Latest work: Linux device drivers for an air traffic control system, medical equipment and a cell phone base station.
Earlier work: portable data terminals, air conditioning control systems, remote order entry systems, telephone banking, EFTPOS terminals and networks, various communications programs, web pages for remote control of communications equipment.
Major accomplishments: rewrote 2,650 lines of C as a seven line shell script; rewrote a VME to PCI bus chip driver reducing the packet transfer time from 40 milliseconds to 200 nanoseconds.
Worked at NCR, Nokia, Philips, Telstra and Wang among others.
I am losing a developer who is moving to Australia simply for the life experience, which is a great reason in my books, although I hate to lose him. Just curious – how is the developer/tech job scene in Melbourne and Sydney right now?
There are a lot more low level technical programming jobs in Sydney than there are in Melbourne despite a difference in population of only 12.7%. For example, a search for "embedded" on the Seek job site at http://www.seek.com.au yielded eight jobs for Melbourne and 26 for Sydney.
On the other hand, living in Sydney is more expensive with average purchase prices of $A515K ($US464K) for a flat and $A600K ($US541K) for a house as opposed to $A485K ($US437K) and $A510K ($US460K).
Latest work: Linux device drivers for an air traffic control system, medical equipment and a cell phone base station.
Earlier work: portable data terminals, air conditioning control systems, remote order entry systems, telephone banking, EFTPOS terminals and networks, various communications programs, web pages for remote control of communications equipment.
Major accomplishments: rewrote 2,650 lines of C as a seven line shell script; rewrote a VME to PCI bus chip driver reducing the packet transfer time from 40 milliseconds to 200 nanoseconds.
Worked at NCR, Nokia, Philips, Telstra and Wang among others.