User:RichardAndrews
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Professional
- I'm the System Architect and Principle Engineer for Symstream Technologies (http://symstream.com)
- Professional software developer and team leader
- Professional networking architect and engineer with telco experience
- Information security expert with experience in the banking sector
- Heavy user of Free Software in commercial integration setting
- Expert in high-availability (non-stop) mission-critical systems
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Background
- Linux user since 1995
- PhD in Image Processing and Information Theory
- Did my entire PhD work - research, experiments, writing thesis - on linux
- Have worked as a software developer associated with
- Windows apps for digital photography and image processing (c 2000)
- Telecommunications provisioning systems (c 2001)
- Wireless communications research and digital signal processing (c 2002)
- Satellite image processing for meteorology and oceanography, working with NASA and JAXA (c 2003)
- Designing and building high-availability financial systems and secure networks (2003-present)
- I'm a dad with two boys, the eldest enterred the school system in 2008 and was the trigger for my investigations of how to get Free Software into schools
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FOSS/Education Interests
- Understanding what makes a successful FOSS rollout in schools
- Producing a step-by-step guide from planning through the first 5 years for how to run a school on FOSS
- Particularly interested in:
