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

Education