Paul Makepeace

BA, MA Maths, Computer Science, Electronic Engineering
Resident in Dublin, Ireland
Phone: [on request]
Email: jobs­@­paulm.com
No permanent job offers, thanks

Education

2000 MA Degree Cambridge University, England (graduation by proxy)
1993-1996 BA Degree Cambridge University, England
BA Maths, Computer Science, EIST (Electronic and Information Systems)
1990-1992 A-Levels Filton College, Bristol
Pure Maths (A), Applied Maths (A), Physics (A), Chemistry (A), Electronics [AS-Level] (A)
Cambridge STEP Mathematics (1) Cambridge STEP Further Mathematics (1)

Skills: Programming Languages

Language Period Used Last Used
Perl (4.036 - 5.8.8) 7.5 years commercial + considerable study. 30 months for CGI programming. Nov 2008
Python 18 months commercial Nov 2008
JavaScript 18 months commercial Nov 2008
C 2.5 commercial Nov 2008
HTML (v2.0 - 4.01
& XHTML 1.0 + CSS2)
6.5yrs Nov 2008
SQL (see below) Advanced use; over four years commercial Nov 2008
Unix tools: sh, sed, awk, etc 15 years commercial Nov 2008
Java Lightweight client and server applications, JavaBeans training April 2001
ML, Prolog, C++ Courses at university, recreational study May 1995

Skills: Environments

Environment Period Used Last Used
Unix:
SunOS 4, Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, 8 Linux (Redhat, Debian, SuSE), HP/UX
Four years pure administration (Solaris) +
3 years commercial `power' use + 8yrs general `recreational' use. I own & operate two Debian GNU/Linux servers, one in California, one in London.
Nov 2008
Windows: Windows XP, Windows 2000 Server, Windows NT4.0 Server, IIS 3.0, Windows 95+98 official beta-tester 3 months commercial NT administration + 5 years desktop use Nov 2008
Internet development: HTML, CGI, FTP, etc 5.5yrs commercial Nov 2008
Database:
Oracle 7, 8, 8i (+DBA), Access, Informix, MySQL, PostgreSQL 7.x
3.5 years months commercial + general programmatic use through Perl/DBI Nov 2008

