CV for Richard Kettlewell

Contact Details

Refer to http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/me.html for contact details.

Employment

January 2003 to present: .

November 2001 to December 2002: unemployed. I was made redundant from Zeus due to cost-cutting.

March 2001 to November 2001: software developer for Zeus Technology (http://www.zeus.com/), working in C++ and Perl on various UNIX platforms. Areas I worked on include:

• Addition of interactive monitoring to the web server. This involved instrumenting the web server to gather information and writing code to produce text and graphical (web-based) reporting.
• Redesign of the internal multiplatform build and test system. I had to gather requirements for the rewrite, design it, implement it and maintain it thereafter.
• General development work on the web server.
• Developer support for customers.

1995 to February 2001: development engineer/senior development engineer for ElectricMail Ltd (http://www.elmail.co.uk/), Kewill Systems Plc (http://www.kewill.com/) and ultimately NetConnect Ltd (http://www.netconnect.co.uk/) - all the same job, but under different company names, following takeovers. My main areas of responsibility were design, development, maintenance and integration of software, mostly working in C, Perl and Bourne shell. Examples include:

• internet server systems (web, email, news, etc) for customer and internal use (UNIX, C, Perl, Shell)
• web-based management system for dialup users (UNIX, C, Perl, Shell, CGI, HTML, RADIUS)
• log management and analysis for the dialup ISP service (UNIX, C, Perl, RADIUS)
• a web front end to the internal customer and orders database (UNIX, HTML, CGI, Perl, SQL)
• extensions to the mail transport agent Sendmail and the log management program syslogd (UNIX, C, SMTP, TCP/IP)
• debugging tools for our RADIUS installation (UNIX, C, RADIUS, TCP/IP)

Education

• 1992-1995: University of Cambridge, BA degree in Mathematics
• 1985-1992: Bournemouth School
  • "A" levels: Mathematics A + distinction in special paper, Further Mathematics A, Computing A
  • "AS" levels: Mathematics A, General Studies D
  • GCSEs: Business Studies A, Information Studies A, English A, English Literature A, Mathematics A, Physics A, Chemistry B, French A and German B.
• 1982-1985: Winton Junior School, Bournemouth

Skills

I have experience of using and programming several varieties of UNIX. I'm most familiar with SunOS 5.x (Solaris) and Linux, but also have worked under HP-UX, Digital UNIX, Irix, AIX, Unixware, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and SunOS 4.x.

I'm familiar with C, C++, Perl, Bourne shell, HTML and (more generally) SGML. I also have a little experience of Python, Java, Tcl, Emacs Lisp, Forth, assembly language (68000 and Z80) and SQL.

I'm familiar with a number of internet protocols, including SMTP, POP-3, NNTP, HTTP, FTP, RADIUS, etc, and know CGI well. I've worked on implementations of several of these protocols.

I'm familiar with programs such as GNU Make, GNU C, GDB, M4, Autoconf/Automake/Libtool, Apache, Squid, Emacs, INN, Exim and so on. I have used SCCS, RCS, CVS and Perforce.

Other

I maintain a personal web page at http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/.

I have written a number of pieces of free software, see http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/contents.html#Software.

I have a UK driving licence and a UK passport.

References

Available on request.

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