Curriculum Vitæ

Experience

Senior Staff Engineer

Primary role – real-time embedded software engineering for UTMS Release 6.

•       Design, implementation and test of MAC-layer HSUPA, most notably the E‑TFCI selection subsystem.

o      Both SDL and C interfaces implemented.

o      Traditional software design methodology (V-model) employed.  Solid documentation was demanded due to the complexity of the specification.

o      Test harnesses written in TTCN and C, for early verification of algorithms.

o      Due to the nature of the high-speed uplink, significant time was needed for profiling and optimising.  The Lauterbach ETM was employed for this task, along with various network test equipment.

•       Creation of various tools and utilities in a variety of languages, including C, Perl and VBA.

•       Recruitment and interviewing.

Contract Software Engineer

Primary role – Analysis, test and verification of UMTS layer 3 protocol software.

•       Studied existing source code (written in SDL and C) in order to provide proposals for improvements in performance and to seek oversights in meeting the specification.

•       Provided analysis of bug reports from in-field testing – initially to determine the validity of the report. Implemented fixes where necessary and developed TTCN test scripts for their verification.

Senior Software Engineer

Primary role – real-time embedded software engineering for Samsung UMTS handsets, primarily focussed on the User Equipment’s Radio Resource Controller (RRC). In-depth study of RRC also brought with it knowledge of the interfacing layers – PHY, MAC and RLC.

•       Present from the beginning of the project, applied the full software development lifecycle, from requirements definition, through detailed design (using UML) and implementation (in object-oriented C) to interoperability testing at international sites.

•       Designed, implemented and tested the RRC measurements subsystem. At ~40,000 lines of pure source code, was one of the single biggest modules in the stack.

•       Developed a bespoke finite state machine framework. Allowed asynchronous messaging within RRC and incorporated interfaces into the Nucleus operating system.

•       Designed and supervised the implementation of the resource management subsystem. Created time-plans for, monitored the progress of and mentored more junior engineers.

•       ‘Employee of the quarter’ – Q1 2003. Given in recognition of time spent assisting new engineers as they joined the team.

•       Recruitment and interviewing. Evaluated CVs and interviewed candidates hoping to join Samsung as graduate engineers.

Software Engineer

Primary role – real-time embedded software engineering for Motorola’s implementation of Tetra base stations.

•       Embedded ‘C’ programming for deployment on a pSOS™ target, on the HP-UX UNIX platform. Gained familiarity with the SNMP and TCP protocols through new development and bug fixes. Designed and implemented a task to throttle rapidly repeating SNMP TRAPs.

•       SDL software engineering for the Call Processing application and associated test suites. Designed and implemented a new Tetra Call Processing feature (Dynamic Group Number Assignment) for the pending software release.

•       Design and development of a web-based software reuse library, which allowed users to upload new tools, and browse and download existing tools.

Assistant Radio Engineer

•       Studying new product development for deployment within Europe. Assisted in the evaluation of frequency synthesisers for a new product design.

•       Developed and implemented MS Access® database for the easy retrieval of in-house documentation.

•       Developed Visual Basic programs to aid configuration/ documentation management.

Education

•       Final classification – 2:1 MEng Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

•       Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry.

•       9 GCSEs (including French and German).

Relevant Skills

Programming:

•       C/C++, Java, PERL, SDL/SDT, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, VB

•       Object-Oriented design and implementation.

Applications:

•       ClearCase (Windows and Unix), including some administration experience; ClearQuest; Perforce; MagicDraw UML, including site administration; MS Office (also capable VBA developer); pROBE+™ (pSOS debugger); Lauterbach Trace32 (ARM debugger); Domino™ network monitor; Various IDEs (including MS Visual Studio, Source Insight, SNIFF+)

Operating Systems:

•       Highly skilled in installation and use of MS Windows® 3.x/ 9x/ NT/ 2000/ XP and MSDOS®.

•       Linux installation / administration – I maintain a Linux server at my home, which provides the DNS, HTML, database (MySQL) and email services for www.dougalseeley.com; it also hosts several other domains.  Design and maintenance of www.rafspa.com (skydiving website).

•       Competent user of UNIX (HP-UX, Sun Solaris) workstations.

Held full (clean) UK driving licence since 1993, (motorcycle entitlement since 1996).

Interests

Skydiving – competed in the British National 4-way competitions 2004-2008; Bronze medallist in 2007.  I have also written several applications (in C and Java) for skydiver training – freely available on my web/ wap site.  Occasional squash and badminton player.  Occasional radio controlled model aeroplane & helicopter pilot.

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