Curriculum Vitae

for Andy Gibb (a.gibb@btinternet.com)


Object-oriented program design using UML (Select Enterprise) and Design Patterns.
Long-standing Visual C++ programmer using MFC for Windows NT and 98.
Simulation, optimisation and Genetic Algorithms.
Experience with the Internet and HTML.

Someone typing at a computer Recent Work

Jul 1997 - Aug 1999 Lanner Group, Redditch
Discrete Event Simulation Software
Senior Designer/Programmer

Created Business Processes, Class Diagrams and Object Sequence Diagrams with Select Enterprise for a general-purpose Simulation Engine. Simplified the design with patterns such as: Structure; Visitor; Factory; Observer/Notifier; Mediator; Template; and Singleton.

Applied this framework to a specific C++/MFC program that scheduled tankers and modelled liquid flows through ports. Built and tested the classes with Developer Studio 5.0. Identified possible areas of reuse elsewhere.

Added features to a simulation optimiser that used simulated annealing and hill-climbing. This C++ program repeatedly called the simulation of a model with slightly differing components.

Some academic typeEducation

Sep 1992 - Sep 1993 Bristol University
M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence

Project and Dissertation investigating object-oriented implementation of Genetic Algorithms in C++. Courses covering logic programming with reference to Prolog; expert systems; fuzzy set theory; neural networks; and machine learning.

1974 - 1977 Bristol University
2,1 B.Sc.(Hons) Computer Science with Mathematics

Jul 1996 - Mar 1997 Reuters, Stamford, CT
Fixed-Income Bonds Analysis
Consultant Programmer/Designer

Built a DLL in Visual C++/MFC 4.2 for Excel to call financial analysis software. The DLL reorganised and managed incoming parameters. It also pulled data from Oracle via Objects for OLE. Designed the classes using Rumbaugh's OMT diagrams.

Also prototyped OLE Automation and ODBC as other possible technologies.

Earlier Work (Summary)
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Earlier Work (Details)

Feb - Dec 1995 IBM, Portsmouth, England
Telephone Billing

Improved and produced new features for Visual C++/MFC program that arranged phone bills into cost centres. Designed and built C++ classes that provided CUA standards for a Windows billing program.

Oct 1991 - Feb 1992 Laurentian Life, Gloucester
Financial Services

Corrected programs running under Windows and MS-DOS 5 on IBM PS/2s.

May - Sep 1994 Laurentian Life, Gloucester
Financial Services

Built Paradox database and Visual C++ routines to read it.

Feb - Aug 1991 Allied Dunbar, Swindon
Insurance, Pensions and Mortgages

Designed and built C program to transfer clients' details from several sources into a relational database. The program created a series of SQL statements for this.

Apr - Aug 1992 Fame Computers, Birmingham
Financial Services Software House

Maintenance and testing of C programs.

May - Dec 1990 Sun Life Assurance, Bristol
Life Insurance, Pensions and Bonds

Completed coding of C routines to access database via SQL. Programmed logic behind PM windows to front-end 3270 session. Used IS/2, an object oriented 4GL for OS/2 programs.

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Genetic Algorithms

ASG Systems (my own company)

The gaps between contracts give me time to design and code an object-oriented Genetic Algorithm in C++ and MFC/Windows. The design has been a simple case of identifying classes and their operations. I intend to formalise this, possibly by using Rational Rose.

The coding and testing of each class has been done in isolation as much as possible. By deriving classes from an abstract base class (ABC) I could create a Generic Tester that calls a virtual Test method. Each class's Test basically exercises the class's methods and reports back to the Tester (itself derived from an ABC).

I am now also building the bridge from the other end by writing a prototype that will allow a user to specify a set of variables and an objective function of them. He may also select various GA options, then run the algorithm.

Incidentally having started way back on Microsoft C++ 7.0 I created a base MFC application from which others can be derived by the use of Design Patterns. However, the Wizards in later versions of Visual C++ rendered this redundant. It was an interesting first application of some of these patterns though.

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Andy Gibb
Winchester
UK
7th December, 1999