I have not updated my CV since 2006. I now have a permanent job as a C# programmer.
This is my academic CV. It is also available in Microsoft Word 2000 and text formats.
I also have a regular 2-page CV [HTML | Word | text].
Dr. Andrew Philip Broad,
address suppressed on public academic CV.
Nationality: British
Date
of Birth: suppressed on public
academic CV
Email: see website
Website: http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
A highly skilled computer-scientist with outstanding academic achievements, my core skills are in programming and software-development, technical writing, research, and composing new fields of knowledge.
I work
accurately, thoroughly, systematically, innovatively, and with integrity. I
love to learn, and I am determined to succeed.
University of Manchester 19972003
PhD in Computer Science (2003)
Comparative Code Understanding of
Information Models
MPhil in Computer Science (1999)
The Application of Case-Based Reasoning
to the Understanding of Constraints on
Information Models
I
founded the field of comparative code
understanding, and applied it to the task of comparing EXPRESS information
models. This entails combining comparison with the extraction of higher-level
knowledge about constraints in the models. Syntactic constraints are
automatically annotated with explicit descriptions of their semantics (higher-level
constraints), enabling semantic equivalence to be assessed despite
syntactic differences.
I
took the initiative to put my notes on research, thesis-writing and vivas on my
website.
Skills: research,
technical writing, programming (in Java), design, planning, presentations.
Knowledge: code
understanding, code generation, software reuse, semantic equivalence,
data-translation,
integration, case-based reasoning.
Publications: two
conference-papers I gave presentations for both:
[1] Broad A. and Filer
N. (1999). Applying case-based reasoning to code understanding and generation.
Pages 35-48 in: Watson I., editor. Proceedings of the Fourth United Kingdom
Case-Based Reasoning Workshop (UKCBR4), University of Salford, Salford,
England, 15th September 1999.
[2] Broad A. and Filer
N. (2000). Extracting constraint knowledge from code: A case-based reasoning
approach. Pages 83-96 in: Bramer M., Macintosh A. and Coenen F. (editors). Research
and Development in Intelligent Systems XVI: Proceedings of ES99, The Nineteenth
SGES International Conference on Knowledge Based Systems and Applied Artificial
Intelligence, Cambridge, England, 13th-15th December 1999. Springer-Verlag,
London. ISBN 1-85233-231-X.
Civil
Service Fast Stream Summer Placement Scheme, CESG, Cheltenham 20042005
5-week summer placement + 10-month
extension, working from home.
I was given a brief to write a driver
for a USB device to read the RAM of an iButton
from 16-bit MS-DOS mode (which has no built-in USB access). My job
entailed
searching for information that could help me with this challenging task,
and combining
the relevant information into a working prototype which I achieved
within 6 months.
I used the remainder of my placement to
develop a 32-bit Windows version which can
write as well as read the iButtons RAM, and to write up a
121-page design-document.
Skills: research, programming (in C
and 80286 assembler), technical writing, self-discipline.
Knowledge: USB protocol, UHCI, 1-Wire
protocol, low-level PC architecture.
University of Manchester 19941997
BSc in Computer Science with First
Class Honours
Prizes:
Williams/Kilburn
Medal (outstanding final-year student)
ICL Prize (top final-year student)
Professors' Prize (best
second-year single-honours student)
Knowledge: artificial
intelligence, knowledge-based systems, natural-language processing,
programming
(object-oriented, procedural (C), functional, concurrent), language-design,
compilers,
operating systems, networks, machine-architecture, theory of computation,
logic,
software engineering, databases.
CS3900 project: object-oriented
library of problem-solving algorithms in C++
(pattern-directed
inference, truth-maintenance, propagation via constraints).
Lymm High School, Warrington 1987-1994
Four `A' Levels (1994)
Computing (A), Mathematics (A), Physics (B), German (B)
Nine GCSEs (1992)
Computer
Studies (A), English (A), English Literature (A), French (A),
German
(A), History (B), The Sciences: Double Award (A,A),
Mathematics
(A), Mathematics Extension Paper (Merit)
I am
an experienced programmer, particularly fluent in Java, JavaCC, C/C++,
BASIC and Standard ML (I have also programmed in Perl, LISP, KnowledgeWorks,
Prolog, lex & yacc, Pascal, Intel 80x86 and Motorola 68000
assembler-languages, and Z80 machine-code).
I am
competent with word-processors (e.g. Word), desktop-publishing packages
(LaTeX and FrameMaker), databases (e.g. ORACLE/SQL, Access),
spreadsheets (e.g. Excel), Web-browsers (Netscape and Internet
Explorer) and PowerPoint.
My
general computer-literacy enables me to learn new programming-languages and
software-packages quickly. For example, it only took me a couple of hours to
learn Access from scratch when I volunteered to help St. Joseph's Family Centre
recover from a computer-crash in December 2002.
I
am a Professional member of the British Computer Society (MBCS).
Classic computer-games and Spectrum-emulation. I have written room-editors for Manic
Miner
and Jet Set Willy, over 400 rooms,
and various patches in Z80 machine-code.
Following professional tennis, writing match-reports; playing tennis and
table-tennis.
Listening to music and collecting records.
Reading factual and fiction (e.g. sci-fi, Tolkien).
Learning natural languages and translating foreign text to English.