Dickon Hood Email & Phone Number

Towcester, England, United Kingdom

My holding company for the usual contractor reasons.I'm available for work in the UK, in the Reading area or by telecommuting (London for the right job), for short- or medium-term Unix systems administration work and C / Perl programming. Permanent roles also considered.Current clients include the BBC ().Language experience includes.

London

BBC R&D needed a system to record television and radio services from Freeview (and later Freesat) in perpetuity. This system was to record content for on-demand transcoding for presentation in a standard web browser (initially via Flash, with HTML 5 in development), and for other devices, such as the iPod / iPad, and various mobile phones. The design.

Working on the award-winning bbc.co.uk infrastructure.The job entailed a lot of Perl (Apache mod_perl in particular in later years) on Solaris (8-10), as well as a lot of systems administration skills.

Abercynon, Wales

Inuk Networks had been acquired in the intervening years by Move Networks, of Utah, US. They decided in 2010 to sell the IPTV / VoIP student bedroom service that Inuk's system had morphed into.This project was a very rushed job to reimplement the VoIP and IPTV system to facilitate that sale, and to become compliant with the terms of the contract of their.

Slough, United Kingdom

Implement a website backend to support an IPTV set-top box system, including channel package purchases, and a VoIP billing system.Protocols, systems, software, and languages used: PHP (not my choice), Apache, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, Linux (Debian), Perl, XML, MySQL, creditcard payment processors.