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Summary

• Over a decade's experience setting up and managing complex IT networks for small-to-medium sized companies, intergrating Windows, Linux and Novell NetWare servers and clients.
• Specialising in operating systems and computer networks, including kernel development and operating systems design.
• Extensive experience with Linux and open source software.
• Strong system programming and application programming skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including a passion for teaching.
• Strong team and project management skills, and a confident public speaker.

Education

• Bachelor of Information Technology, The University of Queensland, Australia.

  2006-02-27 2010-06-21 2006—2010

Positions held

• Casual Tutor, University of Queensland Tutored University courses on Operating Systems and Networks, including running practicals with over 30 students in a lab. In this capacity I mentored students and assisted them with systems programming assignments (in C), helped them prepare for examinations and assisted the lecturer with marking. In 2010 I rewrote all of the course materials for the Operating Systems course (COMP3301) to use Linux. This included designing, writing and testing programming assignments, preparing practical materials, and marking tutorial and assignment submissions. The course material is available online.

  2009-03-02 2009—present
• Founder and Owner, SJK Web Industries Founder of SJK Web Industries, a Brisbane-based web hosting business specialising in small-business web, email and domains hosting and application development. Also providing IT consulting services for pharmacies around Queensland. As owner of this business I administer a network of Linux servers and various hardware network devices, all running open source software.

  2003-01-01 2003—present
• IT Administrator, Warwick Friendly Society Installing and managing all of the hardware, software and support for two multi-million dollar community pharmacies, including interoperating Windows and Linux servers to provide the most cutting-edge IT solutions.

  2005-08-01 August 2005—present

Teaching experience

• Casual tutor, The University of Queensland. Tutoring the School of ITEE’s flagship Network and Operating System Principles course (COMP2303) and in 2010 the Operating Systems course (COMP3301).

  2009-03-02 March 2009—present

Publications

• Towards a POSIX userland for Ulysses, School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Australia (thesis performed under the supervision of Dr John Williams).

  2009-06-12 2009-06-12 June 2009

Affiliations

• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
• Member of the IEEE Computer Society.

Professional certifications

• Currently studying for RHCSA exam with the intent of becoming a Red Hat Certified Engineer

Skills: Programming languages

Skills: Products, technologies and operating systems

Skills: Other

Software developed (and released)

Full list available online

• fgutils is a collection of utilities written in Python for controlling and interpreting simulation data from the FlightGear flight simulator.
• Ulysses, a tiny operating system (released under the GPLv3).
• zerp is a compiler and virtual machine for Z, a toy programming language similar in syntax to Python and Pascal.

References

Professional references are available on request.