Gary Sims

Current

Freelance Writer at Gary Sims

Past

Software engineer at BarcoNet
Software engineer contractor at Reuters
Software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation

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Education

University of Portsmouth

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Gary Sims’s Summary

I am freelance Linux/FreeBSD consultant and writer from the UK and have been working with open-source software since the mid 1990s. I first saw Linux while completing my degree in Business Information Systems at Portsmouth University. Then while working for Digital Equipment Corp I came in to contact with DEC's Ultrix and later Digital UNIX (formerly OSF/1). While developing enterprise software for DEC on its UNIX platforms I became more and convinced of the benefits of open source and open-source Unix-like operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD. After leaving DEC I became a software contractor and after moving to Romania in 2003 I became a freelance Linux/FreeBSD consultant and writer and started publishing articles for the Open Source Technology Group (owners of Linux.com and SourceForge.net). This then led to me writing his first book with Packt.

Gary Sims’s Specialties:

Articles, books, consultancy about Open Source and Linux technologies.

Gary Sims’s Experience

Freelance Writer

Gary Sims

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)

Since 2003 I have been a freelance Linux/FreeBSD consultant and writer and started publishing articles for the Open Source Technology Group (owners of Linux.com and SourceForge.net). I have also wirtten a book on FreeNAS with Packt Publishing.
Software engineer

BarcoNet

(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

1999 — 2003 (4 years )

As a senior member of the design and programming team worked on a Digital TV (DVB/MPEG2) scrambler. Using C and C++ designed and implemented several key components of the scrambler system including and embedded web server. The Scrambler ran under a real time operating system (PSOS) on a PowerPC.
Software engineer contractor

Reuters

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR.L; Financial Services industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Worked in a small team developing a network level (TCP/IP & Ethernet) gateway to translate database requests from one network type to another and then reverse the translation for the responses. The product was developed on Digital Unix in C for a real time environment with fail over.
Software engineer

Digital Equipment Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)

1993 — 1997 (4 years )

Last project at Digital was to work on Unix writing C code for Digital’s own Network Computer project. Before this worked as part of a client team writing a Java client as part of a client/server solution, using Symantec’s Visual Café. Previous to this worked for AltaVista, a division of Digital, work included customer presentations and client development in Java. Before this, designed, built and tested the AltaVista Mail Gateways for cc:Mail and Microsoft Mail on Windows NT in C. Previously worked on a X.400 to Internet mail gateway, working in C on Unix. Prior to this, designed and wrote a test client for Digital’s X.400 product; written in C on VMS and later ported to Ultrix, Digital Unix and Windows NT. Soon after joining Digital, became the QA engineer for a mail gateway product, designing, writing and implementing test suites for the product. Joined Digital, after University, to work in a small team developing and maintaining problem-reporting tools, in C.