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Curriculum Vitae |
| Name | Glynn Robert Bird |
| Date of Birth | 18th November 1969 |
| Gender | Male |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Address | Middlesbrough, UK |
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| Nunthorpe Comprehensive | 9 'O' levels |
| South Park 6th Form College | 4 'A' levels |
| University of Teesside | BSc (hons) Business Computing 1st Class |
Working in the Control and Instrumentation department of British Steel's Research and Development arm, I was sponsored during my degree studies. I progressed from an instrument technician through the ranks of middle management. My work included producing embedded and PC-based computer systems to record and visualise data within the steel industry. The C, Forth and C++ languages were used in a wide variety of projects.
Left Corus, taking voluntary redundancy, taking a role as web developer. Projects included:
- web-based CRM system to service 100+ sales employees. C-executable + MySQL, later replaced by PHP + MySQL
- Ecommerce website builder for small businesses. Windows application sending data back to PHP + MySQL website
- UK's first phone tracking application for the public. PHP + MySQL making API calls to mobile phone networks. Similar system launched in South Africa.
Left MI after take-over, to work as Java web developer (Struts) in the front-end team developing an application to allow hauliers plan the movement of heavy and abnormal loads on the UK transport road network, for the Highways Agency.
Returned to former employer as "IT Manager", responsible for office IT, software development, data curation and production provisioning staff. Projects included:
- PHP + in-house BerkeleyDB search index
- PHP + MySQL + FastSearch (proprietary)
- PHP + MySQL + ElasticSearch - currently powering www.scoot.co.uk
- iPhone/iPad App for directory search
- web-based CRM, including real-time wallboards built with WebSockets
- phone dialling automation built with Node.js + sockets
- API-driven business directory using Cloudant with Lucene search. Included syndication with other data suppliers, telephony-based phone validation with Twilio, PayPal payments, Redshift data warehousing
Developer advocate for IBM Cloud producing blog posts, sample apps and presenting talks at technical conferences. I advocated for a variety of products in the IBM catalogue including Cloudant, Redis, OpenWhisk, Jupyter Notebooks and Object Storage.
- Programming - C, C++, Objective-C, PHP, Forth, Java, Javascript, Node.js, Python, Solidity
- Databases - MySQL, Postgresql, MS-SQL, Redis, MongoDB, Apache CouchDB, BerkeleyDB
- Development Team Management - Managing development teams including testing, design and database in short, agile sprints (2-3 days).
- Written communication - My written output is proflific but clear and thorough with an emphasis on explaining difficult topics in digestable terms, without sacrificing detail.
- Serverless technology - Apache OpenWhisk & AWS Lambda using Node.js.
- Smart Contracts on the Ethereum blockchain - Writing contract code in Solidity. I have presented talks and workshops on Ethereum and blockchain technologies.
- Open source - Many open source software contributions. Apache contributor and producer of command-line utilites, libraries and demos, many published on npm.
- Public speaking - Extensive public speaking experience at meetups and conferences. Video