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							                           RICHARD BRIDGMAN

Contact         RichardBridgman@                Status           Married; 2 daughters
                compuserve.com
                                                Nationality      British
                     nd
Born            22 June 1964
                                                Other           Non smoker. Current
Age             36                                              driving licence.


Summary
I have been working in the IT industry for 15 years, contracting for the last six years.
The work undertaken has included programming in C++ using the STL on Unix and
MFC on Windows. I have also worked for one of the UK’s leading independent training
and consulting organisations, delivering C, C++ and Unix courses around the country
and providing consulting services to customers.
My current work is developing a multi-threaded front-office server using C++, the STL
and RogueWave under Solaris.
Prior to working with C++ I developed C applications running in Unix environments.
I have used most commercial variants of Unix including Solaris, AIX, HP/UX and
Linux (Redhat and SuSE). I have also gained experience in systems administration
combined with extensive shell script and awk programming, backup and batch program
maintenance and first line support.




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Work History

OM Technology                                                      August 2000 - Present
Software solutions for financial markets                          A/P and Team Leader

Developing a multi-threaded application sitting between traders and market server
engine, using Solaris C++ compiler with RogueWave libraries. Interface uses FIX
(Financial Information eXchange) protocol running over TCP/IP. Written automated
tool to stress test the FIX interface. Provided proxy server which uses library to validate
FIX messages.
Expanded server from single client to handle multiple clients; improved message
thoughput by factor of 10 and reduced memory footprint by a factor of four.
Provision of Unix and C++ expertise to other staff. Leading a team of 3 people.


IBM Webserver Group                                             June 1999 – August 2000
RS/6000 pre-sales technical support                                   Senior Consultant

Development of PalmPilot quick price estimater. Built using GNU C++ development
environment; currently in use by sales staff in 14 currencies across the globe. Use of
ksh and awk scripts to automatically re-build the product and its website when prices
change. Production of other pre-sales tools, including website for tracking customer
contacts with team members; uses ksh scripts to generate the dynamic web pages.
Use of SuSE Linux for investigating porting issues between AIX and Linux. Working
with customers, business partners and other IBM staff to understand the impact of Linux
on AIX and other Unix systems.
Writing and delivering presentations, consultancy work in C/C++, porting and AIX
skills. Working with sales staff and business partners on major bids: understanding
customer needs, sizing systems, producing estimates and plans for porting, critical
situation support, onsite training and consultancy. Regional skills leader for AIX.
Competitive bid analysis.
Provision of C, C++ and AIX expertise to other teams, business partners and customers.


QA Group                                                        March 1996 – June 1999
Leading independent       consulting    &    training    Associate Consultant/Lecturer
company

Provision of technical consultancy for QA Consulting Ltd in C, C++ and Unix. Delivery
of QA training courses at QA sites and on-site. Accredited to deliver following courses:




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     Object Oriented Primer                             Unix Fundamentals
     C++ Programming for C Programmers                  Unix System Administration
     C++ for non-C Programmers                          Unix Programming
     Advanced C++                                       Shell Programming
     C Programming                                      AIX Fundamentals
Unix courses delivered on UnixWare, Linux (Redhat) and Solaris at QA Group, with
HP/UX and AIX often provided at customer sites.
C courses delivered using Microsoft Developer Studio, UnixWare and Redhat.
C++ courses delivered using Microsoft Developer Studio.
Consultancy provided to:
       Remploy Ltd.                                               March - October ’96,
       Group of manufacturing companies                            July ’97, June ’98

       Initially consultant for documentation project then performed administration of
       the company’s five HP9000 K series machines running HP/UX 10.01. Upgraded
       700 series from HP/UX 9.x to 10.01. Definition of procedures & standards.
       Implemented OmniBack II automated backup system. Configuration of menus
       for support staff. Shell script writing for automatic systems monitoring and
       interfacing to third party BACS system.
       Designed, implemented and documented shell script to analyse output
       documents from system, identifying fax numbers within and deliver to Unix fax
       software running on HP/UX 10.10. Script used sed and awk Unix utilities.
       Provided software to send orders through EDI transfer suite.
       Trained permanent staff members to take on some of the systems administration
       roles. Interviewed candidates for post of systems administrator. Dealt with third
       party suppliers (HP, Baan, EDI-TIE).
       Disaster recovery planning, documentation and implementation. Planned & lead
       disaster recovery exercises offsite.

