Philip Hawtrey

Philip Hawtrey

Enterprise Software Architect

Personal Profile

Mr. Hawtrey is an Enterprise Software Architect, Senior Engineering Group Team Leader specializing in the design, installation and configuration of enterprise level search and eDiscovery software. He has extensive knowledge of product development cycle from the requirements gathering stage through to the final release, and the legal requirements of the eDiscovery process. Mr. Hawtrey has experience in interfacing with other groups including QA, support, sales and marketing as well as clients and end users. He is also experienced with corporate security policies, risk management and incident response. He has great communication and client facing skills and would be an excellent addition to any team.

Work Experience

Consultant - Various Clients

March 2009 - Present

Enterprise Software Architect; Senior Developer, MRAS Project

  • Lead production design of distributed enterprise-level solution
  • Lead team responsible for designing and developing software components
  • Lead technical seminars and training sessions with partners
  • Responsible for the design, implementation and operation of AWS architecture that took into consideration security, performance and redundancy while allowing for 24/7 operations without interuptions
  • Implemented distributed enterprise solution in multiple AWS environments
  • Documented solution including design, operations and administration details

Enterprise Search Architect; Business Analyst

  • Designed and implemented Enterprise Search solutions at various clients
  • Documented requirements specifications, including:
    • Business requirements
    • Functional Requirements
    • User interface specifications
    • Use cases
    • Deliverables
  • Met with technical resources to determine access requirements, impact on servers, network, storage and other applications
  • Designed QA testing strategies
  • Developed architecture, administration, support and user documentation
  • Developed custom applications as required
  • Provided training to technical resources and end users
  • Hosted regular JAD sessions to ensure projects followed roadmap

eDiscovery Specialist

  • Performed legal discovery search operations against specified user Exchange mailboxes and file stores following Sedona Canada E-Discovery Principles and recommended best practices
  • Identified, extracted and packaged relevant documents for deliver to Department of Justice while maintaining integrity of document contents and meta data
  • Maintained detailed logs of process for inclusion in chain of custody log
  • Authored a number of scripts to facilitate data processing and extraction

Enterprise Search Architect, Technical Writer, Project Coordinator, SEO Specialist

  • Designed and implemented Autonomy IDOL installation for public facing web application
  • Documented IDOL requirements specifications including:
    • Business requirements
    • Functional requirements
  • Designed QA testing strategies
  • Wrote and implemented automated testing procedures for QA environment
  • Worked with development team to ensure optimal search performance
  • Performed WCAG 2.0 accessibility compliance evaluation of website
  • Authored architecture documentation for both client-facing web application and custom CMS for managing structured and unstructured data
  • Implemented Google Analytics, including custom code for event tracking in web application, customized reports and Google Analytics integration with custom reporting tool
  • Made recommendations and assisted in implementing design changes to allow for optimal crawling of dynamic content by web search engines

ZANTAZ/Autonomy

February 2004 - October 2008

Sr. Software Engineer, Team Lead

  • Team lead of enterprise server application group
  • Managed requirements, scheduling and design of core application components
  • Managed resource allocation
  • Provided both internal design and functionality documentation and external user manuals
  • Coordinated communications between engineering, sales, and support
  • Developed standard operating procedures for use by sales and financial departments to maintain compliance with revenue recognition standards, regarding product license distribution
  • Designed and developed both client and server-side applications, specifically Exchange related full-text indexing and searching applications
  • Designed and developed web portal with MS SQL back-end for both internal and external use
  • Designed and developed on-line system for requesting, issuing and tracking software license keys, for use by sales and finance team
  • Recipient of 2006 ZANTAZ Champion Award for teamwork

EDUCOM TS Inc.

January 2001 - February 2004

Software Engineer

  • Developed graphical presentation software for litigation support firm
  • Wrote and maintained and documented enterprise level server codem
  • Developed front-end graphical interface for server applicationm
  • Managed IT and web departmentm

Contract - IT Services

1993 - 2001

Fraynraymond Investments Corp.

  • Developed automated stock update system for POS system for retail division, bridging two different proprietary databases
  • Developed SOPs for system updates, maintenance and backup
  • IT support for numerous other small businesses

Key Skills

  • C/C++
  • Enterprise Applications
  • Oracle
  • Web Applications
  • ASP
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Lua
  • Alta Vista
  • FAST
  • HP/Autonomy IDOL
  • SOLR
  • Lucene
  • XML
  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • PHP
  • AJAX
  • Prototype
  • TCP/IP
  • Firewalls
  • Windows Client, Server Applications
  • MS SQL
  • MySQL
  • Database Applications
  • ISAPI Programming
  • MAPI Programming
  • Go Language (GoLang)

Education

Carleton University

1990 - 1992

Computer Science