This CV is available on the web in two versions:
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Mike Taylor, Male. Born 12th March 1968 and now aged 31. British. Currently residing at 6 Alma Grove, Bermondsey, London SE1 5PY. Tel. 0171 231 1034, Email mirk@ssl.co.uk, Web http://www.n-four.demon.co.uk/mirk/
My own responsibilities have covered the whole gamut of what we do, from design, implementation and maintenance of the central database software (B-tree indexes, structured storage etc.), through targeting that technology to specific applications. My work has included every phase in the delivery of complete running systems: analysis, design, programming, testing, debugging, documentation, presentation, training, maintenance, etc. I have also managed other staff through these tasks, and representated SSL on a variety of collaborative projects involving partners from across the EEC and occasionally elsewhere.
One of my SSL projects (PLATO) won a BCS gold medal in 1995; two other SSL projects on which I have worked have won awards in 1996 (ROCKnROM) and 1997 (the Index+ system itself.)
| 1986-1989 | Warwick University. Studied Mathematics with Computer Science, graduating with a 2.ii. Founded and administrated a recreational computer society which grew to become to the second largest society on campus. |
| 1979-1985 | Bishop's Stortford Boys High School. Passed eleven 'O' levels (Maths, Additional Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English Language, English Literature, French, German, Music and General Studies), four 'A' levels (Maths at grade A and Physics, Chemistry and Further Maths all at grade C) and grade 6 music theory and practice (playing clarinet). |
| 1998-1999 | Zthes: a Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation. I've led a small informal working group, communicating only by email, to evolve a specification for using the Z39.50 information retrieval protocol to navigate hierarchical thesauri as described in ISO 2788. This has progressed rapidly to the point where a profile document (http://www.n-four.demon.co.uk/mirk/zthes-02.html) was presented to the March '99 ZIG meeting in Palo Alto, California. |
| 1998- | yaSQL. (Yet Another SQL). I have designed and implemented an engine-independent compiler for a significant subset of the SQL relational query language. |
| 1995-1996 | sm3. I designed and implemented sm3 (Sort Mail, 3rd re-write), a generic regexp-driven email redirector which interfaces with sendmail. |
| 1994-1998 | A device-independent HTML parser. |
| 1988-1989 | MUNDI. ``The first multi-user dungeon to run over the internet''. |