About J.M.McGuiness

	Jason M.M^cGuiness, B.Sc. (Jt.Hons.) Grad.Inst.P.
Internet:consultant at hussar dot demon dot co dot uk World Wide Web: http://www.hussar.demon.co.uk Mobile: 07775 652959

Personal Details:
- Date of Birth: 3^rd March, 1969
- Nationality: British
- Sex: Male
- Marital Status: Single
- Languages: French (reasonable) & Arabic (passable)

Preferred Contract Location:
- Central London, but willing to travel within the M25.

Education:
- College, completed 1987: Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire.
- University, completed 1990: University of Bristol, Tyndalls Avenue, Bristol. Joint Honours Degree in Mathematics with Physics (2ⁱⁱ).
- Part-time PhD, started 2000:
  - University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, U.K. and full-time for 18 months at the University of Delaware, Newark, U.S.A. Topic: "Automatic Code Generation Techniques for Micro-Threaded Processor Architectures."
  - Whilst in the US worked within the CAPSL group and worked with the IBM JT Watson Research Labs and Monty Denneau (respected both in Industry and Academia for a number of super computer designs) developing the BlueGene/C (Cyclops) supercomputer.

Professional Bodies:
- Member of the British Computing Society (membership number: 09533631), a Chartered Information Systems Practitioner.
- Member of the Association of C and C++ Users.
- Graduate Member of the Institute of Physics.

Experience Summary (in order of strength):
- Management:T eam Leader (5+yrs), Technical Architect (4+yrs).
- Languages: C++ (9yrs), XSL/XSLT/XML (12+months), Java (6+months), UML (8+months), C (9yrs), Assembler (5yrs), Delphi (1yr), Pascal (3yrs), Fortran (5yrs), SQL and T-SQL (1yr).
- Mixed Language Programming: C++/C/JScript/VB/Delphi/Assembler/C (combined 7yrs).
- Platforms: Windows NT, 2000 & XP, 9X (8yrs), Unix (Linux (2yrs), HP (1yr) and Sun (1yr)) including installation and configuration of clustered web servers.
- Extras:
  - Development Environments: MS .NET (6 months), MS Visual C++ v2.0 to v6.0 (7yrs), GCC v2.95.4-3.3.1 (2yrs), Eclipse (4+months), Borland C++ Builder (4 months), GDB & DDD (6 months), Source Navigator (6 months).
  - APIs: MFC (6yrs), Win32 API (6yrs), GUI (5yrs), STL (3+yrs), Jakarta Struts (4+months), multi-threading (4+yrs), DirectX (1yr), ATL COM & DCOM (2+yrs), HTML (5 months), JavaScript (5 months), ODBC (6+months), OLE DB (1yr).
  - Tools: Tomcat (4+months), Rational Rose (8+months), RCS & CVS (2+yrs), MS Visual Source Safe (3yrs), Mortice Kern Systems (MKS) Source Integrity (1yr), Numega Bounds Checker (1yr), Compuware Track Record (6+months), InstallShield (both Express (v1.0-2.1) & Professional v3.0) (1+yrs), Wise Installer (5 months).
  - Techniques: Object Orientated Design (11+yrs), Object Orientated Analysis (4+yrs), Safety Critical Design (2yrs) and Unix scripts (6+ months).

Experience:

Period, Title and Company: April 2001- June 2002
- Permanent role. Senior Technical Lead Developer for Dell Corporation, Bracknell.
  Duties:
  Design and create a highly scalable and robust system for flexibly transferring data from one data base cluster to another, with minimal impact on the target data base. This involves dynamic dependency analysis of the data to be transferred. The implementation involves a fully-asynchronous, message-passing, distributed-server design, which automatically load balances across the servers. Design and implement a Pricing Engine for performing sophisticated real-time multi-currency calculations that include non-uniform discounting, country-specific taxation (both sales and environment) and legal break-down of the total price into the sub-totals required by country-specific legislation. The role also involves giving programming advice and mentoring of other team members.
  Management:
  - Senior technical developer in the core architecture team, reporting directly to Dell UK's Senior Technical Architect.
  Hardware:
  Development on Windows 2000 Advanced Server clusters.
  
  Software:
  Microsoft Developer's Studio v6.0 using the MSXML v3.0 and v4.0 DOMs, COM and DCOM. MSMQ and OLE DB. NT Service programming. DCOM and web service implementation and programming.
  
  Languages:
  Visual C++, XSL, XSLT and XML, JScript, Visual Basic and SQL program development. Microsoft SQL Server based SQL.
  
