Des Moines

IA 50315

USA

Fax: +1 530 236 8608                            

E-mail: [email protected]                 

http://www.eternaltraveller.com/          

 

A highly professional Systems Engineer/Systems Manager with over 10 years expertise in distributed real-time and safety critical systems design, implementation, support, and management

 

EXPERIENCE

 

April 1999 to present

Consultant – Analysts USA Corporation, West Des Moines, USA

Integration and Software Engineering for GTECH Corporation. Systems Integration of PRO:SYS lottery systems in Sweden and South Africa. Management/Support of OpenVMS systems, Tru64 Unix systems, Windows 9X/NT/2000 PCs and associated networks.

§     Successfully perfomed source merging between 2 disparate software versions spanning 1.5 millions line of code using custom CMS-based tools.

§     Implemented 16.5 GB Sybase-based Instant Ticket system into existing Sweden online lottery system.

§     Systems Integration Lead for South Africa project, including establishing source control mechanisms and tools using PVCS for embedded, PC GUI, Sybase (Unix and VMS) and VMS based code.

§     Design and implementation of software roll-out procedures and toolkits to ISO 9001 part II.

§    Lead Technical design and implementation engineer for new odds-based game for Sweden.

 

August 1996 to April 1999

Software Engineer I – Gtech UK Ltd, Watford, UK         

Design, implementation, and support of C based AXP OpenVMS PRO*SYS on-line lottery systems throughout Europe. Management/Support of OpenVMS systems, Windows 95 / NT PCs and networks.

§     Part of conversion team for 26 game system handling 6000 transactions per minute from Concurrent/Fortran based EuroGOLS system to AXP OpenVMS/C based PRO*SYS system.

§     Designed and implemented Digital CMS based configuration management system handling 1.5 million lines of code

§     Senior on-site Software Engineer since January 1, 1998 with day-to-day customer contact and problem resolution tasking.. Onsite OpenVMS system manager since Dec 1996

 

July 1995 to August 1996

Senior Programmer – Reuters Ltd, London, UK

Design, implementation, and support of MarketStream™ real-time information delivery system components in PASCAL on OpenVMS and VMS VAX and AXP platforms.

§     Ported distributed data caching system holding 700MB of data from VAX to AXP architecture.

§     Implemented remote system management tools to allow central control of systems located worldwide based on the PolyCenter toolset.

§     Course: C++

 

November 1992 to July 1995

Systems Engineer/Network Manager – LICconsult UK Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees, UK

Design, implementation, and support of OpenVMS/PASCAL/Oracle v6 based LICLDS real-time hydraulic modeling system using RTSASD (Yourdon, SDL) ERD methodologies. Management and support of corporate and customer clustered VMS and OpenVMS AXP and VMS systems. Management and support of corporate Pathworks PC LANs.

§     Designed strategy to link disparate worldwide corporate networks

§     Designed and implemented data communications modules for DECnet Plus, DCE, and TCP/IP protocols.

§     Analysis of customer business requirements for major gas transport line accounting through implementation of real-time financial monitoring system.

§     Primary contact with software, hardware, and service suppliers.

§     Course: Project Management (Open University).

 

July 1990 to November 1992

Software Analyst – Serck Controls Ltd, Coventry, UK

Design, implementation, and support of VAX/VMS/C based client server Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system using RTSASD (Yourdon, SDL) and ERD methodolgies. System management of customer and corporate VMS systems.

§     Designed and implemented communcation and software watchdog modules in multi-vendor distributed client-server system.

§     Implemented and managed software configuration system to ISO9000 and NATO AQAP 7/13 standards.

§     Implemented and managed DEC Pathworks LAN, using clustered OpenVMS servers.

§     Course: Introduction to DECnet (Digital)

§     Course: Programming using DECset (Digital)

§     Course: VAXcluster management (Digital)

 

June 1988 to September 1989

IT Engineer – Defense Materiel Administration, Linköping, Sweden

University course industrial placement. User Support of 100+ PC and Macintosh user community.

 

LANGUAGES (Numbers in parenthesis indicate years experience)

C(9), C++(1), PASCAL(5), FORTRAN(1), COBOL(0.5), LISP(0.5), ORACLE(1), SYBASE(2), dBASE III(1), dBASE IV(1)

 

OS / / HARDWARE (Numbers in parenthesis indicate years of administration experience)

WINDOWS 95/98(4), WINDOWS NT/2000(2), DOS(10), WINDOWS 3.1/3.11(8), VAX/VMS & OpenVMS(10), VAX/VAXstations(10), AXP/AXPstations(8), Tru64 Unix(1), HP/UX(1), BSD Unix(1), HP9000(1), HP3000(1), Macintosh(1)

 

NETWORKS / PROTOCOLS (Numbers in parenthesis indicate years of administration experience)

TCP/IP(4), DECnet(8), PATHWORKS(3), NetBEUI(5), DCE(1), Marketstream(1), Marketfeed(1), NOVELL 3.1X(1), XNS (2), NETBIOS(9)

 

METHODOLOGIES (Numbers in parenthesis indicate years of experience)

                Yourdon with real-time extensions(5), SDL(3), ERD(5).

 

SOFTWARE (Numbers in parenthesis indicate years of experience)

Microsoft Office 4.1, 95, 97, 2000(5), cc: Mail 6.x,8.x (3), WordPerfect(5), CorelDraw(3), DECset(7), POLYcenter(6), ECCO(2),Microsoft Project(5), eXcursion(3), ReflectionX(2), TestTrack(1).

EDUCATION

Loughborough University of Technology     1986 – 1990

§     BSc (Hons) Computer Studies, Lower Second Division

§     Diploma in Industrial Studies

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

 

§     Member of the British Computer Society

§     Member of the Association of Computing Machinery

§     Affiliate member of the IEEE

 

 

FLUENT LANGUAGES

 

§     English, Swedish, Danish, French