1995 Software Engineer/Telecommunications/Alcatel Australia

Software Engineer, Switching Systems Division - This position involved undergoing training in System 12 distributed processor telephone exchanges and then using the gained knowledge in wide variety of situations outlined below:

Integration Test Facilities Team (Liverpool, Sydney): Testing and trouble shooting of new exchange software with relation to new facilities. This involved taking the initial software package, released by the design department, and engineering it work to the customers (Telstra) specifications.

Facility Design Team (Antwerp, Belgium): Working in the design team developing software related to enhanced telephone facilities. Involved production of specification documents, design reviews and coding in CHiLL (both new code and redelivery of assembler patched modules).

Customer Support (Liverpool, Sydney): Involved field support for software currently used in Testra’s System 12 exchanges.

Basic skills gained/enhanced are as follows:

• x86 Intel Processor Architecture
• Assembler Programming
• ChiLL (CCITT High Level Language) Programming
• UNIX, VAX, IBM Mainframe platforms