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Cornwall

Allen & Heath produce a range of audio equipment for markets such as touring musicians, theatres, etc. I worked in their Research and Development team based in Cornwall.My work was mainly on the dLive series of sound mixing products – both developing new features and maintaining existing code. This system is based on the Qt framework using C++ and QML. It is a cross platform system with the product using embedded Linux, but also having a desktop version (for Windows & Mac) using the… Show more Allen & Heath produce a range of audio equipment for markets such as touring musicians, theatres, etc. I worked in their Research and Development team based in Cornwall.My work was mainly on the dLive series of sound mixing products – both developing new features and maintaining existing code. This system is based on the Qt framework using C++ and QML. It is a cross platform system with the product using embedded Linux, but also having a desktop version (for Windows & Mac) using the same codebase.My duties were: • Investigation and correction of bugs (including use of valgrind to trace memory leaks). • Analysis, prototyping and implementation of proposed new features, including: ◦ Changes to interfaces to external equipment using MIDI, and Audinate Dante API. ◦ Changes to improve dLive's ability to continue (or recover) after a failure. Show less

Trowbridge

I was employed as a Developer in the Academy Housing team. Academy is a large, mature, system used by local councils & housing associations to manage their stock of social housing. It is based on a server (Windows, Solaris, AIX or Linux) hosting an Ingres database and a large set of C programs (using embedded SQL), and a network of PCs running a GUI frontend written in Ingres' OpenROAD language.My duties involved maintenance of the existing system, and development of new… Show more I was employed as a Developer in the Academy Housing team. Academy is a large, mature, system used by local councils & housing associations to manage their stock of social housing. It is based on a server (Windows, Solaris, AIX or Linux) hosting an Ingres database and a large set of C programs (using embedded SQL), and a network of PCs running a GUI frontend written in Ingres' OpenROAD language.My duties involved maintenance of the existing system, and development of new features. I worked closely with the support and QA teams, systems analysts, customers, and 3rd party developers.My maintenance work involved:* Working with Capita's support staff to investigate and resolve customers' problems.* Investigating and resolving bugs.* Improving performance of parts of the system* Making changes required by upgrades in the underlying platform: for example I led the migration of our C code from 32 bit to 64 bit, and also through the change to a newer version of the Ingres database.The new developments I worked on included:* File based interfaces to 3rd party systems. In C* Designed & implemented SOAP web-services. Using in-house framework built on Apache AXIS server and Ingres' OpenROAD application server (Involving OpenROAD, XML-schema, XSLT and Java)* Changes to multiple parts of the system to support then new Universal Credit benefit (involving front-end GUI changes in OpenROAD, and server-side C programs).* design and development of new module to allow customers to survey their tenants. Using an OpenROAD GUI and C server-side processing.* Led team implementing changes needed by the 2017 Homelessness Reduction Act.Initially, we carried out new developments using a Waterfall process, but later moved to an Agile process, based on Scrum.I was an advocate of improving the teams development practices – leading the introduction of Subversion into the team (replacing a manual procedure), and developing a unit test framework based on cUnit. Show less

Spain

• Web developer and web master for my partner's online Spanish real-estate business • Developed and maintained 2 websites • LAMP stack, using PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Bristol, United Kingdom

Zuken are a software firm specialising in design software for electronics manufacturers. I worked at their Bristol office in the Solutions Development group. At Zuken, my work was in three main areas: development of integration tools, development of internal infrastructure tools, and ongoing maintenance of the Visula PCB design package.The integration tools were programs to allow customers to use Zuken tools in conjunction with other vendors products.The internal infrastructure… Show more Zuken are a software firm specialising in design software for electronics manufacturers. I worked at their Bristol office in the Solutions Development group. At Zuken, my work was in three main areas: development of integration tools, development of internal infrastructure tools, and ongoing maintenance of the Visula PCB design package.The integration tools were programs to allow customers to use Zuken tools in conjunction with other vendors products.The internal infrastructure tools were systems to support other developers work by simplifying (and standardising) build and deployment processes, and to facilitate automated unit testing, by writing a GUI front-end for the in-house autotesting package using the Qt C++ library.My responsibilities included requirements analysis, software design and implementation, and test design and implementation. I was also required to support existing software - investigating bug reports and implementing fixes.My work was carried out under Windows and Unix (HP and Sun) in C, C++ and Unix shell scripting. Show less

