Tim Haynes
| Address: | available on request Location: near Taynuilt, Argyll, Scotland | Website: | http://www.shinyphoto.co.uk/ |
| Contact: | Tel. (+44) (0)141 416 6164 Skype: spodzone | Email: | cv@shinyphoto.co.uk |
Profile
An enthusiastic graduate of Edinburgh, interested in all things data, Web and Semantic Web, GNU/Linux and open-source.
Skills
Web technologies especially XML, XSLT, Wiki, RSS+Atom; SEO. Some experience with Plone, WordPress and other CMS engines.
Databases and Data-Access through ODBC and JDBC to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, OpenIngres etc; SQL
Semantic Web technologies: RDF, SPARQL, RDFa
System-administration: networking, firewalling, DNS, email, service monitoring; Linux (particularly Debian and Ubuntu) and other Unix (Solaris, AIX), Mac OS X; Virtualization (VirtualBox / Xen); backups, security
Public-facing: documentation and engineering the software release process; technical support
Development in Ruby, Perl, Scheme, Haskell, Python, C (in decreasing frequency of use).
Employment History / Experience
Overview:
| February 2002 - current | OpenLink Software, product development |
| June 2000 - February 2002 | Linux Consultant, EMCuk Ltd |
| May 1999 - May 2000 | Software Test Engineer, Micromuse Plc |
| June 1997 - May 1999 | Support Consultant, OpenLink Software |
Since my return to OpenLink Software in 2002, my major achievements have included:
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Designing, hosting and maintaining OpenLink's public wiki-web server (for all products)
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Redesigning, hosting and maintaining the www.iODBC.org website (twice)
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Public releasing of many versions of OpenLink's open-source projects, notably the iODBC driver manager, Virtuoso, the ODBC Adapter for Ruby on Rails, ODBC Bench and more
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Writing and debugging the SWEO submission engine website for the use of the W3C
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Creating the packaging system for OpenLink Virtuoso (Enterprise Edition) and initial packaging of the open-source edition on Debian GNU/Linux
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Initial work on OpenLink's Ruby-on-Rails ODBC adaptor
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Moving the entire US office netblock allocation, including hosted services, whilst running live, remotely
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Ongoing (re)installation & remote maintenance of 13 GNU/Linux servers
EMCuk Ltd specialises in GNU/Linux system implementation and support. With my interest in open-source software and specialism in Linux, making it a career move was an opportunity not to be missed. I provided consultancy on system specification and installation, 24x7 support and on-site development for large and small companies (including financial website company with 80,000 registered users). It was during my time at EMCuk that I took, and passed, the RHCE.
Micromuse were the authors of the Netcool network-monitoring system. I worked in the Testing department, creating test-rigs to establish the performance of monitors for various implementations of network protocols (eg HTTP, SMTP+IMAP+POP3, DNS, Radius, SNMP) on several Unix-style OSs (Linux, Solaris, AIX, HPUX).
In my first term at OpenLink Software, I provided first- and second-line support and (latterly) professional consultancy services to blue-chip companies. Internally, my responsibilities included maintaining installations of databases (especially OpenIngres, Informix, Sybase and Oracle) and ODBC and JDBC drivers fit for problem-recreating and testing bugfixes; working with a variety of client applications such as MS Office, VB, Crystal Reports, Impromptu; providing valuable presence on Usenet newsgroups; documentation. My achievements included closing 1500 support calls in 20 months.
Education
| December 2000 | RedHat Certified Engineer (number 807000717402375) |
| 1996 | BSc. General Science, The University of Edinburgh. |
| A-Levels: 1993 | Computing, General Studies, Physics, Mathematics, Further Mathematics. |
| GCSEs - 1992 | Astronomy |
| GCSEs - 1991 | Mathematics, Computing, Chemistry, Physics, French, German, English (literature and language), Religious Studies, History. |
Interests & Achievements
My interests outside work include:
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photography (mostly landscape, mostly of Scotland, spanning digital to medium- and large-format film work; I prefer to develop my own black&white and E6 films myself);
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the Church (previously a member of a provincial committee / board in the Scottish Episcopal Church);
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website-development, both for my own photography and for several churches in both the SEC and Church of Scotland.
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Maintaining two colo-servers in London providing hosting for friends.
I believe in best-of-web practices such as the use of valid XHTML+RDFa, CSS, clean accessible designs; in open-source software and adherence to open standards; the Web as a way to further independence from OS.
Desired Roles
I am looking for a role involving GNU/Linux system-administration, web-development and/or data-access. I am particularly interested in expanding my knowledge of virtualization technologies at present. My main requirement is the ability to work from home in Scotland much of the time.
References
References are available on request.
