- Working environment & favourite tools:
- Gentoo linux, fluxbox, fvwm2 or KDE, emacs, sed, awk, python, gtroff, rxvt, sylpheed, mozilla-firefox, OpenOffice, fetchmail, gnumeric, gjots2, gdcalc, rclock, gimp, vmware, openvpn ...
- Unix first contact:
- 1981 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). Yes - I still have issue 1 of Linux Journal (March 1994) and most of the issues since then.
- Career:
- 1973-1974: Maths & physics teacher, International Voluntary Service, Lesotho
- 1974-1975: Cobol & RPG Programmer, H.J. Heinz, London
- 1975-1976: Cobol Programmer, Ruberoid Building Products, London
- 1977-1979: Land Surveyor & Fortran Programmer, Hunting Surveys, London & Qatar
- 1979-1989: RTE & Unix Systems Engineer, HP, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong & Australia
- 1989-1991: Manager, Unix Third Party Programs, Sun Microsystems, Hong Kong
- 1991-1992: Unix third party products Sales Manager, Unisoft, Hong Kong
- 1993-1995: Manager, Unix Third Party Programs, Unisys (yuck), Hong Kong
- 1995-1997: Director, Smart Card Payment Services, Visa International, Singapore
- 1997-1999: Travelling around Asia & Australia
- 1999-2005: Senior Software Engineer, Eracom, Gold Coast, Australia, writing & maintaining device drivers & system software for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, HP-UX, AIX, SCO UnixWare and OpenServer.
- 2006-2008: Senior Software Engineer, RSA Security / EMC2, Brisbane
- 2008-: Engineer, Promptu Corp, Gold Coast
- Professional Language experience:
- C C++ Java Python Perl tk/tcl lisp sed awk gtroff lex yacc 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:
- Public key file
