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Showmax Set to Launch to 44 Countries

Calvin Matthews works with Sky Identity Global Streaming Platform to get the Showmax streaming proposition ready for launch. Showmax is a new digital streaming service based on the successful Now TV proposition and will provide streamed content to 44 countries across Europe and Africa. Calvin helped to ensure that users could create and maintain profiles…
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Sky Identity Stack Migration

Calvin Matthews works with Sky to migrate identity services from a legacy data centre to an AWS Kubernetes cluster. The migration required creation of multiple stacks for different levels of test and production in a complex CICD environment. Calvin configured the stacks using a combination of ConfigMaps, Jenkins, Gradle and shell scripting. The new environment…
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Aircraft Diagnostics Stack Migration

Calvin Matthews provides technical leadership in the developed aircraft diagnostic data processing systems in a migration to an AWS stack at GE. The new micro services are implemented in Java 11 and Javascript, utilising the AWS SDK, Typescript, Node.js and light weight tools such as Feign, Guice and JDBI. The new services use a rich…
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Transatlantic Collaboration to deliver Publishing Options

Calvin Matthews leads the design and development of the new Publishing Options service for Elsevier. The new service is implemented using Java 11, Spring Boot, React.js, AWS and is integrated with the Aries Editorial Manager service. Publishing options is a Transatlantic collaboration due for launch in early 2020.

New Journal Finder Goes Live

Calvin Matthews leads the development of a new Journal Finder service for Elsevier. The new service is implemented using Java 11, Spring Boot, React.js, AWS and Elastic Search. Working with globally distributes teams, Calvin has managed and co-ordinated the collaboration with external development partners and internal teams to successfully deliver the new service. http://journalfinder.elsevier.com

Elsevier Author Forms Offer Price Transparency

Calvin Matthews leads development on the addition of price transparency to the Elsevier Author Forms. Working closely with the product management team he co-ordinated and implemented the integration of a new pricing service for the online author communication service.

Elsevier Open Access Services Kicks Off

Calvin Matthews has kicked off development for the Elsevier open access services project. The new services include a new platform for author affiliation and funding agreement management, implemented using Spring Boot, Spring Data, Postgres, ES6, node.js and React. This project includes new UI features for the author communication service, integrating the application with other Elsevier…
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Elsevier Online Author Communications Service gets a Rebrand

Calvin Matthews has implemented a rebrand of the Elsevier author communication service. The new UI to conform to the latest Elsevier standards and is implemented using Bootstrap, SASS and JQuery UI.

Funding Data capabilities added to Elsevier Content Enrichment Framework

Calvin Matthews develops micro services for a proprietary ESB using Java 8 and Spring Boot to deliver funding data content enrichment to Elsevier services. He integrated these services with AWS S3, SQS and DynamoDB and deployed to EC2 instances using Terraform. Development followed a TDD approach to development using JUnit, assertj and bddmockito and implemented…
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Major Upgrade to Elsevier Manuscript Submission Service

Calvin Matthews has implemented a major stack upgrade for the Elsevier Manuscript Submission Service. Working with a globally distributed team across 3 continents he has upgraded the service to use the latest Java and Spring technologies. He cleaned up the build scripts and dependencies and migrated the product from legacy hibernate to JPA annotations and…
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