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Martin,

Following on from your phone call, here's my CV, in Word 2000 format.

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Murray Cumming
murrayc usa net
www.murrayc.com
Title: CV - Murray Cumming

Curriculum Vitae - Murray Cumming

This document is available in MS Word 2000 format here, but this HTML version is generally more up-to-date.

I am now available for contract work. I am interested in C++ contracts, preferably on Unix.


Full Name:

Murray Henderson Cumming

Address:

4 Hartington Street, Bedford, MK41 7RP, UK

Telephone:

Mobile: +44 (0) 7971 226563, German Mobile: +49 (0) 174 4792588

email:

murrayc usa net
Web Site: http://www.murrayc.com/

Date of Birth:

11th May 1973

Nationality:

British

Skills

Software Development Unix/GNU: C++, automake, autoconf, GCC, CVS, GTK+, Gtk--, Perl, Apache, MySQL
Windows: Visual C++ (MFC, ActiveX, COM, ATL, Standard Library),
Visual Basic, Installshield
Other:  Java
(JBuilder), JSP (Jakarta-Tomcat), XML, PowerPlant, AppleScript

Databases MS Access, SQL, FileMaker Pro, MySQL

Internet HTML, Java, _javascript_ (+dHTML)

Also Experience of Smartcard specifications, including GSM.
DTP: Quark XPress, PageMaker, Freehand, Illustrator, PhotoShop
Windows, Unix, Macintosh.
German.

Employment

Contracts:

06/2001
-10/2001
BetaResearch, Munich, Germany
Software Developer
Development of GUI front-end used to configure and manage an access control system for digital satellite television networks, which in turn determines who is entitled to view each channel or show.
Implemented in C++ on Solaris, with QT, DBTools.h++, Sybase, and  the Xerces-C++ XML parser.
10/2000
-02/2001
MyBau.com, Munich, Germany
Software Developer
Development of Content & Community web functionality.
Implemented with JSP (Jakarta-Tomcat) via Gauss Interprise VIP Portal Manager on Solaris.
Also set up Autonomy search engine and Bugzilla bug-tracking system.
10/1999
-07/2000
Giesecke & Devrient, Munich, Germany
Applications Development Engineer
Development of applications using Visual C++:

Projects:

  • Microbrowser Configuration Tool
    User-friendly application used to configure Microbrowser SIM cards for the Wireless Internet Gateway
    GUI written with Visual C++ (MFC plus Stingray's Objective Studio). Reusable class hierarchies written in ANSI C++ with STL.
  • STARSIM Designer - Unicode support
    Modifying an existing 'SIM Toolkit' Application Designer to support the Chinese language in Windows via Unicode.
  • SATML-ByteCode Converter
    Part of a SIM Alliance microbrowser system. Compiles SBC bytecode from SATML documents. 
    NT/Solaris/Linux ANSI C++ library and command-line tool. Uses the Xerces-C++ XML parser.
    With a JNI Java wrapper class.
03/1998
-09/1999
ORGA Card Systems (UK), Maidenhead, UK
Applications Development Engineer
Development of applications using Visual C++ and Visual Basic.

Main Projects:

  • SIMtelligence Application Designer
    A user-friendly development environment for building 'SIM Toolkit' applications, which then interact with a back-end database over GSM to provide interactive consumer services.
    Main application written in Visual C++ (MFC plus Stingray's Objective Toolkit), with ActiveX and ANSI C++ reusable components, during 3 months working at HQ in Paderborn, Germany.
  • Java Virtual Machine for handheld devices
    A 'clean-room' JVM implementation, written in ANSI C++ from the JVM specification, without any of Sun's code.
  • Loyalty Scheme Builder
    A user-friendly database system which allows small businesses to manage the members and products in a smartcard loyalty scheme. Also allows the desk terminal's interface to be configured and downloaded from the PC.
    Front-end written in Visual Basic, using ActiveX controls and COM objects written in Visual C++ (MFC and ATL).
  • Card-Type Recogniser
    Application which performs various tests on a smartcard, and then infers the type of the smartcard based on the results. As a sub-project, I developed several reusable COM protocol implementations which were subsequently used and improved in several other projects.
    Written in Visual C++ (MFC and ATL).
07/1997
-03/1998
Blueprint Software, Hatton Garden, London, UK
Senior Applications Developer
  • Consultancy and development of highly usable bespoke Relational Database Systems. For example Accounting systems, Membership systems, Booking systems, complete MIS systems.
  • Maintenance of Web and email systems.
  • Writing plug-ins with C++ (Visual C++ and Codewarrior)
07/1996
-07/1997
Space Airconditioning plc, Guildford, UK
Systems Designer
Complete overhaul and improvement of Transaction and Stock management database. 50-user system, over 4 sites.
05/1995
-07/1996
Makin Rochard Ltd, Hampton Wick, Surrey
Applications Developer
Bespoke Relational Database solutions, using FileMaker Pro. For example, Personnel systems, Contacts systems, Sales systems.
11/1993
-05/1995
Stibo Datagraphics, Swindon, UK
Typesetter
DTP using Quark, PhotoShop, etc. Learned DTP automation.
06/1992
-11/1993
Temporary/Short-Term Contracts, Swindon, UK
DTP / Data Entry / Administration

Education

09/84-06/89

The Commonweal School, Swindon

GCSE's

8As, 1B

09/89-06/91

New College, Swindon

A Levels

1A, 3Bs, 1C

08/91-06/92

Edinburgh University

Politics, Psychology, Social Policy: First year only.

Open-Source Projects

Project

Description

Role

Gnome-- C++ wrappers for the GNOME widgets, for use with Gtk--.
Linux/Unix library.
Lead Developer
Bakery C++ Framework used to create Document/View GNOME applications using Gnome-- and Gtk--.
Linux/Unix library.
Lead Developer
Glom Generic GUI Database design and editor application, for MySQL,
built in C++ with GNOME technologies for Linux/Unix.
Lead Developer
GtkExtra-- C++ wrappers for the GtkExtra widgets, for use with Gtk--.
Linux/Unix library.
Lead Developer

Referees

Richard Bron, CEO, Stratisoft Ltd
Unit 1, 73 Maygrove Road, West Hampstead, London NW6 2EG, UK, rbron stratisoft com

Keyvan Izadi, CTO, MyBau.com
Konrad-Zuse Platz 1, Munich, D-81829, Germany, keyvan izadi mybau com



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