James Shepherd

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IT-Consultant (Freelance) Current Berlin, Germany

Technologies: Java 6, Apache Derby, Postgres, Subversion, OWL, RDF/XML, Jena, TestNG, open source licensing, Gentoo Linux, FreeBSD, installation of LAMP and Tomcat 6, bash scripting





Statistical Programmer (Java Architect) - Project Design though to Support and Marketing

Full Time (1st March 2005 - August 2006)

Part Time (28th October 2004 - 28th February 2005)

Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

SLATE and StatWeb creator.

• Tomcat 5, Ant, Java 1.4.2, Eclipse 3.1.2
  
• AJAX (using DWR)
  
• Servlets 2.3, hibernate 3.1, XML over http to Applets
  
• Website portal and database design
  
• LaTeX mathematical typesetting integration
  

Technologies: Java, hibernate, AJAX, Eclipse, MySQL, HTML, CSS, LaTeX, CVS, ant





Analyst Programmer (13th October 2003 - 31st July 2004)

Inform Information Systems Limited, Maidenhead, UK

• Microsoft SQL server Stored Procedures and Database Design
  
• Successfully interfaced company's product with legacy systems
  
• Designed and developed DB to HTML application to integrate product with client's corporate fax system
  

Technologies: T-SQL, MS SQL Server, VB, PowerBuilder, HTML, CSS





IT Officer - Part Time (10th October 2002 - 7th October 2003)

Department of Economics, University of Bristol, UK

• User NT desktop and UNIX support and Windows 2000 systems administrator
  
• Heterogeneous network maintenance and hardware troubleshooting
  
• Successfully created a large research material database using LAMP technology
  
• Designed and implemented Perl network backup system
  
• Ran HTML course for support staff
  

Technologies: Windows 2000, NT, XP, Sun, Linux, Perl, Apache, PHP, MySQL, UNIX shell and NT scripting





Mathematics PhD (September 1999 - September 2003)

School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK

• Thesis title: 'Coherent Sheaves and Deformation Theory in Abelian Categories'.
  
• Block tutor: For 18 months worked as part of the team responsible for pastoral care of students, closing and securing hall bar and buildings.
  

Mathematics MSci Honours (September 1995 - July 1999)

School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK

• Result: First (Highest classification for a UK degree)
  
• Awarded 'Bristol Blue' colours by Athletic Union for representing university, organising cycling club events, training riders, teaching cycle maintenance, club website.
  
• Won 3rd place trophy in 2000 Student National Mountain Bike Championships, sport level.