Name	Nicholas Mark Fortune.
Nationality	British.
Date of Birth	21/11/61.
Education	PhD in Software Engineering, University of Sunderland (in progress) MSc. In Software Engineering, University of Sunderland, 2004. BSc in Computer Science, Kent University. 1983.
Marital Status	Married.
Availablity	Not at this time
Email	kf5f1nk02@sneakemail.com
Downloads	Some people ask for this document in MS Word format.
Hardware	x86, HP, SUN, Dec, NeXT, VAX, ICL, Pyramid.
Operating Systems	Linux (Gentoo,RedHat), Unix (ULTRIX, Aix, Xenix, etc), Windows (XP/Server/NT)
Languages	C, C++, Perl, Java, SQL, PHP, Javascript, Shell Scripts (sh, ksh, csh, Korn, Bourne), VB.NET, Tk, Unix tools, (awk, yacc, lex), Objective C
Software	Ingres, Informix, Oracle, XML, , The FVWM Window Manager , TCP/IP, Apache. Caché/Mumps, MQ Series, Tcl/Tk, MySql, Iptables, DHCP, PPP
Reading	Voracious. A mixture of technical, and SF/Fantasy. Slashdot and The Register for technical and industry news.
Computing	A custom FVWM window manager desktop running under Gentoo Linux on an Acer 1692 laptop. Home LAN includes a homebrew Athlon XP and an old P166 Laptop. Firewall and NAT using iptables on an old P266 desktop.
Open Source	Wrote a number of modules for the FVWM window manager available via the Jobclient project courtesy of Sourceforge.net .
Boards	Particpant (time permitting) on Gentoo Linux Support Forums (posting as boroshan) and on the Slashdot
Writing	Aside from technical docs some attempts at creative writing. Online samples include scripts for 2000 AD and Poetry .
Other	Holds a practitioner's certificate in Neuro Linguistic Programming
University of Sunderland / OnePoint Systems Researcher/Developer March 2005	Currently researching and designing an industrial data capture system featuring inline data mining and a stream base management system. This is an ongoing role.
Skills	WinXP, VB.NET, Gentoo Linux, Research Methodolgies
Maidenform International Analyst/Programmer March 2005	Developing an EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) upload suite to automatically load customer orders into the company database. Working on MS Windows Server 2003 using Ingres and Perl. Also some work porting system scripts from the outgoing UNIX system to run in the Windows environment.
Skills	Windows 2003 Server, Ingres, SQL, Perl
University of Sunderland MSc. Student Sep 02 - Nov 03	Assignments include UML plug-in for Jedit and a SETI style RMI concurrent work server (both Java); An expert system (Prolog); A PHP/MySQL process mapping tool; data-warehousing in PostgreSQL. Project and dissertation involved design and implementation of Codd's relational algebra using object oriented Perl
Skills	Java, Perl, Prolog, PostgreSQL, PHP, MySQL, RMI, UML
Maidenform International Analyst/Programmer December 2002	A short, Christmas holiday job, mainly Copying and converting existing reports to produce CSV data files suitable for import into Excel spreadsheets and helping get the new server configured and working.
Skills	Ingres, SQL, Report Writer, Network configuration
Open Source Development Jan 2002 - Sep 2002 Design and Implementation	Working on the Jobclient suite. Jobclient is a Perl suite to fetch jobs from Jobserve and sort them according to skills. Features an integral browser, email client and MySQL integration
Skills	Perl, Linux, HTTP, Tk, MySQL
Maidenform International Analyst/Programmer Sep 2002	Euro conversion work, modifying database tables and tables reports ready for Ireland's entry in to the Euro.
Skills	Ingres, SQL, Shell Scripts
Grapevine Solutions Analyst/Programmer July 2001	Working on site in Dublin for Grapevine clients, Eircom, doing maintenance work on the RDL server that supplies directory listings to client applications.
Skills	C, Caché, MQ Series, debug tools
Grapevine Solutions Analyst/Programmer April 2001 DEC Alpha & Solaris	Working on site for Grapevine clients, Eircom, doing maintenance work on the International Directory Enquiry Server. A long standing and highly intermittent bug had resurfaced. Working with debugging tools, core dumps and log files, the problem was traced to a logging function that used an undersized static buffer.
