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Curriculum Vitae of: Simon C MOORE (31)

37 New King Street, Bath, BA1 2BN
telephone: 07866 166552 e-mail: simon.moore@ndirect.co.uk

OVERVIEW

Simon is interested in Director or Senior Management opportunities to develop ideas into commercial products or improve on existing products with new technologies.

Simon has board level experience as a director and adviser; his objective reasoning and arguments enable him to present and make first class decisions about appropriate technologies and solutions to any problem

Simon is a creative, entrepreneurial and professional software engineer. Excellent technical knowledge of every aspect of computing combined with solid team management skills enable him to rapidly develop new and innovative products using the latest technologies and philosophies. Simon is skilled both as a developer and manager of IT professionals.

EDUCATION

09/2001 - 09/2002 Master of Computer Science with Distinction (MSc).

University Of Bath

  • Top of the year of 70 seventy students
  • Distinction (average of 80%)
  • Dissertation title: Back-Propagation in Spiking Neural Networks 83%

Modules: Projects and their Management, Formal Methods & Programming, Human-Computer Interaction and Virtual Reality, Multimedia, Networking, Safety Critical Systems, Databases, C and Unix, Algorithms and Data Structures, Principles of Computer Operation and Architecture.

09/1995 – 06/1999 Llb Laws Honours Degree

University College London (UCL)
09/1989 – 06/1994 Cheltenham College, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
1994 A-levels:
  • Physics (A, plus a merit in special paper),
  • General Studies (A),
  • Further Maths (B),
  • Chemistry (B),
  • Maths (A in 1993),
  • Electronics AS-level (A).
1992 GCSEs:
  • Maths AO (A), Maths (A in 1992), English (B) and seven further GCSE’s (3 As, 3 Bs and a C).

Professional membership

01/2003 - Present

  • MIET - Member of the Institute of Engineering An Technology (IET formerly IEE)
  • MBCS - Member of the British Computer Society (BCS)

Simon is following professional development routes with both organisations and working towards chartered status.

Professional courses:

  • Ten day course C# (.net)
  • Ten day course Java
  • Ten day course XML
  • Ten day course PHP
  • Four, one day Networking courses
  • Three, one day Microsoft courses
  • One day Cold Fusion

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

  • Director with Board level experience
  • Senior IT management
  • Team Management
  • Work ethic and history of delivering on time and to budget
  • Creative problem solver
  • Can do attitude
  • Business to Business and Customer relations
  • Skills in presenting to the non technical
  • Company Law, IT Law, Company Accounting

EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE

  • Web Application Architect
  • Databases, Database integration (integrated 14 third party products using 6 different database formats over last four years)
  • Linux and Windows server administration
  • World wide distributed server network architect - one hundred servers, scalable, world wide delivery, remote management, backup and recovery
  • Full Product lifecycle from concept, through iterative revisions to new versions and branches.

EMPLOYMENT

04/2003 – Present Technical Director Fitronics Ltd, Bath
  • Promoted from Technical Manager to the Board of Directors (Feb 2006)
    • Responsible to the board for all Software development and internal IT
  • Design, implementation and ongoing development of a new software product accounting for the majority of Fitronics turnover
  • Creator of a new system and communications architecture for the multi-country distribution and support of remote systems
  • Development of technologies to deliver the software via the internet (Application Service Provider) and to mobile devices. Including development of a new AJAX architecture.
  • Database level integration with a large number of third party products running on a large variety of relational and non relational databases
  • Implementation of various low level protocols operating over serial and USB communicating with microprocessor controlled hardware.
  • Advocacy and practice of Agile software development methods within the company
  • Day to day management of the technical team
  • Technical liaison dealing diverse items such as: software integration, security (including council/government networks) and resellers
09/2001 – 03/2003 Consultant (P/T) Self-Employed / Contract work (while doing MSc)
  • Maintaining a small ISP’s (Web-HQ.com) servers remotely and providing highest level technical support.
  • Designing and maintaining a number of web applications and web sites on an individual contract basis for direct clients and clients of PC Paramedics Ltd.
12/2000 – 09/2001 Internet Business Manager PC Paramedics Ltd / Web HQ Ltd, Berkshire.
  • Business development of the Internet arm of PC Paramedics and the technical implementation of services and web sites for Web HQ (Partly owned by PC Paramedics).
  • The technical liaison for Web HQ on a joint project with a large blue chip multinational.
  • Research and development of new technical web sites, including self maintaining interactive community portals, online video archiving for a postproduction company and sites facilitating collaboration for companies with a distributed workforce.
  • Managerial responsibility for other members of the PC Paramedics web design team.
08/1999 – 12/2000 Technical Manager PC Paramedics Ltd, Berkshire.
  • Working both on site and in the workshop diagnosing and repairing a wide range of software, networking and hardware computer system problems
  • Managing and training our junior technicians
  • Advising small to medium sized businesses about IT needs, providing technical backup, service contracts and a range of other IT services they did not have in house.
  • Web site design and management
  • Running and developing an ISP service (dial up, hosting, email)
Summer 1996 Waiter Combe Grove Manor Hotel And Country Club, Bath.
  • I improved my customer relations skills while working under pressure in a busy, high-class restaurant attached to this 4 star hotel, which also catered for a large number of major functions.
08/1994- 09/1995 Head Waiter/Chamber person The Cliffe Hotel, Bath.
  • Working split shifts, initially part time, transferring to full time in February 1995. The job involved caring for the customers in a family run, 3 star Hotel, where staff were trained to ensure repeat bookings by cheerful and conscientious customer care.
Christmas 1994 Sales Assistant/ Temporary Stockroom Manager Dixons, Bath
  • I worked at Dixons for two months, over the busy Christmas/January sales period while continuing as a part-time waiter at the Cliffe. As stockroom manager, I was responsible for maintaining the perpetual inventory, organising the stockrooms and returning faulty goods.

