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Major Skill Areas
Embedded Software development - many platforms - widely
experienced . C & C++ . OOD . Assembly language . User Interfaces
. Data Communications . Internet and proprietary protocols . Development
of GUI front ends & user interfaces , protocol stack components
, device drivers and packet drivers , multimedia - play engines
etc. , editors , assemblers and interpreters , co-operative operating
systems . Computer and communications security . Code for RF side
. Multiprocessing - distributed and parallel . Componentisation
. Hardware knowledgeable with some hardware development experience
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System Architecture Design - design and development of project frameworks
, specification and supervision of component development . Technical Project
Management - complete cycle . All aspects . Drill down design . Full
formal methods . Explicit coding . Designing code for source and binary
level verification - including Quality , Integrity and Security - transparent
and blind , and Binary Level Validation & Certification - via Automated Test
Harnesses .
Highly professional - product and customer orientated
, values based , approach . Professional , Communitarian with Individualism
, Collaborative , Ownership based working culture . Principles and
concepts based . Very practical and down to earth . Highly innovative
and creative . Able to produce high quality and high value code
, quickly and cost effectively . Very versatile - have worked in
many different environments in many different places on many different
projects . Am a quick learner . Am very good with the broad picture
. Very much an outside of the box person . Very much new economy
. Very much an enabler and facilitator .
Solution Provider
Have developed the Front
End Module - a method of designing and managing the operation of User Interfaces
- and am able to supply this under license . Am also able to provide a porting
and script design service . It saves massive amounts of development time and
considerable cost . It is powerful , versatile and is easy to install , configure
and design with .
Other Details
| Date of Birth |
15 - Jan - 1960 |
| Place of Birth |
Poole , Dorset , England |
| Nationality |
U.K. \ E.U. and Australian |
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| Marital Status |
Never married |
| No. of Children |
None |
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| Work location |
UK or the Continent . Will
move to the work location . |
| Computer and Internet Facilities |
Yes - fully equipped for
remote working . |
| Prepared to travel |
Yes |
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| University Attended |
Western Australian
Institute of Technology ( Curtin
University )
Accredited to I.E.Aust. . |
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| Degree Obtained |
B.Eng.
Communications ( and Computing )
4 year engineering degree with maths and science - physics , chemistry ,
materials science etc. . No. 19256 issued 16 th. Feb. 1983 . Top 5% . |
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| Other Qualifications |
Amateur ( Radio ) Operators
Certificate of Proficiency ( Australia ) 1980 .
Driving Licence - standard car ( UK \ E.U. ) . |
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| The Token Bus Protocol |
The
Token Bus Protocol |
| Patents Granted |
Token
Bus Protocol Number 1 ( GB 2 273 023 ) .
Token Bus Protocol Number
2 ( GB 2 280 572 ) .
Token Bus Protocol Number
3A ( GB 2 319 706 ) . |
| Wikipedia Link |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_bus_network
- last link on page . |
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| Foreign Languages Spoken |
A little French - am learning
, even less Italian and almost no German . |
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| State of Health |
Excellent |
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| Travel Experience |
Extensive in Western Europe
. Some in the Middle East , South and South East Asia . Extensive in Australia
. Some in New Zealand . |
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| Main Residence |
England 13 years
, France 3 ¼ years , Australia 25 years , Germany 2 ¾ years
, Belgium 2 ¾ years , Kuwait 3 years plus 1 year travelling
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Skills Summary
Extensive embedded , and some applications and systems , software
design and development experience and some hardware design experience .
Software Engineering
| High level languages |
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C ( 9+ years ) , C++ ( 5+ years ) , Basic and Quick Basic (
6 months - 16+ years ago ) , Pascal and Fortran ( 6 months -
22+ years ago ) . |
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| Assembly languages |
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8x86 family ( to Pentium ) - highly experienced , Z80 , Z8
and 6811 , some 8048 , some ARM . Total of 12+ years . |
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| Internet web languages |
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HTML & XML |
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| Development of |
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GUI Front End Module . Multi Media Play Engines . Device and Packet
Drivers . Protocol Stacks . Secure Communications . Modules using Internet
Protocols - all levels . Local Area Network protocols . Computer System
Security package . Automatic Taxi Despatcher . Editors . Concurrent Assembler
. A number of single and multiprocessor based microcomputer applications
. An extensive range of C & C++ components . Extensive work in componentisation
. Extensive work on Proprietary Co-operative and RTOS Operating Systems
. |
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| Data Base experience |
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Access . |
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| Network experience |
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Extensive topology
and protocol Research and Development . HTTP , SSL - HTTPS .
