Gary Vaughan

Current

• Software Engineer at The Written Word, Inc

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at QinetiQ
• Senior Analyst Programmer at Logica Aldiscon
• Systems Administrator at Group 4 Total Security

• Programmer at Misys Financial Systems

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Education

• Coventry University
• University of Warwick

Recommended

2 people have recommended Gary

Connections

30 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

Gary Vaughan’s Summary

I am an avid traveler, and have lived for at least a few months on every continent over the last few years - as long as you don't count Antarctica. I currently spend most of my time on the Pacific Rim, between California, Philippines, Thailand, Hawaii and New Zealand.

I am writing my second book (technically my 3rd, since O'Reilly signed a contract to publish my second, but pulled out in the wake of 9/11), working title: The Autotools Cookbook.

My position at The Written Word involves porting Free Software to commercial Unix, allowing SME's to purchase access to a repository of almost 500 packages, instead of wasting the time of a salaried systems administrator to find, port, compile and deploy those packages internally.

And finally, I'm passionate about all the martial arts. Extensive travel has given me the opportunity to study with many Masters and Grand Masters. Over the last 25 years I've studied and graded in most of the important systems: Karate, Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, Jeet Kune Do, Wing Chun, Kali Eskrima and others.

Gary Vaughan’s Specialties:

Technical Writing, Software Engineering (C, Unix Shell, Python, Tcl/Tk, M4)
Maintainer of GNU Libtool and GNU M4

Gary Vaughan’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  The Written Word, Inc

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 2003 — Present (6 years 8 months)

  Infrastructure and implementation and integration of natively compiled Free Software applications and libraries for a huge variety of big iron Unix operating systems.

• Senior Software Engineer

  QinetiQ

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2007 (7 years )

  Documentation and software engineering in C and Python.

• Senior Analyst Programmer

  Logica Aldiscon

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 1997 — February 2000 (2 years 7 months)

  Implementing PBS call routing, and Interactive Voice Response among features for internal telephony solutions.

• Systems Administrator

  Group 4 Total Security

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Security and Investigations industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years )

  Implemented payroll processing system for security guards in Cobol, C and Tcl/Tk.

• Programmer

  Misys Financial Systems

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry)

  1994 — 1995 (1 year )

  Debugging and Enhancing a huge (1000's of KLOC) integrated insurance quoting and customer management system on Unix with C.

Gary Vaughan’s Education

• Coventry University

  BSc , Computer Science , 1992 — 1994

  Activities and Societies:

  Tae Kwon Do, Rock Society

• University of Warwick

  BEng , Systems Engineering , 1989 — 1992

  Activities and Societies:

  Zhuan Shu Kwan Kung Fu, Tae Kwon Do, Band Society, Rock Society

Additional Information

Gary Vaughan’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

Gary Vaughan’s Interests:

Free Software, UNIX, Macintosh, GNU Compiler Toolchain, Writing, Martial Arts, Music, Motorbikes

Gary Vaughan’s Groups:

MCMAA (Multi-cultural Martial Arts Academy), Global Tae Kwon Do International, JKAE, Usenix

•    Python Community

Gary Vaughan’s Honors:

3rd Degree Black Belt Tae Kwon Do, 2004
GTI Referees Qualification, 2003
2nd Degree Black Belt Tae Kwon Do, 2002
GTI Umpires Qualification, 2001
1st Degree Black Belt Tae Kwon Do, 2000

Gary Vaughan’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• reference requests
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