James Aitken
Professor Emeritus at Self-employed
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Aitken is Professor Emeritus in operations with 16+ years in academia and a deep industrial pedigree from Philips to three managing directorships in manufacturing. He pioneered a UK operations model combining lean and agile during part-time PhD studies and has spent his academic career translating that practitioner insight into funded, impact-focused research and department-level business engagement. As Head of Department he secured over €1M as PI and built a unit renowned for connecting research to real-world supply chain and manufacturing improvements. He continues consultancy work through drja consultancy and contributes practical software reliability improvements as a back-end developer to the popular Perl Dancer web framework. An MBA and PhD-trained leader, he blends hands-on manufacturing leadership with collaborative international research across Australia, Germany, New Zealand, the UK and the USA. Known for applying commercial leadership lessons to teaching MBA/MSc students, he is also a Senior Fellow of the HEA committed to effective knowledge transfer.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Strathclyde Business SchoolUniversity of SurreyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Operations Management and Supervision, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Operations Management and Supervision at Cranfield University
Github Skills (7)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
perl10
documentation9
testing9
html9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PerlDancer/Dancer
Jun 2010 - Apr 2012
The easiest way to write web applications with Perl (Perl web micro-framework)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:James contributed to the Dancer web framework by addressing bug fixes and implementing enhancements to core functionalities. Their work includes resolving issues with HTML entity encoding on error pages, ensuring correct module loading, and improving the handling of cookies. They also added documentation and tests. The user demonstrated a focus on improving the framework's reliability and documentation.
micro-frameworkweb-applicationsdatabase-accesswebapplicationframework
LoonyPandora/Dancer-Plugin-Passphrase
Aug 2011 - Feb 2014
Contributions:121 commits in 2 years 6 months
dancerpasswordpassword-managerpassword-management
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