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Nicholas Tolley Cottrell
Nicholas Tolley Cottrell

curriculum vitae

Location
Paris, France and
Stockholm, Sweden
Website
www.niccottrell.com
Email
nic@cottrell.net
Phone
+33 6 76 59 21 07 (France)
+46 7 08 85 96 90 (Sweden)
Skype
niccottrell
Networks
  • LinkedIn
  • GitHub
  • Stack Overflow
  • Facebook
  • Xing
  • Citizenships

    • Sweden
    • Australia

    Languages

    • English
    • Swedish
    • French (professional)
    • German (basic)
    • Spanish (basic)
    • Icelandic (basic)

    Residencies

    • Stockholm, Sweden (10 years)
    • Reykjavik, Iceland (2 years)
    • Paris, France (6 months)
    • Gold Coast, Australia (3 years)
    • Toronto, Canada (6 months)
    • Adelaide, Australia

    Leadership positions

    • Director, Transmachina AB (2002-)
    • Treasurer, Nejlikan 2 (2009-)
    • President, Toastmasters Stockholm (2005-06)
    • Vice President of French and Spanish Society,
      Bond University (2000)
    • President, IT Student Association, 

      Bond University (1999-2000)
    • Founder, Cyburbia Network Services (1995-1998)

    Current Activities

    Past Employment

    • Consultant to Inter-Parliamentary Union (2004-2011)
    • Consultant to Hex.is (2003)
    • Project Manager at OZ.com (2001-2002)
    • Co-Founder of Cyburbia Network Services (1995-1998)

    Education

    Management experience

    • Cross-cultural software development projects and teams
    • Offshoring teams in Uzbekistan, India and Venezuela
    • Working with customers within the UN, EU and related NGO/IGO partners
    • Responding to calls for tenders

    Technical skills

    • Java (up to and including Java 7)
      • Java Persistence API (JPA)
      • Java Data Objects (JDO) with Kodo
      • Enterprise development (JSP and servlets)
      • Struts 1.x and 2.x
      • JUnit 3 and 4
    • MongoDB and Morphia Java interface
    • Database design, MySQL and Amazon RDS
    • Linux (CentOS, Apache, Tomcat administration, Amazon EC2)
    • Web development
      • Drupal, WordPress and PHP
      • Perl and shell scripting
      • Adobe ColdFusion (Server admin and development)
    • Prolog (GNU)
    • R for statistical computing 
    • Moses SMT system

    Memberships

    Interests

    • Management in the IT industry
    • Computational Linguistics and AI
    • European Culture
    • History & Ancient Literature
    • Science & Technology
    • Leisure activities including Running, Innebandy and Fencing