Bristol, United Kingdom

I joined Convergys as an Analyst Programmer in 1996, and was promoted to Senior Analyst Programmer, and finally to Senior Systems Analyst / Team Leader. I was part of a team responsible for the development and support of a billing system for the mobile 'phone company T-Mobile (UK). This system runs on an HP Unix system, and stores details of customers and calls in an Oracle database. Early tasks included:* taking on responsibility for performing builds, where I was able… Show more I joined Convergys as an Analyst Programmer in 1996, and was promoted to Senior Analyst Programmer, and finally to Senior Systems Analyst / Team Leader. I was part of a team responsible for the development and support of a billing system for the mobile 'phone company T-Mobile (UK). This system runs on an HP Unix system, and stores details of customers and calls in an Oracle database. Early tasks included:* taking on responsibility for performing builds, where I was able to automate much of the manual process, and reduce the time to perform a build from half a day to around 15 minutes.* the design and implementation of a TCP/IP server to process requests from a 3rd party system.After my promotion to Team Leader I was responsible for a team of 3-5 developers working on the TAP system. This allows T-Mobile to exchange call data with other GSM networks so that their subscribers can "roam" (use their 'phones in another country). TAP exchanges data with foreign networks using the GSMA's TAP3 format (based on ASN1), and with other systems using XML and proprietary formats. I worked on the whole system; from maintaining the Configuration Management system, to the core Rater Engine (call pricing). My work involved all stages of the project life-cycle: analysis of new requirements from the customer, development, maintenance work. I also helped provide 24/7 technical support to T-Mobile on a rota system.My work was mainly in 'C' and Pro*C (C with embedded SQL) with some use of SQL, PL/SQL, Korn shell and AWK scripts. Show less

Birmingham, United Kingdom

As a software engineer at Fujitsu, I was involved in the development and maintenance of the "GnetiX" system. This system was designed to allow British Telecom to test telephone lines automatically using Sun workstations and a network of test equipment. My work was on the controlling software which was written in C using embedded SQL to access the system's Oracle database.I was also assigned to 2 other groups for a few months each to assist with particular projects:Firstly… Show more As a software engineer at Fujitsu, I was involved in the development and maintenance of the "GnetiX" system. This system was designed to allow British Telecom to test telephone lines automatically using Sun workstations and a network of test equipment. My work was on the controlling software which was written in C using embedded SQL to access the system's Oracle database.I was also assigned to 2 other groups for a few months each to assist with particular projects:Firstly helping the QA team test a new optical networking product.Secondly, helping the firmware group take on responsibility for a product developed by the Japanese parent company - involving learning an unfamiliar processor's assembly language in order to reverse engineer and document how part of a board functioned. Show less

Birmingham, United Kingdom

As a programmer, my duties involved the creation and maintenance of C programs for both NCL's systems for taxi firms, and for NCL's bespoke customers. This work was carried out under both MSDOS and UNIX. My duties also included some telephone technical support for the taxi products.I also did some work on site for 2 of the company's bespoke customers: Kodak Clinical Diagnostics, and BT Fulcrum (Later bought by Fujitsu).

Barry, United Kingdom

This post was an industrial placement during the 3rd year of my degree course. I worked as a trainee computer programmer in the Shipboard Computing Group.My main duties were the creation and maintenance of programs to process and graphically display scientific data collected by government research ships. This work was carried out in C on Sun UNIX workstations.

Bachelor’S Degree, Computing Science, Pass

High School

3 A-Levels (Computing, Mathematics, Physics) 10 O-Levels