Tualatin, OR 97062 (503) 692-4254 wilcocka@gmail.com | ||||
EXPERIENCE | 4/2000 - Present | Mentor Graphics Corporation | Wilsonville, USA | |
Senior Engineer - Cabling/Harness Group | ||||
Designed and built next-generation tools for electrical harness design process (Capital Harness Systems - CHS).
This started as a task for a small team that grew into a much larger division with development currently split over 6 sites worldwide and now provides sales in excess of $12 million. | ||||
7/1997 - 4/2000 | Mentor Graphics Corporation | Wilsonville, USA | ||
Senior Engineer - Cabling/Harness Group | ||||
Developed applications for use in the electrical design process.
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12/1995 - 7/1997 | Mentor Graphics Corporation | Wilsonville, USA | ||
Senior Software Engineer - Design Creation | ||||
Continued the development of Personal Architect after the company merger.
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8/1992 - 12/1995 | Cosoft Ltd. | West Malling, UK | ||
Software Engineer - Personal Architect | ||||
Worked on an electrical schematic capture package for the PC and UNIX platform. Due to the small size of the company (5 employees), much of the work was cross-functional.
Cosoft Ltd. merged with Mentor Graphics in December 1995. As part of the merger, I transferred to the US. | ||||
6/1990 - 9/1991 | Digital Equipment Corporation | Reading, UK | ||
Software Engineer - Integrated Office Systems Group (IOSG) | ||||
Employment was during the sandwich year of the degree. Responsible for improving the ALL-IN-1 office automation product.
Digital Equipment Corporation provided sponsorship for final year at university as a result of the sandwich year. | ||||
EDUCATION | 9/1988 - 6/1992 | Portsmouth University | Portsmouth, UK | |
B.Sc. (Honours) 2i Computer Science | ||||
Key aspects of the course were artificial intelligence, human computer interaction, networks, databases, and digital system design. | ||||
SKILLS | ||||
Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Architected and built large systems from the ground up as well as adding to existing applications. | expert - 15 years | |||
Java architecture and development Java libraries, covering JDK 1.1-1.4, JavaBeans, Java Remote Interface (RMI) and Java Native Interface (JNI). | expert - 8 years | |||
XML Very familiar with usages of XML, Internationalization, schemas and related technologies - XSL, XML-RPC, SOAP, SAX and DOM. | expert - 6 years | |||
CORBA Designed and built large-scale distributed applications. | expert - 6 years | |||
C/C++ Architected and developed large applications in a wide range of environments/platforms. | expert - 8 years | |||
Web Technologies HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, Struts, Hibernate, Java Server Pages (JSP). | expert - 8 years | |||
Enterprise Technologies Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and Servlets in Tomcat environment. | knowledgeable - 2 years | |||
Databases SQL, Database design and optimization, JDBC, MySQL, Oracle. | knowledgeable - 5 years | |||
Other languages Perl, Prolog and Python. | knowledgeable - 6 years | |||
Project Management For both commercial and open-source projects. | knowledgeable - 7 years | |||
Documentation/Training Able to create documentation and training for end users. | knowledgeable - 9 years | |||
UNIX/PC system management HP, Solaris in addition to Linux (RedHat/Mandrake/Ubuntu) and OpenBSD. | knowledgeable - 10 years | |||
UI Look and Feel design Java Swing, some MFC and Motif. | knowledgeable - 7 years | |||
ADDITIONAL | ||||
Current Green Card holder, UK/EEC Citizen, conversational French and German. | ||||