Alan Orcharton

Senior Systems Engineer

A few fun facts

I once had to sing in the Sydney Opera house,  I travel to watch total solar eclipses, I like golf, my favorite food is sushi, I used to teach spin classes during my lunch break, my 5yr old daughter is now finally over watching Frozen.

A look into my life

Georgia Slide.
Extended Fam.
French Cafe.
Philly DEB.
Philly DEB.
Family Portrait.
Georgia Legs
G and Ella.

Skills

TECHNOLOGIES

DAY-TO-DAY
  • C,C++, Objective C
  • Java
  • Groovy
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Websphere MQ
  • Chef
  • Win 32API, POSIX
  • JMS
  • Git, Subversion
EXPERIENCE WITH
  • CSS3,HTML5
  • Grails
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • Websphere Application Server

Employers

WORKEXPERIENCE

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Gap Inc, San Francisco

Develop mobile client applications and centralized web services to support the rapid deployment of Mobile Devices across US, Europe, and Japanese stores. Engineer and Support large Websphere MQ cluster, including development of custom exits. Develop scripts and groovy plugins to support a continuos integration mobile pipeline. Develop python scripts and chef cookbooks to perform automated build and administration tasks in linux servers.

BUSINESS ANALYST
DHL Airways Inc, San Francisco

Developed UML specifications to support the development of Web Shipping tools.

SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER
Yarrows Shipbuilders, Glasgow Scotland

Software Quality Assurance Engineer, for acceptance of naval weapons systems

© Alan Orcharton 2015