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Widely experienced full life-cycle DEVELOPER of applications and systems. Twenty-five years experience in requirements' gathering, analysis, documentation, testing, debugging, trouble-shooting and porting, specializing in UNIX/Solaris/Linux/C. Specialist in carrying through projects from the beginning to the end. Familiar with both high-level and low-level languages, with both business and technical applications. My former Clients have included NatWest, British Airways, British Telecom, First Interstate Bank of California, and News International. I am also experienced in systems programming and assembly. Expert in Gentoo Linux administration.
experience
| Job Title | Company Name | Date From | Date To | Description |
| Software Developer | Acefox | Jun 1987 |
Freelance full life-cycle software developer. EXPERTISE C/C++ (23 years) – K&R and ANSI. Assembler – AT&T, Intel and Hitachi H8 Unix: Solaris, SunOS, Linux (Gentoo, RH, Suse) (15 years) Software engineering and systems programming, Rapid application development Interprocess Communication, shared memory and semaphores Solaris and Gentoo Linux systems administration, portage, Xorg X11 configuration Device drivers and embedded smartcard development TCP/IP applications and troubleshooting SNMP (Simple network management protocol). Cabletron Spectrum Designed and wrote banking applications and trading systems. FIX Bayesean-inference Expert systems perl, FORTRAN (4 & 77), Tcl/tk, ksh, bsh, bash, expect, zsh, ftp, ssh GNU utilities and tools. Open Source software. gcc, emacs, vim, ddd, gdb Windows XP, Win32, Cygwin, MinGW. SysInternals' tools and WinDbg Experienced in rapid development to tight deadlines Skilled writer |
education, training and professional qualifications
| Date From | Date To | Estab | Qualification |
| Sep 1974 | Jun 1977 | UEA | BSc Theoretical Physics |