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Résumé for Ben Golding
| Name: | Benjamin George Golding |
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| Email: | bgg@object-craft.com.au |
Summary:
Highly competent, well regarded software professional with extensive experience in building and supporting large scale systems and Internet applications.
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| Highly competent: | Objective-C, ANSI C, C++, Python, Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, APL, JavaScript, Typescript |
| Familiar with: | Perl, HTML, Assembler |
| Operating Systems: | |
| Highly Competent: | Unix, Linux, MacOS X, iOS, Solaris 10 |
| Familiar with: | OpenStep, VMS, Ultrix |
| SDK's and Development Tools: | |
| Highly Competent: | CVS, SVN, git, Make, Yacc, Lex, Unix shell tools, Xcode, PyCharm |
Academic History:
Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons), University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 1984
Personal Projects:
- Guitar,
- Popular music,
- Bush regeneration,
- Woodwork,
- Current affairs,
- Karate.
Outline of employment history with major achievements:
Mar 2000 - present: Object Craft Pty Ltd - Managing Director and Senior Programmer
- Managing director of a small, highly technical programming consultancy.
- Specialised custom programming tasks, focussing on Internet applications, solutions for financial markets, network management, etc.
Oct 1997- Apr 2000: ITGA Limited - Senior Programmer
- Adapting Glue, an order routing system to work within the Australian stock market.
- Order communications and processing.
May 1995 - Sep 1997: Connect.com.au - Senior Research and Development Engineer
- Development and maintenance of a radius-based accounting system.
- On-going development and enhancements of mail and news subsystems.
Sep 1992 - May 1995: Connect.com.au - Technical Director
- System deployment, installation and maintenance of connect.com.au's Australia-wide Internet presence.
- Sales.
- Customer support and installations.
- Strategic development and planning.
- Office management.
Apr 1988 - Aug 1993: Pyramid Technology - Senior R&D Engineer
- Compiler development and maintenance of Pyramid's ANSI C, Fortran, Cobol and Pascal compilers.
- Contributed to Pyramid's part in the X3-J11 ANSI C standardisation process.
- Benchmarking.
Jun 1987 - Apr 1988: Olivetti SpA - Consultant in Ivrea, Italy.
- AT&T Starlan Starlan interface between on-line cash registers and back office databases running on Olivetti's M600 series machines using AT&T System V Unix.
Jan 1986 - Jun 1987: Pyramid Technology - Pre- and Post-sales support
- Customer support
- Benchmarking
- Porting applications
- Tender responses
Dec 1984 - Nov 1985: Xenotron Australia - Programmer and system manager
- Application programming for the computer phototypesetting industry using PDP-11 and Plessey 6000 machines running Unix and Xenix.
- System administration.
Dec 1983 - Feb 1984: Melbourne University - Part-time work
- Porting CGSS from Cyber Pascal to Unix Pascal on a Perkin-Elmer 32/40.
Jun 1983 - Nov 1983: Melbourne University - Part time work
- Enhancements and maintenance of draw, an application to create and manipulate VLSI schematics on a Tectronix display scope.
Nov 1982 - Feb 1983: IP Sharp Associates - Programmer
- Data analysis and graphing using APL for a range of clients in the stock broking industry.