Symplectic people
Daniel Hook - Managing Director
Daniel has been involved in programming professionally for the last 4 years. During this time he has written in C++, C#, VB.NET, VB 6 and SQL, supplying products to the medical and telecoms industries and, more recently, to the education sector. He has been involved with the structural database development for a Content Management System for Imperial College London and has worked on routing optimisation software using ILOG technologies.
Over the last 18 months he has moved away from core programming and has specialised in systems analysis:
- implementation strategies - at both a technical and personnel level
- systems integration - interfaces between disparate systems
- information flows within complex environments
- organisational modelling - analysis of organisational structuring
- optimising navigational structure in websites.
John Fearns - Software Architect
John's computing interests began with games programming for the BBC microcomputer in the early eighties, and later the development of general relativistic ray-tracing software on the Acorn Archimedes and PC, before joining the programming world professionally in 2002.
John's efforts now concentrate on:
- heading the development of Symplectic Invigilator, a tailored Credit Accumulation and Management System for universities and other higher education establishments
- development of the company's reusable technologies
- administration of internal unix services.
Marko Ivin - Senior Programmer
Marko has been involved in complex programming for over 10 years - from a large-scale simulation in quantum field theory to a DVD rentals website. Since finishing his PhD in theoretical physics in 2003, Marko has concentrated on database-driven web programming.
His recent projects have included:
- maintaining and developing the Faculty of Medicine's website at Imperial College
- programming an innovative 'News and Events' feature for Imperial College websites
- implementing an industry-standard SQL benchmark for online transaction processing (TPC-C)
- creating management databases for HR and financial processes
- developing an online application process for student placements in the NHS.
Philip Parkin - Senior Programmer
Philip has been involved with programming, mainly in an academic context, since the early nineties; from simulating the paths of photons orbiting black holes through to modelling phase transitions in Bose-Einstein condensates as part of his PhD.
Since joining Symplectic, Philip has worked on:
- a file management system for the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College
- a complete ASP.NET application tracking student placements and invoices for the Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College.