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I am currently a
testing consultant working at Acutest
mainly on software
performance testing.
This has involved using performance testing tools from our partner
organisations Mercury,
Compuware
and Facilita.
Acutest is an independent testing consultancy which concentrates just
on testing software, IT and technology-centred change, with the aim of
significantly increasing the value clients derive from testing.
For more details, see my testing pages.
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I previously worked
for Reuters as a software
engineer from
1994. I was involved in all stages of the software lifecycle,
managing small teams and technical projects, as well as doing
significant hands on technical work.
Recent projects mainly involved Oracle databases and Solaris servers
which supported
Reuters
on-line services for new products. Major parts of the work were
customising billing software from Portal,
and developing Java web services.
Prior to that I worked on developing, delivering and supporting
infrastructure software for Reuters data warehouse, using UNIX System
V.4 and Solaris 2.7. This involved significant database and network
programming for high availability environments. Other projects
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I worked for Unisoft
in
London, UK from 1984 to 1994 as UNIX systems
programmer, and project manager. (The company was known as ROOT
Computers in the UK.)
From 1989 to 1994, I worked on projects developing
test
suites to test the standards developed and adopted by X/Open (now part
of the Open Group). This
included POSIX.1, POSIX.2, XPG3 and XPG4, X Window System libraries and
protocols, and NFS.
Prior to that, I worked on office products and
database
packages. This included ISAM database interfaces and utilities.
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I worked for CAP Scientific in London from 1980 to
1984.
The CAP group was taken over by the
Sema group some years ago, who in turn were taken over (twice!) and are
now part of Atos
Origin.
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Education
I hold a 1st class honours degree in mathematics from Christ Church , a college within
Oxford Unversity .
Professional interests
I have been a Chartered Engineer and a member of the British Computer Society since
1993.
I became a Mercury
LoadRunner Certified Product Consultant in January 2006.
Technical skills
| Open Systems |
Unix system
programming and C programming |
20 years |
RDBMS
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Oracle, Teradata |
4 years
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| Protocols and comms |
TCP-IP/NFS/X
Window System |
5 years |
| Internet and Web |
XML, SOAP, Java, Perl, CGI and HTML |
3 years
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| Middleware and TP |
TOPEND |
3 years |
| Object Oriented |
CORBA, C++ and
Motif |
1 year |
Software performance testing
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LoadRunner, QALoad, forecastWeb
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1 year
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| Historical |
Fortran, Basic |
3 years |
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