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Resume of Jason Adcock |
Personal Details |
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Postal Address |
Electronic |
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Please Call |
Ph(H): 020 7223 6190 |
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Please Call |
(M): 07719 805500 |
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LONDON |
Email: [email protected] |
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ENGLAND |
Education |
Current Enrolment |
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· Master of
Philosophy (on deferral) |
Griffith University (Intelligent
Transportation Systems) |
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Formal Qualifications |
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· B.Eng Microelectronic Engineering
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Griff (Computer Systems Major) |
· 1st Class Engineering Honours
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Griff (Quadruped Robotics
Thesis) |
Publications |
· J.
Adcock Quadruped Robotics
Minmi The Robotic Dinosaur, IAP Proceedings, Griffith University, Brisbane, 1997
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· J.Adcock Application for Candidature, Griffith University, Brisbane, 1997 |
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J.Adcock, L Vlacic Frequency Domain
analysis of Driver, Vehicle and Pavement behavior,
Microelectronic Engineering Research Conference - Proceedings, Griffith
University, Brisbane, Nov 2000
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Awaiting Submission |
· J.
Adcock VDAS a New Paradigm in Vehicle Monitoring, TBA, 2000
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· J.
Adcock Decision and Sensor
Fusion Processes for collating Vehicle Dynamics, TBA, 2000
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Industry Accredited Courses |
· PC architecture Basics IBM
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· Hands on with MC/ServiceGuard
(High Availability techniques/software)
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· Information Technology Operations,
HP education.
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· Network Node Manager , HP
education.
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· Programming using UNIX systems
calls, HP education
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· Fundamentals of the HP-UX
operating system, HP education.
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· Completed NIES World competitive
manufacturing program
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Experience |
Employer |
IT Global/Contracted to Hewlett Packard |
Duration |
Nov 2000 April 2001 |
Position |
2/3rd line
Support System. Responsible for
commissioning new customers and providing systems support for a new ISP. The
site was a HPUX/NT/Win2000 site with strong systems integration and heavy
internet security. |
Employer |
Queensland Police Service |
Duration |
Feb 2000 August 2000 |
Position |
Team leader of the Operational Support Services Group and then Midrange Platforms Group. Responsible for the support of all midrange policing platforms. Team leader of a group of 8 support staff. |
Employer |
Queensland Police Service |
Duration |
August 1999 to Jan 2000 |
Position |
Senior Systems Engineer/Site Architect responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of midrange HP-UX systems (UNIX). Team leader of a group of 4 persons. Responsible for the overall direction of QPS computing infrastructure. |
Employer |
Queensland Police Service |
Duration |
Nov 1998 to August 1999 |
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Systems Engineer responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of midrange HP-UX systems (UNIX). For a network consisting of 40+ Unix servers and workstations, 1 Fujitsu ICL mainframe, 4000 PC's and Macs. |
Employer |
Queensland Police Service |
Duration |
February 1998- November 1998 |
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Assistant Systems Engineer responsible for the implementation and maintenance of midrange HP-UX systems (UNIX). For a network consisting of 40+ Unix servers and workstations, 1 Fujitsu ICL mainframe, 4000 PC's and Macs. |
Employer |
Hungenahally Consulting |
Duration |
June 1997 - November 1997 |
Position |
Development of software (Visual C++ 5.0 on a NT4 client) for the transmission of ultra sound images sampled and sent in real time across the standard PSDN network. |
Employer |
QLD Museum |
Duration |
June 1997 - July 1997 |
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Designed a system to record voice onto a ISD33000 series sound chip. Top level design of a personal communications device and the hardware to control data flow and device tracking. |
Employer |
QLD Museum |
Duration |
February 1997 - 6th June |
Position |
Designed control system for a quadruped robot using distributed processing over 5 PIC processors, stepper, servo and pneumatic actuators. Required particular consideration of control systems theory, heat dissipation, power efficiency and sensor technology. |
Employer |
Telstra Mobile Networks |
Duration |
September 1995 and January/February 1996 |
Position |
Automated Telstra's radio prediction software (UNIX based and written in C) and enhanced the user interface of this software. Carried out radio predications (for mobile phone towers) and signal strength surveys for both AMPS and GSM systems. Installation and maintenance of communications systems. |
Skills and Knowledge
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Project Management Experience |
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· Experience
in project planning and resource scheduling |
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· Project management
involving people from multi-disciplinary professions |
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· Y2K
project management experience |
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· Experience
in course preparation and delivery for in house training. |
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·Team leader for a group of 9 staff in a support role |
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·Team leader for a group of 4 staff in an engineering role |
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Other |
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· Functional
organisation experience with the Griffith University Residential Society
(Social Director, and Planning Committee Member for combined RSA's) |
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· Orientation
week Committee Member (Girraween RSA) |
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· Organisation
of Advertising for "IAP 5th Anniversary celebrations" |
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High Availability (near 24*7) |
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· Clustering
for high availability (for 000 and policing information systems) |
