Bio
Feb 15th, 2008 by James Murty
James Murty is a software developer with extensive experience creating web-based applications and architectures. With a working background spanning a research institute, a small software house and various corporations, he has a broad perspective on both the potential and the pitfalls in building networked applications.
He lives in Sydney, Australia but works with people around the world.
Employment
2007 to 2008 - Freelance Writing for O’Reilly
Authorship of a programming manual for the cloud-based infrastructure services provided by Amazon Web Services: Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB
2005 to 2007 - Consultancies for Axe Group
Analysis, design, development and documentation of a range of projects for corporations in the telecommunications, banking and insurance sectors. Implementation and support of production systems using J2EE and TIBCO technologies.
2003 to 2005 - Axe Group
Development of J2EE systems for companies in the general insurance and health insurance industries, working on in-house projects and on-site with corporate clients.
2000 to 2003 - CSIRO (Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation)
Implementation of proof-of-concept multi-tier distributed Java web applications to make data resources and data-manipulation tools available on-line.
Academics
1999 - Bachelor of Arts (Honours) First Class, Philosophy. University of Tasmania
1998 - Bachelor of Computing. University of Tasmania.