TECHNICAL DATA SHEET

1.	Name:	   Ed Avis

2.	Academic Scores (REQUIRED FOR ALL CANDIDATES):

College / University :   Imperial College London
Degree Subject       :   Computing MEng (four year Master's degree)
Grade Achieved       :   First (also the departmental prize for excellence)
Year Completed       :   2002

Pre University

Examination Level  :   A-Level
Subject            :   Mathematics
Grade Achieved     :   A
Year Completed     :   1997

Examination Level  :   A-Level
Subject            :   Economics
Grade Achieved     :   A
Year Completed     :   1997

Examination Level  :   A-Level
Subject            :   German
Grade Achieved     :   A
Year Completed     :   1997

Examination Level  :   AS-Level
Subject            :   French
Grade Achieved     :   A
Year Completed     :   1997

Examination Level  :   AS-Level
Subject            :   Politics
Grade Achieved     :   C
Year Completed     :   1997

Also eleven GCSEs of which eight graded A*, two A and one B.

3.

I would prefer to work in software design and implementation.

4. Please indicate how long you have been using the following
programming languages.  Also, what is the longest application that you
have written in these languages, in terms of lines of code?  (If the
application was a group project, what was the total size of the
project, and what was the size of your personal contribution?)

Language    Length of use    Longest application

C           6 years          A few thousand lines as part of much bigger projects

C++         5 years          About 3kloc as part of around 100kloc.  I am currently
                             working on generating C++ code from grammar files,
                             which means a very large amount of code although I
                             have not directly written it.

Java        5 years          About half of an app of around 20kloc.

Perl        5 years          About 40kloc of a project I maintain which is over
                             50kloc in total.  I have also used Perl in employment
                             but only for lots of small programs of less than a
                             thousand lines.

Tcl         2 years          About half of a 10kloc web application which was
                             implemented in Tcl, PL/SQL and SQL.

Haskell     4 years          My final year project was about 3k lines of Haskell.

Python      3 months         About half of an 8kloc tool to generate C++ code.


I am sorry that for work I did at previous employers, I don't remember
exactly how many lines of code and so have had to guess.  Also, it's
not always clear how to work out the total size of a project, for
example if writing an administration tool which must interface to
existing programs and libraries but is not part of them.

5.	What are the most advanced mathematics courses you have completed?

In my final year of university I took courses in domain theory and
exact computation; models of concurrent programming; program analysis;
modal and temporal logic; and complexity.  In previous years I took
courses in statistics, logic programming, semantics and type theory.

6. Please indicate how long have you been using the following
operating systems as an application developer:

Windows (any flavor): I worked on a Windows application C++ during my
job before university, but apart from occasionally compiling other
people's applications for Windows, I have not needed to develp
Windows applications since then.

UNIX: I have been writing small Unix programs for around six years,
but my commercial experience with Unix is in server-based applications
(including web applications) rather than programs that run on the
client.  I began that five years ago before university and most of my
jobs since then have been mostly Unix or Linux development.  I also
used Linux for most of my programming assignments during my degree.

7.	Please include your last three years of compensation history.

I am currently paid 24500 GBP gross, and work usually about 40 hours a
week.  My previous job was a six month placement during my degree and
paid about 23000 GBP per annum again for about 40 hours per week.  The
summer before that I worked for the computing support group at
university and earned about 200 GPB per week.

8.

I am not in a managerial position at work.