Nigel Barber
Project Manager at RT Consulting - United Kingdom
Royal Wootton Bassett, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNigel Barber is a seasoned Project Manager with 14 years of commercial experience built on a 30-year RAF career, delivering complex programmes across defence, avionics, IT/IS and telecommunications. He combines operational discipline from frontline avionics and logistics roles with hands-on technical understanding of networks, cloud, VOIP, Wi‑Fi and managed services to drive service transition and change management. Nigel has repeatedly secured and scaled defence-facing contracts—translating pilot lessons into larger nationwide deployments—and has run ISO 20000 Operational Acceptance Into Service processes. Comfortable liaising with stakeholders at all levels, he blends delivery focus with practical engineering insight, evidenced by earlier contributions to an iOS PDF rendering library that improved performance and multi‑page support. Based in Royal Wootton Bassett, he seeks roles where defence and engineering rigor meet commercial delivery.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
TEC, Aerospace Studies - Avionics, TEC, TEC, Aerospace Studies - Avionics, TEC at No1 School of Technical Training, RAF CosfordHNC, Computing and Electronics, HNC, HNC, Computing and Electronics, HNC at North Devon College
Github Skills (7)
uiimage10
objective-c10
pdf-render10
ios10
pdf-rendering10
caching9
arcus8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mindbrix/UIImage-PDF
Oct 2011 - Jun 2015
Simple UIImage PDF renderer category for iOS scalable assets
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:44 commits, 3 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nigel primarily contributed to the development of an iOS library for rendering PDF files as UIImages. Their work involved implementing several convenience methods to load PDFs at different sizes and from various sources (URLs, NSData). They refactored the code to use ARC and added caching mechanisms to optimize performance. The user also added multi-page PDF support and addressed rotation tag issues, improving the library's functionality.
scalablepdfuiimagecategoryrenderer
mindbrix/Symmetrix
Oct 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:50 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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