SCOTT RENTON

2 Grierson Avenue, Edinburgh EH5 2AP

Phone: +44791 393 2175| Email: rentonsa@gmail.com

Motivated and conscientious IT professional, with ITIL, APM and PRINCE2 experience. Extensive experience in the systems departments of two highly reputable employers. Working successfully in many technical areas: leader in data analysis and integration, application development, maintenance and support, across a variety of content disciplines from investments to museums.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

CAREER HISTORY

Library Digital Developer, The University of Edinburgh, June 2009- present

 

Outstanding contribution award 2019.

 

Management

·      Line and Project managed Innovation Projects (2017-19: Metadata Games overhaul, schema.org integration, Visualising the Curriculum with genderize,io). This included line management (of interns), managing budgets, planning and delivering outputs.

·      Business lead on Digital Library Workflow Review: managed market engagement, procurement, client relationships and delegation within team.

Relationships, organisation, strategy

·      Strong links across the library, IIIF and repositories communities.

·      Have spoken and moderated at many international conferences on images, repositories and associated technical challenges.

·      Organised international IIIF Working Group event (Edinburgh 2018) and acted on planning committee for international IIIF Conference (Goettingen 2019).

·      Organised UK/Scottish user groups for Vernon CMS (2016, 2019) and LUNA (2013).

·      Wrote PQQ for Edinburgh’s bids to be a preferred supplier on JISC Research Data Shared Service model.

Technical Subject Matter expert in the following areas:

·      International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). Deployed this across library systems and into library ‘culture’ at Edinburgh. Built ‘The Mahabharata Scroll’: online discovery of a hi-res, 72m long scroll- the longest item in the community.

·      Imaging and museums repositories (designing and building data integration workflows around these systems; led Edinburgh’s technical contribution to MIMO (European aggregation of musical instruments museums)

·      Deploying, customising and supporting open source and vendor-supplied applications

·      Building data-driven websites (Designed and built sites on the collections.ed platform, including the collection for St Cecilia’s Hall, a key operational part of a £6.5m refurbishment; Patrick Geddes archive unification project with Strathclyde; built pan-European Coimbra Group aggregation site).

·      Research-based innovations: designed a tool to extract and load HEP CERN papers to Pure (CRIS); built metadata games crowdsourcing platform.

 

 

:: July 2008- April 2009 extensive world travel ::

 

 

Systems Developer, Standard Life Investments, September 2000- July 2008

 

Developer, working on integrations with billion-pound data, and complex investments concepts.

 

Technical Subject Matter Expert

·      • Data integrations (built the Charles River IMS ‘batch’ for UK and Canada, ensuring positions would be available for trading the following day; Central Dealing Desk system; mainframe development on Trustees, Corporation Actions and Back Office Projects).

Relationships, organisation, strategy

·      • Built up good network of relationships with SLI Business, Charles River Operations (have twice attended the annual conference in USA), and operations teams within Standard Life.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Business & Systems Analysis, June 2003

ITIL Foundation, October 2009

PRINCE2 Foundation, October 2010

Metadata: Organising and Discovering Data (MOOC), September 2014

Foundations of Everyday Leadership (MOOC), May 2018

First Steps into Leadership, beginning June 2018

APM Project Management Fundamentals, 2019

IIIF Technical Review Committee 2018-

 

 

EDUCATION

University of Glasgow, 1994-1999

MScIT- Masters in Information Technology (1998-99)

MA (Hons)- 2.1 in English Literature/History of Art (1994-98)

School: 2 A Levels, 6 Highers

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

·      Clean driving licence

·      Trustee at Zambia Therapeutic Art, a Scottish Registered Charity (2019-).

·      Freelance web design: built websites for Scottish Labour Party and Cathie Craigie MSP.

·      Co-ordinate ‘Club Nitty Gritty’ band night, which requires strong organisational, social, technical and public speaking skills. Previously chaired the Out of the Bedroom open mic committee, which required communications and management skills. .

·      Won the Edinburgh Folk Club Song-writing Competition (2006), and play multiple instruments in various bands. Draw, paint, read avidly and run.

REFERENCES

Available on request.