Consultancy continued:
       Shotton Paper Company plc                               January - February 1997
       Newsprint manufacturer

       Analysis of tender documents provided by potential suppliers of manufacturing
       control system running on HP9000 D- or K-series enterprise servers. Provided
       comparative analysis of bids for performance, reliability, cost, expandability.
       Specification of equipment location, environment etc. Planning for disaster
       recovery.




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       The Boots Company plc                                               February 1997

       Provision of expertise to assist in the translation of output from a data warehouse
       into various ASCII feeds. Provided client with know-how to use Unix utilities to
       perform the translations.

Marks & Spencer PLC.                                      August 1994 - February 1996
Foods IT Division                                Analyst/Programmer & Team Leader

Designed client/server mechanism to allow client access to remote data via TCP/IP and
Unix sockets. Server written in C using existing libraries, client library written in C++.
Set up SCCS development environment to control project.
Lead team supporting & enhancing in-house software used by foods buyers. Written in
ANSI C, running on 24 AIX RS6000s; communication with mainframe via SNA &
XCOM. Support of overnight batch programs and daytime on-line.
Carried out rationalisation of support tools & automation of manual processes. Out-of-
hours support for batch schedule.
Provision of Unix expertise to other teams.

Uniplex Ltd.                                                   October 1992 - July 1994
Office Automation Software House                           Senior Analyst Programmer

Code design, implementation, testing and documentation working as part of a team of
eight. Implementation in ANSI C on IBM RS6000 using AIX. Product was character-
based office automation product using Hewlett-Packard's OpenMail e-mail system.
Intermediate libraries written to front-end client/server interface, replacing asynchronous
behaviour with synchronous.
Set up and ran porting team for new product, reporting to technical director. Technical
negotiations with Data General during bid phase of major project.
Other work included production of mail migration tool; porting between DG/UX,
HP/UX, Solaris, SCO and AIX.

Tibor Darvas Ltd.                                         December 1987 - October 1992
Software House                                               Senior Software Engineer

Code design and implementation in C for a CAM package on Sun workstations using
SunView windows programming. Carried out modifications and improvements to
proprietary database and maintained existing code. Implemented device-independent
raster graphics library.




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Produced programmer and user documentation, gave training courses to customers and
distributors. Senior technical contact for distributors.
Produced system written in shell scripts running over UUCP to allow low-cost remote
access to SCCS files stored at UK headquarters. Ported the CAM package from
SunView to Motif.
Implementation of Yellow Pages (now called NIS) environment for administration.

Cybrid Ltd.                                              July 1986 - December 1987
Computer systems for clothing industry                         Senior Programmer

Coding in Z80 assembly language for proprietary hardware. Automation of some of the
company's software development process. Written in C; used processes communicating
via pipes to handle i/o to development system.

Whitechapel Computer Works                               September 1985 - July 1986
Workstation manufacturer                                 Junior Software Engineer

Porting from System V to BSD 4.2. Implementation of general utilities. Technical
author.




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                                Qualifications

The Buckinghamshire College                Masters in Business Administration
Brunel University                          Dissertation topic: a marketing strategy for
1990-1993 part time                        an office automation product



Queen Mary College                         Computer Science BSc 2i (Hons)
University of London
1982-1985



Brooklands Technical College               A level: Computer Science, Physics,
Weybridge, Surrey                          Pure Mathematics
1980-1982
                                           A/O level: Pure Mathematics



Bishop Fox County Secondary School         O level: Mathematics, Physics, Design and
East Molesey, Surrey                       Technology, Astronomy, Biology, English
1976-1980                                  Language




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