David Reilly

Skills

• Project tracking and management skills that allow me to manage team projects
• Good written and oral communication skills, allowing me to prepare project reports and give progress presentations
• Familiarity with the major development platforms (Unix, Wintel)
• Sun Certified Java Programmer
• Client/Server networking, and WWW technologies (HTML, CGI, JavaScript, Java VBScript)
• Experience in technical writing for both online and print media

Languages

• Pascal
• PERL CGI
• C (DOS / Unix) / C++ (12 months)
• Java (since 1996)
• Visual Basic / Delphi familiarity

Achievements

• School of Information Technology Half-Fee Scholarship
• Vice Chancellor's List
  • May Semester, 1995
  • September Semester, 1996
  • January Semester, 1997
  • May Semester, 1997
• Dean's List
  • September Semester, 1995
  • May Semester, 1996
  • September Semester, 1997

Education

Tertiary Subject Results

Notes - HD refers to High Distinction, D refers to Distinction

Subject

1994, May

CORE-110 

Information Technology

92

HD

1995, Jan

CORE-100 

Communication Skills

89

HD

COMP-100 

Program Design

88

HD

IANL-100 

Discrete Math & 
Algorithms

62

PASS

1995, May

COMP-161 

Programming & Data 
Structures

91

HD

CORE-130 

Management

82

D

INFM-101 

Information Systems
Development

89

HD

1995, Sep

COMP-162 

Computer & Systems
Architecture

86

HD

COMP-261 

Artificial Intelligence

77

D

CORE-120 

Cultural & Ethical
Values

86

HD

1996, Jan

COMP-221 

Data Communication
Networks

77

D

COMP-210 

Unix and C

88

HD

IANL-110 

Program Specification
& Derivation

78

D

1996, May

COMP-310 

Operating Systems

86

HD

COMP-250 

Small Team Project

86

HD

COMP-262 

Human Computer
Interfaces

79

D

INFM-300 

Project Design &
Management

83

D

1996, Sep

COMP-321 

Network Protocols

83

D

COMP-302 

Software Engineering

87

HD

COMP-200 

Advanced Programming

96

HD

COMP-350 

Project Applications

91

HD

1997, Jan

INFM-160 

World Wide Web Applications

85

HD

INFM-202 

Object Orientated Analysis &
Design

91

HD

COMP-254 

Object Orientated Programming

86

HD

1997, May

INFM-202 

Database Design & Use

87

HD

COMP-364 

Advanced Graphics

85

HD

COMP-330 

Advanced World Wide Web
Applications

95

HD

1997, Sep

COMP-301 

Database Management Systems

75

D

COMP-360 

Networks & Distributed Computing

90

HD

COMP-420 

Advanced Software Engineering	

80

HD

1998, Jan	

  COMP-431

Industrial Project - Digital
 Australia

UNGRADED
PASS	

1998, May

INFM-203 

Electronic Commerce

92

HD

SPNL-100 

Spanish Level One
(not for assessment)

1998, Sep

COMP-481 

Special Topic : "Java Network
Programming"

90

HD

LAWS-429 

Electronic Commerce & The Law

85

HD

INFT-483 

Honours Major Topic
(Two semester project, ungraded
till second semester)

1999, Jan

INFT-483 

Honours Major Topic
(Two semester project, ungraded
till second semester)

90

HD

INFM-483 

Special Topic C - Multimedia

91

HD

Software Engineering Experience

Three months as part of a two person software development team implementing an online ordering system for Ocean Data Systems, a local computer hardware retailer. Skills learned include PERL, CGI programming and communication with databases.

Three months work experience as a project manager, directing a two person team of software engineers working on an online ordering system for Ocean Data Systems. Skills learned include project tracking, documenting the software development process, and communication with clients and programmers.

Prototyped a distributed World-Wide-Web search engine that indexed documents relating to a particular subject domain. Using meta-data, the system allowed users to search by author, title or keyword. Skills learned include client/server networking, PERL CGI, and WWW design.

Completed a fourteen week internship at Digital Research Australia between January & April 1998. My work included usability testing of user interfaces, as well as programming with CGI scripts in PERL, and network communications in Java.

Finished a six month software engineering project to produce a system development kit that  facilitates software agent communication. Project work included the specification of a network protocol, project tracking and management, development of a class library/API for Java software developers, implementation of a network protocol in Java, and conducting field tests with the software.

