Software Engineer Development
Resume:
Justin CLARK-CASEY
Location: Southampton, UK
E-Mail: ********@********.***
EXPERIENCE
September 09 present Owner, OSVW Consulting
OSVW Consulting provides OpenSimulator and open-source
virtual environment consulting services in many areas, ranging
from deployment through to custom OpenSimulator
development, application integration and strategic advice.
Clients include Intel Corporation and Sandia National Labs to
create a water management simulation and 3D Avatar School
(3davatarschool.com) to provide development related to
language learning.
August 08 July 09 Development Lead, Black Dress Technology
Responsible for the design and development of a fashion and
design application using the OpenSimulator platform. Also
acted as a representative and contributor for Black Dress
Technology to the OpenSimulator project. In addition, I
maintained and deployed OpenSimulator installations for the
company.
Development of the fashion and design application involved
integration of external systems with the in-world virtual
environment. It also required continued liaison with a team of
developers from IBM.
My OpenSimulator role was very broad, involving community
liaison, stabilization of the platform for Black Dress
Technology and the development of content transfer
mechanisms.
Core committer, OpenSimulator1
December 07 present
High level contributor by commit count2
OpenSimulator is an open-source project to produce a generic
virtual worlds platform. It is currently best known for
providing a Second Life compatible environment.
I have worked in many areas in the project including assets,
inventory, data archiving, object linking/delinking, grid
servers, performance and reliability.
1 http://opensimulator.org
2 http://www.ohloh.net/projects/4753/contributors
I am an active participant in the OpenSimulator community
engaged in ongoing interaction and blogging3.
October 04 August 08 Software Engineer, Information Management, IBM UK
Part of the team responsible for the development of the IBM
InfoSphere Master Data Management Server 8.04 and
WebSphere Product Center 5.35.
I took many roles during my time in IBM's Information
Management division. The included leading the design and
development of a Java API for WebSphere Product Center
(which required visits to the development lab in Burlingame,
California), working in Eclipse user interface design,
metadata management design and product information
management design.
I also made customer site visits to troubleshoot issues in
the field.
July 03 October 04 Software Engineer, WebSphere Messaging, IBM UK
Part of the team responsible for the development of a new
Enterprise Service Bus component for WebSphere Application
Server 6.06.
My tasks here included the design of message expiry in the
component and responsibility for the design of message
statistics gathering and provision, as well as more general
development work.
EDUCATION
MSc Software Engineering, University of Oxford
Passed with Distinction.
The degree includes topics such as Software Engineering
Mathematics, Specification and Design, Concurrency and
Distributed Systems, Functional Programming and
Performance Modeling.
BA Economics with Econometrics, University of Kent
First class.
PUBLICATIONS
Utilizing Open Source Virtual World Platforms for Business and Serious
Games, Chapter 15 of Competence Management for Open Innovation Chapter
3 http://justincc.org
4 http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere/mdm_server/
5 http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/masterdata/product-info/
6 http://www-306.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/was/
15, EUL Varlag, December 2010 with Dirk Krause and Markus Strickler, ISBN
Justincc's OpenSimulator blog, http://justincc.org
MEDIA
OpenSimulator, presentation at MetaMeets 2011, http://www.metameets.com
OpenSim, podcast interview on FLOSS Weekly 72 hosted by Leo Laporte,
Randal Schwartz and Jono Bacon, http://twit.tv/floss72.
Open-Source, Interoperable Virtual Worlds, panel at the 2008 Virtual Worlds
Conference and Expo in Los Angeles.
SKILLS
I'm highly experienced at working in both startup situations and corporate
environments. I've been project lead, developer, customer liaison, negotiator and
researcher.
Many of my roles have involved liaison with clients and customers, both as part
of a large team and as an individual consultant.
I am skilled in the following programming and markup languages, among others:
C#, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Haskell, SQL, C, C++, Javascript, Pascal,
Bash, Kornshell, XML, XSL, XML Schema, DTD, HTML, CSS, JSP, SQL, LSL
(Linden Scripting Language).
I have good experience with the following software packages, frameworks and
components, among others: MySQL, Apache, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere
Application Server, Eclipse, IBM WebSphere MQ, Java Messaging Service and
CORBA.
I have a very good knowledge of Linux and a good knowledge of Windows.
I'm practiced in diagramming techniques such as UML, programming
methodologies such as agile development and test driven development and formal
modeling techniques such as Z notation and Communicating Sequential Processes
(CSP).
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