| Software engineer, NCAR | Jan 2006 - Jan 2008 |
| Compusys | May 2005 - Dec 2005 |
| Allinea | Sep 2004 - Apr 2005 |
| Round the world trip | Nov 2003 - Jul 2004 |
| 11 countries in Asia, Australasia and the South Pacific | |
| UK Met Office, Senior Scientific Officer | 2002 - 2003 |
| International Technical Support | 2002 - 2003 |
| Provided pre and post sales support of Met Office software sold worldwide. Configured HP-UX and Linux systems for customer trials and planned operational implementations. Successfully configured live data system using Horace for the World Summit in Johannesburg. This gave the Met Office worldwide exposure and led to sale to Tanzania. | |
| Supercomputer Software Support | 2001 - 2002 |
| Planned code restructuring for Unified Model, a very large and complicated combined weather and climate modeling program written in Fortran and run on Cray T3E supercomputers. Proposed and implemented code quality improvements, arranged benchmarks for new supercomputer procurement and assisted in machine evaluation. | |
| Project System Administrator | 1993 - 2001 |
| Led the system administration for the 4 Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation and Observation Pre-Processing. projects. These were the first large mathematical models implemented in Fortran 90 and C in the organisation. Designed source code management system, integrated documentation system and graphical user interface. Designed, implemented and tuned MPP version of the code and ensured portability on a wide variety of hardware platforms, managing software transition across machine and OS upgrades. Projects went operational in 1997-8. | |
| Extended work on supporting shell scripts to develop a Suite Control System used to schedule the running of a wide variety of complex operational and research jobs. | |
| Logica Aerospace and Defense | 1989 - 1992 |
| Developed bespoke software systems in C for Government and Industrial clients in large teams running a formal software development lifecycle. | |
| IBM | 1985 - 1986 |
| Pre-university year spent with IBM in technical support group of a marketing branch. | |
| Remote Sensing MSc, University of London | 1992 - 1993 |
| Distinction in a joint course run by Physics department, Imperial College, and Photogrammetry and Surveying (now Geomatic Engineering) department, University College. Course covered the basic principles of Remote Sensing, with special options in Remote Sensing of Atmospheres and Oceans, and Image Understanding, and a four month project at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, using Radar Altimeter data from ERS-1 to estimate lake heights. | |
| BA(Hons) Physics, Exeter College, Oxford | 1986 - 1989 |
| 2.1 in a conventional physics course with third year options in Astrophysics and Physics of Atmospheres and Oceans. | |
| Scholar at Dulwich College | 1979 - 1985 |
| 10 O-Levels, 9 at grade 'A', including English and Maths | |
| 4 A-levels, Mathematics (A), Further Mathematics (A), Chemistry (A), Physics (A1) | |