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- Working environment & favourite tools:
- CentOS/Fedora linux sway/i3 fluxbox emacs sed awk python gtroff rxvt
firefox OpenOffice gjots2 gdcalc gimp ...
- Unix first contact:
- 1983 with HP-UX on MC68000 HP9000/200 as Systems Engineer with HP
- Linux first contact:
- Softlanding Systems 0.9.? kernel which I installed on an HP
laptop in 1992. My employer was not interested.
Linux Counter number 7293 (February 1992).
I still have issue 1 of Linux Journal (March 1994)
- Career:
- 2018-now: Retired
- 2012-2018: Software Engineer, TNS/Mastercard, Brisbane - CD/CI Jenkins / bash / RPM build
- 2011-2012: Software Engineer, Guvera, Gold Coast, C / Ruby / Music ingest
- 2008-2011: Software Engineer, Promptu Systems Corp, Gold Coast, create clone of Centos-6
- 2006-2008: Senior Software Engineer, RSA Security / EMC2, Brisbane, C cryptography
- 1999-2005: Senior Software Engineer, Eracom, Gold Coast, Australia, device drivers & system software for Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, SCO UnixWare and OpenServer for crypto ESM devices
- 1997-1999: Travelling around Asia & Australia
- 1995-1997: Director, Smart Card Payment Services, Visa International, Singapore
- 1993-1995: Manager, Unix Third Party Programs, Unisys (yuck), Hong Kong
- 1991-1992: Unix third party products Sales Manager, Unisoft, Hong Kong
- 1989-1991: Manager, Unix Third Party Programs, Sun Microsystems, Hong Kong
- 1979-1989: RTE & Unix Systems Engineer, HP, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong & Australia
- 1977-1979: Land Surveyor & Fortran Programmer, Hunting Surveys, London & Qatar
- 1975-1976: Cobol Programmer, Ruberoid Building Products, London
- 1974-1975: Cobol & RPG Programmer, H.J. Heinz, London
- 1973-1974: Maths & physics teacher, International Voluntary Service, Lesotho
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Professional Language experience:
- current flow: c bash sed awk roff/man other std unix tools
- older: perl python tk/tcl lisp m4 lex yacc c++ java pascal OPL (Psion) fortran cobol RPG algol basic
- Qualifications:
- B.Sc Maths from University of Kent at Canterbury 1973
- M.Sc Civil Engineering/Land Surveying from University College London 1977
- Likes:
- Old English sports & saloon cars
- Solving problems
- Curry esp. in Singapore
- Open Source Software
- Dislikes:
- The old IBM and the new Microsoft hegemonies
- Database work
- Anything I can't grep(1)
- Watermelon
- Having to do or explain anything twice
- Public keys:
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Public key file
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