Performed maintenance and feature development on 2 major software products Topcon produces for the construction market.Balanced time between 4 different projects, took responsibility for maintaining build automation, localisation workflow, and maintaining the Linux version of a currently unreleased product.Liaised with overseas product managers and OEM representatives.Travelled internationally for on-site research project support and training.

Developed and maintained an assortment of GPS-based Precision Agriculture products, performed team-leading and documentation. Travelled internationally to provide testing, research and on-site technical support.

Performed analysis, design and implementation of subsystems of a major rail command and control systems being deployed in Singapore and Taiwan following strict deadlines.Successfully deployed and tested SCADA and Radio system for factory and on-site tests.Performed requirements analysis, formal design in UML, authoring design documents, code implementation, team leading, verification, overseeing international outsourcers and traveling overseas for deployment, testing and on-site support issues.Performed Solaris and Windows hardware and OS installation, on-site system administration and Oracle database administration.

Designed, developed and documented a Quality of Service product for Voice over IP.Designed and implemented system tests and was responsible for adminstration of testmachines.Advised on architectural, design and coding issues. The code was implemented in C/C++ and Python on Debian and RedHat Linux.

Developed and supported an SS7/M3ua Signalling Gateway, its failover management andman-machine interface. Provided internal and external customer support, and was part-time/acting team leader. Development was in C++, Perl and shell scripting on Solaris 2.6 andSolaris 8.

Originally contracted for analysis of UML and programming C++ for Windows and Solaris. Performed design and modeling in Rational Rose, team leading, writing C++ unit test code, and constructing GUIs in Java for an Automated Fare Collection project.

Provided product support for external clients, Unix and Windows NT OS administration for internal development and marketing teams. Implemented features for the main Vulcan product in C and Fortran on Windows NT and IRIX (SGI Unix). Managed local product releases, maintained internal hand-coded HTML web pages.

Hired on a contract basis to continue development of the program as described in the position below.

At the CRC (Cooperative Research Centre) for Legumes In Mediterranean Agriculture.Implemented and documented a modular framework & graphical interface on Macintosh for running simulations of crop and soil behaviour. Initially undertaken in Object Pascal, migrated to C++ for the remaining duration of the project.

Developed a skeleton weed detector for a project at the University.

Based at the Cad Cam Precinct, Technology Park, Bentley WA.Initially part of a 5 person team setting up a commercial large-document scanning bureau, was extended to a contract for pre-sales demonstrations, programming and system administration to support operations and customer requirements.