Upon joining the company, took over development of estimating and valuation software, written in MFC. Improved existing functionality whilst adding new substantial new features.Designed and developed Excel COM add-ins, in MFC, to allow Bills of Quantity to be transferred to and from the estimating and valuation s/w solution with the minimum of amendment.In 2008, took over development of award-winning project planning software. Re-engineered code within Visual Studio 2005 to allow all variants of the software to be built from the same sources, sharing resources where appropriate, and minimising duplication. Re-designed GUI to offer more modern interface with respect to toolbar representation and general look and feel, including bespoke design of large icons. Created C#/.NET wrapper interface to external library to allow importation of Microsoft Project files.Restructured both project planning software, and estimating and valuation software, to facilitate removal of language-specific elements to resource DLLs to allow creation of international versions.Researched and recommended purchase of licensing system for use by multiple products. Created wrapper DLL in Visual C++/CLI to act as common customer interface for licence management.Interviewed and recommended employment of graduate programmer in summer 2008. Continue to supervise and mentor, to the point where he is largely able to develop and maintain the estimating and valuation software when required.For all products, continue to work closely alongside support and marketing departments to address issues in a timely fashion, and to recommend, design, and develop enhancements.Offer cover for support department when necessary, including direct communication with customers. Advise on website/installation scripting issues, and supply graphics for use in products and online.

Lead s/w engineer developing front line rugged portable test platform. Managed team of 4 engineers which designed/produced MFC instrument drivers, and demonstration/selfcheck programs, in close consultation with h/w designers, marketing dept, and project management. Took demo unit to USMC Quantico for trials, and to Seattle for discussions on use of unit with wireless HUD. Involved in productization phase, including development of instrument i/f monitoring and control program in MFC & LabVIEW.Designed/developed MSVC advanced test types allowing users access to/selective configuration of complex test sequences designed by experts in radar/radio testing. Explored use by 3rd parties using WTL to render as ActiveX objects with XML data.Produced/delivered course to MoD personnel offering independent intro to test s/w environments.Produced/delivered internal training for in-house test suite.Designed/developed/tested GPIB/VXI/PCI/PMC instrument drivers in MSVC, with live graphical user i/fs, requiring multithreading/data manipulation programming.Interchangeable Virtual Instrumentation (IVI) Foundation conference participant. Held voting proxy at board level. Developed COM Session Factory DLL, donated by company and adopted by Foundation for use in Shared Components.Designed/promoted hierarchical test solution environment in MSVC, comprising graphical representations of standard language constructs, and instrument attributes/operations. Used to develop several test programs accepted by Smiths Industries.Developed/maintained MSVC tools to use in-house graphical database utility to describe instrument capabilities and generate driver code. Enhanced tools to generate driver/translator pairs to address legacy issues in replacing obsolete instruments.Maintained/updated in-house suite (test environment/scheduler, graphical programming development tool, and instrument driver management), all realised in MFC. Created/promoted business plan recommending enhancements.

Designed, implemented and tested functional radar normalization software for commercial air traffic management system using VADS ADA on Digital ALPHA platform. Software successfully integrated into demonstration system placed with customer.Designed and implemented similar communications/interfacing software on same project.Gained knowledge of Teamwork tool as used to create designs for object oriented architecture.Took over team leader role on above area of project, involving planning and resource management.

Managed and implemented CORAL and C development work on Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) project, including ATLAS test language interpreter updates. Successfully drove team of up to four engineers on the tasks involved in the development, in addition to administration, design, development and commissioning work.Initiated and produced major rewrite and enhancement of CORAL based ATE file management operating system, including adding standard operating system functions such as command line edit and recall, and wild card handling. File transfer facilities between the ATE and a PC required some programming in Turbo C++ under DOS. Gained initial experience of team leadership by running two engineers during development lifespan.Continued to design and commission high and low level VME device drivers in C and 680x0 Assembler under OS-9, and CORAL and ADA embedded test software, in close co-operation with project hardware engineers, and within tight time scales.Appointed as deputy software design authority on project, giving experience of software life cycle and configuration control.Specified, developed and commissioned extensive embedded test software in CORAL and ADA cross-compiled under VAX/VMS for use with military hardware, driven by devices and drivers on VME test adaptors.Developed substantial amount of C software under OS-9, including many high and low level VME device drivers, and a user interface allowing access to OS-9 operating system whilst offering facilities to commission VME drivers and devices by mnemonic commands from keyboard or pre-prepared text file.Gained practical knowledge of Software Through Pictures structured design tool and methods by creating data flow and structure chart diagrams required for embedded test software documentation.Gained experience, through short term project work, of Motif/X Windows programming in C under UNIX, and Lattice C programming under DOS.

Gained sponsorship after working sandwich year of degree course with company. Subsequently invited back as a full-time employee.Implemented context checker utility, in VAX Pascal, for Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) application programs.Wrote many ATE instrument drivers, using VAXELN Pascal.Developed fault location and file conversion programs, in C on SUN workstations under UNIX, for ATE in consultation with, and with on-site testing at, Marconi Instruments, St. Albans.