The London Developer Co-operative was formed in 2008 by four independent software developers looking to provide top-notch support to their clients. Small consultants need time off from time-to-time, but modern businesses operate 24/7.

The London Developer Co-operative seeks to mitigate this difference by providing the type of skilled coverage only larger organisations can provide, whilst maintaining the agility and approachability of a small, focussed consultancy.

The London Developer Co-operative is made up of a number of experienced developers, administrators and infrastructure experts, versed in technologies such as IBM Lotus Notes & Domino, the IBM Websphere family, JBoss, Apache IBM iSeries, Microsoft solutions, XML, (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web services, and many more splendid acronyms.

We do the Java (including JEE) and .NET things to enterprise level, with their associated buzzwords (C#, JSP, EJB, servlets, MVC, JSF…) (In fact, chances are, even if you have an acronym we're not too familiar with, we'll pick it up quick-smart).

Matt White

Email: matthew.white@londondevelopercoop.com

Phone: +44 (0) 7767 384970

Website / weblog: 11tmr.com Twitter: mattwhite

Matt White is an experienced developer with particular expertise in web applications. Since 1995 Matt has been developing applications ranging from the very small to the extremely large and complex for companies of similarly diverse sizes, he has specialised in the financial services arena, but has also worked in other industries ranging from car manufacturing to petrochemicals.

Matt can act as a technical team leader, senior developer, architect or consultant for projects of any size. His particular areas of technical expertise are Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, Java and web development frameworks such as MooTools, Dojo, Prototype. And he has the rare skill of being able to communicate effectively with both technical and business oriented people which can prove very useful at any point in the application development lifecycle.

Since July 2007 Matt has been the lead developer of IdeaJam, the premier Lotus Domino idea management and innovation support tool and he also helps to organise the popular Irish and UK Lotus User Group conferences. His blog can be found at 11tmr.com

Ben Poole

Email: ben.poole@londondevelopercoop.com

Phone: +44 (0) 7901 656747

Website / weblog: http://benpoole.com Twitter: benpoole

IBM Lotus Notes & Domino development, web development and Java (Websphere, Tomcat). An IBM Business Partner, Design Partner and enterprise IT veteran (12 years at a global accounting & consulting firm), Ben has written for e-Pro magazine, presented with Mark at the Irish Lotus User Group in 2008, and has maintained a successful weblog for over six years. Ben is also the project lead for the popular open-source project DominoWiki.

Mark Myers

Email: mark.myers@londondevelopercoop.com

Phone: +44 (0) 7811 623474

Website / weblog: http://www.anewchance.co.uk Twitter: stickfight

Mark has been fixing major Development and Infrastructure problems for big corporations for the last 13 years, and smaller companies for 5 years before that, specialising in solutions that blur the lines between Infrastructure and Development (Taking the best of both areas), Mark hates unnecessary spending on his clients budget, he possesses no technology loyalty, using best of breed to get a job done, the fact that the shortest of his contracts in the last 13 years has been 3 years (and he’s still at that one), should give you an idea of the value his clients put on his work.

Mark can act as consultant in either the development or support areas of a project, and makes for an excellent intermediary between conflicting business and IT areas: his broad knowledge and pleasant nature enables amicable solutions to be reached and deadlines met.

Rob Wills

Email: rob.wills@londondevelopercoop.com

Phone: +44 (0) 207 993 2860

Website / weblog:http://www.inter-weavers.com

Rob Wills is an experienced Lotus Notes and Domino developer.

Prior to starting a Lotus Notes/Domino business in India, he managed the IT including an in-house development team in an Engineering Contracting business developing an ERP and using Notes for Sales & Marketing and for Project Collaboration.

Work in India was mainly for smaller UK based clients developing web sites and Notes client based applications. Whilst in India, Rob designed and created a web based timesheets product that has now been open sourced as eTimesheets and can be downloaded from OpenNTF.org.

Since returning to the UK, Rob has continued using Lotus Notes to develop Contract Management Systems and has also undertaken ERP migrations. His particular skills include the ability to go into companies and really understand their needs before designing solutions that work for them.

Julian Woodward

Email: julian.woodward@londondevelopercoop.com

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7993 2177

Website: http://www.axiot.com

Blog: http://blog.woowar.com Twitter: woowar

Julian first learned ‘real’ programming using C and Assembler 25 years ago, which makes him feel old. Since then he has worked with Clipper, Visual Basic, ASP, Access, SQL Server, IBM Lotus Notes and Domino, IBM Lotus Quickplace (Quickr), C# and Java. He has been developer, project manager, product manager, technical architect and general teaboy.

In 2005 Julian founded Axiot, an IBM Business Partner and Design Partner, and now divides his time between Lotus- and Microsoft-based projects. He is one of the founders of the UK Lotus User Group (UKLUG), and part of the organising team for both that and the Irish Lotus User Group (ILUG).

Both Julian and Axiot are pleased to be part of the London Developer Co-Op.

Kieran Green

Email: kieran.green@londondevelopercoop.com

Phone: +44 (0) 7769 905735

Kieran has been working in the IT financial sector for the last 10 years, designing and implementing enterprise level systems based on IBM technologies.

Having started programming systems and databases on IBM iSeries (AS400) in the investment banking and insurance sectors—for companies including ABN Amro, BNP Parisbas, Ace-INA and Allianz insurance—he then moved on to design and implement web and SOA-based systems with Java technologies running on IBM Websphere platform and Sun Application Server. This leaves Kieran well placed to face the challenges of secure cross platform and enterprise level systems required today.

Kieran takes his work seriously; he is currently a Technical Consultant on a global project and is a Professional member of the British Computer Society.