Development of Internet ( FTP inc. ) and Novell ( ODI ) and
propriety packet drivers and protocol stack components . Internet
protocols - IP & ICMP , UDP & TCP , PPP & PPPoE
, SLIP , ARP & RARP , DHCP , BOOTP , DNS , FTP , RTP , RTCP
& RTSP etc. . Varying levels of experience . Integration and
debugging of protocol stacks . Telecoms - DSL , E1 etc. . |
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| Operating Systems |
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VxWorks , Nucleus Plus ( inc. IP ) , MEOS , ThreadX
, pSoS and NECROS RTOS's . Co-operative Operating Systems . Windows
( a small amount as a developer ) . MSDOS versions 3 to 6+ .
CPM 80 .
Linux : some Linux familiarity - some development and usage
( set up , operating etc. ) experience - but am not an expert
. |
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| Processors & Micros |
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8x86 family . 6811 . ARM family - inc. ARM7T & ARM9EJ-S
. META . ARC . 68000 family . OAK DSP . C161 . Z80 family . Z8 . |
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Hardware Engineering
| IBM PC |
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P.C. card design plus extensive system experience . |
| 8086 family |
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Intelligent P.C. card design - network card . |
| Z80 |
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Stand alone microcomputer application design - FPLA Programmer . |
| Z8 |
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Stand alone microcomputer application design ( including multiprocessing ) - Video Editting Controller . |
| I.R. And analogue |
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A couple of projects designed - IR Remote Light Dimmer & Mixer . |
Intellectual Property Based Designs
Retrospective
Token Bus Local Area Network protocols - patents granted , Parallel Processor
and single processor based microprocessor , Computer and Network systems - concept
based designs . Concurrent Assemblers - developed . Componentisation systems
- extensive concept design work + development of the GUI
Front End Module ) .
Extensive basic and applied research into architectures , componentisation
, parallel processing software and hardware structures , advanced local area
networks and computer security techniques . Extensive embedded software development
. Some applications development .
Work Experience
Contract Work Experience
| 26 th. Apr 10 to 1 st. Aug
08 |
Spirent Communications , Paignton ,
Devon , U.K. |
Senior Developer |
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| Development of navigation
test equipment – instrumentation – UI . Specification of XML
based data communications protocol . Development of the complete
package including background operations and data communications
handling - message assembly and extraction , XML parser . Work
on Ubuntu Linux PC and embedded Linux . C++ , Qt4 GUI & IDE
– creator , designer , assistant . Rapid SVN , Bugzilla . |
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23 rd. Jun 08 to 9 th.
Apr 10
also during 2002 , 03 & 07 |
World Computers Ltd. , London , U.K.
working in the Paris office |
Architectural Designer
\ Senior Developer |
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| Design and development
, updates and expansions of The
GUI Front End Module . The GUI Front End Module provides
a binary based scripting method of specifying user interfaces
- PC & embedded including Software on Silicon . It provides
full high level control of the basic GDI functions . The module
is available as a dynamically linked library - Windows DLL -
and on Linux and other embedded systems . Usage licenses can
be purchased . Full information on the company web site - wrldcomp.com
. This does not effect contracting work in any respect . Table
driven , OO , 2D linked lists , interactive display objects
, script compile , remote download of scripts - UI design ,
micro kernel , event messaging , basic data objects , strings
, XML , DLL . MSVS C++ , Beyond Compare . Linux , Code::Blocks
IDE , GNU GCC compiler . X Windows . KDE . QDevelop IDE & Qt4
GUI . |
| 13 th. Feb 08 to 20 th. June
08 |
Frontier Silicon , Sawston , Cambridgeshire
, U.K. |
Senior Developer |
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| Development of server access
code – middleware – for a subscription based Internet Radio
streaming service . Additions to and modifications of the upper
layers of the protocol stack . Handling of authentication .
Open SSL - HTTPS session establishment , HTTP parsing , HTTP
Digest Log On , MD5 , Radio Channel Log On , Channel List download
, obtaining Streaming URL , Free Trial and Account Information
handling , XML parsing , event driven state machine based .
