LIBELLE SYSTEMS

I am a free-lance contractor, specialising in designing and implementing C and Java systems for UNIX and Linux computers. I also design, implement and optimise relational databases... I have been programming computers since 1967, when I used an Elliott 503 scientific computer, programmed in Algol 60, to analyse the output from a Mössbauer spectrometer. This was part of my thesis for an MSc in Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. After graduating I worked for ICL in their Wellington bureau until I moved to the UK in 1973. This job exposed me to a huge variety of operating systems and programming languages on 1900 series machines as well as to customer-facing roles, system design and operating system support.