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<h1 id="alex-lorenzi">Alex Lorenzi</h1><table>
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</tbody></table><h2 id="profile">Profile</h2><p>Credited, creative, and self-motivated software developer with ten years’ experience
designing and implementing successful systems for business-critical operations.</p><h2 id="employment">Employment</h2><p><strong>Lead Software Developer</strong> at Ensemble Systems<br><em>Nov 2019 - Present</em></p><p>Oversee requirements gathering and architecting, and lead consultancy projects for
international clients, including HSBC, Camelot, Ford Motor Company, Thomson
Reuters, National History Museum, Astute Solutions and more. Key client projects
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<li><p>Lead design and development of HSBC digital forms portal allowing front-line staff to build custom sales cases for high-net-worth clients. The system leverages multiple RESTful APIs and is integrated with Adobe Sign to facilitate e-signatures. Secured additional new business to launch system in multiple markets.<br><strong>Technologies Used: AEM, Java, OSGi, HTML5, React, RESTful APIs.</strong></p>
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<li><p>Secured new business with Adobe to facilitate the migration of Illinois’ lottery website on AEM platform with Camelot. Partnered with Camelot’s Greece-based development team to gather requirements, lead demos and oversee the London team developing the site.<br><strong>Technologies Used: AEM, Java, OSGi, HTML5, Javascript, Spock, LESS</strong></p>
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<li><p>Developed B2B integration between Astute Solutions’ knowledge management system and Ford Motor Company-owned knowledge repositories. Implemented a RESTful adapter to Astute’s SOAP API to provide backend service to the Ask Ford customer service sites deployed across 20+ markets.<br><strong>Technologies Used: Java, Spring, Python, Django, Javascript, HTML5, AWS</strong></p>
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</ul><p>In the role of leading the development team, I also:</p><ul>
<li><p>Spearheaded the creation of employee development programs, lead internal seminars to train developers, organize developer appraisal, and build onboarding projects for new hires.</p>
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<li><p>Collaborate closely with the sales team to provide technical support and leadership to secure new business opportunities.</p>
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</ul><hr><p><strong>Software Developer</strong> at Ensemble Systems<br><em>Nov. 2015 - Nov. 2017</em></p><ul>
<li><p>Directed team of three developers for <strong>AEM Mobile</strong> sales-enablement app for Atlas Copco, using <strong>AngularJS</strong> to provide an interactive, multilingual solution.</p>
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<li><p>Developed a flagship mobile application using <strong>Adobe Experience Manager</strong> and <strong>PhoneGap</strong> for the Natural History Museum.</p>
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<li><p>Collaborated with a team of five on-site developers to transition Sheffield City Council website onto the <strong>AEM Sites</strong> platform in a condensed timeline.</p>
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</ul><hr><p><strong>Senior Associate</strong> at Matterhorn Investment Management (Hedge Fund)<br><em>Feb. 2008 - Jan. 2014</em></p><ul>
<li><p>Migrated portfolio management system onto mobile-first web application.<br><strong>Technologies used: Spring, OSGi, Apache Felix, Backbone.js, Bootstrap</strong></p>
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<li><p>Led and managed long-term project of reimplementing legacy Client Relationship Management system from a PHP stack to Java-based system.<br><strong>Technologies used: Spring, Apache Wicket, Apache Tomcat</strong></p>
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<li><p>Deployed a new JavaEE-based portfolio management system<br><strong>Technologies used: JBoss, XTT, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Swing</strong></p>
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<li><p>Modernized software development lifecycle for engineering team to increase stability and development times. Introduced structured testing, continuous integration, Maven build management and migrated from SVN to Git for revision management.</p>
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</ul><h2 id="education">Education</h2><p>University of Sussex, Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems<br><strong>MSc. with Distinction</strong><br><em>Oct. 2006 - Jun. 2007</em></p><ul>
<li><p>Received a full EPSRC funding grant</p>
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<li><p>Thesis published in the 2008 <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-69134-1_12">Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour</a> conference proceedings</p>
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<li><p>Assisted lecturers and ran seminars for undergraduate students on topics including Neural Networks and Evolutionary Algorithms.</p>
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</ul><p>University of Sussex, Computer Science Artificial Intelligence<br><strong>BSc. First Class with Honours</strong><br><em>Oct. 2003 - Jun. 2006</em></p><h2 id="skills">Skills</h2><p><strong>Java:</strong> OSGI, Spring, JBoss, EJB, JSP, SQL, Web Services, AEM, AEM Forms</p><p><strong>JavaScript:</strong> React, AngularJS, Grunt, Gulp, Webpack, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, Sass</p><p><strong>Methodologies:</strong> Agile, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration</p>