Employment

Client, Area Related site Period Summary
Google
Dublin, Ireland
Google, Ireland 06/2006 -
present
Gmail infrastructure and production operation. Software development for monitoring, debugging, logging, and deployments. Python, Perl, JavaScript.
BBC
London, UK
BBC New Media & Technology 09/2005 -
06/2006
Developer on team for internal publishing/programme modelling project. Perl, Catalyst, ORM, SQLite
Investor Dynamics
London, UK
Investor Dynamics 12/2004 -
present
Chief software architect and developer designing for news aggregation and analysis. Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, XML
Urban Tapestries
London, UK
Urban Tapestries 03/2004 -
07/2004
Lead software developer implementing Apache/mod_perl XMLRPC proxy
Proboscis hosting
London, UK
Proboscis 03/2004 -
06/2004
Took on Proboscis's several sites onto a dedicated server as my largest hosting client.
Corrobbo
London, UK
corrobbo.com 12/2002 -
12/2003
Architecture and implementation of complex Web-based project execution environment
UCEfree
London, UK
UCEfree.com 10/2002 -
present
Conception through deployment of "spam" filtering service that operates with a Web-frontend. mod_perl/Apache
Interoute
London, UK
(interoute.com) 6/2002 -
8/2002
Creation of a series of programs (perl, sh) that deploy a monitoring agent across a farm of DNS, web, and mail servers through an SSH remote port forward connection.
Platfrom
London, UK
platfrom.net 5/2002 Technical implementation of a small art project. mod_perl/Apache/mod_rewrite
DHAP Digital, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
(www.dhapdigital.com) 07/2001 -
10/2001
Design & build of Web-based Web monitoring and content integrity check tool
Virtual Health Networks, Inc.
Pacific Grove, CA
(vhnetworks.org) 06/2001 -
06/2001
Development and integration of Open Source mail technologies (exim, perl, tpop3d) with Oracle 8i
Herman Miller RED, Inc.
New York, NY
(www.hermanmillerred.com) 04/2001 -
04/2001
Mac OS X Objective C (Cocoa) client/Java server data visualization art piece
Independent Curators Int'l
San Francisco, CA
telematic.walkerart.org 01/2001 -
02/2001
Design & build of routing Linux NAT/DHCP/firewall server; on-site artist tech liaison; network design, build & wiring
Virtual Health Network
Pacific Grove, CA
(www.vhnetworks.org) 01/2001 Architectural consultancy; Oracle 8i configuration
RAD Systems
Carmel, California
www.radsystems.net 05/2000-
12/2000
Ground-up infrastructure development (mail, web, DNS, server, installation); Apache/mod_perl development; Linux admin; team & methodology lead; technical directorship
Cable & Wireless USA
Houston, TX
(www.cwusa.com) 11/1999 -
04/2000
Perl development & maintenance for ISP roll-out in Bermuda; XML/XSLT in-house training
Schlumberger Omnes
Houston, TX
(www.omnes.slb.com) 02/1999 -
10/1999
Migrate LDAP services from Omnes to Schlumberger; build, install, security, backup for LDAP Solaris servers; advanced mail server development & configuration
C&W Balloon
London, UK
www.cwballoon.com 11/1998 -
01/1999
Consultancy, technical liaison, news/press release publishing system, interactive dynamic route tracking map.
Perl 5.004, CGI, HTML, JavaScript
UK Meteorological Office
London, UK
dpds.meto.gov.uk 07/1998 -
01/1999
Interactive data/image purchasing system and delivery.
Perl 5.004, CGI, HTML, JavaScript
Cloudband.com
London, UK
www.cloudband.com 10/1998 Consultancy, Linux installation. Apache, FTP, Web, IMAP mail, DNS, MySQL
Ford Credit Europe
London, UK
www.fordcredit.co.uk 09/1998 Settlement Enquiry.
Perl 5.004, CGI, HTML
Eidoscope
(sub-contract for ITV)
London, UK
www.itv-f1.com 06/1998 News publishing system.
OO Perl 5.004, Apache, CGI, HTML, JavaScript
Soft Options
London, UK
(www.softopt.co.uk) 01/1998 -
05/1998
Solaris/NT network and systems admin, Perl/SQL maintenance
Syzygy Ltd
London, UK
www.cartoon-network.co.uk
www.wpp.com
www.syzygy.net
09/1997 -
01/1998
Internet/Web development.
HTML, Perl, CGI, SQL, JavaScript, Oracle DBA, Informix, Access, NT, Unix
Quintek Ltd
Bristol, UK
- 07/1997 Night Vision and Mapping:
FPGA design
Quintek Ltd
Bristol, UK
www.quintek.co.uk 08/1996 -
11/1997
Distributed monitoring system.
Internet/Web, Video, Linux, HTML, Java, C, Perl, Client/Server
Inmos UK
Bristol, UK
- 11/1995 -
08/1995
11/1994 -
08/1994
Technical library system.
Unix/C, Perl, Parallel Processing, occam
K-Par
Bristol, UK
- 09/1994 Medical imaging.
Unix/C
Inmos UK
Bristol, UK
- 07/1993 -
08/1994
Net. Analysis tools.
Unix/C, occam, Transputer

Viewing past work

A great deal of the above work was built for internal use or Intranets; the rest is either now offline but in a few cases still usable. A selection of the work aimed at Intranet or restricted-access like the Met.Office DPDS system I still host in a password-protected `Extranet' site on my development servers for demonstration purposes. Please email me to arrange a viewing and obtain appropriate passwords etc.

Detail

For those interested in the technical specifics of these projects and my roles in them, I have provided more detail.

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