Conrad Braam

Current

• Software Engineer at Clear Com
• Software Engineer at Symbian Software Ltd.

Past

• Software eng. at Symbian Limited
• Softw eng. at Adroit Technologies

Education

• Van Zyl and Pritchard
• Cape Technikon
• Hudson Park

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Conrad Braam’s Summary

I'm enjoying a varied role at the moment at ClearCom (a Vitec Group company) which holds companies with all kinds of broadcast kit from cameras, robotic cameras to stage lighting and wireless audio.

Software dev. with a love for hardware and communications using embedded C and micro-linux C++. Desk-topping primarily with C# and long Win32 background, ...and a few nasty script languages.

Love troubleshooting as well as designing stuff, documentation it and building testbed environments in languages not limited to C/C++, C# .NET, Perl, Bash, VB, Pascal and more. I can Drive Visual Studio, Eclipse, CodeWarrior, KDE and Notepad. Test with Cruise Control, CPUnit, NUnit and track it in ClearCase, SVN, Perforce and then fix it with bugzilla.

Conrad Braam’s Specialties:

Communication protocols TCP/IP, BSD sockets, RS485, USB.
Interest in Engineering applications embedded Linux, SCADA/ HMI, manufacturing and mission-critical computing.

Conrad Braam’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Clear Com

  (Broadcast Media industry)

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Developing for Motorola 8260 PPC core 'C' providing a wired and wireless distributed intercom system base, and C# for Vista-ready Monitoring and Config. suite.

• Software Engineer

  Symbian Software Ltd.

  (Consumer Electronics industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  Embedded mobile development OO, USB - RTOS - C++ Codewarrior, Carbide, Perforce. Component testing, Integration testing.

• Software eng.

  Symbian Limited

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  September 2006 — June 2008 (1 year 10 months)

• Softw eng.

  Adroit Technologies

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

  February 1992 — March 2005 (13 years 2 months)

  Server-side C++ development in communications interfaces over various media, TCP/IP etc. SCADA/HMI Logic Controller drivers. Industrial automation, Mining sector, manufacturing. Software roles including Quality Control, documentation and Customer support.

Conrad Braam’s Education

• Van Zyl and Pritchard

  Cobol and DataProcessing 1991 — 1991

  Activities and Societies:

  Concepts of Data Processing, Databases, Cobol Language, Structured Programming

• Cape Technikon

  Elec eng. (LC) 1990

• Hudson Park

  1981 — 1986

Additional Information

Conrad Braam’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Conrad Braam’s Interests:

Electronics hobbyist. Embedded and data communications technologies, RPG gaming.

Conrad Braam’s Groups:

N.D.B.G.

•    Agile & Scrum UK
•    Cambridge Microsoft Software Development Professionals
•    Cambridge Jobs
•    Embedded Software Engineers in the UK

Conrad Braam’s Contact Settings

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