Tom Wood
Consultant at Red Embedded
- Location
- Leeds, United Kingdom
- Industry
- Computer Software
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Tom Wood's Overview
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- Consultant at Red Embedded
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- Engineer at Roke Manor Research
- Volunteer at St John Ambulance
- Associate at Ernst & Young
- Education
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- University of Bristol
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Tom Wood's Summary
Software development and consulting, particularly involving networked embedded Linux platforms, from low-power specialist control devices through to high performance, high throughput multi-core network processing systems. Recent work has focused on digital TV set-top boxes running a mixed C/C++/Java stack.
Experienced in C, C++, Java, GCC, GDB, xUnit, gcov, Valgrind, VTune, Python, SQL, XML, PHP, Javascript.
Specialties
C++, C, Java, object oriented design, unit testing, embedded Linux, networking, digital TV
Tom Wood's Experience
Consultant
Red Embedded
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry
December 2010 – Present (1 year 3 months)
Software consulting, debugging and development for projects in the digital TV domain.
Present projects include working on a large and complex codebase powering a variety of cutting edge and legacy networked HDTV and HD DVR set-top boxes for a major international satellite TV company. Work involves debugging, improvement and new feature development at all levels of the embedded Linux-based software stack, including device drivers (C), middleware (C and C++), and GUI applications (Java). Particular areas of current focus include network diagnostics and performance improvement and automated system test/fault diagnosis.
Work involves close cooperation with the customer's engineers, contractors, hardware manufacturers, and test teams, who are located at various points across the globe.
Engineer
Roke Manor Research
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry
June 2008 – December 2010 (2 years 7 months)
Working in project-based software engineering roles including development of control software for a low-power embedded Linux system including device drivers for hardware interfaces through on-board CPLD and FPGA devices; and performance analysis and implementation improvements (through algorithm and data structure changes) to a high-throughput, high-speed IP packet processing system on a multi-core Linux device. Also developing Java web-based GUI interface and automated system/subsystem tests based around Python test harness.
Volunteer
St John Ambulance
Nonprofit; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry
October 2003 – December 2009 (6 years 3 months)
Various voluntary roles:
- First aider and ambulance crew at public events (2003-2009)
- unit Operations Coordinator at the University of Bristol unit (2005-2007)
- Group Staff Officer with general management responsibilities for 8 units in Bristol (2007-2008)
- Student operations/volunteer development role at National Headquarters (2006-2009)
Associate
Ernst & Young
Partnership; 10,001+ employees; Accounting industry
August 2007 – May 2008 (10 months)
Worked in teams providing clients with a range of IT risk services including IT aspects of financial audit, internal IT audit, Sarbanes-Oxley IT control testing and software licence reviews. Responsible for meeting with technical and non-technical client contacts to obtain necessary information (working on client sites); identifying, testing and evaluating IT controls; identification of risks; and documentation of audit work.
Software Developer (summer placement)
Gradwell
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
July 2006 – August 2006 (2 months)
Developed a customer management web application in PHP, Javascript and XML (AJAX) which provided common user interface to four separate MySQL databases.
Tom Wood's Education
University of Bristol
MEng (1st class Hons), Computer Science
2003 – 2007
Studies included mathematics, software engineering, algorithms, databases, cryptography, information security, computer architecture and image processing; developing coursework using Java, C, C++, JSP, Javascript, SQL and XML.
For my final year project I developed and implemented an algorithm for comparing differences between OpenDocument Text office documents and an interface to display these in an intuitive manner.
Activities and Societies: St John Ambulance: first aider/ambulance crew, unit Treasurer, Operations Coordinator.
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