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Bob Rathbone
C.V.
 | Educated at Thornbury
Grammar School and Filton Technical College Bristol |
O’ Level Mathematics, Physics, General
Science, A Level Dutch (University of London) 1st
Year Mechanical engineering, City & Guilds Electrical and
Electronic Certificate (Filton technical college), Indentures in Industrial Instrumentation
and process control. Dutch civil aviation professional pilot exams in Avionics,
Aircraft instrumentation, Jet and petrol engines, Meteorology theory and
practice Air law.
Read more about Thornbury Grammar School
| May 2005 Present : LogicaCMG
Wireless Networks, Nieuwegein in Holland. |
Consultant.
Product integration and support. This
is a permanent role.
| April 2002 April 2005 :
A Leading Pharmaceutical Company, Belgium |
Network Consultant.
Operational improvements to network security, PIX firewalls, Cisco secure
policy manager. 2nd line support Cisco routers and switches, Wrote interface
between HP Openview and Tivoli Enterprise Console. Test protocols for some 40
network centres. I have written a number of other facilities using
Perl, Korn shell and SNMP to monitor, internet and backbone lines to business
affiliates. On top of this I have produced and ISDN call monitoring system with
a graphical/browser interface.
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| July 2001 February 2002 Nuon (Energy distribution
company) - Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Network Consultant.
Carrying out an audit on the Nuon network and producing a report
containing recommendations and improvements to the Nuon network. Equipment was Cisco 3600,7200,2600 series, Cisco PIX 520 Firewall and Lucent M770/M880/P130. Optimalization of network design. ISDN PRI and BRI.
I also re-designed a major part of the head office network to
both consolidate existing equipment and to provide better connections to
incoming branch offices and business associates.
| July 2000 July 2001 Colt Telecom (ISP) - Amsterdam
The Netherlands |
Network specialist
Setting up a Remote Access Server into the Amsterdam Point of
Presence for remote monitoring of systems using CISCO 3640. Project manager
for the implementation of HP Openview and CiscoView. General support on Cisco
routers and switches, Sun Solaris 2.7 platforms 220R, Sun Netra T1.
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| November 98 June 2000 Airsys ATM Chessington (Air
traffic control) |
Commissioning Manager
The production of commissioning and installation
specifications for an Air Traffic Control System for the Swedish Civil
Aviation Authority (LFV) for Stockholm & Malmφ. Digital UNIX (5.04D) on
DEC Alpha Servers and Workstations. Supervising commissioning.
Networking some 52 individual networks over 9 separate sites
using Digital Hubs, Concentrators, CISCO Routers, Bridges and FDDI networking
(single and multimode fibre) equipment. ClearVision(HubWatch) and Netview.
Documentation to DOD 2167A and ISO 9000 standards.
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| June 98 October 98 Swift Computing Limited, Bristol |
Senior network and communications consultant
In house and client consultancy for all aspects of networking
and associated infrastructures. Java serialised object communications (KAWA),
HTML, Apache Server under SCO Unix. Writing communications daemon using C and
Sockets, pseudo tty's, pre-sales consultancy.
| Feb 96 - May 98 Thorn
Transit Systems Int. Ltd. , Wells |
Network and
communications consultant & programmer
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Design and programming of a object
orientated communications interface for a combined project
for a automated fare system for The Lantau Airport Light
railway system in Hong Kong and the Kuala Lumpur light
railway system, Malaysia.
Responsible for design and techniques to
link some 35 station systems with 300 pieces of computer
equipment using TCP/IP LANs and WANs using TCP/IP. Setting up
Network Time protocol (NTP), Netscape and Apache httpd web
server.
Implementation of Client/Server programs on
Sun sparc ( Solaris 2.x) , Dec Alpha 2100A and QNX embedded
systems using Watcom C++ ( under QNX) and Unix C++ tools. Tools used are
Sun RPC/XDR and Sockets.
Implementation and system administration of
Thorn Transit’s own Unix Network, Domain name service
(DNS) , Exceed X-Windows on PCs.
| Jan 96 -Feb 96 Southampton
University Hospital trust. |
Senior
Contract programmer
Programming of pathology reports over
Net-Tel X.400 E-Mail system using Korn Shell, SCO Unix.
System documentation .
| Oct 95 - Jan 96 Nedlloyd
Lijnen BV. Rotterdam Holland. |
Senior Unix
consultant - contract
Disaster recovery planning for world wide
X.25 and Lan network.
Setting up Domain Name server under TCP/IP
for Europe and Asia.
Unix ‘C’ and Korn shell script
programming, DEC Alpha, Sequent.
