Tim Bunce

Tim Bunce

Entropy Minimizer at TigerLead

Ireland

Current
  • Entropy Minimizer at TigerLead
  • Owner at Data Plan Services - Consulting
  • Speaker and Trainer at Self-Employed
  • Author of Devel::NYTProf v2 at Self-Employed
  • Author of Perl DBI module (Self-employed)
Education
  • Kingston University
Connections
179 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Tim Bunce’s Summary

Tim is a highly competent application, middleware, and database architect, implementer and trouble shooter. His creative solutions are well engineered to balance immediate needs and longer term goals.

His understanding of data processing issues, particularly performance, management, and reporting of large data volumes, are at the heart of his international consultancy business.

He has a clear understanding of business risks and the importance of business processes and change management.

Self-motivated and self-directed with a proven ability to work remotely. An effective communicator at all levels who is always keen to share knowledge and ideas. He regularly presents tutorials and sessions at the Open Source Convention and other conferences and workshops.

His Open Source Perl DBI software is used by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide.

Tim Bunce’s Specialties:

High performance data processing and database middleware. Software systems design and implementation. Performance optimization at all levels. Training. Perl. Perl DBI. C. RDBMS. MySQL and DBD::mysql. Oracle and DBD::Oracle. Database schema design and tuning. Horizontal scaling. Server architecture. Open Source. Unix.


Tim Bunce’s Experience

  • Entropy Minimizer

    TigerLead

    (Real Estate industry)

    December 2008Present (1 year )

    Consulting to smooth and accelerate growth.

  • Owner

    Data Plan Services - Consulting

    (Computer Software industry)

    September 1999Present (10 years 3 months)

    Independant consultant specializing in high performance data processing, optimization at all levels, and database related technologies, especially Perl DBI.

  • Speaker and Trainer

    Self-Employed

    (Computer Software industry)

    June 1998Present (11 years 6 months)

    Speaker on technical topics to conferences such as the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, YAPC, Insight Cruises, plus assorted User Groups and Workshops. (See http://blog.timbunce.org/my-presentations/)

  • Author of Devel::NYTProf v2

    Self-Employed

    (Computer Software industry)

    March 1998Present (11 years 9 months)

    A state-of-the-art source code profiler for Perl with many innovative features. See http://blog.timbunce.org/tag/nytprof/ and http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Devel::NYTProf

  • Author of Perl DBI module

    Self-employed

    (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

    September 1992Present (17 years 3 months)

    Author and maintainer of the Open Source Perl DBI module for interfacing Perl programs with databases of all kinds. Used by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide.


Tim Bunce’s Education

  • Kingston University

    BSc , Computer Science , September 1985June 1989

    Degree course was a competitive scholarship awarded by the UK Ministry of Defense at the end of my 4 year indentured engineering apprenticeship with them.


Additional Information

Tim Bunce’s Websites:

Tim Bunce’s Groups:

PM.org,Toastmasters

  •    Irish Linux Users Group
  •    The Perl Foundation
  •    Perl Mongers
  •    CPAN Developers
  •    Open Source Universe
  •    Unix and Linux Professionals Europe
  •    FOSS Professionals
  •    OpenCoffee Ireland
  •    Digital Network IE
  •    Advanced Perl Users (JAPH)
  •    The Official Toastmasters International Members Group
  •    Perl
  •    3Dcamp
  •    The IT Developer Network
  •    Irish Perl Mongers Group

Tim Bunce’s Honors:

Winner of the 2009 White Camel Award for contributions to the Perl community.

Oracle Magazine "Open Source Developer of the Year" award 2004.

Awarded membership of all four MySQL Guilds: Writers, Speakers, Experts, Developers.

ActiveState Perl "Programmers' Choice" award 2003 for "actively contributing to open source languages and displaying excellence in their programming efforts".

British Telecom "Rising to the Challenge" award for work on their Call Management Information system. "One of the fastest projects of its size and complexity to go from conception to launch."

Co-inventor on patent US5225990/WO9217393.


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