From: cockburn@majors.enet.dec.com (Craig Cockburn)
Subject: S/W Engineering / Software Quality position sought
Keywords: telecommuting, Scotland
Organisation: Digital Equipment Co. Ltd., Newbury, England
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:09:05 GMT


Dear Employer,
        I am seeking employment in Software Engineering (C based) and/or
Software Quality (ISO 9000/BS 5750 based).  Attached is a copy of my
CV (Resume). If you have anything appropriate, please do not hesitate
to get in touch via email (preferred) or via my address/phone.

I am moving to the Edinburgh (Scotland) area. However, if your company 
is not based in Scotland's Silicon Glen, I am very interested in 
jobs which are based elsewhere in the world and which are
open to telecommuters. I will have ISDN access from the house.

I look forward to hearing from you.

               Craig.

	Resume/CV

	Craig Cockburn (surname pronounced 'Coburn')
	34 Baker Street		Home phone: (0734) 580597
	Reading			       +[44] (734) 580597
	Berkshire
	RG1 7XY			Email: cockburn@majors.enet.dec.com
	England			Age: 26

POSITION SOUGHT
        A Software Engineering related role which is varied and allows me 
        to learn. I am keen to learn about Quality Assurance, 
	Internationalisation, Concurrent Engineering and 4GLs
	I am interested in new platforms, such as Alpha, OSF/1, MIPS and Posix

	I am interested in travel, and would like the occasional opportunity
	to travel on business.

	Salary sought: Over 20,000 pounds sterling

	Location: Based in Edinburgh area. Will consider telecommuting.


TECHNICAL SKILLS
	Languages: C, Pascal, Bliss

	Quality Assurance, ISO 9000 (BS 5750)
        DEC EDI (Electronic data interchange)
        DECtie (DEC EDI to IBM Information Exchange utility)
	5+ years experience using VMS
	Desktop publishing
	X.25 Fault finding
	Code Management System (CMS)
	DEC Test Manager (DECdtm)
	Digitals Phase IV networking products (eg. MicroServer)
	Some DECnet Phase V experience
	Basic System Management


WORK EXPERIENCE

Digital Equipment Company Ltd, Newbury 			      Dec-91 to present

        Supervised the development, testing, documentation and CMS control
        for DECtie. This product is written in C and uses the Odette File
        Transfer Protocol to transfer documents between DEC EDI (Electronic
        Data Interchange) and IBM's Information Exchange. Currently working
        on developing new code in C for two special customer kits. I am
        also heavily involved with using ISO 9000 (very similar to BS5750),
        both from an end-user perspective as well as giving training in
        ISO 9000. I am also in charge of developing and documenting
        regression tests for DECtie as a whole.
	
Digital Equipment Company Ltd, Reading			       Mar-91 to Dec-91

        Various experience with DECEDI. This has involved bug reporting,
        fixing and testing in C. Used tools to analyse the performance of
        EDI, and wrote test programs to test the performance of VMS Posix.
        Wrote a document describing portability options for DECEDI to
        various platforms. Gained some exposure to MIPS Ultrix.

Digital Equipment Company Ltd, Reading		               Jul-90 to Feb-91

        Ported DECdts (Distributed Time Service - written in C for OSF/1),
        for the DEC Network Integration Server. Planned and scheduled the
        work required, and liased with fellow employees in the US. 

Digital Equipment Company Ltd, Reading			       Aug-88 to Jul-90

        Designed and developed a program to load X.25 profiles in 
        response to PhaseV/OSI network management requests. I had sole
        responsibility for designing, coding, documenting and testing this
        code which operates both on VMS, and in a MicroServer environment.

Digital Equipment Company Ltd, Reading			       Sep-87 to Aug-88

        worked on VAX P.S.I. and Field Configurable Network Software
        (FCNS). In charge of the Engineering approval for X.25 networks
        undergoing certification for support by Digital worldwide. This
        involved extensive contact with other members of the FCNS team in
        the US and France and handling requests from customers to have
        their networks certified quickly. I also trained an FCNS
        co-ordinator in the US via electronic mail and the phone. Other
        work involved responding to customer problems with VAX P.S.I.


COURSES
	Introduction to Bliss 			October 87
	VMS Internals I and II 			February 88
	P.S.I. support 				March 88
	Network tools 				April 88
	Advanced French 			August 88 to June 90
	Effective technical writing 		February 89
	Effective technical presentations 	May 89
	Programming in C 			January 90
	Speed Reading				March 90
        Introduction to Software I18N		July 91
	Introduction to DECwrite		July 91
        Quality Management: Project Control     Feb 92
	Quality Management: Coding Standards    Mar 92
	Using FileBridge			Mar 92

EDUCATION
	Edinburgh University 1983-1987
	Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computer Science. 
	Final year project: Character recognition in a TV image 
		(AI based database program written in Pascal on VMS)
	Merit in Artificial Intelligence

	Dunblane High School, Dunblane, Perthshire, Scotland (1977-1983)
	8 A's at O grade. 3 A's and 2 B's at Higher level, 2 B's at Sixth
	Year studies level. 

INTERESTS
        Singing, Scottish Gaelic language, real ale, cycling, curries,
	hill walking, travel. Generally being active in the community.
	
AWARDS/OTHER
	Sold programs to UK Software houses			           1981

	2nd prize in national 'Young programmer of the year' competition   1982

	1st pupil ever in the school to achieve an A1 in a Higher Exam.	   1983

	Taught computing to Schoolteachers and their pupils for 3 months.  1985

	Joined British Mensa (IQ 156)					   1986

	Prizewinner in National Competition for Entrepreneurs, sponsored   1989
	by Shell UK and the Berkshire Enterprise Agency				

	RoSPA advanced driving certificate (1 years training)		   1989

	Starting a campaign for smoke free areas in pubs		   1990
	Appeared on national UK TV talking to brewers/publicans.

	Helped research for a major book on smoke free areas		   1991
	Invited to be the guest writer for Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)

	Co-ordinated London's first Scottish Gaelic what's on guide 	   1991
	Received praise from the Scottish Tourist Board.

	Helped to write the National Scottish Folk Arts Directory	   1992
	Sang at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh

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