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October 17th, 2008
RivCom Consultant Published in ‘Semantic Web for Business’

A description and explanation of the technical solution used by the MYCAREVENT project to provide a single point of access to automotive repair information has just been published in a new book focusing on the application of Semantic Web technologies to solve business problems. (more…)

September 4th, 2008
RivCom Returns to Independent Operation

After four years working within the CSW Group, it has been agreed that RivCom should recommence operations as an independent organisation. (more…)

July 17th, 2008
AutoRepair.eu.com Moves to RivCom Host

The AutoRepair.eu.com site, set up by CSW Group Ltd and MUL GmbH in the follow-up to MYCAREVENT, is now hosted by RivCom Services Ltd, in parallel with the move by Jay Cousins and Antony Scott to RivCom from CSW. There are no changes in the services offered by the site, and RivCom will be working in partnership with MUL under the same arrangements as applied at CSW. (more…)

Kevin Wise

Email: kevin.wise@rivcom.com
Phone: +44 (0)7834 498656


Summary	Kevin is a versatile software engineer with over 10 years experience of object-oriented analysis, design and development with a range of front-end technologies. His experience covers the full software development lifecycle, including concept, architecture design, detailed design, requirements analysis, implementation, deployment and support. He is particularly passionate about applying technologies such as Flex and AIR to provide business solutions quickly, cost-effectively and with a rich and ergonomically sound interface.
Core Competences:	Developer: Adobe Flex/AIR/Cairngorm XHTML/JavaScript/CSS XSLT (1.0, 2.0) Java Team Leader/Scrum Master: Team Leader roles for 7 years Scrum Master for 2 years, including for an offshore team Business Analyst: Formal Use Cases and/or User Stories	Trainer: Materials design, development and delivery Regular speaker at CSW XML Summer School Sectors: Web TV including Interactive TV Health
Employment History:	2008–present: Associate, RivCom Ltd. 2004–2008: Senior Technical Consultant, CSW Group Ltd – Performed a wide range of technical and client-facing roles including developer (Java, XML, XSLT), technical lead, team lead, Scrum Master, technical pre-sales, consultancy and training. 2000–2003: Senior Software Engineer, Oktobor Interactive (NZ) – Helped establish and lead a software team in a post-production/New Media company; Implemented the NZ interactive weather channel; architect for an iTV authoring toolkit. 1998–2000: Centre for the Development of New Technologies in Learning, University of Bath – Used XML/XSLT, XHTML, CSS, Flash, Perl and PerlMagick for web publishing & educational CD-ROMs. Trained internal and external clients on XML technologies. 1995–1998: Officer, The Geometric Modeling Group, University of Bath Contributed to the design and implementation of a multidimensional geometric modeling kernel (C++).
Education:	PhD “Applications of multidimensional set-theoretic modeling” (under Dr Adrian Bowyer), Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, 1999 BEng (Hons) Manufacturing Systems – Engineering & Management, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, 1993