  Tools:
  Visual Source Safe, Numega Bounds Checker, Compuware Track Record, Internet Information Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
Period, Title and Company: August 2000 – April 2001
- Permanent role. Senior Technical Lead & Architect for Felspar Ltd., London.
  Duties:
  Advise on all technical design and programming issues. Design base systems tools and architecture. Perform design analysis and implement code enhancements and performance analysis and improvements. Wrote white paper on corporate policy for programmatic caching of business objects. Implemented massively-scalable, shared-memory, multi-process caching on Windows NT.
  Management:
  - Senior technical advisor of all development teams. Responsible for all technical design issues, reporting to the chief technical officer.
  Hardware:
  Development on Windows N.T. Servers and Workstations.
  
  Software:
  Microsoft Developer’s Studio using the Win32 API programming. ODBC and ADO programming. NT Service programming. DCOM and web service implementation and programming.
  
  Languages:
  Visual C++, JScript, Visual Basic and SQL program development. Microsoft SQL Server based SQL.
  
  Tools:
  Rational Rose, Visual Source Safe, Internet Information Server, Microsoft SQL Server v6.5 & v7.

Period, Title and Company: April 2000 - July 2000
- Contract system support specialist for BancTec Ltd., Colnbrook.
  Duties:
  System support for the GEMS clearing system involving on-site customer support, bug fixing and system development.
  Management:
  - Senior team member of closely knit on-site installation and development team. Responsible for P.C. based development, reporting to the customer liaison manager.
  Hardware:
  Development on HP-UX based Unix RAID Servers, Windows N.T. Servers and Workstations.
  
  Software:
  Unix based Informix databases. Microsoft Developer’s Studio using the Win32 API programming.
  
  Languages:
  Visual C++, Java, Javascript, Visual Basic and embedded SQL (ESQL) C language program development. Informix based SQL.
  
  Tools:
  Visual Source Safe, Internet Information Server, Unix RCS version control, Informix SQL database server, Microsoft SQL Server 7.

Period, Title and Company: July 1999 - March 2000
- Advanced Software Designer/Programmer for Intelligent Micro Software Ltd., Frimley.
  Duties:
  Highly technically involved programming in a specialist language for designing and writing an object-orientated, automated, software-based program to validate and verify other programs. This involves the used of highly sophisticated, mathematical logic based techniques to analyse the input program’s structure and design to verify its soundness. Duties also included compiler design verification. A Theorem Prover is a highly specialised piece of programming that requires the utmost skill in solving highly abstract and complex logical problems using First Order Logic. There are approximately 10 Theorem Provers available, of which one is being developed by IBM. The rest are research tools produced by Universities around the world to solve complex mathematical theorems. There are very few (around three) Theorem Provers that are capable of solving the problems and issues of programming languages. The work done in this contract enabled me to be invited to take up a PhD by the Lecturer from the University of Surrey who was also working on the language issues to ensure completteness of the language and provability requirements of the programming language we were developing.
  Management:
  - Team Leader for the Theorem Prover Project, reporting directly to the Director of the company. Technical Architect for the Theroem Prover design and strategy.
  Hardware:
  Development Windows N.T. Workstations.
  
  Software:
  In-house developed tools and Microsoft Developer’s Studio.
  
  Languages:
  In-house developed, mathematical - logic based programming language and Visual C++.
  
  Tools:
  Mortice Kern Systems Source Integrity.

Period, Title and Company: March 1998 - August 1998
- Contract system support specialist for BancTec Ltd., Colnbrook.
  Duties:
  System support for the MARS Remittance processing system involving on-site customer support, bug fixing and system development.
  Management:
  - Senior team member of closely knit on-site installation and development team. On-site team leader responsible for P.C. based development, reporting to the customer liaison manager.
  Hardware:
  Development on HP-UX based Unix RAID Servers, Windows N.T. Server, Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups and OS-2 Warp based P.C.s.
  
  Software:
  Unix based Informix databases. Microsoft Developer’s Studio using the Win32 API programming.
  
  Languages:
  Unix based SQL. Visual C++ and C language program development. Unix based 4GL Various in-house scripting languages.
  
  Tools:
  Unix RCS version control, Informix SQL database server.

Period, Title and Company: January 1998 - March 1998
- Contract software developer for Delve Ltd., Covent Garden.
  Duties:
  
  Writing small, but fast and very efficient and good looking components to fit into a multi-media presentation (that represented Britain's hi-tech industry) for the Central Office of Information for Expo ’98 (the international trade fair) in Portugal, which was subsequently nominated for various design awards.
  Management:
  Technical Architect responsible for technical design issues relating to the underlying hi-tech components reporting directly to the Director of Delve.
  
