HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Over seven years software development experience.

• Extensive experience at all stages of the development life cycle.

• Specialist in development of substantive online projects using Java/J2EE.

TECHNICAL PROFILE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

Research programmer role on Zettair Search Engine. Development in C, Python on Linux systems. Development of distributed system using TCP/IP, XML-RPC, SunRPC.

• Research into scalability and efficiency of different distribution architectures.

• Coordinating research group's contribution to TREC conference Terabyte track: indexing and searching of terabyte of textual data.

• Setup and maintenance of source control mechanism for research group.

PRINCIPAL/SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Kamoda is a startup developing remote image management software for digital cameras. Development was in Java and C on Windows client machines and Linux servers.

PROGRAMMER/WEB DEVELOPER (Casual)

Ongoing development work on the Kahootz web system in Java, in particular of customer management and reporting tools. Contract developing search engine and online publication system for ACTF educational material in PHP and MySQL.

LECTURER

Lecturer for 6-week industry course on C++.

PROGRAMMER/WEB DEVELOPER

Java/J2EE developer in Linux environment, using SQL and Servlets.

• Collected requirements for, designed, and developed online system for uploading, distribution, searching, discussion, and collaborative development of Kahootz^TM interactive 3D animations by students and teachers (see http://www.kahootz.com)

• Wrote management and administration tools for this service, including wizard-style activity-based report and graph generation tool, using HTML forms, servlets, and SQL.

• Set up and administered Linux network, including backup, firewalling, port-forwarding over two routers, and sendmail.

PROGRAMMER/CONSULTANT

Java/J2EE developer in Linux environment, using SQL and XML.

• Leading-edge design and development for information management new technology startup.

SENIOR PROGRAMMER

Java/J2EE developer in Linux and Solaris environment, using SQL, RMI, and Servlets.

• Developed multi-functioned web portal software for Silicon Valley startup, using J2EE technologies.

• Full implementation of RFC 2445 iCalendar calendaring information format, believed to be first such implementation in Java. This implementation was complete enough that it discovered a number of bugs in the specification itself, which were communicated to the specification authors.

• Wrote metadata-driven toolkit for compiling SQL table definitions into Java object model, and extended Postgresql JDBC driver to support this toolkit.

• Developed distributed chat and instant messaging system using applets and RMI.

• Set up source management using CVS, build tools using Make and Ant, regression test suite using Junit.

LECTURER (Casual)

Lecturer for postgraduate short course on Java.

TUTOR, SENIOR TUTOR

Tutor and senior tutor for postgraduate Algorithms and Data Structures and C Programming subjects.

RESEARCH PROGRAMMER

C programmer in Unix environment on MG, then the leading research full-text database system.

PROGRAMMER

COBOL, 4GL, REXX programmer in VMS and MVS/Mainframe environment.

OPEN-SOURCE PROJECTS

Ruby Standard Library Documentation. Involved in writing documentation for the standard library of the Ruby programming language and environment.

GOCR. Contributed optimisation code to this open-source OCR engine.

EDUCATION

Graduate Diploma in Computer Science, RMIT University, Melbourne.

• Earned straight High Distinctions.

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (First Class), University of Melbourne

• Won a number of departmental prizes.