(Visual C++ / ARM / Symbian OS (EPOC32) / Clearcase / Continuus / HTML / XML / HTTP / Rational Rose / JavaScript )

Team Leader / Tech Leader / Software Architect of Nokia's Technology Platform Mobile Software group producing the browser for the Nokia Symbian Smartphone platform, Series 60. In this role, I have been involved with the entire lifecycle of embedded software development, including requirements, architecture (UML), design, implementation (C & C++), testing and post-release maintenance. I have followed closely the requirements and restrictions of developing software for embedded systems and implemented architectual and design changes to our component as necessary. The team started with just 2 and has grown to a substantial size within Nokia. As browser architect, I work closely with the architects of other applications, who are located in Finland. This has required me to travel internationally a couple of times a year.
The browser is an integral part of the Nokia Smartphone platform. It has been shipped on nearly 10 million handsets as of March 2004. The Nokia devices available that contain the Services application include the Nokia 7650, Nokia 3650, Nokia 6600 and Nokia N-Gage. The Series 60 platform is available for licencing and is used by our partners, such as Siemens, Panasonic, Samsung and Sendo.

Achievements:

• Lead developer in developing the WAP browser for the first Series 60 phone
• Learnt new technologies quickly and took advantage of them where possible.
  
• Acted as project manager until a suitable project manager was found.
  
• Acted as team lead for several of the browser releases.
  
• Architect for the browser application for over 2.5 years.
• Studied security implictions of browser on a cell phone.
  
• Designed and implemented scheme handling functionality, as well as actively participated on design reviews of all features of the browser.
  
• Actively involved in reviewing test specifications and test results.
• Developed engineering solutions to complex user interface requirements
• Was able to adapt application and technology as a result of market forces
• Worked with geographically dispersed team, with teams being located throughout the USA and Europe..

(Visual C++ / MFC / ATL & COM / MMC / CVS / STL / JavaScript )

Raptor Systems, an acquisition of AXENT Technologies, which in turn was acquired by Symantec, was an Internet security company. Raptor's award winning, NCSA-certified products protect corporate databases and networks worldwide. At the time of my employment Raptor Division employs approximately 60 people.

My position at Raptor is team lead for the Raptor Firewalls GUI, the Raptor Management Console (RMC). I am involved in all aspects of the user interface from design and architecture through to implementation. The key components that I am responsible for are the Secure Tunnel and Network Address Translation interfaces, as well as the Active Connections COM object. In addition, when Raptors Web Defender product was in need of GUI development work, I was loaned to the Web Defender team where I developed the initial web-based user interface for the product.

Achievements:

• Helped stabilize the Raptor Management Console (RMC) Microsoft Management Console (MMC) 1.0 architecture.
• Developed many user interface components, including the Virtual Private Network (now called Secure Tunnel) section for the Raptor Firewall 6.0
• Extended the framework for the domain layer to graphically represent itself with the MMC snap-in with the new functionality provided by MMC 1.1
• Developed the framework to get maximum utilization of the Taskpads provided by MMC 1.1
• Involved in the design of multi-firewall management infrastructure.
• Participating in the port of the domain layer of RMC to Unix, with the idea of replacing the existing Tck/Tk based Unix firewall management application.
• Re-developed the Active Connections OCX to take advantage of the additional information the firewall could provide about each connection.
• Trained new employees on development practices and assisted existing employees with design and coding issues.
• Developed a web-based user interface for the Web Defender product using DHTML (a combination of Javascript and Cascading Style Sheets).

(Visual C++ / MFC / Visual Source Safe / System <Toolkit> / Rational Rose / Visio / HPUX / GNU C/C++ / Ingres 6 / Apache HTTP Server / FastCGI / Perl / Java / JavaScript )

ITDS Intellicom, an acquisition of International Telecommunication Data Systems (ITDS), is a telecommunications company that provides a Customer Care application and in particular a billing solution for the cellular phone industry. The billing system provides a single, simplified bill for multiple cellular services. ITDS has an employee base of approximately 700 people.

I worked with a team dedicated to porting functionality from the existing 4GL application to a Windows NT 4.0 / Windows 95 GUI application. The component I was directly involved in was providing a graphic user interface for the bill images that are located on a Unix host. Other areas that I worked in was developing a web customer care prototype, providing alternatives to the current configuration management practices and assisting in the architecture and design of a business domain model.

Achievements:

• Developed a set of client / server class libraries for retrieving bill images.
• Specified, designed, coded and tested a Windows GUI component for displaying bill using the above libraries.
• Interfaced to Microsoft Windows MAPI for possible email delivery of bill.
• Part of a team that prototyped a Web based read only CustomerCare application which featured embedded Java applets, cookies for persistent information storage and was served using Apache's HTTP server.
• Developed a component that synchronizes the PC time with a server's time using the Time protocol (RFC 868)
• Evaluated ClearCase for NT / Unix interoperation.
• Rolled out a ClearCase implementation to replace the GNU RCS configuation managment tool.
• Evaluated DiskAccess NFS client software for use with ClearCase.
• Developed a remote shell daemon service for Windows NT which follows the BSD definition with a view to evaluating a distributed build environment.
• Participated in the architecture and design of the entire business domain model.

