Tim Bunce

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)

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Education

• Kingston University

Recommended

18 people have recommended Tim

Connections

179 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• My Portfolio

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 2008 — Present (1 year )

  Consulting to smooth and accelerate growth.

• Owner

  Data Plan Services - Consulting

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 1999 — Present (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 1998 — Present (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 1998 — Present (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 1992 — Present (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 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 Portfolio

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.

Tim Bunce’s Contact Settings

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