For the subject of Networks & Distributed Computing, tutored a 14 week laboratory class on network programming using Java, in conjunction with lecturer Dr Wu, of Bond University. In addition, I'm involved in ongoing consulting for Java developers (via HotDispatch), and technical articles for leading publications including :

• JavaWorld
• Dr Dobb's Journal
• Gamelan
• Java Coffee Break
• Java Enterprise Developer

Editor of the Java Coffee Break publication, a free online guide that teaches Java programming to beginners. For more information see http://www.javacoffeebreak.com/

Hobbies

• Oil painting
• Reading
• Spanish
• Freelance technical writing
• Computer games

Publications

The following represent a selection of writings that have appeared online or in print. For brevity, only a small number of writings published on the Java Coffee Break website appear, more are available upon request.

Online media

Please note that some online links may not be current (in particular, Gamelan which has undergone a redesign). You should, however, be able to access these links from the main site e.g. www.gamelan.com

Reilly, D. Automatic Code Documentation with javadoc, Gamelan, [online] at http://www.gamelan.com/  August 31, 2000.

Reilly, D. First Impressions of C#, Gamelan, [online] at http://www.gamelan.com/ August 22, 2000.

Reilly, D. A Look Behind the Java Community Process, Gamelan TechFocus Journal, [online] at http://www.gamelan.com/journal/techfocus/030200_community.html March 2, 2000

Reilly, D. Improving thread management with thread groups, Gamelan TechWorksop Journal, [online] at http://www.gamelan.com/journal/techworkshop/022800_threads.html February 28, 2000

Reilly, D. Java and Y2K: Will Your Code Still Run?, Gamelan TechFocus Journal, [online] at http://www.gamelan.com/journal/techfocus/122899_y2k.html December 28, 1999

Reilly, D. The Java Collections Framework: Implementations, Gamelan TechWorkshop Journal, [online] at http://www.gamelan.com/journal/techworkshop/120799_collections2.html December 7, 1999

Reilly, D. The Java Collections Framework: Introduction, Gamelan TechWorkshop Journal, [online] at http://www.gamelan.com/journal/techworkshop/113099_collections1.html November 30, 1999

Reilly, D. State and session tracking with Java servlets : Securing Data, Gamelan TechWorkshop Journal, [online] at http://www.gamelan.com/journal/techworkshop/102699_state2.html  October 27, 1999

Reilly, D. State and session tracking with Java servlets : Using Cookies, Gamelan TechWorkshop Journal, [online] at http://www.gamelan.com/journal/techworkshop/101999_state1.html October 19, 1999

Reilly, D. The new features of JDK 1.3 — "Kestrel", Gamelan TechFocus Journal, [online] at http://www.gamelan.com/journal/techfocus/092299_kestrel.html September 22, 1999

Reilly, D. Simple Handling of Network Timeouts, JavaWorld, [online] at http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-1999/jw-09-timeout.html September 1, 1999

Reilly, D. Serving it with style Part 2 : Putting servlets to work, Gamelan TechWorkshop Journal, [online] at http://www.gamelan.com/journal/techworkshop/082599_servlet2.html  August 25, 1999

Reilly, D. Serving it with style Part 1 : Introduction to servlets, Gamelan TechWorkshop Journal, [online] at http://www.gamelan.com/journal/techworkshop/081799_servlet.html  August 17, 1999

Reilly, D. Agent Communication - needs and solutions, Web Developer's Journal, [online] at http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/agent_communication.html

Reilly, D. Java Network Programming FAQ, davidreilly.com, [online] at http://www.davidreilly.com/java/java_network_programming/

Reilly, D. Top Ten Errors Java Programmers Make, Java Coffee Break, [online] at http://www.javacoffeebreak.com/articles/toptenerrors.html

Print media

Reilly, D. Customizing Servlet Output for Different Browsers , Java Enterprise Developer, Vol 1 Issue 2, October 2000

Reilly, D. State and session management with servlets, Dr Dobb's Journal, Volume 25, Issue 6, 2000

Reilly, D. J2EE and CORBA, Java Report, Volume 5, Number 6  June 2000

Reilly, D. gEs Java 2.0 Review, Java Report, Volume 5, Number 3 March 2000

Reilly, D. SourceGuard. Java Developers Journal, Volume 5 Issue 8 1998

Reilly D. Dealing with network timeouts in Java. Java Developers Journal, Volume 5 Issue 5 1998

Referees

A letter of reference is available on request.

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