Gary Grove Email & Phone Number

West Bridgford, England, United Kingdom

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Feb 11 - Present - Release Manager
• Release management for local development team (as below)
• Release coordination between global development teams (Europe, US and Asia)
• Dependency management between development teams
• Installation support (24 hour on call system support on rota)Apr 07 - Jan 11 - Lead Software EngineerAdditional responsibilities:
• Mentoring junior team members

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Initially a member of the development team responsible for maintaining and enhancing an existing Voice over IP (VoIP) telephone using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). The application also had a Windows based.
• Adding new functionality to the user configuration interfaces (phone based menus and web pages).
• Implementing additional SIP features.
• RTP statistics collection and analysis.Subsequently, a member of a team responsible for developing a new system card to add VoIP support to Siemens’ HiPath DX telephone system. Main task was to port existing signalling.

Loughborough, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the administration and day to day support of a Rational ClearCase environment for a large development team. Main duties were:
• Planning and implementing the MultiSite synchronisation of data with remote sites, including writing a Perl script to transfer data packets using FTP.
• Creating code repositories and importing the initial data.
• Planning and implementing local policy using trigger scripts, also written in Perl.
• Providing fundamental training, assistance with installation and ongoing support for users on both Windows and UNIX.
• Administration and support of the HPUX server used by both ClearCase and the development team, including scheduling backups, monitoring system resources, installing additional software and system patches and automating.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Initially employed as a Contract Software Engineer, but transferred to permanent employee in July 2000.A member of the development team responsible for producing a generic monitoring engine for a logistics package..
• Creating utility base classes for use within the project.
• Adding functionality to enhance the product.
• Investigating and correcting defects.
• Migrating the project between Microsoft Visual C++ versions 5.0 and 6.0.
• Porting the original Windows NT developed code to UNIX platforms (HPUX, AIX and Solaris)

Birmingham, United Kingdom

A member of the development team responsible for maintaining and enhancing an existing distributed database query system for mobile phone billing.Extended the functionality of an existing code generator to add load-balancing capabilities to the system using Noblenet's EZRPC. The code generator was written in C and ran on DEC, AIX and HP UNIX and Windows NT.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Designed and developed a DCE Client Development Infrastructure. This consisted of a C++ wrapper class to hide the Gradient PC-DCE environment from Client developers and simplify the development of new client code. I created versions of this infrastructure for use with Visual C++ (versions 4.2 and 5.0), Solaris and HP UNIX, and provided interfaces for use.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Apr 96 - Apr 97Design, implementation and testing of an in-house code generator, using LEX/YACC and C++ and generating C++ code from CASE tool developed OOA designs. Also maintained class libraries and make files for the project and solved problems with overnight builds.Jan 94 - Mar 96Full development life cycle (analysis, design, implementation, testing.