Matt Sergeant - CV

# Matt Sergeant

30 Garnet Road / Bordon / Hants / GU35 0XW
Tel: Home: 01420 476 800 Mobile: 0802 413021 Fax: 01420 476 800 / e-mail: msergeant@ndirect.co.uk

DoB: 1974/04/01
Education

| University of Durham, St Cuthbert's Society | Graduated: 1996/06
| BSc Computer Science |

Key Skills

Languages
Perl 5
XML
Java (JDK 1.2, Visual J++)
JavaScript
ASP
HTML
(Visual) C++ (all versions)
Protocols
HTTP
CGI
DCOM
SMTP
TCP/IP
Software
NT (all versions)
Linux (all versions)
IIS (3 & 4)
Apache (1.3)
Databases
Oracle 7
Sybase 10 and 11
SQL Server 6.5
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Access

Current Work

| O'Reilly and Associates

Work Experience

| O'Reilly and Associates | 1998/12 - Present
| Co-Authoring a new O'Reilly book called "Perl and XML". This will detail ways to use perl to process and generate XML. It will included details on XML::Parser, and the many modules that use it. Details of my CGI to XML gateway, are also included and some of my other XML modules. Release date is set for 3Q 1999. This work is in my "spare" time!
| Ericsson Mobile Communications (UK) Limited | 1998/04/06 - Present
| Initially I was contracted to design an MMI for a product called the MTU (a little black box that monitors signal strength and other variables of radio transmitters). This involved writing a Java application to set parameters on the MTU, and read values back out again. Following on from that I joined Development IT which develops all the intranet applications at Basingstoke. First I designed and implemented a small library system to keep track of publications and books in the internal library. Then I worked on a Resource Model. This allows managers to plan and track resource allocations on projects over a 2 year period. Currently I'm developing a timesheet application. This involves developing new methods of working with XML, such as the new CGI to XML gateway that is to be integrated into perl's core CGI module.
| Integrated Sales Systems Limited | 1996/06/05 - 1998/04/01
| Employeed again as a graduate I rapidly rose through the company, taking on projects such as a major upgrade for Searle Pharmaceuticals, Designing and implementing Comms security over RAS, Internationalisation in the Oxygen application, performance improvements and internal tools. While working in Client Development I worked both on and off site for major corporations including Monsanto Searle Pharmaceuticals, Schering Plough, Lombard Business Finance, Astra Pharmaceuticals and Royal & Sun Alliance. A major project while at ISS was developing their intranet. This rapidly grew from a project running on my own workstation, into a dedicated web server, serving up thousands of documents, and running some of the core infrastructure at the company.
| Integrated Sales Systems Limited | 1995/06/01 - 1995/09/01
| Working over the summer at this lively new software house. I worked in small teams helping to realise their first Windows version of their aging DOS application. I worked in C++ and SQL, working on core parts of the code, and designing and optimising large queries. I also designed a database consolidation routine called "Behemoth" which took gigabyte databases and distilled the data for reporting purposes.

Training

| Oracle Performance Tuning (Oracle Training)
| Oracle Advanced SQL (Oracle Training)
| Object Oriented Design (QA Training)