NAME: Craig David Nicholas ADDRESS: Chippenham, Wilts

DATE OF BIRTH: 20th December 1965 MARITAL STATUS: Single

EDUCATION

• BSc ( Hon's )
Computer & Communication Systems, 2.1 (Thames Polytechnic 1988).
• 'A' Levels:
Maths (Pure & Applied), Physics, Computer Studies.
• 'O' Levels:
Maths, Physics, English Language, Geography, Computer Studies, Chemistry.
• CSE's:
Engineering science (Applied electronics ), English.

TRAINING COURSES

• 'C' Programming.
• Structured Program Development - Yourdon Real Time Analysis, Design and code.
• Managing Systems Quality (Yourdon ).
• Influencing Skills for Managers and Engineers.
• UNIX Network Programming.
• Object Oriented Software Development
• Windows Programming using visual C++ and MFC
• Sun CD course 275: Java Programming language (Java programming intro, Java GUI & Applet fundamentals, Beyond basic Java programming)

12 years (permanent): Analysis, design, coding and testing of software on various real time police communications and command and control systems. Using the Yourdon structured design methodology, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL-Loader, SQL Plus, Pro-C, ORACLE, C, C++ (windows), UNIX korn scripts (including sed & awk) and assembler on UNIX and PC's. Progressed to Team leader and Technical Architect during this time.

21 months (contract): British Energy generation and trading system for NETA. C, Pro-C, ORACLE, SQL, PL/SQL,UNIX scripts (including sed & awk), e-gate middleware product, Perl, Java, catagoric Xalerts (including developing a java tibco interface). Development, Integration and testing, SUN Solaris UNIX servers, NT workstation/server. Many data feeds and interfaces including flat files, XML & tibco.

3 months (contract): nPower billing & CRM systems. Testing, bug fixing & change requests on large e*gate 4.5.1 & eBPM system running on NT & UNIX using monk interfaces to Siebel and legacy systems. Developing shell & perl scripts to support testing & development activities by the development team.

6 months (contract): British Gas billing and CRM systems. Testing, bug fixing, Analysis and Design on large EAI project using e*Gate 4.5.2 to integrate between SAP (BAPI, IDOC & RFCs), Siebel and various Legacy systems. Using e*Gate 4.5.2 with Java based eways on UNIX and NT. Developing shell scripts, java programs and perl scripts to support testing & development activities by the development & support teams.

Home: Developed and maintain re-enactment society Web site using MS Frontpage and membership database in MS Access. Using Perl scripts with CGI & DBI modules to generate various web pages from data in the MS Access database and provide guestbook feature with messages being stored in the database. Java applets & Javascript. Testing of site locally using Apache on win2000. Linux, windows (2000, XP & 98)

Languages:

• 'C' (UNIX & MS-DOS real and 32bit protected mode applications), Z80 assembler, 8086 assembler, 80188 assembler, C++, windows MFC.
• ORACLE: PRO'C Embedded SQL, PL/SQL, SQL-Loader, SQL Plus.
• UNIX Korn shell scripts (including sed and awk).
• Perl: including CGI, DBI & FTP modules (UNIX & windows)
• monk (E-gate 4.1.1 & 4.1.2)
• Java 2 - 1.2 & 1.3 (Unix, windows and for E-gate 4.5.2 collaborations)
• XML

Computers & operating systems:

• UNIX (Sun Solaris,DEC Alpha (OSF/1),Data General (DGUX),IBM AIX)
• PCs - MS-DOS 3.3 - 6.2, WINDOWS (3.1, 3.11 for workgroups, 95, 98, NT, 2000), UNIX, NetBIOS.
• Linux (Home use only)

Tools:

• UNIX: vi, gvim, dbx, gdb, SCCS, cc, ld, make, sar, sun workshop, CM synergy.
• ORACLE: SQLplus, ORACLE forms, PRO'C, PL/SQL, TKPROF, SQL-Loader.
• Middleware: ,Seebeyond E*gate (4.1.1, 4.1.2 & 4.5.2) & eBPM, tibco, UNIX sockets, BEA MessageQ.
• PC: Microsoft visual C++, MFC, Borland Turbo C, Borland Turbo debugger, PVCS, Microsoft SourceSafe, CM Synergy, Visio, MS Frontpage, MS Word, MS excel, Jcreator, gvim, gimp, Flashtech 32bit DOS extender and debugger, Select Yourdon CASE, American automation 80188 and Z80 cross compiler and in circuit emulator, Categoric Xalerts

Databases:

• ORACLE 7.2 & 7.3 with replication option
• ORACLE 8i, (with Partitioning)
• MS Access

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Septemper 2002 - Febuary 2003 : Accenture (6 month Contract)