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· Clustered
Workstation Protection |
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· Disk
protection through mirroring, RAID and Disk Farm Schemes |
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· Service
protection through DNS and NIS |
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· Database protection
through various HA technologies |
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Systems Architecture |
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· Design of
numerous corporate systems (1000+ concurrent users) with different service,
availability, growth and costing requirements |
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· Implementation
of large Storage Systems |
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· Design
and implementation of resource managed systems with load shifting capability |
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· Filesystem
planning for both Solaris (inc DiskSuite) and HPUX (LVM) |
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· Experience
with EMC, HP-XP256 and other storage technologies |
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· Service
design and implementation |
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· Design of
parallel and distributed software and systems |
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· Good
knowledge of Client/Server and Clustering technologies |
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· Limited experience
with Oracle, Sybase and Ingres databases |
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Performance Monitoring and Tuning |
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· Analysis
of performance data |
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· Performance
improvement |
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Service Migration and Upgrading |
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· Numerous migrations
for the purpose of upgrading |
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· Experience
in carrying out upgrades from HPUX 10.01 to 10.20 |
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· Experience
in carrying out upgrades from Solaris 2.3 to 2.6 |
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· Experience
in carrying out hardware upgrades to both Hewlett Packard and Sun equipment |
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UNIX |
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· HPUX
9.04, 10.01, 10.20 and 11> |
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· Solaris
2.3 and 2.6 (SunOS 5.3 and 5.6)> |
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· LINUX |
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Other |
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· Limited
Sysadmin experience for Macintosh platforms |
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· Limited
Sysadmin experience for Windows95 and NT4 and Win2000 |
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· VME (ICL
mainframe) from a UNIX interaction/integration point of view |
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Integration Technologies |
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· NIS/DNS/NFS/NTP |
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· SNMP |
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· LDAP/ACTIVE
DIRECTORY/PAM |
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Web Technologies |
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· Apache
and Zeus web servers |
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· Imail |
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Security, Networking and Monitoring |
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· TCP/IP,
X25 and HTS protocols + limited SNA/SNAplus |
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· Raptor
Firewall and Checkpoint |
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· ISS
Realsecure |
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· Firehunter |
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· Openview/Omniback/Service
Desk/ITO (Vantage Point/OPC) |
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C/C++ |
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· Visual
C++ V5.0 for medical imaging |
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· Borland Visual
Java |
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· ANSI
C/C++ on HPUX 10.20 for service improvement programs |
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· C on SCO
for coverage maps of the AMPS and GSM mobile phone networks |
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· Numerous
applications for embedded controller systems |
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Other |
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· Shell (Service
improvement, systems administration and service implementation) |
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· HTML/Java
Script for web page development |
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· Assembler
for numerous embedded controllers |
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· Pbasic
for PIC Microcontrollers |
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· Matlab for
mathematical modelling |
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Signal Processing and Data Acquisition |
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· Extensive
knowledge of Data Acquisition with relation to system dynamics and the
surrounding environment |
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· Good
knowledge of current Sensor technologies |
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· Knowledge
of current signal processing technologies, such as Digital/Analogue filters,
Pattern recognition etc. |
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· Knowledge
of Statistical Signal Processing |
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Control Systems |
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· High
level of knowledge in relation to control theory (masters research and honors
project) |
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· Practical
experience in the field of control |
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· Research
into the area of self controllability through the implementation of generic algorithms
based on the standard z-transform and Jury stability test. |
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Circuit and Integrated Circuit Design |
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· Experience
in PCB design and a good knowledge of Protel and Spice software |
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· Experience
in IC design |
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· Experience
in FPGA design and implementation |
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Achievements |
·Electronic
Project of the Year - Electronic systems 1995.
·University
Scholarship from the RSL
Referees |
Can be provided on request