Craig Beattie

Member of the Architecture team in Strategy & Architecture. Working with the Insurance Division and the Wealth Division. Working with Brands such as: - Coutts and RBS Coutts - Adam & Company - Direct Line - Churchill

During this time I formed a team of Technical Architects aligned to various platforms within RBS Insurance. I reviewed Architecture Certification methods and bodies with a view to rolling out to the team. I was unable to complete this in the time I was leading the team although hope to roll out my recommendations to the broader architect community in RBS. I handed the team over when I was invited to join the Group Architecture function in May.

I was responsible for ensuring that the architectural designs within Insurance were compliant with RBS Group policy and that these were communicated to and accepted by the new service owners, RBS Group IT.

I joined an already running project to provide a centralized integration tier to two businesses running in Europe. At the point I joined IBM Websphere Application Server 3.5 running on Z/OS had been chosen as the target platform with an implementation in Java and HTTP/SOAP selected as the integration tier. The development was outsourced. During the course of the project I interfaced with consultants from the development team, IBM, and Direct Lines IT Services teams to resolve significant performance issues

I joined the project 4 months into its life span. In the time with the project I worked on elements throughout the site from small HTML projects, java servlet based projects through to configuration of Apache Stronghold, Interwoven Teamsite, the Unix servers, etc. With my promotion to Senior Analyst my role extended as a technical resource for the contractors working on outsourced projects.

Working in C and C++ on real time Electronic Warfare system. Development is done on Sun machines running Solaris and implementing for both Solaris and VxWorks on the Power PC. Work involved debugging and extending an existing system and writing a number of scripts to aid in the adoption of the Rational Rose and Apex development environment. I had been given responsibility for the teams intranet site. To this end I have set up the Apache web server (on Solaris) and also the Tomcat JSP/Java servlet server. I

Working in C and C++ during my time with this company working on Windows, Macs and Unix platforms. Projects have included automatic extraction of text from PDF files for indexing by a database, a test harness for an image support library, some image manipulation for the unix platform. I also designed and implemented an icon editor dialog on the MacOS platform.

Worked with the Agent Technology Group on a Human - Agent interaction study.