Christopher James Conway
8 Whitelea Crescent
Balerno
Edinburgh
EH14 7HF
Email chris@chris-conway.co.uk
Mobile 07515 379 037
Telephone 0131 449 5582
Education and Qualifications
2005 - 2009       The University of Edinburgh
- B.Sc. (Honours) Computer Science (First Class)
Focussed on courses in Computer Networking, Distributed Computing, Software Development, Databases, Security, Operating Systems, and Programming Languages.
- Honours Project: "Real Time Hybrid Simulation of Wireless Sensor Networks"
Parallelisation of the SpeckSim network simulator to achieve real-time performance when simulating large networks; integration of SpeckSim with a small wireless sensor network of physically deployed devices to allow accurate validation of a large-number of simulated results.
1999 - 2005       Balerno Community High School, Edinburgh
- Advanced Higher: Computing (A).
- Highers: Computing (A), Mathematics (B), English (B), Music (B), Physics (C).
Technical Skills

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.

Employment History
Apr 2011 - Present     Software Engineer     Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Europe, Ltd
  • 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 .
Feb 2011 - Apr 2011     MSc Dissertation Teaching Assistant     University of Edinburgh
  • 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.
Jun 2009 - Apr 2011     Research Associate      University of Edinburgh
  • 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.
Sep 2010 - Jan 2011     Honours Year Teaching Assistant      University of Edinburgh
  • 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.
Jun 2008 - Sep 2008     Research Internship     University of Edinburgh
  • 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.
Sep 2007 - Jun 2009     Freelance Systems Administrator
  • 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.
Jun 2007 - Sep 2007     Software Development Internship     GE Energy
Jun 2006 - Sep 2006     Software Development Internship     GE Energy
  • 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.
Dec 2003 - Sep 2007     Linux Systems Administrator     AS Hosting
  • 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.
Awards
Freescale Semiconductor Prize for "Best Team"
Award and prize for the best team during the Informatics System Design Project course.
Publications

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.

Presentations

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.

General Interests

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.