Martin Hill's Resumé
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Broad range of technical skills established by providing software and consultancy to a wide variety of organisations. Plenty of business driver experience from leading teams and projects, winning bids and successfully negotiating contracts. Keen to get to grips with technically 'challenging' projects. |
Research & Consultancy (leading to a PhD) at Cranfield/Defence Academy in distributed
collaborations across poor infrastructures.
Principal Systems Engineer (SC-cleared) for the
R&D departments of General Dynamics UK Ltd (Aug 2006 - March 2010),
delivering tactical C4I (Command,
Control, Communications, Computers, Information) network concepts
and feasibility studies, including assessments of Service Oriented Architecture
tools and principles in the tactical environment. Integration Lead for two
Senior Analyst/Developer
for AstroGrid and VOTech
at the Royal Observatory
Mobilised
to serve with the Joint Nuclear Biological
Chemical Regiment (early 2003) attached to 16 Air Assault in
Senior Consultant, Project
Manager and Design Authority with Logica's Space
Division (Jan 1998-July 2002), including senior roles in supporting and
developing the mission critical control
software of one of
Freelance consultant/developer
in
Consultant/Developer for Small Business Solutions (1991-94), providing custom PC solutions for small businesses (most full project lifecycles). Developed Kameleon, an object-oriented information management framework. more...
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Successfully delivered two 'difficult' projects as Project Manager: an underbid alarm station for satellite control centers, and a (£400k) prototype port of a complete satellite control system between operating systems.
Design Authority for JUICE, an innovative Java/Swing user interface that enabled satellite operators to build their own monitoring displays.
As well as development and architecture roles, have taken formal Project Management and independent Team Leader roles, including the usual effort tracking, risk assessment and monitoring, quality control, acceptance testing, etc.
Full life-cycle development; from formal requirements gathering through design, development & formal testing to support and formal change tracking. Both iterative and waterfall approaches.
Wide variety of programming techniques, languages, algorithms, networks, operating systems, dynamic data structures and applications, applied to a number of business and technical solutions.
Languages: Java inc Swing (5+ yrs), XML/BML [SAX] (4 yrs), C++ (2 yrs), C/FORTRAN 77 (3 yrs), Borland Pascal (6+ yrs), BASIC (4+ yrs), HTML (6 yrs), SQL-Server (2 yrs), some COBOL, 16/32 bit assembler, 8-bit m/code.
Techniques: Object Oriented Design & Implementation (11+
yrs), using various Design Patterns (4+ yrs) and UML. Service Oriented
Architectures for both web-based grid service collaborations and tactical
'disadvantaged network' environments. Event-driven
architectures including multi-threaded Swing displays.
Platforms Developed for: PC (DOS, Windows 3.1-NT, OS/2), VAX/Alpha (Open VMS v7, Motif/X-Windows), Unix (Suse/Mandrake Linux), Java.
Networks: TCP/IP, 'Web Services', RS-232/X-25, Ethernet
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B.Sc. Astrophysics (merits in Ancient History, Economic History),
· A Levels: Physics, Maths, Computer Science, Further Maths, Technology, GS.
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· BCVR-level security cleared (TA). SC-level in last 12 months
· Member British Computer Society
· TA Soldier: sapper, trooper and private, deployed on Op Telic
· Languages - German (Conversational), Kiswahili (Simple), French (Simple).