CURRICULUM VITAE RICHARD OSBORNE
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PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: RICHARD DAVID OSBORNE Availability: 28 days
Date of Birth: 10th OF OCTOBER, 1967 Nationality BRITISH
Email: richard@cyberthinc.com
Mobile Telephone +44 (0)7958-934 173
Address: 121 Gladstone Park Gardens, Dollis Hill, London, NW2 6RN


RELEVANT COMPUTER SKILLS
  • PERL experience, 8 years
  • ASP and Javascript/JScript, 6 years
  • XML, 3 years
  • UNIX (SunOS, SOLARIS, OSF, HP-UX, IRIX & AIX), 2-8 years
  • UNIX shell scripting (csh, bsh, Ksh, Tcl), 8 years
  • C++, Windows programming and Visual Basic exposure
  • IBM PC's using MS-DOS and Windows, 15 years
  • Linux experience, 7 years
  • HTML Scripting, 10 years
  • SQL Server and Oracle, 3 years
  • IIS and Apache, 3 years
  • JAVA exposure, 3 years
  • C programming, 6 years
  • Windows NT 4, 4 years

RELEVANT SKILLS
  • Implemented B2C & B2B e-commerce solutions, corporate internets/intranets using CGI programming (PERL, JavaScript, C-Shell), XML/XSL, SQL, ASP, HTML, Java, VRML as well as numerous standalone web sites.
  • Have developed Linux, UNIX, Windows & DOS applications in Java, PERL, C, C++, C-shell & Tcl/Tk for tasks such as financial applications, statistical analysis, numerical simulation, mathematical modelling, image processing.
  • ISO9000 Internal Auditor & experience of project organisation, product assurance & quality assurance to space qualification standards.
  • Experience of space industry through work on a Russian Mars mission, NASA project and an ESA space mission.
Languages spoken : Bilingual in English & Welsh. Basic Spanish & Dutch and simple Russian.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

March 2003 - June 2004 MILLFIELD GROUP PLC, LONDON, U.K.
Senior Developer (1 renewal) - Full lifecycle online e-commerce project development for B2B and B2C applications connecting to third party clients, using Origo standard XML on desktop & mobile platforms. Software based on XML, PERL/ CGI, XHTML, MySQL & Apache Web Server on Linux. The PERL code used CGI, DBI, LWP & XML modules.

September 2002 - December 2002 MULTIMAP.COM, LONDON, U.K.
Software Engineer - Development of Online mapping applications using XML, PERL / CGI, Oracle, MySQL and Apache on Linux and SUN Solaris. With PERL code using CGI, DBD and XML modules. Development of internal database driven content management system using PERL and MySQL, as well as applications for XML processing.

August 2001 - August 2002 CYBERTHINC, LONDON, U.K.
Freelance development & support work as well as small business website, intranet and PDA format website development, using PERL / CGI & ASP interfacing to Oracle & MySQL databases via SQL, JavaScript, XML, CGI.pm & DBI.pm on Linux, Win 2000 & SUN Solaris using the Apache Web Server, development of GIS, database driven content management systems using PERL, MySQL & Oracle, as well as mobile WAP/CGI based code.

