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PAUL BOORER


Location: London - S.E. England

Email: paulboorer@hotmail.co.uk

KEY SKILLS:


Computer programming, OO and procedural / Lexical and logical puzzle design / Web design / Project management / Software analysis and design / Technical writing / Full, clean car driving license / Full, clean motorcycle driving license / Full, clean skydiving license.


CAREER PATH:


Ongoing Institute of Music Technology Web designer


  • Web design skills

  • City and guilds accredited course


2000-present Freelance Puzzle producer


Setting traditional puzzles and developing novel puzzles, both language based and numerical/ logical, for dedicated puzzle and other publications.


  • Eight year series of crosswords with both cryptic and concise clues for 'Skydive Magazine'

  • Developing third generation Sudoku puzzles for Bauer Publishing

  • Producing a website for advertising purposes.



1997-2000 Onestep Solutions Programmer


Developing and maintaining a comprehensive workflow, accounting and management reporting case management system for certified bailiffs and general debt recovery


  • Designing and implementing Object Oriented algorithms

  • Developing a database-reporting package

  • I was responsible for the instigation and development of a graphical data presentation system



1984-1996 Geco-Prakla Schlumberger Programmer


Trainee applications programmer promoted to senior applications programmer.

Working to maintain and develop an in-house Seismic Data processing package (4,000,000 lines +) used in many locations throughout the world.


  • Producing all software and documentation to a prescribes standard

  • Analysing new user requirements to see if they can be met with the existing software or producing new software specifications to meet these needs

  • Implementing new algorithms provided by R&D into the production environment

  • Working on a telephone helpdesk to provide support to users

  • Collecting and releasing tested software upgrades to the world wide user base


Some of my larger projects included:

  • Automation of batch job submission and scheduling

  • Automation of use of cassette silos within a tape library

  • 3D seismic Survey disk data control and access software



1984-1986 Geco-Prakla Schlumberger aka Geophysical Company of Norway

Geographical Assistant

  • Worked as a junior member of a production data processing group

  • Clerical duties, producing and inputting seismic batch processing tasks, Q.C and filling of results


Platforms and Languages Used:

  • IBM/MVS Mainframes, Fujitsu V2200, Sun IPC/IPX Apple MACH, Apple OSX, Windows

  • C, Objective C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Fortran 77, Vector Fortran, JCL, assembler



EDUCATION/TRAINING:



1979-1982 Gained 9 'O' Levels (including English) and 3 ‘A’ Levels in

Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics


1990s Attended work based training courses in -

Help desk in action, Software project management, Technical writing.




PERSONAL PROFILE:


Currently I have been combining a puzzling hobby and professional skills to produce novel numerical/ logical and language based puzzles on a freelance basis. Having had published a long series of themed crosswords in ‘Skydive’ magazine and Sudoku variants in main stream puzzle magazines.




REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

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