Graham -- resumé

C++ Programmer, UNIX Admin (contract)




Computer Skills





Work Experience - recent first




www.airbook.co.uk 



	The airbook project for 22 months, is an SSL relay,
	and an application gateway, from a laptop client.




	This was a mixture of C++, openssl, system admin, 
	linux firewalling and some pre-sales support.




	I worked with www.kyzo.co.uk,
	to enable them to use WIN32 netbooks,
	as well as their embedded linux handsets, from their airbook project.




	I established a multi-platform build environment, to compile
	for WIN32, LGX64, LGX32, and ARM, with all packages independent of the OS,
	and distribute the files for testing (make does it all).




	I provisioned them with an experimental framework,
	for firewalled VM's, so that they can simulate or implement
	arrangements and configurations with different layouts.




	I designed their CA hierarchy, with strong key phrase handling,
	online CA issuing, and text-based control protocol.




	The code uses my pre-existing LGPL libs_apps layer,
	and adds proprietry application level C++.





Information Cascade Ltd

	I worked for 7 years on several C++ projects, including some
	Open Source (LGPL), available from the company web-site.




	Some years back, I noticed that hand chiseling TCL code
	takes almost as much time, to write, as hand crafted C++ code.
	The biggest differences, are the language features,
	available libraries and runtime.




	Some years later, I still yearn for a really good, syntax directed
	editor, (I use vi), but by using incomplete type declaration stubs,
	and by not using STL, I find that compile times are much faster,
	and the insight debugger, is quite useful.




	Part of the code is C++ wrappers to C libraries.
	As well as wrapping the technical aspects which are available,
	it highlights the parts of the API that I actually use.




	I have accumulated a code pool, 'libs_apps', which does a range of
	things, with its own features, and wrapper layers on well known 
	C libraries. Sometimes capturing the basics, sometimes bridging the
	gaps. For example, openSSL expects you to put your certificates
	into individual files, but I want to use SQL or an EVP encrypted
	configuration file, so I put a wrapper around those missing functions.




	A previous project is accounting software that produces
	PDF reports for companies house, and annual HMRC tax submissions,
	and migrating the application to this platform.




	I have done a fair amount of work embedding script engines in C++,
	including Python, Python, Tcl and JavaScript. I am familiar with GUI API,
	including Gtk, Tk, MySQL, and Postgres DBMS.
	Running on X11 and even WIN32.







HP-Consulting (sub-assigned to HPO)




















Thesaurus














Logica





	My role was to stage up the platform boxes,
	showhorn Oracle onto a fussy HU/UX platform,
	shelf stacking the sun racks, and out of nothing,
	spec-up and implement a Java servlet to do the
	initial subscription, to their box-in-a-shop service.







Jade







Thesaurus











Pendragon / Perspective







Eigen Solutions Ltd









Citi-Bank (Strand)








UNISYS / MOD / UK Navy








 Camden Borough Council







 ICL Zürich







Zürich is the ICL Swiss head-office. They commissioned
me to migrate them from their old Office server, to their new DRS6000,
without disruption (the MD being the main email user), They were so happy
with this that they called me back, to switch them over to their new leased
line to the UK and to re-configure their national X25 network (to match
the new gateways I was installing).


 ICL Helsinki










ICL Bracknell