Curriculum Vitae - Mark Orr

Principle Role
Senior software developer.

Skill Highlights
20 years programming experience.

Perl OO, DBI, CGI 10 years; CDBI, TT2 2 years

Web HTML, CSS, JavaScript 8 years; Prototype/Scriptaculous 2 years
XML XSLT, XPath 5 years
SQL Oracle 4 years; MySQL 3 years
Ruby RoR, HAML, SASS 1 year
PHP4 3 years
OS Unix 14 years; Windows 4 years; MacOS 3 years
C, C++, Java, Matlab, Fortran in the distant mists

Contact Details
• Email:
○ mark.j.l.orr@googlemail.com (home)
○ m.orr@daxtra.com (work)
• Phone:
○ 0131 653 1250 (work)
○ 0796 853 7010 (mobile)
○ 0131 659 6416 (home)
• Address:
○ 65 Baronscourt Terrace, Edinburgh, UK, EH8 7EN
Employment History
Senior Programmer, Daxtra Technologies, 2006-date
Summary: senior programmer, software architect.
• Jobboard spidering (Perl, XML/XPath, HTTP, MySQL).

• Docx conversion (Perl, XML/XPath).

• Web-based calendar (Perl, Javascript, Prototype/Scriptaculous).

• Web-based candidate search application (Perl, Javascript, TT2, MySQL).

Project Manager, All-Hotels Ltd., 2004-2006
Project manager, in charge of team of 8, developing Java and Perl web/database
applications for online hotel booking. Methodologies:
Senior Programmer, All-Hotels Ltd., 1999-2004
Summary: Lead or sole designer and developer of many of the company's core
software systems.
• XML messaging system for B2B room bookings
(Java/JDBC/Servlets/XML/XSLT/Schemas/Ant).
 • Web-based hotel inventory and booking application
(Java/JDBC/JDOM/Servlets/HTML/Javascript/Ant).
• Maintenance of over 1000 hotel directory web pages
(Perl/DBI/XML/XSLT/HTML/CSS/JavaScript).
• Updates of Oracle database with data from hotel providers
(Perl/DBI/LWP/XML).
• Database editing tool with a GUI front end (Perk/DBI/Tk).
• Database monitor, update and repair services (Perl/DBI).
• Trained other programmers in Perl, XSLT and VSS.
Research Fellow, Edinburgh University, 1993-1999
Summary: Research into neural networks for machine learning and statistical
modelling.
• Researched maths and wrote software (Matlab, Perl) for a special kind of
neural networks.
• Published theoretical and experimental results in journals, at conferences
and on the web.
• Wrote research proposal and was awarded £300,000 grant from Science
and Engineering Research Council.
• Organised industrial collaborators (including Barclays de Zoet Wedd, Royal
Bank of Scotland and Pareto Partners).
• Awarded 2 month research fellowship in Japan.
Senior Engineer, EDS, 1988-1993
Summary: Research and development in machine vision for advanced robotics.
• Lead small team developing C++ software for sensing devices based on
scanning lasers.
• Conducted and published research on 3D environment modelling for
robots.
• Collaborated on external projects involving related technology (e.g. BP
Chemicals and BNFL).
Research Assistant, Edinburgh University, 1985-1988
Summary: Research in machine vision.
• Developed software (C, C++) for 3D vision, environment modelling and
object recognition.
• Researched into statistical methods for the management of measurement
uncertainty.
Analyst/Programmer, Racal Decca, 1982-1983
Summary: Design and implementation of software for GPS satellite navigation.
• Part of team developing software for processing satellite signals.

Education
Degre Subject Department University Dates
e
MSc Knowledge Based Computer Heriot-Watt 1984-
Systems Science 1985
 PhD Radio Astronomy Jodrell Bank Manchester 1979-
1981
BSc Astrophysics Astronomy Edinburgh 1974-
1978

Selected Publications
• Regularization in the Selection of Radial Basis Function Centers, Neural
Computation, 7(3):606-623, 1995
• Geometric Reasoning in a Parallel Network, Robotics Research, 10(2):103-
121, 1991
• Relativistic Beaming and Quasar Statistics, Monthly Notices of the Royal
Astronomical Society, 200:1067-1080, 1982

Interests
• Chess
○ Irish champion 1985, 1994.
○ First Irish International Master, 1988.
○ Irish Chess Union (webmaster 2006-date; committee member
2007-date)
○ Web site.
Personal
Born Belfast 1955
Nationality British
Married Yes, one child

Referees
Available on request.