Work in C & C++ . MSVS C++ , GNU , BSD , Linux compile , Codescape
, Tortoise SVN , Beyond Compare , Bugzilla . |
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| 22 nd. Jan 07 to 27 th. Apr
07 |
Renesas , Bourne End , Buckinghampshire
, U.K. |
Architectural Designer \ Senior
Developer |
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| Project
design - design of a multi media framework - play engine - and
associated components – reworking \ making over of existing
design – proposing ‘ ideal ‘ design and path of movement of
existing design to new design . Purpose – to optimise complexity
of code , remove unnecessary code , consolidate and rationalise
code , greatly speed up time to market and reduce downstream
costs . Analysis of customer GDI requirements versus what client
could supply . Specification and report writing . Integration
and porting of existing codecs . Bug hunts . Testing . Documentation
. Work in C . HIOS , HEW , Tortoise SVN , Beyond Compare
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| 31 st. Jul 06 to 8 th. Dec
06 |
VMetro , High Wycombe , Buckinghampshire
, U.K. |
Senior Developer |
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| Low level , device driver
& system work for advanced high speed computers operating on
the VME bus . Extensive Flash driver updates . The Flash being
used for programming a Xylinx FPGA and for general data storage
. Development of HW simulation , middle and upper layers , test
harnesses . Work in C & C++ , POSIX . VxWorks . MSVS . CygWin
, Win CVS , Araxis Merge . Extended once . |
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| 9 th. May 06 to 14 th. Jul
06 |
Mansella - Sun Corp. - Aldershot , Surrey
, U.K. |
Senior Developer |
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Work
in telecoms . Construction of an I2C device driver and associated
components in the protocol stack . Additional work in various
areas – construction of code to write to the SIM , search
for and delete ADN & EXT1 records . Work carried out in
C . ThreadX RTOS . PCA9564 , CM109 , ARC processor . AllChange
VCS , CodeWright and Rhapsody , Bugzilla , SeeCode . Resourced
for a specific project . Extended once .
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| 12 th. Dec 05 to 14 th. Apr
06 |
Sony NSCE , Zaventum , Brussels , Belgium |
Senior Developer |
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| Work in multimedia - development
of components to manage buffer queue depth - IP TV . Embedded
C++ . AAC , MPEG4 , RTP & RTSP . VxWorks , Tornado , Bugzilla
, Clear Case , Windows and Linux compile . |
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| 13 th. Jun 05 to 12 th. Dec
05 |
TTPCom , Melbourn , Cambridgeshire ,
U.K. |
Senior Developer |
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| Developing the low level communications
component for the linkage of code operating on 2 separate processors
- linking up via TTPCom Mapal and via an Altera FPGA . Debugging
of the hardware and software . Connection of existing code via
Mapal interface . Work carried out in C . ARC and ARM9 processors
, Borland C++ Builder , Araxis Merge , Perforce , Lauterbach
, SeeCode . Extended once . |
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| 31 st. Jan 05 to 2 nd. Jun
05 |
Optimay - Agere , Munich , Germany |
Architectural Designer |
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| Design and development of
a Multi Media framework - play engine - project consisting of
: Analysis of existing code . Formulation of proposed plan of
action - technical and managerial framework . Interviewing of
contract staff . Specification of the architecture . Development
of the framework - handling the dynamic binding of components
, communication with components , transferring of data between
components and management of the operation of components . Supervision
and co-ordination of the porting and updating of the existing
components and the development of the new components . Supervision
of the integration of the components - management level and
lower level - into the framework . Supervision of the test harness
construction and the component and system testing . Writing
of the system level documentation . Supervision of the component
documentation . Work carried out in C . MP3 , variable bit rate
, AAC , MPEG2 , MPEG4 . ARM926 & 946 & ARM7T , MSVS
V7 & Source Insight , Clear Case , Beyond Compare . |
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| 5 Jul 04 to 29 Oct 04 |
Pace - Saltaire , Shipley , West Yorkshire
, U.K. |
Senior Developer |
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| Modifications and expansions
of the User Interface for a Spanish cable Digital T.V. Set Top
Box . Specification and upervision of UI Glade screen layouts
and content . Construction of test spec. . Debugging of a Video
over Ethernet protocol stack + rewriting of part of the code
. Construction of an RTP client - IP TV . Work carried out in
C . MPEG2 . ARM , VxWorks , CodeWright , WinCVS , CygWin , GNU
compiler on Linux , Bugzilla . Extended once .. |
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| 18 Mar 04 to 2 Jul 04 |
Pure-Digital - Imagination Technologies
, Kings Langley , Hertfordshire , U.K. |
Senior Developer |
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| Working in Digital Audio Broadcasting
- on consumer DAB receivers - Legato project . Additions to
the User Interface - vertical pixel line based scrolling with
layout management and multiple message display , horizontal
pixel column based scrolling , Truncation of display . Infra
Red decoding and event generation . Random number generation
- random playing of CD & MP3 tracks . Construction of MP3
UI - MP3 CD access - display , selection and play control of
directories , development of the play engine , handling of play
lists and MP3 files . Associated ID3 and MP3 parsing and play
management operations . Work carried out in C . MSVS + Textpad
editor , Codescape debugger , MKS VCS , Linux compile . Chorus
processor . Extended twice ( 1 week each ) to provide extra
features and to help with general project integration issues
- timing , interrupt and task management , bug hunts etc. . |
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| 7 th. Jul 03 to 15 th.
