Career

The sustenance and the rat race - here's my CV, some GUI samples and the small business.

In a nutshell, I now specialize in producing custom User Interfaces: connecting people to data.  However I have wide ranging experience in many aspects of IT, including but not limited to:

  • software - Windows and Apple Mac based client-side GUI/TUI applications, compilers, general utilities; UNIX based server-side components, device drivers, shell tools, embedded systems; automation scripting, database interfacing, middleware, communications packet protocols;
  • firmware - GSM, telecomms and telemetry low-level processing, micro operating system development, microprocessing, hardware interfacing;
  • languages - Java, Objective-C, C++, C, PL/M, Macro Assemblers, PHP, Perl, Tcl, JavaScript, Shell scripting, XML, XSLT, XHTML, CSS, SQL, plus others less proficiently: ASP, .NET, MSSQL;
  • platforms - Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, OS X, MS Windows, embedded;
  • APIs - Java SDK, JFC Swing, Mac Cocoa, wxWidgets, MFC, various APIs for charting, multimedia, serial comms etc.;
  • hardware - microprocessor and microcontroller system design, discrete digital electronics and active analogue device projects.

My career path includes spells at the following corporartions

  • UBS Investment Bank - GUI components for Risk Management System
  • Sony BPE - GUI for Media Asset Management System and video transform drivers
  • Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein - Market Conformity Checking System GUI
  • British Sky Broadcasting - management console GUI for SkyText
  • Press Association Newscentre - content editor GUI for Digital Teletext
  • Nortel - state machine amendments and automation scripting for digital telephony system
  • NEC - GSM lower layer 1 and DSP interface firmware
  • Westinghouse Systems - telemetry firmware, PC simulation software and SCADA drivers
  • TRW Transportation Electronics - on-vehicle weighing system
  • Orbit Controls - hardware/firmware projects, weighing system, gearbox controllers
  • Smiths Horological Unit - design of electronic timer controls for mass market
  • Group 4 - access security: servicing and hardware design
  • BBC - trainee technical assistant
  • Plessey Marine Research - military electronics hardware and testing
Privately I have worked directly or indirectly for:
  • Scriptit Ltd. - my own company
  • John Ogdon Foundation - web site for this charity in memory of the famous pianist
  • VII Interactive - a creative design group in Barbados
  • World Health Organization - Pan Americas Office
  • Caribbean Sports Medicine Congress '98 - an on-line registration/information portal
  • sundry other programming and support roles
Finally, I'm a dab hand at:
  • electronics
  • home electrics
  • plumbing
  • light building work
and I'm an amateur pianist of Performer's standard (DipABRSM).