INTERESTS

Sailing

  • RYA sailing certificates: Coastal Skipper, Day Skipper, Competent Crew and Level 5 Dinghy.
  • Achieving these certificates involves the running of a Yacht in all conditions, including taking charge of the crew and being responsible for their lives, provisioning the Yacht and maintaining her to a high standard and coping quickly and efficiently with emergencies.
  • I was Vice Commodore of the Cheltenham College Sailing club and 1st VI sailing team. I competed in both team and individual events both locally and nationally.

Theatre, films and television

  • Technical Manager of Bloomsbury Television, during which time the society was brought to an all time high level of quality by introducing and training people to use computer based non-linear editing techniques. Additionally responsible for the smooth running of the weekly live programme.
  • Lighting designer and sound engineer on many productions at school and university, which involved thorough organisational skills and the expression of artistic and individual concepts.
  • I have made several films of my own and helped with lighting in the UCL Union Film Society, which being in its fifty-fourth year is the oldest university-based film society in the country.
  • Ten week script writing course University of Bath

General

  • School positions of responsibility included: Secretary to the Science Society, Committee member of Christian Forum, Occasional speaker and member of the sixth form society and General Studies groups, President of the Hovercraft Club, and a Leading Seaman in the Navy Section of the CCF, teaching drill, navigation and shooting.
  • Wining a competitive travel scholarship to study the Minoan civilisation on the Island of Crete. Our dissertation was later published in the Cheltonian society magazine.
  • Clean UK Driving license.

SKILLS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Key

10   Guru. Understand the philosophy, architecture and extensive experience
9 Have done extensive amount of work
8 Have written a large amount of work
7 Have written several programs
6 Have written some programs and or contributed to open source
5 Have maintained, debugged and added to other people's code written in this language (e.g. open source)
4 Have looked at, can maintain
3 Never looked at but based on knowledge could maintain
2 Very Knowledgeable but had no reason to take it further
1 Knowledgeable

Area

 Detail Expertise Years Professional Total years
Philosophies
Agile techniques (RAD, XP) 10 4 6
Separation of form, function, content, data, 10 8 8
Object Orientated 10 6 6
Web application user interface design
AJAX 10 2 10
DHTML 10 2 10
HTML 10 8 12
XML 10 4 6
XSLT 8 2 2
Javascript 10 8 12
CSS 10 8 10
Flash 10 4 10
Actionscript 10 4 6
HCI 8 4 6
Server side
Template Toolkit 10 4 4
Perl 8 4 4
PhP 6 4 4
ColdFusion MX 8 3 3
XMLsocket servers (Perl, C++, PhP) 10 4 4
ASP 6 8 10
Programming
C# 6 2 2
Java 6 2 6
C 7 6 6
C++ 7 6 6
Oberon-2 10 1 1
Basic 10 2 2
Source Management
SVN (Subversion) 10 4 4
Relational Databases
SQL (language) 10 8 12
MySQL 10 8 8
MS SQL 8 8 8
ODBC 10 8 12
Interbase 7 4 4
Advantage 7 4 4
MS Access 10 8 12
Paradox 7 4 4
Oracle 4 0 0
Sybase 4 0 0
Non relational multi-valued Databases
IBM Universe 7 4 4
C-ISAM (low level) 7 4 4
Operating Systems
Windows all versions 10 8 17
Linux/Unix many distributions 10 8 12
Mac (up to OS 7) 10 0 5
Server services
Apache 10 8 8
IIS 10 8 10
DNS 10 8 8
SMTP 10 8 8
POP3 / IMAP 10 8 8
Co-Location
Load Balancing 10 8 8
Fail over 10 8 8
Networking
TCP/IP (all ISO levels) 10 8 12
Wireless 10 4 4
Routers, gateways, ADSL, Firewalls, WAN. 10 8 8
Security
VPN (IPSEC and SSL) 8 4 4
SSH 10 8 8
SSL 10 8 8
Ethical hacking 8 8 8
Hardware
Building servers/PCs/kiosks 10 8 12
Repair, Upgrades maintenance 10 8 12
Graphics
Photoshop (and similar) 7 8 17
Director 5 0 5
Premiere 8 0 5
Office software
All MS, Adobe, Macromedia packages for above technologies 7-10 8 8

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