Development, customisation and maintenance, of front and back-end of publishing website. Majority of the work was on the Electronic Journals, in particular The Astronomical Journal and The Astrophysical Journal.

Activities included
o Development of many OO Perl modules
o Database table design, creation and maintenance (Postgres)
o CGI script design, development and maintenance (Perl)
o Design and creation of XSL scripts to extract a variety of data from incoming XML/SGML and create output files, to facilitate display (Saxon, Oxygen)

Creation and Customisation of global factory control software applications and utilities. Activities included:

o Customise several existing applications, to customer requirements Tcl/Tk
o Create design documents from requirements documents
o Create new utilities, incorporating embedded SQL Tcl/Tk
▪ A GUI interface to an Oracle database
▪ Scheduled report creation and distribution
▪ Scheduled test result extraction and storage, across multiple worldwide sites
o Improve speed of existing applications, by assessing algorithms and refining or replacing them Tcl/Tk
o Design and creation of simple Oracle database trigger, Indexes, PL/SQL packages
o Create crons to schedule utility execution
o All software was stored, built and accessed within a ClearCase framework
o Use of PC utility Exceed to Interface with Unix workstations

Had security clearance

Duties included:

• Development of the following:
o Design and coding of basic functionality, of a utility to check the validity of CAD design quality check results (as output by check5 and QChecker).
▪ Java, XML
o Utility to allow Catia users to re-submit plots to the Airbus microfilm process
▪ Java GUI, csh and PERL script wrappers
o Design of a utility to set up appropriate CAD environments for a variety of user profiles (worked with a colleague on this)
▪ Java GUI and functionality
o Utility to search database and file structures for all drawings associated with a CAD model
▪ JSP, Java Beans, HTML and product view.
• Design, coding and testing of customisations for CAD development applications (CADDS, CATIA, DVISE), including scripts, modules, libraries and interfaces. Mostly Perl code, with some C and Csh., on HP-UX and Solaris platforms.
• Development of a tool to create right hand CAD models by mirroring left hand models. (Perl, C++, C, DVise)
• Evaluation of effects on existing software, of migration from 32-bit to 64-bit software and hardware platforms. Evaluation, modification and testing of C, C++, ksh and FORTRAN code, in order for it to operate in a 64 bit environment
• Test Plan development and documentation.
• Liaison with Airbus clients and testers.

Code development using Perl, C, HP-UX (10.2 and 11i), Solaris, Ksh, Csh, embedded SQL (Oracle database) and Softbench configuration management.

Development of a web (intranet) based system to enable on-line build, test and results reporting of a variety of set top box software drivers and dependencies. The driver code is stored under Clearcase configuration management and is built using make.

• User requirements analysis.
• Design, development (using PERL, Object Oriented PERL, PERL libraries and Ksh), testing and maintenance of system.
• Web front end design and creation (using: HTML, PERL CGI and stylesheets).
• Enabled system interaction with Clearcase, to configure and select the appropriate and dependant driver revisions.
• Enabled system interaction with shell scripts, to perform certain host system activities and maintenance processes.
• Enabled system interaction with the Make process and makefiles, for building drivers.
• Enabled system interaction with the ST20 toolkit for downloading drivers to test systems, running tests and returning results.

Software engineer in the manufacturing group, working on tools and applications for 3 generations of DAT drive products, which were built on the site.

• Ownership of full production testing software suite, as development team leader. Responsible for project planning, software lifecycle, coding standards. Directly responsible for design and coding of enhancements for 6 out of the 11 Major test suites (C, C++, Ksh, Oracle, SQL). Responsible for establishing ongoing requirements of the testing software, from business, engineering, user and developer perspectives.
• Ownership of production tracking software suite. Responsibility for the maintenance and enhancement of a software suite, which controlled the tracking of products through the production process (C). This was a much modified legacy system, which required very careful attention
• Design, Implementation, test of diagnostic debug tools. Created tools to diagnose a variety of problems relating to the production process, including system errors, database errors, user errors and test code errors. (Ksh, C, C++, Tcl/Tk, Clear Case)
• Created product diagnostic tools (for DAT drives). Created a set of tools to diagnose hardware (ASIC), software (Firmware) and mechanical faults. The tools incorporated SCSI comm’s, sockets, pipes, signals etc.remote Oracle database access and event driven GUI’s. (Ksh, C, C++, Tcl/Tk, Clear Case, xdb & DDE debuggers). Project manager for a major ASIC debug application development.
• Created tools to automate a variety of debug processes. Created a variety of software tools to handle routine and procedural debug tasks, Allowing for user interaction and providing formatted output. (Ksh, C, C++, Tcl/Tk, Clear Case). Developed a major debug system which was situated on the production line and reduced the volume of failures entering the debug area by 70 %
• UNIX admin, for HP-UX workstations. Provided day to day administration, including installing/removing software, user account management, directory and file management, process management and system resource management (down to kernel level).
• Planned and effected Y2K verification of diagnostic tools. Responsibility for locating, documenting, solving and testing code, which may be affected by year 2000 problems.
• Software and testing efficiency project manager. A project to investigate and implement efficiency improvements In the production process, from a software perspective