Mar 04 |
World Computers Ltd. , London , U.K. |
Architectural Designer
\ Senior Developer |
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Design and development , updates and expansions of The
GUI Front End Module . The GUI Front End Module provides
a binary based scripting method of specifying user interfaces
. MSVS , C++ .
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| 24 Mar 03 to 4 Jul 03 |
Sci-Worx ( Infineon ) , Hannover , Germany |
Senior Developer |
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| Development of a USART Packet
Driver for the sciCOS Multimedia chip ( single chip solution
) bootstrap . Testing in the Armulator environment and testing
of the associated Armulator model . Development of a gateway
module - management & support components + the UART &
PIF Packet Drivers - for linking up the Proxy program to the
sciCOS chip . Development of a 4 layer propriety protocol stack
to link up the sciCOS chip functions to the Application on the
Host processor - included a services layer . Development of
Operating System components - Interrupt & Polling Handler
and Heap Manager . Development of test harnesses for the module
and hardware testing . Work carried out in C . Module and integration
testing using the Multi-ICE . ARM926EJ-S , ARM7T ( Evaluator7T
) , Code Warrior & AXD , MSVS & Source Safe . |
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| 1 st. Feb 02 to 21 st.
Mar 03 |
World Computers Ltd. , London , U.K. |
Architectural Designer
\ Senior Developer |
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Design and development , updates and expansions of The
GUI Front End Module . The GUI Front End Module provides
a binary based scripting method of specifying user interfaces
. MSVS , C++ .
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| 11 Dec 00 to 2 Nov 01 |
TelSpec Europe , Rochester , Kent ,
U.K. |
Senior Developer |
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| Telecommunications + Internet
Protocol - within the Access group . Debugging of hardware .
Development of software for a DSL repeater . Internet software
consultancy for a DSL modem and associated exchange units .
Extensive work on the Field Interface Unit - UI - updates +
restructuring ( small amount ) and maintenance . Integration
issues of Network Management System - Management Control System
- FIU - EU & RU . ANSI C . Infineon Mubic DSL + C161P1 .
68070 . E1 . I2C . Some layer 1 , 2 & 3 work . MKS &
CVS ( RCS ) VCS . Extended four times . |
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| 21 Mar to 22 Sep 00 |
Agfa Gevaert , Mortsel ( near Antwerp
) , Belgium |
Senior Developer |
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| Working within the Technology
Evaluation and Initial Development Group . Internet enabling
the Agfa digital cameras . Integration and debugging of Nucleus
Plus OS IP Protocol Stack with IP services layer . General IP
network fault finding and debugging of associated code . Linkage
to iModem . Construction of PC ( MFC ) based test program .
Construction of a front end . Construction of OS API layer and
writing of component specifications . Construction of DPOF and
configuration file access components . Construction of logging
component . Work undertaken in ANSI C and C++ on PC , ARM (
JTAG Emulator ) and OAK DSP . Windows NT , Nucleus Plus RTOS
and iModem . |
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| 16 Aug 99 to 12 Nov 99 |
ERG Transit Systems , Zaventem , Belgium |
Senior Developer |
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| Client had low ROI and low
profits due to high development costs due to massive redevelopment
of software for each contract . Client chose to adopt , on a
company system wide basis , the componentisation system developed
and used by it's OS department in order to greatly minimise
the amount of redevelopment . System required an IP Protocol
Stack .
