Curriculum Vitæ for Martin D Kealey

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Overview

Skills

Employers

A complete personal history is available on Old Friends

Other recent activities

(Contact details for these organisations available on request.)

Details of recent work

Volunteer Service and partial employment

In recent years I have been the principal care-giver for an infirm family member (details available on request). When my charge has been in "better" health, I have taken on day-by-day casual work, mostly non-IT, and done voluntary work for community groups such as churches (mostly IT).

Much of my voluntary IT work is available on GitHub

NZ Bus

(Previously Stagecoach)

I have had part-time work as a bus driver with Stagecoach/NZbus almost continuously since 2003, with the agreement of my other employers. In particular I had a "mornings only" school bus route from 2010 to 2013, and day-by-day assignments since when family commitments have allowed.

Catalyst IT

I worked for Catalyst on a 4-month fixed-term contract in 2012. The role was primarily web development using Mason for a large client.

Vodafone NZ

I joined Ihug as a senior systems engineer, in late 2006 just as it was acquired by Vodafone. For over a year it continued to run as a stand-alone operation, but in April 2008 its brand was merged, and from then operations were gradually merged as well. With this came a series of role changes, including system integration, software design, capacity planning and vendor liasson.

Signature Internet Group

Since 1997 I have been running my own web hosting service. In September 2000 I moved that to operate under an incorporated limited-liability company.

This has involved me in all aspects of a corporate operation — albeit small — from hardware maintenance to outage scheduling to marketing, but the bulk of time has been spent on technical administration and building new software features.

Open Systems Specialists

OSS is an IT integrator for small to medium sized businesses, focussing on "being their IT department".

I worked there installing, configuring, troubleshooting and maintaining standardised desktops, back-end servers (hosting Samba and CommuniGate), firewall systems (Squid, CommuniGate, PostFix) and various network devices.

Stagecoach

Stagecoach in New Zealand is the principal operator of public transport facilities, including buses and ferries.

A spell away from IT. After 20 years professionally in the IT game, it was time to take stock of my life, and to find out if I could do something else. The answer was "yes", and I found I rather enjoyed the expanded "people contact", but I missed the challenge of IT.

Asterisk

Asterisk is a local (NZ) supplier of open-source-based appliances such as the Firefly firewall and the Firefly-X thin client for X-windows, VNC & RDA.

I worked there during 2003 as mixture of network consultant and software developer. The network consulting work refreshed my skills with Linux technologies such as "iptables", while the software development maintained my Perl skills.

Since I worked for them, Asterisk has been acquired by gen-i.

Peace Software

Peace Software is an internationally recognised supplier of customer management solutions to the utility sector, especially energy retailers.

I worked between 1999 and 2002, in a number of roles including application development, internal support, and research analyst.

Wang NZ

Wang is a business integrator supplying a number of large customers such as Air New Zealand with the totality of their IT needs. In 2000 they were renamed gen-i.

I worked there in 1997 as a web developer (during the heyday of the "Dot Com" boom), and then until 1999 as a consultant within their "networks" group; my specialty was configuration and maintenance of Unix systems from a networking and security perspective, but I was also involved with configuring Windows NT-4 servers and workstations, and various devices such as Cisco routers. For part of this time I was posted with Air New Zealand, where I assisted with their "desktop migration" program, and identified a number of optimisations to their network.

Creative cGi

Creative cGi was a small web development company, providing web pages and other software development to a number of clients.

I worked there during 1997 as a web programmer and network admin.

Bellsouth

Bellsouth's New Zealand mobile phone operation was sold to Vodafone in 1997, and renamed accordingly.

I worked as a subcontractor to one of Bellsouth's contractors, writing software to implement an SMS/SMTP gateway. This is the service which takes mail addressed to 6421637007@sms.vodafone.net.nz and forwards it to the mobile service, and arranges for replies to go back again. (This has since been replaced.)

Doughty Group

This was a contract to develop a data collector for Fiji Telecom's then-new X.25 network.

Doughty Group has changed its name several times; it has also been known Cray Communications (CrayCom).

I worked on contract with them to develope monitoring software for Fiji Telecom's X25 network. This entailed configuring the monitoring interface on a number of X.25 switches, and writing software to collect the output on a continuous basis and present it in a format usable by Fiji Telecom's existing customer billing software.

Magnavas

Magnavas was a specialist development house that designed and manufactured radio modems for the New Zealand market.

I was the software architect for the real-time kernel, and analyst for the communications protocol requirements, working very closely with the hardware developer.

Along the way I was principal in the development of an inexpensive in-circuit-emulator for the Z-80 CPU, to assist our development efforts.

ECONZ (Electronic Company of NZ 1971 Ltd)

ECONZ is still going after 44 years! While there I worked on a number of projects, including a replacement for the Livestock Improvement Corporations milk monitoring systems, and updates to the Automobile Association's call-centre software.

Omnitech & Phoenix Software

While at Omnitech I was the principal developer of the software portion of a product to send and receive facimile documents, including an email-to-fax gateway. Later I worked on general Unix & Xenix consultancy for Phoenix Software, the parent company. (Omnitech started as a separate company but a majority shareholding was acquired by Phoenix Software about a month after I started.)

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Last updated 14 Sep 2015

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