Tim Bunce

Current

• Senior Software Architect at Shopzilla
• Owner at Data Plan Services
• Book Author (Self-employed)

• Speaker and Trainer (Self-employed)
• Author of Perl DBD::Oracle module (Self-employed)
• Author of Perl DBI module (Self-employed)

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Education

• Kingston University

Recommended

11 people have recommended Tim

Connections

127 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Open Source Perl Modules

Tim Bunce’s Summary

Tim is a highly competent application, middleware, and database architect. 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.

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

He regularly presents tutorials and sessions at the Open Source Convention. 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. 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

• Senior Software Architect

  Shopzilla

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  December 2006 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Consulting

• Owner

  Data Plan Services

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  September 1999 — Present (8 years 9 months)

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

• Book Author

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Publishing industry)

  February 1999 — Present (9 years 4 months)

  Co-author of Programming The Perl DBI published by O'Reilly in 2000. Sold over 60,000 copies in five languages.
  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perldbi/index.html
  
  New edition (a complete rewrite) in is development now.

• Speaker and Trainer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Computer Software industry)

  June 1998 — Present (10 years)

  Speaker on technical topics, typically Perl DBI and DBD::Oracle, to conferences such as the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/e_spkr/29), Yet Another Perl Conference, Geek Cruises, and user groups.

• Author of Perl DBD::Oracle module

  Self-employed

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

  1994 — Present (14 years)

  Author, developer and maintainer of the Open Source Perl DBD::Oracle extension enabling access to Oracle databases via the Perl DBI.

• Author of Perl DBI module

  Self-employed

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

  September 1992 — Present (15 years 9 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 1985 — June 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:

• My Blog
• My Open Source Perl Modules

Tim Bunce’s Groups:

PM.org,Toastmasters

•    Perl Mongers member
•    CPAN Developers member
•    Open Source member
•    Unix and Linux Professionals Europe member
•    OpenCoffee Ireland member
•    Advanced Perl Users (JAPH) member

Tim Bunce’s Honors:

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."

Tim Bunce’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
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