Skills	C, debug tools
Grapevine Solutions Analyst/Programmer May 2000 - Feb 2001 DEC Alpha & Solaris	On site at Eircom for three projects. Wrote a phone directory reverse lookip server using MQSeries and Caché; a C/Perl suite to provide real time updates to the Oracle based service order tracking system (SORTS); and to send real time updates from SORTS to a Sybase system elsewhere in Eircom.
Skills	C, Oracle, Caché, Perl, MQ Series, Tcl/Tk
one2one (T-Mobile) Analyst/Programmer Jul 1999 - Jan 2000 Unix/HP	Working for application support, both maintaining and updating legacy code, and writing new utilities: from report generators and analysis tools to a fast data scanner to search through terabytes of archived log data. Also spent some time in a tutorial capacity, to pass on some of my skills to the newer members of the team.
Skills	Perl, Shell Scripts, C, Awk, Oracle, PL/SQL
Banctec Ltd May 1998 - Feb 1999 Analyst/Programmer Unix/HP	Banctec specialise in supplying clearing houses with cheque sorting systems. Worked as part of a team on two projects: Extending the existing Bank of Scotland system to interface with the ImageFirst product, and the Lloyds CRI project using Informix, ESQL and 4GL. Also developed a testing system and an editor read and modify binary flat file data.
Skills	C, Unix, ESQL, TCP/IP, Perl, 4GL, Korn shell
SDRC (now EDS) Jul 1996 - Sep 1997 Analyst/Programmer Unix, Sun, HP, NT	Working for Océ in Holland to develop a data warehousing system using Metaphase. Programming used a C superset called Method Code and an object/database definition language called Model. Responsibilities included developing the Specification Object,the Word Perfect Application Interface, and migration tools for existing data.
Skills	Unix, C, Model/Method Code, Metaphase, Shell scripting, Visual C++
CFM Limited Apr 1996 - May 1996 Analyst/Programmer Unix. Pyramid Nile,	Writing procedures for an MOD project. Some scripting work.
Skills	Formal Documentation, Awk, VB, MS Word
Dendrite Europe Ltd Feb 1996 Analyst/Programmer AIX	Rewriting a suite of programs to upload client data to the local database following the reorganisation of the clients sales force. The task was complicated by a complete lack of documentation for the existing programs.
Skills	C, AIX, Informix, SQL
Uniplex Aug 1995 - Dec 1995 Analyst Programmer Multiple Unix Platforms	Working to help complete development of the OnGo directory server. This required sending requests to the openmail server, and them manipulating the results and sending them to the OnGo client routines. Responsibilities included writing the client API functions and developing two migration tools to convert data from the previous release into a format compatible with the new system.
Skills	C, UNIX, Client/Server, Shell Scripting, Awk, Openmail
Bull Information Systems Feb 1995 - May 1995 Analyst Programmer AIX	Capacity and integration testing using a utility called Empower. Responsibilities included writing the Empower "scripts" and creating a run time library package, as well as writing a number of analysis programs to interpret the test data.
Skills	C, Unix,/AIX, QA, Empower, Perl, General scripting
Dendrite Europe Ltd Sep 1994 - Dec 1994 Analyst/Programmer AIX, DOS	Responsible for rewriting a suite of reports in response to a change in the organisation of one of Dendrite's clients. Also wrote a few new reports and worked on the PC/DOS system.
Skills	C, AIX, SQL
UBS Dec 1992 - Dec 1993 Analyst Programmer Environment: NeXT/Unix	Part of a team developing a dealing room system. Developed the project persistence and caching mechanisms, a document generator, emulation packages for DOS and B-Trieve and considerable work on profiling and optimisation
Skills	Objective-C, C++, C, NeXT Step, Unix, Oracle, B-Trieve
AT&T Istel Feb 1991 ­ Dec 1992 Analyst/Programmer AT&T UNIX	Developing a Value Added Data System, using code generation driven by Jackson Structured Design specification documents. Developed the code generator, virtual machine and inter process communication library using shared memory, message queues and later remote procedure calls.
Skills	C++, Unix, JSD, RPC, Obejct Oriented Design & Implementation
Spillers Ltd	Migrating the company order and delivery tracking system to UNIX/SQL. Migration utilities and application coding.
Skills	Ingres, C, Embedded SQL
Morgan Grenfell	Working for Morgan's internal finance division, writing reports and data input applications.
Skills	Ingres, C, Embedded SQL
Texas Instruments	Customer support database using
Skills	Informix 4GL, ESQL
Unisystems Software	A Eurobond trading system for Chemical Bank.
Skills	Unix, C, Informix