John Douglas
An innovative, self-directed and effective IT professional with over 20
years experience in software. Expertise in critical and safety
critical real time embedded software. Personable, intelligent and a
natural trouble shooter, I have a track record of finding solutions
and delivering results swiftly under extreme pressure. I am now
looking for my next career challenge.
>> Systems and Languages
PC MS-DOS,BASIC, C PASCAL, MODULA-2, Windows
DEC PDP RTIIXM, RSX11S, RSX11M, RSX11M+, Embedded, FORTRAN F77, PASCAL, ODT, Assembler
VAX VMS, CORAL 66, COBOL
HP RTE-A, RTE-6, FORTRAN FTN7X, HP200 BASIC
C PC, Transputer, 68HC11s, Hitachi
>> Management skills
People management – teams of up to 6 technical staff on projects
Quality Control Standards – AQAP-13, ISO 9000
Project management – to completion and sign off within deadlines
Relationship management – across all levels with all stakeholders in a project
Trouble shooting – liaison with customers and internal departments
>> Career Summary
Mar 2002 – Nov 2009 Firmware Engineer Gemini Data Loggers
May 1996 – Mar 2002 Software Team Leader Meggitt Avionics Ltd
Sep 1995 – May 1996 IT Contract Self-employed
Apr 1989 – Sep 1995 Senior Software Engineer Space Technology Systems
Aug 1988 – Apr 1989 Programmer/Team Leader Ferranti International
Feb 1984 – Aug 1988 Senior Software Engineer Prosig Computer Consultants
Selected achievements:
Successfully streamlined software/firmware for existing product range at Gemini Data Loggers, producing a new generation of products. This involved liaison with marketing and hardware engineers to drive the modernisation process. Reduced 45 variants to 12 corrected and fully tested ones and 10 new generation variants.
With Meggitt Avionics, I managed teams of up to 6, successfully delivering Air Data Units for over 20 different types of Aircraft. Responsible for plans, standards, requirements capture and analysis and technical review for a safety critical level A project. Delivered all products in time.
At Space Technologies, suggested reforms that led to annual savings of £64K. Won and completed M.o.D contract for design NATO JTIDS planning system.
Emergency Circuit for level crossings.
Effective requirements capture and software architecture and design; software coding and integration.
Investigating and writing code for numerous hardware devices.
Successfully producing Software libraries, tools and utilities for departmental use.
Multi-tasking Real Time acquisition systems in Fortran on DEC platform for Ford and the M.o.D.
>> Qualifications
Training: Numerous professional development courses attended throughout career relating to IT and management skills.
Degree: BSc. (Hons) Biology including Statistics
A Levels: 3 including Maths
GCSEs: 9 including Maths and English
