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I'd like to brand myself as a well-trained IT professional, with a strong academic background in computer science and industrial experience on information system development.

I started my IT career in Univ. of Electr. Sci. & Tech. of China in 1985 as an assistant lecturer and lecterer. After 4 years of teaching computer science courses and R&D on microprocess development systems, I came to Heriot-Watt University in the UK in 1989 to pursue my PhD degree,doing research on heterogeneous medical database interoperability. I benefited a lot from the dissertation, in particular on the architecture of database-based information systems and interoperability among them. More practical experience was obtained after I finished my PhD study in 1993. In the Roslin Institute, I was working as a main designer/developer in building a cluster of animal genome mapping information systems. This is a whole lifecycle project and the Web and database technologies were extensively used. In NTL (UK's biggest cable company), I participated in Web hosting products design and development. Currently in CSC UK (a global consultancy company), I have been involved in a variety of projects in areas of ecommerce, equity research and life insurance.

Technical skills:

• I have broad knowledge and hands-on experience in object-oriented methods and tools (UML), Internet technologies (e.g. Web, XML), distributed computing (e.g. CORBA) and database systems (Oracle, Ingres, Sybase and PostgresSQL).
• I'm a Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 platform since Decemer 2001, and an enthusiast of the Java technology, with in depth understanding and working experience on the J2EE platform and application frameworks.
• I'm an advocate of agile (iterative) development methodologies and processes.
• I'm a proponent of open source software movement and once a practitioner (WebinTool, a Web to relational database/Ingres interface building tool).
• I have a strong background in C, Perl and Unix. Like other Linux guys, I play Unix and NT at work but Linux at home.
• I'm a fan of compilers compiler (e.g. Lex&Yacc, JavaCup).

Application systems:

• Financial service: global equity research, life insurance browser system
• Internet: web hosting & e-commerce
• Bioinformatics: genome mapping system
• Healthcare (medical informatics): medical databases

R&D highlights:(please see the publications if interested)

• Communication of databases using tagged text (1992)
• WebinTool: a framework for constructing Web interface to databases (1996)
• CORBA-based genome mapping system (1998)
• CORBA as infrastructure for database interoperability (1998)

Chinese translations/articles:

• [Presentation] Software Development, a practitioner's notes
• [Practice] A project review from a developer's perspective
• [Book Review] Introducing Alistair Cockburn's " Agile Software Development"
• [Translation] Martin Fowler's " The New Methodology"
• [Translation] Bertrand Meyer's " Building bug-free O-O software: An introduction to Design by Contract"
• [Translation] Bertrand Meyer's " Software Engineering in the Academy"

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Jian Hu
Last updated: November 2002