Project management and system
documentation.
| June 95 - Oct 95 Reuters
Limited London |
Systems
programmer - contract
Conversion of X.25 and Lan products from
DOS to Windows NT using Visual C++ version 2.0.
System and test documentation.
| Feb 94 - June 95 Siemens
Nixdorf Utrecht - Holland |
Senior
consultant programmer - contract
Wrote an X.25 dialer over UUCP for Ministry
of employment in Madrid, Spain.
Wrote telephone call routing using TCP/IP
and Winsock libraries under Windows 3.11 and Unix. Using
Visual C++ v1.5. and MFCs
Unix kernel support for TCP/IP NFS, X.21,
HDLC products. Crash dump analysis. System V Transport Level
interface.
Streams modules programming.
Unix administration.
| May 93 - Jan 94 GPT Limited
Poole - Dorset |
Communications
programmer - contract
Wrote Emergency and Operator Services
subscriber lookup system using Borland C++ Novell Lan
Workplace toolkit, TCP/IP and Unix C. Subscriber data was extracted from
GPT's digital exchange (System X) to a HP-UX Unix server. PC's running Tandberg
Terminal emulation handled subscriber calls but could do rapid look-up of
emergency and free-phone numbers based upon the subscribersSTD code. This
brought emergency 999 (211 now) lookups down from 14 seconds to less than one
second.To accomplish this I wrote TCP/IP server using Berkley sockets on a
HP9000 under HP/UX 9.0I also wrote real time call monitoring system
using Windows SDK toolkit. This gave a graphical display of the operator
staus (Available, busy, training etc.). This replaced a similar system written
X-Windows and again was much faster.
| Jan 93 - April 93 Meggit
Electronic Components Swindon |
Senior
consultant designer - contract
Design of Clipper based Sales order
processing system interfaced to MAX production control over
TCP/IP on a DRS600 Unix processor.
Microsoft C version 6.0 - Sun RPC and XDR
protocols.ement and
System documentation
| Sept 92 - Dec 92 Swift
Computing Ltd. Bristol |
Consultant
Pre-sales and technical support on network
products.
Informix and Tetra accounting systems.
Systems analysis and programming.
| Oct 91 - Sept 92 Forte Computer Systems Ltd.
Bristol |
Managing
Director
Formed company after break up of Sure
partnership. Sold business in September 92 to Swift Computing
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| Aug 82 - Sept 91 Sure
Computing Partnership. Chepstow |
Partner and
Technical Director
Sales order processing systems for Safes
production control .
Design and implementation of 6809
micro-processor based communications interface for PC to ICL
System 25 Minicomputer.
Terminal Emulator and File Transfer
facility using ‘C’ 8086 assembler.
Designed and implemented ½ size 6809 based
internal PC for communications interface. Wrote 6809 based
firmware.
PC Device drivers in 8086 assembler for
Sirup PC Card.
Designed and implemented interface between
CDC concentrator and ICL minis for ICL North America
Retail Division in Dallas in the USA. I
also worked in Utica and Dublin California for a short
period on this project. Designed and implemented totally integrated
network for the Royal Mint to link Sequent Symmetry (Dynix/ptx) to seven ICL Mini computers and Dell PC’s
using own TCP/IP products.
Network design using bridges, repeaters,
X.21 and terminal servers.
Responsible for factory production of all
Sure’s interface products.
| Nov 74 - July 82
International Computers Ltd. |
Regional
Systems Support Engineer
Regional systems support on ICL System 25
systems.
Implemented
Factory Data Collection Systems
for Rolls Royce, British Aerospace, and Westland helicopters.
Wrote JIS network diagnostic software in
System 25 assembler.
Lecturer at the ICL training college in
Letchworth.
Overseas system support in the Netherlands.
Left to form own business in August 1982.
| May 69 - Nov 74 Singer
Business Machines Ltd. Bristol (Friden) |
Hardware
Engineer
Repair and servicing Electronic data
processing equipment..
Transferred to Singer BV Apeldoorn in
the Netherlands from December 1973 until November
1975.
ICL acquired Singer Business operations in
October 1974.
| May 65 - May 69 Rio Tinto
Zinc Co. Bristol |
Indentured
apprentice in Industrial Instrumentation.
Four year apprenticeship in Industrial
Instrumentation and Process control, Repairing electronic and
pneumatic equipment.
| Interests
and hobbies. |
Flying (Qualified pilot with IMC (Instruments ) Twin Engine and Night rating, Guitar playing and computing.
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Languages.
Dutch ( Fluent with A’ Level), Tourist
French and German.
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