Rowland Shaw

Personal Details

Address: 6 Foden Avenue, IPSWICH, IP1 5PH. United Kingdom.	E-Mail: rowland@local-angle.com
	Tel: +44 (0)1473 434987
	Fax: 0871 781 1143
	Mobile: +44 (0)7957 415678
Date of Birth: 23 November 1977, British Passport holder.

Employment History

Business Objects (Previously, Seagate Software and Crystal Decisions)

Software Engineer, Applications Team, August 2003 — Present Day

Thin Client Developer, Analytics Group, May 2001 — August 2003

SORT Developer, Emergency Response team, August 1999 — May 2001

Architected and implemented a new 'dashboard' product that complements the Crystal product suite.
Responsible for re-architecting the Crystal Analysis product to allow porting from being a Windows only product to UNIX.
Mentored new members of staff, to bring them up to speed with product architectures.
Managed scalability and stability testing for the OLAP product suite.
Responsible for investigating and resolving issues with released products.
In charge of EMEA Intranet for R&D Department.
Assisted company in aligning resources with business needs to support reallocation of corporate investments
Taught courses on subjects such as XSLT, SOAP, Perl and GIS.
Researched new technologies and their impact on the company's product suite such as IPv6

Skill Summary: XSLT, ISAPI and ASP Plug-ins, DHTML, ATL COM, Visual C++, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Rational Robot

RCP Consultants

Junior Programmer, Summers of 1995, 1996, 1997 & 1998

Wrote VRML tutorial for long term training programme.
Developed CGI solutions for the external company website.
Developed code for software used in international currency trading with Visual C++.
Software testing to ISO 9000 standards.

Skill Summary: DHTML, Visual C++, VRML.

Technical Skills

Skilled at administering and developing web solutions with Apache, IIS, MySQL, PHP, ASP and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server.

Experienced developing and debugging using Microsoft Visual Studio range (versions 5 thru .NET)

Configured and adept at using systems based around Microsoft Windows up to Windows 2003 Server, RedHat Linux, Sun Solaris and IBM AIX

Respected member of several industry mailing lists and Usenet groups related to developing using leading edge technologies such as XSLT and XML.

Confident at using all members of the Microsoft Office family of products, notably including Word, PowerPoint, MapPoint and Access.

Education

University of Essex - June 1999

2:1 BSc (Hon's) in Computer Science (Software Engineering).

Didcot Sixth Forms - June 1996

A-Levels (Physics: B, Mathematics: C, Further Mathematics: C, Chemistry: C and General Studies: E)

St. Birinus School - June 1994

10 GCSEs

Other Awards

Brainbench Certified Internet Professional Web Developer - Client-side
Brainbench Certified Internet Professional Web Developer - Server-side
Brainbench Certified Internet Professional Web Developer - Page layout
Brainbench Certified Internet Professional Web Administration - Linux
Brainbench Certified Internet Professional Web Administration - Unix
Brainbench Certified Master in WWW Concepts, MS Internet Explorer 5.5 Fundamentals , HTML 4.0, HTML 3.2 and CGI Scripting
Brainbench Certified in 17 other subjects
Full, Clean, UK Driving License
Crest Gold Award

Interests

I enjoy a variety of activities; particular favourites are photography, rock climbing and live entertainments. I also spend a lot of time and enjoyment researching and developing websites for local communities.

Referees

Nick Kotarski,

Business Objects, 4 Civic Drive, Ipswich, Suffolk. IP1 2QA.

Eva Pinkanova,

RCP Consultants, Richards House, 81 The Broadway, Didcot, Oxon. OX11 8EQ.

Last updated: 9^th February 2004
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