Having worked on several consecutive contracts concerning mobile application integration, development and UI specification for a major mobile phone manufacturer, I am experienced in the delivery of Symbian based products. Most prominent features include: Vodafone mobile TV, Radio DJ, ‘3’ network operator X-Series feature bundle, Visto push email client.

I worked on an embedded event-driven C++ code-base developed for the Symbian v9.2 RTOS platform throughout the two years and seven months at Teleca; UML was used extensively to describe the objected oriented structure of the software.

Main achievements:
• Took ownership of the full development lifecycle of the ‘Silent Install’ DLL utility.
o Functional dependency for the Visto push email client.
o Private Symbian software installation server process API was utilised.

• Advised the push email client development team regarding the integration with the Symbian messaging server.

Responsibilities:
UI Design team - UI Specifications via RTOS C++ system analysis, one year
• Analysed the feasible use of the RTOS C++ Symbain media framework.
• Contributed to the UI specification through the use of the GIMP tool. Also performing risk analysis of various features during the transition from soft key navigation to full finger touch UI.

Branded Services – C++ RTOS software development, one year
• Observed design patterns and coding standards including ‘SymSafe’. Also, Carbide, Source Navigator, Doxygen, Symbian component broker release (CBR) build tool, RSD Lite and OST Host OMAP flashing tools were all utilised in this task.
• Utilised ‘MakeSis’ & ‘SignSis’ together with the tool and procedure for requesting ‘dev certs’.

Branded Services – Specification and design via C++ RTOS systems analysis, 7 months
• Technical requirements specification and feature architecture description including message sequence charts, UML and adherence to Symbian C++ design patterns.
• UI Specification using GIMP for CxD (Consumer experience Design) UI design.
• Analyzed existing RTOS C++ architecture (code and documented UML) to evaluate and escalate technical risks, issues and dependencies throughout the specification phase.

Designed, developed and tested MMI (man machine interface) solutions initially on a C code-base utilizing a RTOS Nucleus kernel and a proprietary S/W framework. These low-tier mobile devices were developed on a Solaris UNIX environment with Trace32 Lauterbach target debugging. Later, the development environment shifted to a C++ RTOS closed-platform Apoxi Comneon developed via a Visual Studio MS environment.

Main achievements:
• Took ownership of the full project lifecycle of the solution to the image cropper aspect of the image editor feature. The target was an event-driven C & Nucleus device developed through a Solaris environment.
• Investigated and successfully configured the O2 ‘Homezone’ idle screen UI notification for local-call rate notifications. The target was an event-driven C++ Apoxi Comneon device.
• Evaluated LINUX as a potential embedded RTOS for mobile ARM based devices. A Red Hat and Debian LINUX development environment was constructed with the main achievement being porting the Gnu debugger (GDB) server to the Familiar & Intimate LINUX distributions on the ARM target. This enabled remote target debugging.

Responsibilities:
• Requirements capture, one year
o Writing a design specification from an operator’s marketing description. ‘Doors’ was used for itemising the atomic testable requirements.
• Design documentation, two years
o Use cases, message sequence diagrams, UML.
o Documentum was used for versioning and storage of design documents.
o API usage documentation.
o State machine description of the MMI application.
• Coding in C and C++, one and a half years
o Utilization of exposed APIs from components within a closed-platform mobile OS.
o Cooperating with the message router within the closed-platform OS.
o Conformance to the project’s coding standards and configuration and release management (e.g. quality control). ClearCase (client-side build management), ClearQuest (Bug tracker tool) were used during this time. Also used were Trace32 Lauterbach target debugging, Gnu debugger (GDB) and Source Navigator.
• Testing, six months
o Writing a testing strategy.
o Bug reports: Raised and responded to bugs assigned to the application. ClearCase (client-side build management) and ClearQuest (Bug tracker tool) was used.
o ‘Smoke testing’ to ensure surrounding functionality is not adversely affected by the code checked in.

This 12 months contract formed part of the sandwich degree. Martin delivered a client-server network utility for forwarding content based IPC over TCP/IP. The solution was developed for a QNX Posix-compliant UNIX-like RTOS. The 12 months was spent coding in a C and QNX environment.