Phillip Temple was born on October 4th 1973 in Surrey, England. After being awarded a Batchelors in Computer Science and a Masters in Electronic Engineering from Swansea University, he then went on to work for illustrious companies such as Acorn and Agency.com. More information is on his CV.

He currently resides in Nice, France, where he is Managing Director of the successful property brokers Med In Heaven. His unparalleled network of contacts on the Cote d’Azur ensures access to an exclusive array of properties no other English-speaking estate agency in France is able to offer.

Technology remains a passions, and he offers novelty research for patent applications and due diligence reports for venture capital funds. Outside of ongoing professional ventures, he contributes to various cutting edge software projects.

Languages: Python, PHP, C, Java, Javascript
Technologies: XML, HTML, AJAX, TCP/IP

With a Bachelors in Computer Science and a Masters in Electronic Engineering specialising in Telecommunications, Phillip has a wide understanding of the telecoms field from the microprocessor transistor level all the way up to WAN routing protocols and distributed architectures.

Though following a predominently software career, he continues his passion for engineering through patent research for telecoms companies, due diligence for venture capital funds (none currently ongoing so feel free to get in touch), and designing home automation systems in his spare time.

He is puzzled as to why light switches are still physically connected in series with bulbs, LEDs are not yet more widespread in home lighting, the lack of availability of capacitance switches and IR tranceivers, and why all the parts of the HA puzzle have existed for decades yet nobody has tied them all together yet. He is looking forward to a 7″ android tablet wall switch, with camera used for motion detection, that will replace his existing wall switches to control everything from lighting to audio-visual and air-con.

For hardware a good place to start is NCD and xbee, and for software openHAB and OpenDMX.

Patent consultant – Riviera Patents

June 2010 – Present, Nice

Specialise in novelty search reports for complex and cutting edge patent applications for inventions in the field of telecommunications. Able to tailor reports to conform to any legal requirements from your patent department. An in-depth knowledge of the entire breadth of the telecommunications field means confidence in the closest matching prior art, and if necessary arguments on novelty and inventiveness can guide your engineers to a more successful patent application.

Managing Director – Med In Heaven

December 2004 – Present, Nice

Headed design, branding and marketing. Took charge of sales and training. Developed in-house bespoke IT systems including a real-estate specific CRM, a web search engine capable of scanning over a million properties per day and incorporating advanced heuristic rule-sets and natural language semantic extraction, and a custom web framework for staff-friendly property publishing.

Technical Director – Open Media

September 2002 – November 2004, Villeneuve-Loubet

As Techical Director, the role involved moving a couple of thousand custom written real-estate web sites and portals, including the 2nd largest property portal in France, to a unified content management system. Legacy sites had to be maintained and fixed whilst clients and portals were switched to the custom written CMS which had to offer identical functionality of all the individually tailored sites combined.

Created the company-wide intranet and CRM suite, as well as the extranet allowing clients secure information retrieval and site control.

Wrote many automated systems administration tools, as well as numerous XML and SOAP feeds for partner import/export. Unique total business automation systems offered major competitive advantage.

Developed new techniques and skills in site templating and developing multi-lingual sites. Gained a thorough understanding in what XML, SOAP, XSLT, CSS can offer.

Managing Director – Progressive Publishing

May 2000 – August 2002, London N7

Ran a software company with half dozen staff writing specialised content management systems. Clients include online book retailer Pickabook and magazine Future Energies.

Developed excellent PHP and database skills, as well as experience in interfacing with legacy EDI systems. Also solid system administration skills, including Apache, BIND, Postfix, Sendmail, MySQL and many others. Published an XML parser written in C to add native XML support to the PHP language.

Senior Developer – Carlton Online

December 1999 – April 2000, London WC1

Carlton Online was the web division of Carlton Television, the 2nd largest television station. Senior developer for Simplyfood, the role involved solid Pure Java programming in a servlet environment, and Oracle database development. Also heavily involved in trying to improve process, researching content-management systems and the intranet.

Developed good Java programming skills, as well as WAP and InteractiveTV experience.

Senior Developer – Agency.com

February 1998 – November 1999, London N1

Working for Online Magic, now rebranded as AGENCY.COM, involved many roles. Starting as server-side programmer, was tasked immediately with the Economist account. This involved assimilating large amounts of legacy code, and primarily bug-fixing. Moved on to develop new work for the account and quickly became lead developer for The Economist, although also worked on Prudential, Boots and General Motors web sites. Notable achievements include overhauling the online shop and rewriting the online searchable archive.

Developed solid C and CGI skills, though some exposure to NSAPI. Completed the Sun Java programming course and developed a Java project for Adaptec Europe.

Software Engineer – Acorn Computers

May 1997 – January 1998, Cambridge

During the industrial part of MSc course, completed two projects for Acorn Computer Ltd.

Implementation of the HTTP State Management Mechanism:
Working in the kernel of the Acorn operating system, improved efficiency of HTTP header parsing, and incorporated ‘Cookie’ support at the OS level. Made it the first OS to ever support RFC2109 compliance, having just been ratified by the IETF, with enhanced control features and improved security. Research into this protocol is the basis for the MSc thesis and is available in Postscript format on demand. The implementation written by myself for Acorn has been licensed to companies such as Olivetti, Net Products, RCA/Thompson, Semi-Tech Corporation (AKAI), Uniden America Corporation, Wongs Electronics Co. Limited, Zenith, NTT, Samsung, Curtis Mathes, Funai, Casio, Raytheon, ETRI, IDEA and others.

Client/Server applications development:
Developed client/server software for two markets. First for a client that wanted to update a distributed network of kiosks, including features such as batch update and browsing the remote drive transparently on a local machine. The second application was to enable teachers to dial in from home and use ShareFS transparently as though a local drive. This not only involved low-level development such as the dialer, but also modification to the filing system in the root kernel source tree.