Nicholas Tolley Cottrell
curriculum vitae
- Location
- Paris,
France and
Stockholm, Sweden - Website
- www.niccottrell.com
- nic@cottrell.net
- Phone
- +33 6 76 59 21 07 (France)
+46 7 08 85 96 90 (Sweden) - Skype
- niccottrell
- Networks
-
- LinkedIn
- GitHub
- Stack Overflow
- Facebook
- Xing
Citizenships
- Sweden
- Australia
Languages
- English
- Swedish
- French (professional)
- German (basic)
- Spanish (basic)
- Icelandic (basic)
Residencies
- Stockholm, Sweden (10 years)
- Reykjavik, Iceland (2 years)
- Paris, France (6 months)
- Gold Coast, Australia (3 years)
- Toronto, Canada (6 months)
- Adelaide, Australia
Leadership positions
- Director, Transmachina AB (2002-)
- Treasurer, Nejlikan 2 (2009-)
- President, Toastmasters Stockholm (2005-06)
- Vice President of French and Spanish
Society,
Bond University (2000) - President, IT Student Association,
Bond University (1999-2000) - Founder, Cyburbia Network Services (1995-1998)
Current Activities
- Technology development with Transmachina
- Manager at Sprawk
- Consultant to International IDEA and ConstitutionNet
- Consultant to Swedish Business Culture
- Finishing M.Sc
Past Employment
- Consultant to Inter-Parliamentary Union (2004-2011)
- Consultant to Hex.is (2003)
- Project Manager at OZ.com (2001-2002)
- Co-Founder of Cyburbia Network Services (1995-1998)
Education
- Master of Science (Speech and Language
Technology),
Macquarie University, Australia (2003-) - Master of Business Administration,
Oxford University, UK (2004-2005) - Bachelor of Information Technology (Comp.
Science),
Bond University, Australia (1998-2001) - Bachelor of Commerce (Finance, Management),
Bond University, Australia (1998-2001) - Bachelor of International Business (French,
Spanish),
Bond University, Australia (1998-2001) - High School,
St. Peter’s College, Adelaide, Australia (-1997)
Management experience
- Cross-cultural software development projects and teams
- Offshoring teams in Uzbekistan, India and Venezuela
- Working with customers within the UN, EU and related NGO/IGO partners
- Responding to calls for tenders
Technical skills
- Java (up to and including Java 7)
- Java Persistence API (JPA)
- Java Data Objects (JDO) with Kodo
- Enterprise development (JSP and servlets)
- Struts 1.x and 2.x
- JUnit 3 and 4
- MongoDB and Morphia Java interface
- Database design, MySQL and Amazon RDS
- Linux (CentOS, Apache, Tomcat administration, Amazon EC2)
- Web development
- Drupal, WordPress and PHP
- Perl and shell scripting
- Adobe ColdFusion (Server admin and development)
- Prolog (GNU)
- R for statistical computing
- Moses SMT system
Memberships
- European Association for Machine Translation
- Association for Computer Linguistics
- Oxford Business Alumni
- Foundation for Endangered Languages
Interests
- Management in the IT industry
- Computational Linguistics and AI
- European Culture
- History & Ancient Literature
- Science & Technology
- Leisure activities including Running, Innebandy and Fencing