Personal Details
Name Glynn Robert Bird
Date of Birth 18th November 1969
Gender Male
Marital Status Married
Address Middlesbrough, UK
Email glynn.bird@gmail.com
Twitter @glynn_bird

Education
Nunthorpe Comprehensive 9 ‘O’ levels
South Park 6th Form College 4 ‘A’ levels
University of Teesside BSc (hons) Business Computing 1st Class

Employment History

British Steel (Corus) 1990-2000

Working in the Control and Instrumentation department of British Steel’s Research and Development arm, I was sponsored during my degree studies. I progressed from an instrument technician through the ranks of middle management. My work included producing embedded and PC-based computer systems to record and visualise data within the steel industry. The C, Forth and C++ languages were used in a wide variety of projects.

MI International 2000-2004

Left Corus, taking voluntary redundancy, taking a role as web developer. Projects included:

Serco 2004-2005

Left MI after take-over, to work as Java web developer (Struts) in the front-end team developing an application to allow hauliers plan the movement of heavy and abnormal loads on the UK transport road network, for the Highways Agency.

Enable Media 2005-2014

Returned to former employer as “IT Manager”, responsible for office IT, software development, data curation and production provisioning staff. Projects included:

IBM 2014-present

Developer advocate for IBM Cloud producing blog posts, sample apps and presenting talks at technical conferences. I advocated for a variety of products in the IBM catalogue including Cloudant, Redis, OpenWhisk, Jupyter Notebooks and Object Storage until 2019.

Joined the Cloudant team to engage with customers to espouse best practice, to write blogs & documentation and to feed back customer requests into the development cycle.

Key Skills