Curriculum Vitae - Murray Cumming

Linux/Unix/GNU: C++, GTK+, gtkmm, Qt, automake, autoconf, GCC, CVS, svn, Perl, Apache, PostgreSQL, CORBA
Windows: Visual C++ (MFC, ActiveX, COM, ATL, Standard Library), Visual Basic, Installshield
Other: Java (Eclipse), JSP (Jakarta-Tomcat), XML

Custom C and C++ software development, mostly for Linux and GTK+ based embedded projects, for customers such as Nokia and other consumer and industrial device manufacturers.

Refactoring and stabilisation of a streaming media control sub-system for a VoIP project on an embedded Linux platform.

Implementation of a high-performance C++ client-server network system for fast retrieval of user profiles from large data sets, for integration with targeted online advertising servers.

Creating a gtkmm-based C++ API for the Maemo Hildon platform used in Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet.

Porting C++ libraries (libsigc++, glibmm, and gtkmm) to SUN Solaris Forte, AIX, Tru64, and IRIX MipsPro compilers.

Creating a cross-platform implementation of existing Push-To-Talk and Presence software, for mobile phones, using C++:

• Creation of RTP/AMR steaming audio API.

• Porting libxml to the embedded platform.

Part of a large team developing a C++ GUI toolkit and applications for mobile phones, using multiple embedded C++ compilers and hardware and the MSVC++ compiler with a Windows-based simulator.

• Integration of T9 predictive-input system.

• Design of audio subsystem API.

• Integration of WAP and MMS browsers.

• Linux system administration.

• Cross-platform C++ Mac and Windows extension libraries for FileMaker Pro, including interfacing with Java via JNI and Python as an embedded interpreter. With Visual C++, and Metrowerks CodeWarrior.

• Pocket Waiter Handheld restaurant ordering system, with C++ on PocketPC, using MSMQ and MSXML, and VB.net on the server.

• Installed CVS server, with lxr and bonsai web interfaces.

• Development of GUI front-end used to configure and manage an access control system for digital satellite television networks, which in turn determines who is entitled to view each channel or show.
  Implemented in C++ on Solaris, with QT, DBTools.h++, Sybase, and  the Xerces-C++ XML parser.

• Created smartpointer-based C++ wrappers for Sybase CT client library.

• Development of Content & Community web functionality.
  Implemented with JSP (Jakarta-Tomcat) via Gauss Interprise VIP Portal Manager on Solaris.

• Also set up Autonomy search engine and Bugzilla bug-tracking system.

Projects:

• Microbrowser Configuration Tool
  User-friendly application used to configure Microbrowser SIM cards for the Wireless Internet Gateway. 
  GUI written with Visual C++ (MFC plus Stingray's Objective Studio). Reusable class hierarchies written in ANSI C++ with STL.
• STARSIM Designer - Unicode support
  Modifying an existing 'SIM Toolkit' Application Designer to support the Chinese language in Windows via Unicode.
• SATML-ByteCode Converter
  Part of a SIM Alliance microbrowser system. Compiles SBC bytecode from SATML documents. 
  NT/Solaris/Linux ANSI C++ library and command-line tool. Uses the Xerces-C++ XML parser.
  With a JNI Java wrapper class.

Main Projects:

• SIMtelligence Application Designer
  A user-friendly development environment for building 'SIM Toolkit' applications, which then interact with a back-end database over GSM to provide interactive consumer services.
  Main application written in Visual C++ (MFC plus Stingray's Objective Toolkit), with ActiveX and ANSI C++ reusable components, during 3 months working at HQ in Paderborn, Germany.
• Java Virtual Machine for handheld devices
  A 'clean-room' JVM implementation, written in ANSI C++ from the JVM specification, without any of Sun's code.
• Loyalty Scheme Builder
  A user-friendly database system which allows small businesses to manage the members and products in a smartcard loyalty scheme. Also allows the desk terminal's interface to be configured and downloaded from the PC.
  Front-end written in Visual Basic, using ActiveX controls and COM objects written in Visual C++ (MFC and ATL).
• Card-Type Recogniser
  Application which performs various tests on a smartcard, and then infers the type of the smartcard based on the results. As a sub-project, I developed several reusable COM protocol implementations which were subsequently used and improved in several other projects.
  Written in Visual C++ (MFC and ATL).

• Consultancy and development of highly usable bespoke Relational Database Systems. For example Accounting systems, Membership systems, Booking systems, complete MIS systems.

• Maintenance of Web and email systems.

• Writing plug-ins with C++ (Visual C++ and Codewarrior)