David Willis

Having gained 17 years experience supporting and implementing enterprise business systems, David formed Empiric Technology Ltd, in November 2004, to provide technical resources to the Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) sectors. Expertise includes the generation of complex engineering reports using a publishing framework that integrates native object manipulation with a generic publishing module supporting all the major file formats. The framework was successfully used to develop a suite of reports on a Metaphase PDM system (Teamcentre) for a major defence customer.

At GEC Marconi Defence (subsequently BAE Systems) was both a systems analyst and a software engineer with responsibility for all technical aspects of the Sherpa PDM system.

Achievements included:

- System migration from DEC Vax to SUN Solaris and HP HP-UX
- Database migration from Ingress to Oracle
- Developing business critical custom engineering reports
- Loading data from heterogeneous legacy systems
- Implementing interfaces to automate the transfer of data between business systems
- Supporting business processes through the development of custom functionality that was deployed on multi-client architectures (PC and UNIX)
- The system administration of a business system comprising an Oracle database and the Sherpa PDM application.

At Data Logic undertook a wide range of technical development rolls on projects for the financial, commercial and defence sectors. Responsibilities included software and requirements specifications, database and software design, and system implementation. The projects used a broad range of languages and technologies.

Gained a BSc in Electronic, Computer and Systems Engineering.

Dave can be contacted through Solass or by sending email to david.willis@solass.com