Experience

UltraSoC

• United Kingdom
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head Of Software Development

  • Oct 2017 - Present

• Principal Engineer

  • Mar 2017 - Present



CRFS

• United Kingdom
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Software Engineer (Embedded)

  • Feb 2013 - Sep 2016

  - Architecture & Design of entire software systems running on a new Intel based system, including external interfaces for client interaction - Organising and mentoring a team of engineers to implement and maintain software systems - Integration of Hardware, Firmware, Drivers and Software into deliverable systems - Worked closely with VP Operations to ensure the smooth and prompt release of software to meet manufacturing delivery schedules - Supporting customers integrating there hardwaresoftware with CRFS systems, including the creation of a HTML documentation backed by Doxygen - Initial prototype of a Windows PCIe driver to communicate with custom CRFS hardware - Implementing high performance software using C, C++, Intel MKL, Intel IPP and Intel Intrinsics

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jun 2011 - Feb 2013



Nokia

• Finland
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jul 2004 - Feb 2011

  - Singled out, as a technical specialist, to work on a customer site in Seattle to urgently fix a business critical defect. The fix allowed operator certification and shipping of a new product release. - Developed SUPL for use with Symbian OS. SUPL is a protocol for supplying GPS assistance data to provide a quick location fix. - Used C# to tie together several disparate tools to automate the laborious task of manual SUPL verification. - Spent 5 months working with Japanese customers on late breaking changes to specifications and defects. This included five weeks on site in Tokyo. - Team lead on project to ensure the location sub-system is SMP safe. - Technical reviewer for Symbian press. - Designed and developed a targeted network simulator for location based services. This allowed the team to test the sub-system without a network. - Developed the secure backup component of Symbian OS. This involved writing small, memory efficient, time efficient, bullet proof code. - Retro-fitted Suspend & Resume capability to the Data sync component of Symbian OS. Ensuring 100% compatibility with the current system and introducing no defects. - Thorough use of unit and component testing to ensure a high level of confidence in code. - Responsibilities including technical management of graduates; releasing development code into production code; dealing with the integration; and being the “buck stops here” person responsible for any issues.



Pi Group Ltd

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2000 - Feb 2004

  - Liaising with the data producers and users to design a fast and reliable data storage system - Team lead using VC++, COM and STL to implement my design for the new data storage system - Worked as part of a team using VC++, C#, COM, STL, Boost and all XML technologies to implement a new product to calibrate the companies’ hardware controller units



Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Graduate Software Engineer

  • Jul 1998 - Aug 1999

  - Used IDL(Interactive Data Language) to prototype algorithms for data analysis of satellite images - Used C on UNIX to produce pluggable components for the companies satellite image processing system - Using MySQL designed and implemented a database to store the satellite data - Used C to write CGI scripts to access the storage database from a web interface - Used C and IDL on UNIX to update and maintain the groups in-house satellite processing software - Used Delphi to develop small tools to assist users interpret the satellite data