Paul Sharpe Email & Phone Number

Remote, For The Regensburg Office

Remote From Reading, United Kingdom

Solution architect for the Mediation framework, for- the upgrade for Vodafone Ghana, from initial scope-of-work through implementation to delivery and live support.- several functional change requests into the Vodafone Greece network for new telecomms products;- the upgrade for Vodafone Hungary to new Virtual Machine implementations for their eVPN and IN.

Software Consultancy for UNIX/Linux C/C++/Script programming.

Newbury, UK

Contract migration engineer to help with the pilot and actual migration of subscribers from the legacy HLR to the replacement ALU SDM HLR, using the Migration Control Centre (MCC) that I developed in my time at ALU.

Maidenhead And Newbury, UK

As Provisioning Subject Matter Expert, I developed a Prepay provisioning gateway within a mediation software suite, on a project to replace Vodafone UK's Prepay/IN/HLR systems.I then developed the HLR and Prepay subscriber migration tools.I participated in the full project lifecycle, from meeting with the customer, through design, implementation, testing.

Marylebone, London, UK

C++ expert to work on their London Accounting Project and the implementation of various pricing feeds into New York. This was a full-project-lifecycle, from designing the feeds, through implementation, testing, and installation, liaising with the business analysts and with the team in New York.Linux; AIX; C++; Java; AWK; Perl; Shell-programming; SQL.

Bracknell, UK

Employed to write an ASN.1 parser for various GSM/GPRS billing call data files. I then extended the run scripts to integrate this with the existing data parsers, and implemented a backup system in Perl.Linux; Windows 2000; VC++; Perl; AWK; SQL (SQLserver)

Cannon Street, London

I developed and maintained a C++/X-Windows/OpenLook GUI providing front-office automated options quote pricing.

Y2K testing of the Analogue Teletext feed, writing scripts to determine problems and to compare pages before and after code changes were applied.

Analysis and development of client tools to incorporate LDAP-based X.500 directory services into the Reuters X.400 email system.

Munich Area, Germany

Conversion of UNIX system-monitoring server code to run on Windows NT, creation of appropriate client-side monitoring routines, and provided Windows GUI's with similar look&feel to the existing Motif GUIs.

British Airways, Heathrow, Middlesex

Development of MOTIF/C++ based GUI elements on Solaris for a BA crew-leave project.

Munich Area, Germany

Development of MOTIF/X-WIndows GUIs from a single code base to run on OSF1/ULTRIX/Solaris/AIX/HP-UX/Linux.

Development of a daemon using TCP & UDP to connect Windows-based email agents to a Retix X.400 MTA, converting between X.400 and SMTP formats according to the RFCs.

Munich Area, Germany

Development of MOTIF/X-WIndows GUIs from a single code base to run on OSF1/ULTRIX/Solaris/AIX/HP-UX/Linux.

Security-clearance for development of a Directory User Agent based on X.500 XOM and XDS; then development of a MOTIF GUI wrapper to the OfficePower system.

Waterloo, London

Software engineer developing the OSI SNMP service.

DEC Park, Worton Grange, Reading, Berkshire

Developer and maintainer for all of the Ultrix base email UI's: binmail, ucbmail, MH and the DECwindows interface.

North Wembley, Middlesex

Developer of windowing software for the prototype Rainbow work-station for the International Space Station;Developed many different interfaces to early implementations of X.500 Directory Services, including X-WIndows-based UIs and a command-line interface that was later developed into what became LDAP.https://www.nexor.com/prehistory-of-ldap/

Bsc

O-Levels, A-Levels