Charlie Dobbie

Career Break

London, England, United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Software Developer / Linux Administrator at Re:fine
    2008 - 2013 · 5 yrs

    Web application development in Java for in-house workflow system (Flow) using Wicket/Databinder. Linux administration for storage network, web application containers, mail servers and SAN interconnect. Linux systems primarily CentOS 5, with some CentOS 4, CentOS 6, Fedora, Ubuntu and Mandriva. Firewalls running BSD/PfSense. Hardware and software RAIDs, LVM and XFS. System configuration using Puppet. Maintenance and expansion of multi-segment Ethernet network varying from Fast Ethernet up to 10GbE. Administration of Linux-based NT-style domain on Samba 3. Administration of two linked Active Directory domains on Windows Server 2008. DNS administration on both Linux/Bind and Windows Server 2008. Windows administration for desktops running XP, Vista and 7, and servers running Server 2003, 2008 and 2012. SQL development, monitoring of primary database-driven systems. Part of first-line support rota, including some out of hours cover. Third-line support. Support for desktop software, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook), Sage Act, Sage Accounts.

  • DVD/UMD Author at 24-7 DVD Ltd
    2005 - 2008 · 3 yrs

    UMD video disk authoring for the PSP. Video capture from Digi/DVCAM via Spuce and Digital Rapids. Video compression using Digital Rapids and Procoder. DVD authoring using Spruce and Scenarist. Web application development in Java for in-house workflow system (Flow) using Wicket/Databinder. Linux administration for web application server. Maintenance of simple gigabit/fast Ethernet network.

  • Director at Opportunity Publications UK
    2004 - 2008 · 4 yrs

    Application development in Java/Swing for in-house tender processing system. Unicode text processing. Automatic data acquisition via FTP. Formatting of data suitable for inclusion in published bulletin. Internal IT support.

  • Software Developer at Skillstream
    2002 - 2005 · 3 yrs

    Web application development in Java, primarily using servlets/JSP. Deployment to Windows and Linux platforms.

  • Internet Application Developer at NETTEC
    2000 - 2001 · 1 yr

    Maintenance of P4AS web application container. Back-end web application developer, primarily on P4AS and ATG Dynamo platforms, in Java, C and Perl. UNIX application development in C, Perl and shell, using GNU-standard automake/autoconf systems on Linux, IRIX and Solaris. Both cc and gcc.