Worked on the Integration side of a large Customer management and billing system for British Gas. Integrating SAP, Siebel and various legacy systems using e*Gate 4.5.2 with Java. Used SAP BAPI eway for RFCs & IDOCs, HTTP eway for Siebel Web Server & Multimode FTP eway to transfer batch files. Spent 4 weeks on testing, bug fixing and support for the e*Gate schema for Release 1 on run up to, and over, go–live. This used Siebel , ORACLE eways connecting to ORACLE AQs and Jolt eWays using Tuxedo services to interface to legacy systems. Wrote various UNIX shell scripts, perl scripts & java utilities to help monitor and control the system. Rest of the contract spent on Analysis & design of new interfaces for Release 3, this involved liasing with the customer, SAP and Siebel teams to design the overall end to end interface process, write application designs and design the eGate schema using FTP & BAPI eways. I installed and prototyped the SAP BAPI Java e*Way (From e*Gate 4.5.3) for use on the project.

Worked on a system for nPower to integrate their customer management & billing systems & perform business process management using e*gate 4.5.1 & eBPM with monk. Integrating to Siebel and legacy systems. Involved testing, bug fixing & implementing change requests. The system consisted of several e*gate schemas, distributed across several NT & IBM AIX UNIX servers. Developed various shell & perl scripts to support testing & development activities by the development team.

Worked on a system to allow trading in the New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) for British Energy. Involved integrating several 3rd party products and applications using flat files, XML, direct DB feeds (ORACLE) & tibco, as well as developing various bespoke programs. For the duration of the project I worked on the development of a central message validation and switching hub using E-gate 4.1.2, programmed in 'monk'. I developed batch e-ways and bobs to process flat files, and Dart e-ways to load flat files into an ORACLE database all using the monk language. Designed and implemented new features involving modification of the e-gate schema and new eways/bobs. Used the C SDK to provide UNIX semaphore locking functionality from within eways, also developed monk library functions for use by other developers.

Developed many UNIX scripts including a Source control system to provide a menu driven interface to SCCS and various utility scripts for use in administering the egate schema. Produced various utility 'C' programmes for testing purposes. Performed testing and integration of the system and setting up of various test rigs using NT servers/workstations and SUN Solaris UNIX servers. Took over one of the bespoke packages that read in various flat files and received tibco messages containing XML data and then stored the data in an ORACLE database using Pro-C, developed a number of new code and database upgrades and features for new file & tibco (XML) data feeds. Provided a number of fixes and upgrades to a Perl script used on an NT server to pick up files and load them into a 3rd party product called Zainet. Wrote new Perl scripts for various tasks, including a configurable file transfer program (using FTP) to replace a large number of the simpler eGate flows and to use for new simple feeds. Installed and configured an enterprise alerting product called Xalerts from Categoric, as well as developing several alerts within the product. Developed a configurable Tibco listener in Java using the Tibco Java API to listen for Tibco subjects and raise alerts within the Xalerts system using the Xalerts Java API. Designed and Developed PL/SQL and SQL scripts to partition tables in an existing ORACLE database.

During the project I was often responsible for liasing with the customer, documentation, estimates, analysis, design, testing, guiding more junior team members and transferring knowledge to new and existing permanent staff.

Employed as Software Engineer, progressing to technical architect whilst working on system analysis, design, coding, test and maintenance for the following projects:

• 8 months: Software maintenance & upgrades for the KMX8000 kilostream multiplexer. Written in Z80 assembler on a VAX, cross compiled and downloaded to EPROM.
• 4 months: West Glamorgan ambulance service mobile data system. Responsible for the communications interface and protocol software between a central 4GL database application running on an IBM PC/AT 386 under UNIX and the terminals in the ambulance cabs via a radio subsystem.
• 1 year
: The Hong Kong fire brigade remote control callout system. Responsible for design & coding of various nodes on a proprietary LAN using Z80 based embedded processor cards. Written in 'C' and Z80 assembler on PCs and cross compiled into Z80 machine code.
• 6 years
: Integrated communication system for the Police and fire brigades. Allowing operators using networked PCs with touchscreens to operate all of the forces communication systems.

• 4 years
: Client/Server based Command and Control system for Police forces. Using clustered DEC alpha, Data general or Sun servers running UNIX and a replicated ORACLE database, with Windows 3.11 and NT PC clients and TCP/IP network. Worked on design, code, test of the server application and architecture using ORACLE PRO'C with embedded SQL and sockets for the network. Provided maintenance and out of hours on-call support in conjunction with our customer support department, which required liasing with the customer. Produced UNIX and SQL scripts required for system and database administration. Cross trained onto client development using visual C++ and MFC during this time. Involved in customer requirement specification and writing functional specifications. Supported and led more junior team members where necessary. Have performed SQL Tuning tasks using ORACLEs TKPROF utility, and UNIX disk/cpu tuning using iostat,top and sar.