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I've been working with .NET/C# since 2000 (using the technology preview), and was one of the editors on one of the first to market books on C#, written against beta 1 whilst working for Wrox Press.
I've been using C# to create Winforms applications commercially since 2002, and I've worked for a number of world-leading high technology companies. I've been involved with XP/Agile processes such as pair programming, unit testing with NUnit, and Test-Driven Development since the start of my career, and have evangelised the use of these processes (where appropriate) throughout my career.

February 2006-Present.

Development of a hardware setup tool.

A highly-customisable WPF app, with an auto-generated UI.
C++/CLI code to communicate with a FTDI USB-serial device. Design and development of code to implement a serial protocol for communicating with hardware devices (peformant multi-threaded code, typical communication issues such as byte conversion, state machine for reading packets, endian conversion etc.)

Development of a high-performance real-time and offline Data Analysis application.

With application in the motorsports and aerospace industries. Implementing new code in both C++/COM and C#. Profiling and improving the prformance of a C# mathematical analysis library (allowing the user to write their own complex mathematics, via a parsed evaluation tree). Use of Visual Studio Team System (for Unit Testing, bug tracking etc.)

Development of C# SCADA/instrumentation and control software, with applications for wind tunnels.

Use of .NET 2.0, and SQL Server 2005. Design and implementation of winforms applications, for control and analysis of data, and customization. Use of XML throughout, schemas etc. A highly customizable multithreaded application, custom designers (DesignSurface). Design of relational database schema. Mathematics for 3D transformations. Use of Windbg for analysing crash dump files. Writing Wix (Windows Installer Xml) files. Debugging C# components for consumption by COM application. Mixed mode debugging. Use of tools such as LeakDiag.

November 2004-February 2006. Market Risk Developer in the Finance industry

New development being done in C#, but to operate within a MFC/COM application framework. Implemented new functionality in C#, C++, COM and MFC in a multi-million line application. Worked on C# component consumed as a COM object. Tracked down bugs highlighted in smoke tests and regression tests. Mixed mode debugging. Performed code reviews, ensuring that code followed best practices (especially important with C++/COM). Spread knowledge of unit testing thoroughout the team through demonstrations to the regional offices. Wrote an XML-driven framework for unit tests, created stub objects implementing COM interfaces. The tests gained importance as they were used on a strategically important project to map the representation of financial instruments to a new C# risk engine. Created NUnit tests from XML using XSLT to generate the C# code. Gained knowledge of pricing of financial derivatives, and calculation of market and credit risk (calculation of VaR).

Development of a Winforms app for the automation of cell growth and protein extraction.

Worked on C# layer of supervisors, sitting above machine control code, managing different threading models between machine control and scheduler component, and machine control error detection and recovery. Application was xml-driven for both the configuration, and for machine lifecycle scripts; making use of custom attribute decorated methods to drive from the XML. Services and remoting. Made heavy use of reflection, with dynamic assembly loading.Highly asynchronous/multithreaded environment. A quality-conscious engineering environment. Pair programmed with other team members to help spread C#/.NET knowledge. Spread NUnit testing knowledge and Agile/XP Process ideas throughout the team. Advanced SQL scripting. Some Managed C++. Use of log4net.

Development of a Winforms app for a high-technology coherence correlation interferometer for 3D surface profiling in the metrology industry.

Worked on C# Windows application, with custom look and feel using DotNetBar, and creation of user-drawn Custom Controls. Application interfaced with unmanaged control and analysis code via Managed C++. OO Design and UML, design patterns, refactoring. Working in a disciplined manner in a quality-conscious engineering environment. Following Agile/XP Process with an emphasis on communication. Create design and test specifications. Services and remoting. Application profiling, localisation, deployment. Constant integration - integrate unit tests into build.


I've got a few projects that I'm either working on, or are on the back-burner; they'll appear here once I've tidied them, they are:

Development of a NUnit 2.4 extension (using new extensibility features) to implement data-driven unit tests. Posts and code can be found here, here, and here.

• Started writing a simple Physics Dynamics Engine, with accompanying tutorials. See Jabuka. Will eventually cover:
  • C# coding, OO design.
  • Working with VS.NET.
  • Agile/XP process, test driven development.
  • Will include performance considerations, keen to investigate effects of multithreading on performance.
  Have got basic collision detection and response working between particles and convex polyhedra, have rotations implemented as quaternions. Very unsophisticated collision response - have implemented time stepping to get back to time of collision.
• A simple 3D engine (C++, OpenGL, currently using Glut) as I couldn't find a good simple OO example engine, now being written in C# to support the Physics Engine.
• A picture-viewer/editer. Currently working - resizes/scales pics and scrolls OK. Allows a selection of the image to be cropped.
• Slowly moving this site over to css from table layout - created a collection of tools for resizing a folder of images, and generation of thumbnails. Need to make more use of XML for control of entire site.

My MSc dissertation: Artificial Immune Systems Applied to System Identification.
MSc coursework: Self-tuning and Adaptive Control.
My third year Physics project (Temperature Driven Flow in the Quantum Hall Effect) - QHE_Final.doc. More information on the Quantum Hall Effect can be found on my old project tutor's page here.



MSc Informatics and Control. Coventry University, pass with Merit. The MSc modules studied:

• Linear Control Engineering.
• Maths and computing for control.
• Digital Computer Control Systems.
• Optimal Filtering and Parameter Estimation.
• Self-tuning Adaptive Control.
• Neural Nets and Fuzzy Logic
• Genetic Algorithms.
• Object Oriented Programming in Java.
• Systems Lifecycle and Methods Overview.
• Software Engineering Principles.

BSc Physics (hons). University of Warwick. The Physics modules studied:

First year modules:	Second year modules:	Third year modules:
Mathematics for Scientists	Electromagnetic Theory	Electromagnetic Waves
Quantum Phenomena	Introduction to Fluids	Relativistic Cosmology
Relativity	Hamiltonian Mechanics	Introduction to Synergetics
Electricity and Magnetism	Quantum Mechanics	Plasma Physics
Thermal Physics	Thermal Physics II	Elementary Particles and Nuclei
Astronomy	Galaxies	Quantum Physics I
Waves	Stars	Statistical Physics
Mechanics A	Mathematical Methods I and II	Solid State Physics I
Matter	Optics	Magnetic Properties of Solids
Physics Laboratory	Fortran Programming	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Physics Problems	Introduction to Business Studies	General Problems
	Physics Essay	Writing Skills
	Experimental Techniques A	Physics Project
	Experimental Techniques B