Jon's CV

This is my formal CV. If you'd like a better idea of what I'm like as a person, check out the informal CV on the same site.

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Personal information

Full name:	Jonathan Simon Green
Nationality:	British
Location:	Cambridge, England
Languages:	English, French (GCSE level), Chinese (some conversational), minor smatterings of Spanish, Dutch, German, Italian
Other:	Non-smoker; full, clean driving licence.
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Rôles considered:

Consultancy: Interim CTO / Technical Director; technical consultancy; business consultancy (selecting Far East production partners, overseeing knowledge and technology transfer); Non-Executive Director

Permanent: CTO / Technical Director; other Board positions; possibly senior architect / developer

I am very open to all opportunities, so if you have an alternative that isn't listed above, please drop me an email, and let's chat.

Skills

Primary business

CEO of three companies (consumer electronics manufacturer; consultancy; rights-owning non-trading shell)
Overseas manufacture
Company accounts
Demerger
Rights Issue
Promotion and sales

Primary technical

Languages:

Language	Cumulative time
C	27 years
C++	7 years
Assemblers (many)	14 years
Unix/Linux shell scripts	27 years
Adobe® PostScript™	3 years
HTML	8 years
PHP	2 years
Python	Some
Javascript	Some

Platforms
(commercial experience):

Platform	Cumulative time
Unix (all types)	22 years prof., 27 total
- Linux	10 years prof; 17 years total
- Also:	SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x, Irix
- Others:	Version 7, System V, BSD 4.x
Microsoft® (in total)	23 years
- MS-DOS 2.11 to 6.x	5 years dev
- Windows 3.x to XP	4 years dev; 19 years user

Other:

Firmware/embedded design and development;
Set-top-box technologies (MPEG, streaming media);
Systems-level design and development;
Device drivers (hardware and software);
Browser technologies;
Image processing (single and sequential);
Colour science for pre-press software;
Use of ICE units, logic analysers and oscilloscopes;
Communications protocols design and/or implementation;
Some Xilinx FPGA design assist (schematic);
UML (trained; not used much in anger).

Secondary technical -- skills may be rusty or less used

Languages:	Pascal, PL/1, Modula/2, Forth, some Java, PALasm -- some familiarity with several others
Platforms:	Mac, DEC PDP & VAX (RT-11, RSX-11, VMS), many others

Employment

A brief summary of dates and major projects.

LookBox Limited
2007-current

Managing Director

Business:	Demerger, MBO, rights issue, promotion, sales, leadership
Technical:	Linux, C++, C, SQL, shell script, PHP, MySQL, multimedia, firmware, cloud computing

Adeptium Limited / Adeptium Consulting Limited
2005-current

Managing Director, Principal Consultant

Client	Dates	Skills
[Confidential]	Nov 2010-	Linux build systems, Windows build systems, Python, Pyro, XML-RPC, cloud computing, virtual computing
(Adeptium dormant - working on LookBox)	May 2007-current
DaweVision Ltd	Jan 2006-May 2007	Linux, C, C++, shell scripts, MySQL, multimedia, firmware, ARM assembler, hardware design assist, hardware production oversight
IMP Electronics	May 2005-Dec 2005	MS-DOS, Visual C++, chip-level device drivers, embedded systems, OS design, task scheduler,

Atrial Systems Limited
2002-2005

Software consultancy (as permanent staff member)

Client	Dates	Skills
Ant Limited	July 2004-Jan 2005	Linux, Browser technologies: HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ECMAscript, some Python
Pace Micro Techology plc	Dec 2002-July 2004 (7 renewals!)	Linux, embedded systems, multumedia, set-top-box technologies: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, streaming media

iMagicTV
2001-2002

Set top box development
Team leadership, Linux Red Hat 7.x (embedded), C++, UML, set-top-box technologies, multimedia, agile development.
Running a team, and doing principal architecture and development, to port a set-top-box software stack to Linux

Imerge Ltd.
1999-2001

Consumer audio and video servers
Linux Red Hat 6.x and 7.x (embedded); C++, C, SQL, shell script.
Designed XiVA^TM-Link, a protocol for controlling Imerge's SoundServer and MediaServer products; designed and implemented the interpreter for XiVA-Link; developed several device drivers for audio and video devices (M-Audio Audiophile and Delta series; Linn audio card; SiS301 video layer switching, etc.); developed an MPEG-2 PES-level parser for video play from disk.

Harlequin plc
1995-1999

PostScript interpreters; Panoptica post-production software for the TV & movie industries
Windows NT, SGI Irix, Sun Solaris, Mac; C, C++.
Device drivers for imagesetters; image file interpreters (e.g. TIFF/IT, TIFF 6.0); exernal API development; colourimetric image viewer design and development; sequential image processing.

Hyphen Ltd.
1993-1995

PostScript interpreters
SunOS, Solaris; C.
Low level I/O architecture (API and underlying implementation: Unix and part of NT); device drivers for imagesetters.

EPiSYS Ltd.
1988-1993

DTP quality, industrial strength graphical label design and printing
MS-DOS, Windows 3.x; C, Assemblers.
Low level output architecture (API and underlying implementation: MS-DOS); device drivers (PC, Windows) for printers; printer firmware (modifying existing f/w and also writing from scratch); some printer repair!

Acorn Computer Ltd.
1986-1988

BBC Micro & Master; Acorn Communicator (OEM product); Acorn Archimedes
Acorn OSs, Unix SysV and BSD 4.x; Basic, Assemblers, C.
Econet development on BBC Micro & Master, and Acorn Communicator; streaming tape driver (Unix); ported BSD Unix toolkit (with GNU extensions) to ARM.

Istel Ltd. (Now AT&T Istel)
1985-1986

Internal consultancy to Austin Rover motor group
Unix SysV, DEC RSX-11m+; C, Macro-11 assembler, PL/1, PLC Ladder Logic .
Trackside radio tag decoder controller for Austin Rover Cowley; miscellaneous Unix application development.

Education

Queen Mary College (University of London), 1982-1985: BSc(Hons) Computer Science
Queen Mary College became Queen Mary and Westfield College and is now known as Queen Mary, University of London.
Isleworth Grammar School, 1975-1982: 3 GCE 'A' levels (Maths, Chemistry, Physics)
13 GCE 'O' levels (inc. A/O levels in Maths and Electronics)
Isleworth Grammar School is now Isleworth And Syon School.

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