NAME	Adam Pigg
ADDRESS	Please contact me for details
TELEPHONE NUMBER	Please contact me for details
EMAIL ADDRESS	adam@piggz.co.uk
DATE OF BIRTH	18 December 1978
DRIVING LICENSE	Full UK

EXPERIENCE	9/2001-Present	British Nuclear Group	Sellafield
	Control Systems Team Member
	Worked as part of the Encapsulation Plants control systems team. Duties include: Software development over the whole development life cycle (design -> maintenance) in line with IEC 61508. Implementation of new systems. Development of site wide information systems. Language use includes C/C++/VB/Pascal on Windows/Linux/VMS Modifications to hardware and software of SCADA and Information Systems. PES(Programmable Electronic System) Manager and PES Engineer routine tasks such as performance monitoring, auditing, routine maintenance of systems. Plant improvements

	12/2000 - 1/2001	UCB Films plc	Wigton, Cumbria
	IT Industrial Placement Student
	Work experience over the Christmas period, continuing development of applications to be used over the site.

	7/1999 - 9/2000	UCB Films plc	Wigton, Cumbria
	IT Industrial Placement Student
	Worked as part of the IT team, developing in-house applications for the site, such as monitoring applications using an SQL database backend, and using a variety of programming languages. Also set up Linux servers and workstations for custom tasks such as file sharing, X-Server support and custom development. Also aided with the day-to-day running of the IT department by fixing users' problems.

	6/1998 - 9/1998	Cumbria Construction Services	Carlisle, Cumbria
	IT Work Experience Student
	Worked on the IT help desk, logging calls and fixing user problems as they arose. Mainly based on PC hardware and software, such as replacing components and fixing driver and application problems.

EDUCATION	University Of Sunderland	6/2001
	Bachelor's Degree
	I have completed a BSc in Computing, and obtained a Second Class Honours Degree (First Division) (2.1). This was a technical degree with an emphasis on programming and professional design methodologies. My final year modules and results were as follows: (scale 1 - 16) 15 - Advanced Object-Oriented Software Design 14 - Knowlede Engineering 13 - Graphic & Image Processing 11 - Advanced Software Engineering 10 - Project 10 - HCI

	Nelson Thomlinson School	6/1997
	6th Form
	Obtained the following 'A' Levels C - Mathematics C - Physics C - IT (AS Level) D - General Studies

	Nelson Thomlinson School	6/1995
	Secondary School
	Obtained the following GCSE's A - Mathematics A - Science (Double Award) A - Science (Double Award) B - Keyboarding Applications C - Geography C - English Language D - English Literature D - French D - Graphic Design

SOFTWARE PROJECTS	Project Name	Description
	Kexi (www.kexi-project.org)	Development of a database driver for the Open Source Kexi Desktop Database application. This involved the development of a driver library that would allow kexi to use the PostgreSQL Database server for storage of information, as opposed to the native, file based sqlite engine. This was developed in C++ using the KDE libraries and framework and involved interfacing with other team members from various countries across the world.
	Amarok (amarok.kde.org)	Amarok is a media player for the K Desktop Environment. Developed several visualisation widgets, resulting in the separation of 2D and 3D widgets and a new OpenGL rotating graphic equalizer. This framework was the basis for several more OpenGL widgets by other developers.
	Backup Server	Development of a Networked Backup Server to provide services to legacy plant systems for which no other solution had been identified. This consisted of a specially configured server that allowed legacy VAX based systems to boot over the network. Which in turn allowed the disks to be copied to the system as images. Also provided was a means of backing up systems daily by implementing the appropriate network protocols used by the VMS operating system.
	Auditor Service/Database	This project is made up of 3 parts: The auditor service (A windows NT service application) An SQL database backend (Currently running on PostgreSQL on Linux but easily portable to MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle or Interbase) A database interface running from MS Access using ODBC to link to the database server. This generates reports and requests audits. The service collects hardware and software information from a PC and stores it on the database server. The client service can run on any number of PC’s so as to collect site information.
	Performance Monitor Service/Database	The performance monitor takes the same structure as the auditor, a service, database and interface, but instead collects computer usage information to analyse computer usage over a network thus allowing decisions to be made on future software installations and system upgrades.
	ZiNc Direct Input Plugin	ZiNc is an emulator for the Sony ZN-1 and ZN-2 and Namco System 11 arcade machines. The initial releases of the emulator only allowed keyboard control, but allowed new input systems to be developed using plugins (in the form of dll's). I wrote such a plugin that allowed for joystick/pad control by using the direct input api. The plugin was developed in C++ using borlands C++ builder.
	Online Message Board	This project allows a company to display important messages to its users through an Online Message or Notice board. The message board renders messages using the Microsoft HTML rendering engine, allowing messages to be displayed in HTML or any Microsoft Office format using OLE. Messages are stored on a central web server such as a Linux system running the apache web server.
	Clock Copy	This application parses a formatted text file containing the time that employees clock in and out of work, and sends this data to an AS/400 server for processing.
	Prototype GUI Design Tool	This is a Unix (Solaris/Linux) application that allows a software developer to prototype a design of a GUI using a text file containing an XML like description of that GUI. The file is parsed and the GUI is displayed in the application. Interactive editing is also possible, as is creating a GUI from scratch in the application.

SKILLS	Skill Name	Skill Level	Last Used	Experience
	C/C++	Advanced	Currently Used	6 years
	Assembly	Beginner	4 years ago	1 years
	Ladder Logic (AB PLC)	Intermediate	Currently Used	2 years
	GeFICS SCADA	Intermediate	Currently Used	3 years
	Pascal	Intermediate	Currently Used	4 years
	Delphi	Intermediate	4 years ago	2 years
	Linux Setup / Administration	Intermediate (RHCT)	Currently Used	6 years
	Software Engineering Methodologies	Intermediate	Currently Used	6 years
	Graphic & Image Processing	Beginner	4 years ago	1 years
	Microsoft Windows NT 4 Workstation	Intermediate	Currently Used	5 years
	Microsoft Windows NT 4 Server	Intermediate	1 year ago	1 years
	TCP/IP Networking	Intermediate	Currently Used	5 years
	Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional	Intermediate	Currently Used	3 years
	Database Development	Intermediate	Currently Used	6 years
	SQL Databases	Intermediate	Currently Used	6 years
	ODBC Databases	Beginner	Currently Used	2 years
	SOAP Programming	Beginner/Intermediate	Currently Used	2 years
	Visual Basic	Intermediate	Currently Used	4 years
	KDE/QT Programming	Intermediate	Currently Used	3 years

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

During my time at university, I gained many skills and created several pieces of software. My main achievement at university was my final year project which was described as 'the most technical in several years' I enjoy squash and mountain biking, and am a member of the cumbria linux user group. In other spare time i contribute to the open source desktop environment KDE.

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