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Bachelor of Science, Double Major Computer Science.
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Cognethos Pty Ltd
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Equity Systems – Reuters Financial Graphics. o Senior Software Engineer
October 2002 - Present
June 1995 – October 2002
December 2000 – October
2002
June 996 - December 2000
June 1995 – June 1996 o Software Engineer o System Tester
Environments Languages
Windows 7 years C/C++
UNIX
Linux
7 years
2 years
Delphi
C++ Builder
Visual Basic
Python
Java
Programming/Database Tools
6 years Oracle 8i 2 years
3 years SQL
2 years ODBC
2 years
2 years
1 year HTML
1 year TCP/IP
2 years MFC
XML
STL
7 years
6 years
1 year
2 years
3 years
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Technical Leader. o Designed and Implemented XML driven business logic system for multi-threaded financial timeseries server. o Designed and implemented TCP/IP server, sourcing interday timeseries data from a remote ODBC source.
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Software Developer. o Designed and implemented TCP/IP client applications for server configuration management.
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Technical Specification and Design Author. o Co-wrote system design specification for second-generation financial timeseries server.
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CMM (Capability Maturity Model) Process Development
Representative. o Contributed to company achievement of CMM “Level 3” accreditation.
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SCM (Software Configuration Management) and SQA (Software
Quality Assurance) Project Representative.
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Technical Trainer for internal training and external project transition.
3 years
6 years
4 years
4 years
4 years
4 years

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Peer Review Team Leader.
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Software Testing Process design and execution.
2 years
3 years
Cognethos Pty Ltd
Specializing in Financial Software development.
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Senior Software Engineer
Responsibilities o
October 2002 - Present
October 2002 – Present
Achievements o
Equity Systems Limited June 1995 – October 2002
A subsidiary of Reuters (International news and financial information provider) specializing in Financial Graphics software development. Develops client and server financial timeseries software for small site to enterprise distribution on a variety of platforms.
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Senior Software Engineer December 2000 – October 2002
Responsibilities o Transition all aspects of new server architecture an offshore Reuters development center. o Design and implement second-generation multi-threaded financial timeseries server based on an Oracle 8i database. Develop new server architecture for enterprise scalability and performance.
Achievements o Designed and Implemented XML driven business logic system for financial timeseries server. New XML schema has dramatically improved the remote business logic maintenance system. o Co-wrote system design specification for second-generation financial timeseries server. o Trained developers, testers and project managers from offshore
 development center in all aspects of new server architecture. o Completed development and offshore transition for second-generation multi-threaded financial timeseries server.
Software Engineer June1996 - December 2000
Responsibilities o Implementing C/C++ network and database interfaces for financial timeseries server. o Maintaining C/C++ code for financial timeseries server. o Extending Online Help for financial timeseries server. o Liaising with testing department, assisting with defining and executing test plans. o Implementing C/C++ components for financial timeseries server.

o Implementing C/C++ utilities and processes for data file format upgrades.
Achievements o Implemented CMM processes for the software life cycle, particularly
SQA, SPE (Software Product Engineering) and SCM. Directly contributing to the company wide “CMM level 3” accreditation. o Designed and implemented second tier TCP/IP server, sourcing interday timeseries data from a remote ODBC source. This technology provided unprecedented lengths of interday timeseries history to our existing timeseries server software. o Designed and implemented C/C++, Delphi and C++ Builder TCP/IP
 client applications, which significantly improved server configuration management usability.
System Tester June 1995 - June 1996
Responsibilities o Executing test plans for financial graphics software on Windows NT and
HP UNIX. o Writing Visual Basic Test Harness software to exercise the interface to a
COM component.
Achievements o Co-designed test harness interface, which was used as the basis for all product testing of the COM component for several years following my departure.
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Fuzzy Logic for Emotional Agents – Building a generic fuzzy rule engine to simulate emotional human agents in a game world.
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Japanese History – Reading Japanese history between 800 AD and 1869, research for a computer game setting.
 Crush Deluxe ™ Stats Manager – Reverse engineered data format for internal game statistics. Implemented an application in C++ Builder to present graphs and tables of game statistics.
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3D Object modeling in Bryce for web page design and computer game development.
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Building interactive web pages in java.
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Visual Graph Simulator – A scaleable Computer Learning tool for graph design and graph algorithm simulations (Depth First Search, Topological Search, etc…). Versions for Windows and Solaris.
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French Language and culture.
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Ballroom dancing