(QNX / SGI / Photon / PhAB / Zinc / Watcom C/C++ / Clearcase / Booch OOA/OOD)

Moldflow is a diverse international company that is the pioneer and the world leader of CAE flow analysis software for the plastics industry. As well as CAE technology, Moldflow's provides Material Testing, Intelligent Process Control (IPC), Research and consulting services. Moldflow currently has around 150 people world wide.

The division in which I work at Moldflow is the IPC group. The IPC system (also known as SmartMold  or MMS) continuously monitors the behavior of the polymer in the mold and with comparison to pre-determined optimum conditions, make automatic adjustments where necessary. This is primarily done with the use of an expert system on a UNIX-like real time operating system called QNX.

Achievements:

• Bug fixed and enhanced X Windows Graphic User Interface on the QNX operating system.
• Fix bugs with the QNX port of the C++ Zinc GUI development system.
• Wrote C++ diagnostic tool in QNX's microGUI Photon, which analyses digital signals from a data acquisition system (DAQ) and identify any out sequence signals.
• Wrote an extensive C++ class library for the 'C' Photon API.
• Ported X Windows user interface classes to Photon.
• Simplified the user interface, after discussions with the intended users of the software.
• Gained knowledge in real time operating systems, scheduling algorithms, and priorities.
• Gained knowledge in installation of a UNIX like operating system, in particular user accounts, hardware configuration, and networking.
• As a member of a team, designed a statistical package using Booch OOA/OOD

(Windows 3.1/95/NT / HPUX / AIX / SunOS / Solaris / X Designer / GNU C++ / Borland C/C++ / Microsoft Visual C/C++ MFC / HTML / Java / CGI / OLE2 / Tools h++)

Part of the Computer Power consortium, InTEXT falls under the Computer Power Software Group (CPSG). InTEXT specializes in electronic text processing, particularly text storage and retrieval, natural language queries and analyses which produces key words and summaries via a heuristic learning architecture.

The software development role I undertook was to further develop the Island InTEXT product, (available via the web site). This product involved pulling together many of the tool kits produced by different groups at InTEXT.

Achievements:

• Wrote JAVA application as a front end to the InTEXT search engine.
• Wrote several example CGI programs to demonstrate the usage of the InTEXT developed tool kits on the Web.
• Implement technology to communicate between Island InTEXT for Microsoft Windows and a UNIX text storage system (a textbase).
• Wrote the C++ WebSpinner software for Island InTEXT that converts a cabinet of documents to a series of web pages.
• Assisted in the development of a template system for WebSpinner,
• Ported WebSpinner to UNIX (HPUX, SunOS, AIX, Solaris) and provided an X Motif interface, for use with the UNIX version of Island InTEXT.
• Used Microsoft Visual C++ MFC to developed a simple OLE2 context sensitive menu for Windows 95 to automatically add documents to Island InTEXT and summarize documents.
• Learned the legacy code of the previous version of Island InTEXT.

(OS9 / Windows 3.11/NT / GNU C / Borland C/C++ / Microsoft SQL Server )

Previously, a wholly owned subsidiary of BHP, now owned by ADC. AOFR is involved in the design and manufacture of fiber optic products, the major products being fiber optic couplers, attenuators and trees along with fiber optic patch cords. The company operated with three shifts and an employee base of approximately 100 people.

As a Software Engineer in the R&D department, I developed several software solutions to elevate bottlenecks in production. These solutions were programmed in 'C' and 'C++' using Object Orientated Programming (OOP). Other tasks have involved network management & administration, general PC support and construction of electronic equipment.

Achievements:

• Design and program fiber coupler tree design software and report generation system using 'C' for Windows
• Design and program coupler labeling software using the Borland's Object Windows Library (OWL).
• Installation of a variety of software on the LAN and set up user accounts on a Novel Netware.
• Design, construct and program a real-time furnace test facility.
• Design, program and implement calibration software on a multi tasking UNIX-like operating system, OS-9.
• Design and program fiber coupler label saving system on the OS-9 system for use with product identification labels and tree design. All programming was done in C++.
• Port process plotting software from OS-9 / X Windows to Windows.
• Investigate, install and build a scheduling database system. Performed using Microsoft Windows NT SQL Server. SQL server access via MS-Query and DDE transfers.
• Learnt and maintained OS-9 production machine software.

Unichema is a wholly owned subsidiary of Unilever involved in the processing and development of oleochemical based products, including fatty acids, glycerin, soap bases and lubricants.

The responsibilities which I undertook included sorting and organizing the electronic and instrumentation equipment held in the stores, general day-to-day problems and supervision of all capital project work and related contractors.

Achievements:

• Investigated and recommended the use of high efficiency, low noise motors.
• Active team member in group problem solving (Total Quality Teams)
• Recommended, installed and maintained electronic access system to the engineering store.

(Allen Bradley PLC)

The aluminum smelter converts alumna powder to aluminum ingots in a continuous process.

The department in which I was assigned was responsible for the casting of ingots from the molten aluminum. I was involved, amongst other things, in development and installation of PLC hardware and software. During this process I dealt with other employees, contractors and sales representatives.

Achievements:

• Initiated the full automation of the crucible auger by modifying the electronics and hydraulics.
• Initiated the research into level control of aluminum in the ingot molds.

October, 1995 Introduction to JAVA Sun Microsystems
January, 1996 The QNX Operating System Computer Network Systems
July, 1996 Introduction to CORBA Moldflow