivered customer solutions involving data analytics with Natural Language Processing and machine learning. Also learning/experimenting more on technologies for indoor location tracking and Internet of Things data collection and analytics.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ Chef architect for IBM developerWorks community platform built on IBM software. Technical advisor and strategist providing cross-divisional support to strengthen and grow IBM’s largest external community platform. Engineer on the Lotus Connections 3.0 product development team. • Chief engineer for IBM developerWorks iPhone application. Supports 5 languages (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and English) • Chief Community Architect leading engineering team through product software customizations and delivering business requirements for IBM communities. • Architect integration with business-critical IBM platforms (Cloud dev/test, IBM communities). • Lotus Connections Product engineer, delivering customer features, appointed by VP of IBM Social Software. • Advise and deliver customer solutions for community; 2010 Lotusphere speaker.