Software Engineer, Computer Scientist
Last modified: January 12, 2010.
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Michael Gratton is an experienced software engineer with a systems and networking background. His areas of expertise are Java and Python application development – particularly for online applications and UNIX systems.
Drawing from an early background of Internet-based systems and network administration, his technical interests include Internet technologies such as the Semantic Web, mobile application development and libre (free) and open source software development. He is interested in artificial intelligence research, specifically knowledge representation and reasoning, also parallel computing and programming language design.
His professional experience includes the design and implementation of many client-side and server-side applications and frameworks, web sites, UNIX based system administration and Internet Protocol networks. He has successfully delivered projects working independently, as part of a team and as a team leader.
Michael is based in Sydney, Australia.
July 2004 - present.
Founded Quuxo Software, a low-key software consulting and development business. Manages day-to-day affairs of the business as well as software consulting and development for Java and Python projects for clients. Maintains Linux and FreeBSD servers for client services hosting.
April 2007 - September 2009.
Employed as a server-side Java application engineer. Responsible for designing and implementing server-side components for a mobile phone based social networking application and m.Net's core messaging router.
January 2006 - March 2007.
A member of the in-house development team at Rising Sun, a motion picture visual effects production company. Responsible for developing and maintaining Python-based software for both production team and business management use.
January 2004 - January 2006.
Employed by the Centre to take over and complete an existing software project; developing a Java web application for recording and managing industrial workplace safety incidents.
February 2000 - January 2004.
Initially employed as a senior developer to lead client development projects, then as a software architect for product development. Responsibilities included strategic product and technology planning, design and implementation of an in-house content management system and web application development framework, project management and team leader, mentor for junior staff.
September 1999 - February 2000.
Employed as a consultant and software developer to design a replacement for the company's existing business management application using a web application.
April 1999 - September 1999.
Employed to solve the reliability and scalability problems Cobweb's server systems and network infrastructure was experiencing, caused by the company's rapidly expanding client base.
June 1998 - January 1999.
Provided internal systems support and maintenance for Macintosh and Windows workstations. Deployed and maintained network services and Solaris, Linux and Windows servers for internal corporate use and for client hosting.
January 1996 - June 1998
Provided technical support for personal and corporate clients. Maintained client domain name, email and web server hosting services.
As a Free Software enthusiast, Michael takes part in the Ubuntu and GNOME communities. While he unfortunately does not have the time to be an active developer, he is a member and contributor on related mailing lists and assists with bug reporting and fixing as time permits.
Previously, he has also been active in the Mozilla and Debian communities, was a member of the GNOME User Interface Hit Squad and a committer for the Apache Xindice project.
University of New South Wales, Australia. To be completed in 2014.
Examining issues surrounding perceptual anchoring, the problem of tying the identity of real-world objects to their representation in an artificial intelligence.
University of New South Wales, Australia. Completed 2009, to graduate in 2010.
Awarded First Class Honours.
Thesis paper, “Cognitive Vision”, examined a logic-based approach to computer vision using abductive inference for reasoning.
University of Adelaide, Australia. Graduated 2007.
Awarded scholarship to examine using an evolutionary computing approach to produce a static program optimiser. Paper describing this work presented at CEC '09:
Constructing an optimisation phase using Grammatical Evolution. Alexander, B.J. and Gratton, M.J. 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pages 1209-1216. Trondheim, Norway, 2009. IEEE Press.
Awarded the IBM Rational Prize in Software Engineering for the best group project mark for a Software Engineering Project.
Copyright © 2004-2009 Michael Gratton. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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