  Hardware:
  P.C. based development on Windows 95.
  
  Software:
  Microsoft Developer’s Studio using the Win32 API with GDI and DirectX multithread programming.
  
  Languages:
  Visual C++ and Assembler mixed language program development including using virtual base classes.

Period, Title and Company: From 1996 - 1998
- Contract hardware support for Touch Animation, Covent Garden.
  Duties:
  
  Windows NT installation, both Server and Workstation. Windows 95 installation. P.C. sourcing and installation. General network trouble shooting and P.C. trouble shooting. Hardware specification and advice. Specific support for World Builder (a sophisticated 3-d landscape ray-tracing package).
  Hardware:
  P.C. based support for Windows 95 and NT, network support both Ethernet and 10BaseT.

Period, Title and Company: From 1996 - 1998
- Contract hardware support for ICSC-Europe, Holland Park.
  Duties:
  
  Installing tape back-up solutions, software installation, training, help desk support, specifying and purchase of P.C.s. Advice on future computing needs.
  Hardware:
  P.C. based support for Windows 95.

Period, Title and Company: Summer 1996
- Contract software developer for Delve Ltd., Covent Garden.
  Duties:
  
  Writing a low-level, multi-threaded, ultra-stable email client/server application for a major financial institution in the City of London, GAM.
  Hardware:
  P.C. based development on Windows 95.
  
  Software:
  Microsoft Developer’s Studio using the MFC, TCP/IP and MAPI.
  
  Languages:
  Visual C++ and Delphi mixed language program development. Extensive use of inter-process communication via memory-mapped files, various multithreading techniques and DLLs.

Period, Title and Company: Autumn 1994 - 1996
- Personal and professional development.
  Duties:
  
  Obtain a current and up-to-date skill set. Develop my own ideas, including research and development of one of the most advanced, powerful and fast software maths libraries (Assembler and C++). Production of various cutting edge shareware programs, such as Doc.Em (GDI and GUI), Suspender (Win 32 system calls), Mez Sure (one of the most advanced GDI applications around) and advanced C++ classes such as The Ultimate System Timer (the lowest level processor hardware interfacing using undocumented processor features). Writing time-critical and real-time sound generation and capture software for Windows NT.
  Hardware:
  P.C. based development on Windows 95, Windows NT and MS-DOS.
  
  Software:
  Microsoft Developer’s Studio using the Win32 API and MFC. This involved extensive and detailed use of GUI techniques with the GDI, multi-threading, inter-process communication and DLLs. Also mixed language programming with C++ and Assembler. Advanced compiler features such as namespaces, highly sophisticated templates, base classes and virtual functions have been extensively used.
  
  Languages:
  Visual C++, C++, C, Assembler, ADA and Visual Basic programming.

Period, Title and Company: 1992 - Autumn 1994
- Reactor Physicist at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Dorset.
  Duties:
  
  Reactor physics simulations and calculations using various industry-leading neutron flow simulation packages for calculating doses around nuclear waste stores, reactors and JET (the Joint European Torus ~ an experiment involving energy generation with nuclear fusion). Producing test suites for verification and validation of the main industry benchmark in neutron flow simulation, the MCBEND (a Monte Carlo based neutron flow algorithm) and RANKERN (point-kernel) codes.
  Hardware:
  VAX-VMS, DEC Alpha and Unix based development.
  
  Software:
  Development of reactor physics based codes, MCBEND and RANKERN.
  
  Languages:
  VAX and Sun Fortran and C.

Period, Title and Company: Summer 1990 - 1992
- Reactor Physicist at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Dorset.
  Duties:
  
  Safety Critical Software Design using various design tools and methodology. This was for designing software based test harnesses for next generation reactor control software.
  Obtained Positive Vetting Security clearance, signed the Official Secrets Act.
  - Hardware:
    P.C. (under MS-DOS) and VAX-VMS based development.
  - Software:
    I used various formal methods and design tools and techniques. These included Ward-Mellor and Yourdon design techniques using the Hoskyns "Design Aid" tool, VDM and MAL formal methods using the FOREST tool. Attended courses give by Imperial College in London on VDM and MAL. Safety Critical Software Design techniques and implementation using in-house developed tools. Also evaluation and testing of safety critical software and hardware.
  - Languages:
    Microsoft Pascal, the SPADE Pascal subset, VAX ADA, and Microsoft C.

References:

Please contact me at consultant at hussar dot demon dot co dot uk for details.

Last Updated: 12/02/2003

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