Carrying out of feasibility and implementation
study + drawing up of project specifications for the addition
of IP Protocol Stack + services to client’s existing range
of products in the transport ( bus , train and ferry ) ticketing
industry . Initial co-ordination , facilitation ( technical
knowledge wise ) and implementation and testing of the project
. Development of embedded and PC based testing programs .
Client required the establishment and retention of Internet
skills within the permanent staff . Client also required the
use of BSD sockets . Project used bought in components which
required porting onto the client’s componentisation and operating
system . Passing on of IP expertise to OS Group staff . Work
in ANSI C . Resourced for a specific project . Extended once
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| 27 Apr to 25 Jun 99 |
ANT Ltd. , Cambridge |
Senior Developer |
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| Redevelopment of front end
, location and fixing of bugs in the existing code , porting
onto new device level interface and tidying up of code of an
email program for a Digital T.V. Set Top Box . Work in ANSI
C , GNU , BSD . Resourced for a specific contract . |
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| 2 Dec 98 to 31 Mar 99 |
De La Rue Cash Systems , Havant |
Senior Developer |
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| Development of connectivity
software ( new ATM's ) in VC++ . Introduction of new features
. Bullet proofing of existing code . Bug locating in existing
code . Using MSVC++ & Borland VC++ . SourceSafe VCS . MS
Project . Working on SDK API and DLL . Extended once with an
offer of a further extension . |
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| 16 Feb 98 to 5 Oct 98 |
W. Vinten , Bury St. Edmunds |
Senior Developer |
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| Development of new UI components
+ integration . Scripted Display and Input . Scripted configuration
file settings . 14 Classes constructed . Testing and documentation
. Porting onto new hardware . Code analysis . Componentisation
of existing software . Development of timer , memory manager
, NVM virtualiser and drivers . Event handler . 8 Classes constructed
. Work undertaken in embedded C++ . All with test harnesses
( existing and new ) , integration testing and documentation
. Modification of existing code for new hardware and architecture
. Assistance in project management . MSVC++ . SourceSafe VCS
. Work in countermeasures . Extended twice . |
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| 8 Jan 98 to 2 Feb 98 |
Thompson - Marconi , Weymouth |
Contract Engineer - Developer |
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| Development of module specifications
. Work being done in C . |
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| 2 June 97 to 5 Dec 97 |
NEC , Reading , Berkshire , U.K. |
Contract Engineer - Developer |
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| Analysis , re-organisation
and rationalisation of GSM phone UI ( MMI ) . Forming into re-useable
component modules . Application of modularisation and complexity
management techniques . Integration of device drivers . Work
undertaken in C . ARM ( Hardware Emulator ) . Nucleus and NECROS
RTOS’ . Resourced for a specific project . |
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| 10 Feb 97 to 25 Apr 97 |
SSA Softwright , Langley , Berkshire
, U.K. |
Contract Engineer - Developer |
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| Development of Timer and Flash
Drivers and Toolbox for Digital T.V. Set Top Box project in
ANSI C . All with test harnesses and documentation . Canal+
- PACE contract . PACE - SGS Thompson platform . MKS VCS . Resourced
for a specific contract . |
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| 3 Jan 96 to 7 Feb 97 |
Serco CiT , Quedgeley , Gloucestershire
, U.K. |
Contract Engineer - Developer |
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| Specification and ground up
development of combined FTP inc. ( IP ) and ODI packet driver
in 80486 assembly language for DOS , Windows 3.11 and Windows
95 . In house expansions of the packet driver for providing
IP based security management facilities for secure government
communications using the Internet . Development of a packet
exchange program for the FTP inc. IP protocol stack . Development
of testing , protocol stack monitoring and IP packet monitoring
programs . Development undertaken in assembly language , C and
C++ . Testing . Systems integration support . Extensive Internet
and Novell work . Documentation . MS and Borland Assembler .
