Tim Pizey MSc
Curriculum Vitae



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* Employment History* Company History
* Current Direction * Other Interests
* Further Education* Schooling




Details

Date of Birth 29/09/60Tel01865 711035
SexMaleEmailtim@paneris.co.uk
NationalityBritishAddress 185 Campbell Road
Oxford
OX4 3NT

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 for I-Way (the Internet Provider with the best service levels in the UK) . In addition I still do work for Catalyst Electronic Publishing.

I have my web-collective which is run as a collaboration between myself and a number of other freelances.

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Computing Experience

Languages

  1. Java - Servlets
  2. SQL - Structured Query Language
  3. Perl - Text manipulation language
  4. Omnimark - A commercial language for manipulating SGML.
  5. SGML - Converted to and from various formats.
  6. C++ - We all have to do it!
  7. Lex and Yacc - Grammar writing tool for C.
  8. VAX Basic - A Pascal like implementation of Basic
  9. RDB - A DEC proprietary Relational Database
  10. DTR - A DEC proprietary query language
  11. DCL - Digital Command Language
  12. Prolog - Language in which dissertation project written.
  13. Lisp - Two term course.

Operating Systems

  1. Linux
  2. MSDos/Windows
  3. Vax/VMS
  4. RSTS (Anyone remember that?)
  5. CPM (way back when)
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Further Education

University of Edinburgh

1992-3

  • MSc in Knowledge Based Systems and Artificial Intelligence
    Consisting of:

    University Of Sussex

    1979-82

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    Employment History

    Vosper Thornycoft (UK) Ltd

    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

    Catalyst Electronic Publishing is the UK distributor of Folio Views, a multi media viewer. This viewer has all of the functionality of HTML and has been in use for six years.

    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 Views Infobases to be served onto the Web.

    I-Way

    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

    Contract Monitoring and Control System

    A system to control labour and materials booking in a project oriented business.

    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.

    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.

    Internal Production Software

    Design and implementation of an inverted database of Naval Spares. The system was implemented in Basic and RDB.

    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.

    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.

    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).

    Database design proposal for Dartmouth Naval Training School

    A database to maintain and repair the vessels and base of the Dartmouth Naval Training School.

    A Xyvision Converter

    A very large Perl script to translate from Xyvision typesetting documents to Folio Flat File.

    Views Extension

    A Windows DLL to work with the Folio Views API, written in C++.

    Scots Law Times

    Converted large corpora (60Mb) of SGML to Folio Flat File, creating a CD-ROM of 100 years of Scottish Law reports.

    Thomson Tax

    Manipulated, validated and corrected large body of Accounting Law in SGML.

    Arnolds Encyclopedia of Virology

    Converted a nine volume encyclopedia from SGML to Folio Flat File.

    Freight Forwarding System

    Database driven website to record freight movement purchase orders.

    Website derived from EBMH periodical

    Created a database driven website from invalid HTML exported from Xyvision paper publishing system.

    ClickWorldwide

    Database driven website of Swiss and French accomodation.

    Bibliomania

    Database driven web-publishing system for out of copyright books.

    Fleetlog

    Vehicle Fleet monitoring website giving live position and condition updates for a fleet of vehicles.
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    Schooling

    Fareham Tertiary College

    1991-2 (Evening class)

    Beechen Cliff School

    1979-9

    Monkton Combe School

    1973-8

    Monkton Combe Junior School

    1968-73

    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: http://www.melati.org/

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    Other Interests

    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.
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    © Tim Pizey
    Context Computing
    tim@paneris.co.uk
    185 Campbell Road, Oxford,
    OX4 3NT

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