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• Defining, creating and maintaining release process• • Component version control• • Configuration management• • Environment change control• • Developing scripts for automating upgrades• • Producing installation instructions• Technical lead C++ servers aspects of projectsMay 05 - Mar 07 - Software Engineer• Design, implementation and maintenance of back-end C++ servers for internet based FX trading systems• • Connecting to real-time market data feeds• • Transforming market data formats• • Creation of base class libraries to simplify future developments• Preparing release packages and installation instructions• Installation support

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 simulator, maintained in Visual Studio.Tasks included:• 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 protocol conversion software into the new product, but was also responsible for creating and maintaining the SNiFF+ development tool project definitions and assisted other team members with the ClearCase environment.Both of these projects were embedded VxWorks applications developed in C/C++ using Tornado and SNiFF+ with source control provided by ClearCase.

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 some routine tasks with the use of shell and Perl scripts. This also required occasional out of hours work to avoid disruption of the development team.• Providing advice and support on best practices for the use of the many features of ClearCase, including branching/merging techniques and writing config specs.• Planning and specifying an upgrade to the ClearCase environment involving the provision of a new dedicated ClearCase server.Also consulted at many levels by the development team and provided them with assistance, including:• Rewriting the Make and Ant files for the main project, which consisted of a core of FORTRAN code and a Java wrapper.• Bug fixes and enhancements to a Gas Network Analysis tool written in Visual C++.

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. This development utilised a variety of technologies (ANSI C++, Rational Rose, CORBA, XML, Oracle and DB2 databases, Secant Persistent Object Storage and SourceSafe/ClearCase).Involved in the full development life cycle of this product and tasks included:• 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)• Maintaining further developments on these platforms.Developed and maintained NT and UNIX scripts to control an overnight build process for the complete product that also included several Java tiers. The build process was required to label the latest source code, extract and compile all components on each platform, create the required installation packages, and produce intranet pages detailing progress and success. Initially, SourceSafe was used for configuration management, this was later replaced by ClearCase.

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 platforms.Designed and developed a modular suite of code generators utilising the CORBA Interface Definition Language, LEX/YACC and C++. These were used to simplify the conversion of the existing code written in Informix 4GL to C++.

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 with Visual Basic and UNIX C developments.Also enhanced and corrected an in-house code generator written in Perl and contained within a UNIX Make environment

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, debugging) on a large switched data multiplexer project using OOA methodology, CASE tool Recursive Design and an in-house code generator. Involved in many different development areas within the project.Mar 92 - Dec 93Full development life cycle for a PC based Blind Attendant Software, written in C and 8086/80186 assembler. This included obtaining RNIB approval of the project. This was for the Screen Based Console of a private telephone exchange using a Dolphin Apollo Speech Synthesiser Unit. Also worked on the implementation, testing and debugging of enhancements to the Call Control Software of this product.Jun 86 - Feb 92 - Software Development Team LeadPromoted to lead the team I had been a member of for the previous 4 yearsSep 82 - May 86 - Software EngineerA member of a small team of software engineers involved in the design, development and maintenance of various applications used to configure and provide real-time support of small digital telephone exchanges. Originally written in Pascal for a CPM based environment and later converted to C for an MS-DOS environment.I had previous experience of this team as it was one of my work based placements during the my time on the Technician Engineer training course. Following my 2 previous placements with this team, they were keen to employ me on a full time basis at the end of the training course.Oct 79 - Aug 82 - Trainee Technician EngineerA 3 year course split equally between college based learning and work place based placements resulting in a TEC Higher Technical Diploma in Electronics and Communications Engineering.