Tim Oliver
39a Woodville Gardens
London W5 2LL
Home: 020 8810 9280
Mobile: 07879 637 074
mail@taoliver.com
www.taoliver.com
IT/computing
Over
20 years computing experience; 12 years experience programming
parallel and distributed computer systems.
Administering
PCs: from initial specification and assembly to OS and application
installation and configuration, networking and maintenance.
Wide
experience of administering and using Linux systems and other open
source software.
Developed
software distribution website using Zope CMS.
Software
research and development
Designed
and implemented distributed framework using CORBA and C++ to support
an existing parallel application in a heterogeneous distributed
computing environment.
Investigated
use of emerging distributed object technologies for scientific
computing, especially CORBA, Java, servlets, web servers and
browsers.
Developed
a portable parallel I/O performance test suite using Fortran90 and
MPI-2.
Designed
a C version of an existing large Fortran scientific library: resolve
language differences, minimize effort through automatic code
generation and checking, documentation design and production. This
library is now a Fujitsu product.
Designed
and implemented an object-based library for distributed sparse
matrices using C and MPI. This library was used in a commercial oil
reservoir simulator.
Investigated
methodology and design of algorithms for fine-grained, highly
parallel computer systems. Awarded Ph.D. for this work.
Designed
and developed cutting-edge scientific numerical library for
distributed computer systems.
Teaching
Developed
and taught intensive 1–5 day courses on parallel programming for
industry.
Developed
and taught postgraduate and undergraduate courses in programming,
computer architectures and parallel programming.
Interests
Leading
bible study, Sunday School and youth club groups at church.
Enthusiastic
traveller who enjoys organising expeditions. Modes of travel have
included bicycle, sailing boats, and public transport. I have
explored Europe, Scandinavia, Central America, and spent one year
travelling through the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, and
South East Asia.
Walking,
camping, sailing, cycling, swimming, music and reading.
Employment
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2002
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Fujitsu European Centre for
Information Technology, London
Website developer
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1996–1999
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Fujitsu European Centre for
Information Technology, London
Research Scientist
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1987–1995
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University of Liverpool
Research
Associate and Honorary Lecturer
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Education
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1994
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University of Liverpool
Ph.D. –
Computational Mathematics
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1987
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University of Cambridge
BA –
Natural Sciences/Computer Science
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