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Adaptable and enthusiastic, with a broad range of technical skills established by providing software to a wide variety of organisations.
Plenty of business driver experience from Project Management and Team Lead roles, won bids and successful commercial negotiations.
Keen to get to grips with a technically 'challenging' project.

Major Achievements

Successfully delivered 'enterprise' tactical network integration: a very fast ramp up for unfamiliar tactical network, understood characteristics quickly enough to correct disastrous assumptions made by the wider team.

Successfully delivered two 'difficult' projects as Project Manager: an underbid alarm station for satellite control centers, and a (£400k) prototype port of a complete satellite control system between operating systems.

Design Authority for JUICE, an innovative Java/Swing user interface that enabled satellite operators to build their own monitoring displays.

Career Summary

Principal Systems Engineer for the R&D departments of General Dynamics UK Ltd, delivering tactical C4I network concepts and feasibility studies. Won £120k of work in last 6 months.

Senior Analyst/Developer for AstroGrid and VOTech at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh (Aug 02 - Dec 05). Developed a distributed grid to combine both legacy and new astronomical data and applications across the globe. Many unusual and interesting problems in both cutting-edge grid technology and astrophysics. Distributed teams required various collaborative tools. Java-based web/grid services.

Mobilised to serve with the Joint Nuclear Biological Chemical Regiment (early 2003) attached to 16 Air Assault in Iraq on Op Telic.

Senior Consultant, Project Manager (£400k project) and Design Authority (Java/Swing telemetry displays) with Logica's Space Division (1997-2002), including senior roles in supporting and developing the mission critical control software of one of Europe's largest satellite operators (EUTELSAT). Involved in all aspects of the development process, including plenty of valued client contact.

Freelance consultant/developer in Kenya (1994-97) for a variety of PC-based, bespoke projects using object-oriented Borland Pascal, including camel breeding records, tea transport and the East Africa Safari Rally. All full project lifecycles.

Consultant/Developer for Small Business Solutions (1991-94), providing custom PC solutions for small businesses (most full project lifecycles). Developed Kameleon, an object-oriented information management framework.

Skills Summary

Both formal Project Management and independent Team Leader, able to run teams as you would a project, tracking effort, ensuring quality control, testing, monitoring risks, etc.

Full lifecycle development; from formal requirements gathering through design, development & formal testing to support and formal change tracking. Both iterative and waterfall approaches.

Wide variety of programming techniques, languages, algorithms, networks, operating systems, dynamic data structures and applications, applied to a number of business and technical solutions.

Languages: Java inc Swing (5+ yrs), XML/BML [SAX] (4 yrs) C++ (18 mnths), C/FORTRAN 77 (3 yrs), Borland Pascal (6+ yrs), Basic (4+ yrs), HTML (6 yrs). Some MS-Access, SQL-Server, COBOL, 16/32 bit assembler, 8-bit m/code.

Techniques: Object Oriented Design & Implementation (11+ yrs) inc. using various Design Patterns (4+ yrs) and UML. Event-driven architectures including multithreaded Swing displays. Jackson's Structured Programming. Multithreaded, mission critical applications, and multi-user databases.

Platforms Developed for: PC (DOS, Windows 3.1-NT, OS/2), VAX/Alpha (Open VMS v7, Motif/X-Windows), Unix (Suse/Mandrake Linux), Java.

Networks: TCP/IP, 'Web Services', RS-232/X-25, Ethernet

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Name
Martin Hill
DOB
15th July 1969
Address
South Wales

Tel

07901 55 24 66

email
martin/at/martinhill.me.uk
web
www.martinhill.me.uk
Travel
Willing, single, British, home owner