June 2000 - July 2001 GOJOBSITE, LONDON, U.K.
Developer - Development and support of online database driven jobs website, CGI (PERL with CGI.pm, DBI.pm, mod_perl), C, all code interfacing to Oracle via SQL and PL/SQL , Client & Server side JavaScript, HTML scripting & WAP, all on SUN Solaris & Windows NT 4 and using the Apache web server.
April 2000 - May 2000 OGILVY INTERACTIVE / NOHO DIGITAL, LONDON, U.K.
Web Developer - Development of schools sport web site using ASP (server side JScript objects) & client side JavaScript on IIS, & exploratory work with PHP.
January 2000 - March 2000 MERRILL LYNCH BANK, LONDON, U.K.
Analyst Programmer - Rapid development of prototype e-commerce application for online share dealing using XML/XSL, ASP (VBScript), JavaScript and CSS on IIS.
April 1997 - December 1999 BUPA, LONDON, U.K.
Analyst Programmer (6 renewals) - Development of e-commerce applications, ASP & CGI (JAVAScript, Jscript, VBScript & PERL) BUPA Web Site development on Windows NT 4 and LINUX platforms, Java, SQL Server, DHTML, XML, CORBA, VRML. Basic Web Server administration (IIS 4 & Apache), Hospital Intranet application development for projects such as payment system authorisation, Multimedia kiosk application development & smartcards. Responsible for developing departmental online security. Attended CORBA, AI & Java courses.
September 1996 - April 1997 REUTERS PLC, LONDON, U.K.
Web Developer (2 renewals) - Java, HTML & CGI (PERL, JavaScript, C-shell) development of applications for use on the Reuters World Wide Web corporate Intranet. Installation/configuration of Unix and Linux web servers for Reuters clients at client sites, & web based client publishing system development (using PERL & C-shell), database systems & document management. Provided client Internet tuition. Firewall & Internet security training.
December 1994 - September 1996 CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, BRACKNELL, BERKSHIRE, U.K.
Web/System Administrator - Developed local corporate Intranet web using Java, HTML & CGI Programming, including an online ISO9000 manual & database searches to ORACLE using C-shell & SQL. Developed software & maintained network for UNIX platforms using Tcl/Tk, c-shell & C. Also trained as an ISO9000 auditor.
May 1994 - November 1994 ASPIRESPACE, BRAINTREE, ESSEX, U.K.
Software Developer- Tasks included developing web site on a UNIX platform, developing trajectory analysis & neural network software in C & C++, top level systems design of Genetic Algorithms & fuzzy logic control systems & developing rocket motor modelling software.
February 1994 - April 1994 BRUNEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING, UXBRIDGE, MIDDLESEX, U.K.
Test/Documentation Engineer - Responsible for developing a test plan for a European Space Agency payload to fly to the MIR space station. Writing test plans/criticality failure reports to ESA space qualification standards.
January 1993 - January 1994 DEPARTMENT OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Research Associate - Software development using C & c-shell, on UNIX workstations (SUN & SGI). Worked on NASA Viking Mars data & NASA Earth Observation data. Developed computer models in C.

EDUCATION


September 1991 - October 1992 UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, DUNDEE, SCOTLAND, U.K.
MSc Remote Sensing, Image Processing and Applications
Subjects including: Software Engineering, GIS, Photogrammetry, Digital Hardware Systems, Digital & Optical Image Processing.
Research thesis: Mars research, using Russian spacecraft data. Involved collaboration & visits to scientific & space establishments in St Petersburg & Moscow, Russia, as well as much image processing using C.

October 1987 - June 1991 PORTSMOUTH UNIVERSITY, PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND, U.K.
B.Sc(Honours) Applied Physics - Second class, second division
Subjects including: Computational Physics, Telecommunications, Analogue/Digital Electronics, Quantum Mechanics.
Final year options: Advanced Computational Physics, Advanced Digital & Optoelectronics, Theoretical Physics.
Honours thesis: Quantum Mechanics, using mathematical & computational modelling in C.

PROFESSIONAL ACCREDIDATIONS
  • Chartered Physicist (CPhys)
  • Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS)
  • Member of the Institute of Physics (MInstP)
  • Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society (FBIS)

INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
  • Computer technology (hardware, scientific visualisation, neural networks, cellular automata, & chaotic systems).
  • Astronomy and space technology (especially advanced propulsion systems).
  • Renewable energy systems (currently pursuing micro hydro and sub surface wave power concepts).

PUBLICATIONS
  • Research papers presented at EarSEL Remote Sensing Symposium, International Astronautical Federation (IAF) Congress, Remote Sensing Society Publications, as well as at a number of UK space conferences.

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