Tim Pizey MSc
Curriculum Vitae
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| Date of Birth | 29/09/60 | Tel | 01865 711035 |
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| Sex | Male | Email | tim@paneris.co.uk |
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| Nationality | British | Address | 185 Campbell Road
Oxford
OX4 3NT |
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Company History
At Edinburgh I was contacted by Bruce Hunter,
head of SGML Engineering.
He contracted me to write a translator for Quark Express.
On moving to Oxford I did a number of small jobs including
a database design proposal for AVSeawork.
Through Bruce I was recruited to Catalyst Electonic
Publishing by
Phil Bacon, the Technical Director.
Currently I am working primarily through
PanEris, the collective I founded.
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Computing Experience
Languages
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Java - J2EE, Servlets, Jdbc, Tomcat, Velocity, JSP
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Web - HTML, xHTML, dHTML, XML, JavaScript, CGI
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Perl - 6 years solid use
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Maven - homogenized all PanEris projects
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Ant - Setup Melati build scripts
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SQL - Used since 1982
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Omnimark - A commercial language for manipulating SGML.
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SGML - Converted to and from various formats.
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C++ - A couple of DLLs written
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Lex and Yacc - Grammar writing tool for C.
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VAX Basic - A Pascal like implementation of Basic
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RDB - A DEC proprietary Relational Database
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DTR - A DEC proprietary query language
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DCL - Digital Command Language
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Prolog - Language in which dissertation project written.
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Lisp - Two term course.
Operating Systems
- Linux
- MSDos/Windows
- Vax/VMS
- RSTS (Anyone remember that?)
- CPM (way back when)
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Further Education
1992-3
- MSc in Knowledge Based Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Consisting of:
- Structured Programming and Design
- VAX VMS internals from BASIC
- Expert systems
- Knowledge Representation and Inference
- Programming in LISP
- Computational Linguistics
- Linguistics
- Logic and Formal Semantics
- Programming in PROLOG
- Mathematical Reasoning
- Dissertation: Repair Strategies in English
1979-82
- BSc (2.2) in Neurobiology
Consisting of:
- Neurobiology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Disseration on Computers in Education
- Experimental Psychology
- Computer Vision
- Programming in Poplog
- Evolution
- Animal Behaviour
- Mathematics
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Employment History
Between my first degree and my Masters (nine years)
I worked for Vosper Thornycroft, a warship builder in Portsmouth.
Starting as a trainee programmer I progressed to Project Manager with reponsibility for a
5 million pound budget for programming labour and computer equipment.
Catalyst Electronic Publishing is the UK distributor of
Folio Views, a multi media viewer.
This viewer has all of the functionality of HTML.
As Senior Technical Consultant I report to the Technical Director. The task
involves planning and implementing the translation of legacy documents into
the Views language.
The documents translated vary from very low-level typesetting documents to
modern systems such as Word 6.
In addition Views has a WWW server which enables
Folio Views Infobases to be served onto the Web.
I-Way is one of the leading ISPs in the UK.
With their success in network provision has come a considerable amount
of website implementation which has been undertaken by myself and
my associates.
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Software Projects
1983 - Contract Monitoring and Control System
A system to control labour and materials booking in a project oriented business.
1984 - Electronic Warfare Database
A database of EW signatures from which a sub set could be selected
for an operational area.
Written in Basic on a VAX and PDP.
1985 - Stock Control for Kenya Navy
Designed, implemented and installed a small stock control system,
written in Basic on a Professional.
This involved training a group of 20 Kenyan ratings in the use of the
system in the naval base in Mombasa.
1986 - Internal Production Software
Design and implementation of an inverted database of Naval Spares.
The system was implemented in Basic and RDB.
1987 - Integrated Logistics Support for Saudi Arabia
Design, Management and Negotiation of a large relational database
for the maintenance and production of all aspects of ship upkeep.
Integration of maintenance job material requirements with stock control.
Online storage of maintenance instructions.
This work involved the understanding of large existing computer systems and the
negotiation of the design with the customer.
The interpretation of the specification required study of
the American CALS requirements and frequent visits to Riyadh, Jedda
and Jubail.
1992 - Prolog Parser for Malformed English Utterances
This large project involved using Quintus Prolog to manipulate a database
of English utterances which had been transribed by linguists
to represent a speech as spoken.
The utterances were parsed and displayed under X Windows.
1994 - Quark Express to SGML Translator
A Dos program written in C using Lex and Yacc to translate
Quark Express
files to SGML (the Rainbow DTD).
1995 - Database design proposal for Dartmouth Naval Training School
A database to maintain and repair the vessels and base of the Dartmouth Naval
Training School.
1995 - A Xyvision Converter
A very large Perl script to translate from Xyvision typesetting documents
to Folio Flat File.
1997 - Views Extension
A Windows DLL to work with the Folio Views API, written in C++.
1997 - Scots Law Times
Converted large corpora (60Mb) of SGML to Folio Flat File, creating a CD-ROM of 100 years of Scottish Law reports.
1998 - Thomson Tax
Manipulated, validated and corrected large body of Accounting Law in SGML.
1998 - Arnolds Encyclopedia of Virology
Converted a nine volume encyclopedia from SGML to Folio Flat File.
1999 - Freight Forwarding System
Database driven website to record freight movement purchase orders.
2000 - Website derived from EBMH periodical
Created a database driven website from invalid HTML exported from Xyvision paper publishing
system.
2000 - ClickWorldwide
Database driven website of Swiss and French accomodation.
Database driven web-publishing system for out of copyright books.
Vehicle Fleet monitoring website giving live position and condition
updates for a fleet of vehicles.
E-commerce and messageboards.
2003 - GTL File upload
FTP over HTTP.
2003 - APW File upload
FTP over HTTP.
Using Maven to standardize PanEris software.
I am the maintainer of the Melati MVC middleware Opensource project.
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Schooling
Fareham Tertiary College
1991-2 (Evening class)
Beechen Cliff School
1979-9
Monkton Combe School
1973-8
- A levels
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Physics
- 11 O Levels
Monkton Combe Junior School
1968-73
- Scholarship to MCS
- Headboy
Park Street, Cambridge
1965-8
Honniton Primary
1964-5
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Current Direction
The Paneris Collective, which I founded,
is focused on using Java servlets to connect databases to the web,
using our own middleware layer:
http://www.melati.org/
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Other Interests
My first child, Eleanor
was born on 02/06/2002, so she keeps me busy.
I have a number of Bonsai some of which are now over twenty years old.
My flat in Hampshire
was a complete shell, which I have fully renovated.
I am keen on gardening and other outdoors persuits.
I am a member of the Game Conservancy.
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© Tim Pizey
Context Computing
tim@paneris.co.uk
185 Campbell Road,
Oxford,
OX4 3NT