Balerno
Edinburgh
EH14 7HF
| chris@chris-conway.co.uk | |
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- Highers: Computing (A), Mathematics (B), English (B), Music (B), Physics (C).
Programming languages, etc: Java, C, C++, C#, Python, PHP, SQL, Bash, HTML / JavaScript / CSS, LaTeX.
Development tools: Visual Studio, Eclipse, NetBeans, Subversion, CVS, Trac, Jenkins.
Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows.
- Software Engineer on 3D Roadmap X-Ray application team, developing software in both C# and C++ to aid in Cerebral Aneurysm procedures.
- Involved in the full life cycle of application development including requirements estimation, planning, programming, reviewing, testing and delivery of a software application that was used in a clinical setting and complied with all medical regulations.
- In addition to delivering products both on-time and to specification, developed many useful tools to increase productivity .
- Teaching Assistant for MSc students during their individual research project.
- Provided regular support to a group of students through email and individual meetings to determine their progress, provide direction and give research and technical guidance.
- Projects covered all aspects of a Wireless Sensor Network stack: MAC, routing, and networking protocols, and application layer and payload formats.
- An active partner in the HOBNET European FP7 Project. Research addressed algorithmic, networking and application development aspects of Future Internet systems of tiny embedded devices to provide an all IPv6/6LoWPAN infrastructure for Smart Buildings.
- An active partner in the PLANET European FP7 Project. Research provided an integrated planning and maintenance platform that enables the deployment, operation and maintenance of heterogeneous networked Cooperating Objects in an efficient way.
- Developed a data centric software framework for data storage and control of Wireless Sensor Networks. The framework provided a suite of data-centric applications in Python, PHP, Java and C for the collection, archiving and processing of Wireless Sensor Network information. Used successfully in various deployments, both internally for testing and on-site with the Scottish Agricultural College and Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and demonstrated in ENS: An Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Network Platform. Further publications pending review.
- Developed algorithms to perform localisation and tracking of a person / object within a Wireless Sensor Network in an Energy Neutral manner, both in simulation and firmware. Successfully demonstrated at the 8th Workshop in Speckled Computing.
- Developed simulations of IEEE 802.15.4 networks and protocols in the SpeckSim network simulator, using the findings to develop firmware and algorithms for Energy Neutral embedded devices.
- Teaching Assistant on the System Level Integration Project (SLIP) course for final year honours students. Teaching covered all aspects of design, analysis and implementation of embedded systems.
- Held weekly tutorial groups with students to discuss their projects and provide them with technical guidance, particularly related to IP Networking, Wireless Sensor Networks and the Future Internet.
- Performed testing and quality assurance of the MotionViewer software application for motion tracking using Orient on-body inertial Wireless Sensor Network devices.
- Developed a networked application architecture and software for use with a Wireless Sensor Network. The architecture provided a client-server mechanism for communication between subsystems to collect data from the network, process and store it, and manipulate and visualise it.
- Provided remote and onsite support to national companies to manage their IT needs including email, web-hosting, private VPN, and remote access.
- Installed remote-access capabilities to industry standard CCTV systems to allow remote viewing and administration of the installation.
- Developed and tested an automatic server-deployment application in Perl and Bash to install and build all necessary software, libraries and configuration required to run an ENMAC server. Two versions were created: web-based and DVD. Successfully used to rapidly build and deploy servers in Russia.
- Developed an automatic server backup application to perform routine backups of database and file system data on a pool of servers running ENMAC software, whilst ensuring the ENMAC network was still available throughout. Successfully used on Scottish Power's ENMAC network.
- Created a virtualised environment for testing and deployment of ENMAC software using VMWare ESX virtualisation technology. Successfully used in-house for both demonstration to potential clients and training.
- Performed configuration, administration and maintenance for a cluster of RedHat Enterprise Linux servers running cPanel web hosting software.
- Developed an architecture to perform multi-site synchronisation of data to ensure redundancy of crucial websites across geographically dispersed data centres.
M. Barnes, C. Conway, J. Mathews, D.K. Arvind. ENS: An Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Network Platform. The IEEE Fifth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC), August 2010.
C. Conway, M. Barnes. Wireless Sensor Network Data Description And Encoding In Heterogeneous Building Systems. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Holistic Building Intelligence through Sensing Systems (HOBSENSE), June 2011.
C. Conway. Tracking People in Built Environments. 8th Workshop in Speckled Computing, December 2009.
C. Conway & R. McNally. Co Simulation in SpeckSim. 7th Workshop in Speckled Computing, December 2008.
A. Anderson, C. Conway, G. Booth, W. Cooke & W. Barbour. Pervasive Monitoring of Built Environments. 7th Workshop in Speckled Computing, December 2008.
I have a passion and keen interest for photography, particularly of people, events and travel. In my spare time I undertake photographic sessions with clients attending graduations, proms, weddings and other events. I have previously covered journalistic events such as the Edinburgh Festival's Cavalcade, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Alistair Darling's (previous Chancellor of the Exchequer and MP) visit to the University of Edinburgh with photos from these events published by the BBC and University Press.
I enjoy listening to music and playing the guitar in addition to sound engineering and DJing for live events and private functions.
I regularly attend Community Church Edinburgh where I am an active member of a weekly fellowship group. I frequently sound engineer with a praise band for live services and run a weekly discussion for students in the Edinburgh area.
For many years I have enjoyed mountain biking in the local Pentland Hills, as well as road cycling and touring in Edinburgh and the nearby area. In the upcoming months I plan to cycle 1000 miles from Lands' End to John O'Groats to raise money for charity.