Andy Gaskell

Current

Head Designer and Developer at Software Systems: Open For Business

Past

Design Engineer at Nallatech
User interface designer and software developer at CISRA
IT and Design Manager at Toolcom Supplies

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Education

Napier University
St Bedes, Redhill
University of Western Sydney

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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Andy Gaskell’s Summary

15 years experience as an programmer, with significant experience in dynamic languages, web programmering, user interface design and visual design.

Technical Experience:
Coding Languages
More than 5 years:
*PHP
*C / C++
*SQL
*HTML / XHTML
*CSS
*VB / VBScript
*XML / XSL
*Tcl / Tk
*Shell / Bash
*Matlab
3 to 5 years:
*JavaScript
*Java
*UML
*Delphi
Less than 3 years:
*Python
*C#
*VHDL
*Action Script
*Perl

Tools
More than 5 years:
*Borland C++
*MS Visual Studio
*GCC
*DDD / GDB
*Glade / GTK
*ELDK
*Adobe Photoshop
*Adobe Flash
*Adobe PageMaker
3 to 5 years:
*Matlab
*Enterprise Architect
*QT
*Visio
Less than 3 years:
*InDesign
*FrameMaker
Other tools:
*CVS / SVN
*InstallShield 11
*RPM
*BugZilla
*Cygwin
*WiNE

Technologies and Platforms
Operating Systems:
*Windows
*Linux
*RTLinux
*UNIX (SCO, SunOS and IRIX)
*VxWorks
Standards:
*TCP/IP
*GPIB
*DHCP
*POSIX
*ODBC / OLEDB / SOAP
*CGI
*Mono / .net
*SSL
*COM / ActiveX / ADO
*ASP / ASP.net
*OpenGL
Servers:
*Apache
*Xen VM
*MS IIS 4 & 5
*MS SQL
*MySQL
*MS Access 2000
*JDK & JRE

Andy Gaskell’s Specialties:

LAMP, user interface design, web application development, web consultancy, CMS, CRM, ERP, Joomla

Andy Gaskell’s Experience

Head Designer and Developer

Software Systems: Open For Business

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Helping people get great software systems without the drawbacks of a lot of large software providers. Most software solutions for sale today are proprietary, with black-boxes that cannot be modified, locking you into the original supplier. We are strong users and advocates of Open Source Software, which enables us to deliver solutions that can be modified to your needs, and do not lock you in. We will also help to migrate to a solution, if you're already locked in to an existing provider. The array of excellent Open Source software available means that whatever you needs, there will be something to fit the purpose. Following in the theme of openness, we aim to be completely transparent and open in business. We will not try to lock you in to a solution. We will not charge you for support or maintenance you don't need.
Design Engineer

Nallatech

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

October 2002 — July 2008 (5 years 10 months)

During my nearly five years at Nallatech I worked on a wide variety of projects. The work-type breakdown was about one third desktop GUI applications, one third on hardware interface software, with the remaining third being split between design service projects and infrastructure solutions.
User interface designer and software developer

CISRA

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2001 — May 2002 (10 months)

Most of my time at CISRA was spent working on Internet and e-commerce projects, with a small amount of time on desktop GUI applications. I was offered a permanent position and sponsorship of my residency, but decided to return to the UK.
IT and Design Manager

Toolcom Supplies

(Automotive industry)

May 1998 — July 2001 (3 years 3 months)

After university I worked at Toolcom for three years, it provided a wide variety of projects and a great deal of responsibility. The projects varied from web, extranet, Unix and Windows database system development, IT infrastructure and graphic design