Borland C++ . MKS VCS . Extended twice with an offer of a further
extension . |
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Permanent Work Experience + Other Experience
| February 1993 |
Aja Ltd. , Twickenham , London , U.K. |
Manager - Engineering |
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| Installations . Repairs . Training and
support of field technicians and customers . Area of work - automated weighing
equipment for the food industry . |
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| March 1992 |
Sigtec Systems, Melbourne , Victoria , Australia |
Software Engineer |
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| Development of an Automatic Taxi Despatcher
and an associated Radio Network Controller in Quick Basic ( Version 7 )
. |
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| June 1991 |
AES ( ERG Electronics ) , Perth , Western Australia |
Software Engineer |
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| Bus ticketing ( magnetic and smart cards
) and data analysis systems . Development of software for an intelligent
portable ticket reader ( magnetic cards ) . A serial communications packet
handler . Modifications of existing software on smart card equipment . Software
in 6811 assembly language . |
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| 1984 to 1992 |
Integrated Computer Systems
( own business - internal and contracting work ) |
Software and Hardware Engineer , Proprietor |
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| Development of a comprehensive computer
security program . Passwords , restricted disk drive and directory access
, file encryption , virus detection and prevention , directory and file
utilities plus much more . Software in 8086 family on the IBM PC .
Development of Token Bus LAN protocols ( high reliability
with low data link overhead ) using retrospective token passing ( small
silicon real estate ( PGA programmable ) , low cost design and manufacture
) , with arbitrary unit number assignment ( plug and play - no set up
required ) , with dynamic bandwidth management and with gateways . Much
of the software has also been developed .
Extensive research and development into parallel processing
based software techniques on Von Neumann architecture computers . Massive
increases in processing speed accomplished . Integrated concurrent editor
and assembler developed .
Development of a Field Programmable Logic Array development
system . Software in 8086 and Z80 assembly language .
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| 1984 to 1989 |
Ace Amusements \ Audio Visual Developments , Perth
, Western Australia |
Software and Hardware Engineer |
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| Development of a local cable TV control
system ( Z80 ) . Video Editing controller ( Z8 multiprocessor ) . Remote
controlled light dimmer . |
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| 1987 to 1991 |
Curtin University , Perth , Western Australia |
Part time lecturer , tutor and laboratory supervisor |
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| Teaching undergraduate engineering students
( 1 st. to 4 th. year - part time ) in data communications , software and
digital hardware engineering . |
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| April to September 1985 |
C & P.A. , Perth , Western Australia |
Software and Hardware Engineer |
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| Development of protocol converters ( Z80
) . Repair and service work . |
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Productivity
2.5 to 3.5KB of object ( machine ) code - using explicit coding
standards , fully commented - drill down approach , documented and tested -
per week . 32 to 1 ratio of source code and documentation to machine code bytes
.
Referees
Please contact for details .
Equipment
Fully equipped for remote and on site working .
Pentium D and Celeron PCs . Separate Windows PC specifically
for client use - Windows XP Professional and Ubuntu. Linux 10.04
installed - separate HDD's . Full remote working facilities . Laptop
- Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66Ghz with camera and videophone . Backup disk
drives and USB memory sticks . HP Printer , Scanner , Copier & Fax.
. Fujifilm F47fd camera . Logitech Web Cam with Video Phone connection
. MS VS Visual C++ 6.0 . Beyond Compare . DreamWeaver 3 . PhotoImpact
8 , Photoshop 6.0 . MS Office - Word , Access , Excell , Power Point
& Outlook . OpenOffice . ICOM R20 . An extensive range of software
, books and tools . 8 Mbs ADSL . Nokia N73 Mobile Phone . Car .
Data Books
An extensive range including programming languages ,
data communications and Internet Protocols .
Travel Experience etc.
British born . Moved out to Australia at the age of
7 . Spent a total of 25 years there . Have travelled extensively
- 36 countries - Europe , Middle East , South East and South Asia
, Oceania - Australia and New Zealand , USA & Canada ( briefly
) . Have been back in Britain \ Europe for 18 years . Have worked
in Britain , France ( via a UK company ) , Germany , Belgium and
Australia .
Interests
Current affairs , genuine hermetic philosophy ( within a Christian
context - Gnosticism ) , the important aspects of history ( passing interest
) , wide music tastes - Jazz , Blues , some R & B , Soul , some C &
W , 70's R & R , Pop ( mainly 60's and 70’s ) and some Classical , reading
, theatre , cycling , swimming , surfmatting , walking , snow skiing and other
winter sports , photography , painting , travel and languages ( when I get the
time ) .
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