I'd like to brand myself as a well-trained IT professional, with a strong academic background in computer science and industrial experience on information system development. I'm currently working in Nomura (UK), a Japanese investment bank (transferred from the former investment bank Lehman Brothers after Lehman collapsed on 15 Sep 2008).

I started my IT career in Univ. of Electr. Sci. & Tech. of China in 1985 as an assistant lecturer and lecterer. After 4 years of teaching computer science courses and R&D on microprocess development systems, I came to Heriot-Watt University in the UK in 1989 to pursue my PhD degree, doing research on heterogeneous medical database interoperability.

More practical experience was obtained after I finished my PhD study in 1993. In the Roslin Institute (famours for the creation of Dolly the cloned sheep), I was working as a main designer/developer in building a cluster of animal genome mapping information systems, where we used the Web technology from its very early stage. In NTL (UK's biggest cable company, now Virgin Media), I participated in Web hosting products design and development. Then I worked as a technical consultant in global IT service companies CSC and Logica, where I was involved in a variety of projects in different industries and areas. Moving away from the IT consultancy, I entered a more specialised financial service sector. I worked as a software designer in VocaLink, the UK's main banking clearing house, before I moved to then Lehman Brothers.

R&D Highlights:(please see the publications if interested)

• Communication of databases using tagged text (1989-1993)
• Medical databases interoperability (1989-19993)
• WebinTool: a framework for constructing Web interface to databases (1996)
• The ARKdb: genome databases for farmed and other animals (1994-1999)
• CORBA as infrastructure for database interoperability (1998)

Technical Profile:

• I have broad knowledge and hands-on experience in object-oriented methods and tools, Internet technologies, distributed computing and database systems.
• I'm a Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 platform since Decemer 2001, and an enthusiast of the Java technology, with in depth understanding and working experience on the J2EE platform and application frameworks.
• I'm an advocate of agile (iterative) development methodologies and processes.
• I'm a proponent of open source software movement and once a practitioner ( WebinTool, a Web to relational database/Ingres interface building tool).

Industries and areas:

• Healthcare (medical informatics): medical databases, application framework for healthcare, portal/CMS for healthcare;
• Bioinformatics: animal genome mapping system;
• Financial service: equity research database, life insurance browser system, banking clearing system, equity financing system (security lending);
• Internet service: web hosting;
• Education: Higher education admissions system;
• Retail: System integration for a department store;

Currently I'm also maintaining a web site SoftwarePractitioner.org. I can be contacted by email: softwarepractitioner at hotmail dot com.