Tom Blackford
Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe @Adobe
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe @Adobe
EDUCATION
University of Bristol
MEng (Hons), Computer Science
SKILLS
ABOUT TOM BLACKFORD
Customer facing consultancy, to board-level. Strong communication skills both with technical and non-technical customers.• Building sucessful solutions around the Adobe AEM, WebSphere Portal and J2EE platforms.• Extensive experience architecting and leading teams developing enterprise portal and web content management solutions for ‘blue chip’ clients including Condé Nast International, RBS, BDO Stoy Hayward, Nissan, Emap, DaimlerChrysler, Boots and Cable & Wireless.• Hands on development of AEM components, Portlets, Servlets, JSPs and strong skills in Adobe Day CQ5, WebSphere Application Server (v3 to v6), WebSphere Portal Server (v4 to v6), JBoss Portal, and WSAD/Eclipse (v4 to v7).• Content management using Day / Adobe CQ AEM and IBM Web Content Management • Implementation of technologies such as Hibernate, Struts and Tiles, JSTL and common tag libraries, AJAX, XSLT and Apache FOP. Extensive use of Java Commons tools (Betwixt, Digester etc) to facilitate rapid development.• Use of best practices for code-reuse and component based UI development using Java Server Faces (including the design and development of custom components).• Strong skills in other parts of the IBM toolset, such IBM Http Server.• Training and mentoring.Specialities: Development, Team Leading, Architecture, Design, WebSphere, Portal Server, Day CQ, Adobe CQ, Adobe AEM, Communique, AEM Assets, J2EE, Java, Servlets, Portlets, JSP, JSF, Ajax, HTML, CSS
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