Matt David Sergeant

161 Waverley Crescent Livingston West Lothian EH54 8JT Scotland

01506 419 813 07957 593 007 07718 933 770 01506 419 813 matt@sergeant.org matt-sms@sergeant.org http://sergeant.org 1974/04/01 Perl 5 XML Java (JDK 1.2, Visual J++) JavaScript ASP HTML (Visual) C++ (all versions) HTTP CGI DCOM SMTP TCP/IP NNTP Linux (all versions) Apache (1.3) mod_perl CVS, RCS, VSS and PVCS NT (all versions) IIS (3 & 4) Oracle Sybase MS SQL Server MySQL PostgreSQL Access University of Durham, St Cuthbert's Society

12 South Bailey Durham DH1 3EE England

1992/09 1996/06 BSc Computer Science 2nd Class, Level 2 Huntington Comprehensive School

Huntington York England

A Level Maths A A Level Physics A A Level Economics D AxKit.com Limited

161 Waverley Crescent Livingston West Lothian EH54 8JT Scotland

2000/08 Present Chief Technology Officer and Developer

CTO and lead developer on a project to build a leading edge open source XML application server and content management system. AxKit is now one of the leading products in the open source community for building XML backed web sites, and has been used to successfully build many web sites providing alternate views for pages (such as WAP or HTML) and a friendly XML based development environment. The technologies built and designed by myself include XPathScript and the core engine inside AxKit. I also ported Cocoon's XSP technology to Perl for use in AxKit.

O'Reilly and Associates

90 Sherman Street Cambridge MA 02140 United States of America

2000/03 Present Lead Developer

Developing a commercial Perl based Web Discussion system, with Web, Email and NNTP interfaces. The project was a complete, from scratch development that I personally designed, architected and developed (with one further developer helping later). The technologies used included Object Oriented (OO) Perl5, mod_perl, DBI, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, module design, Apache, multi threaded kernel development, Email and NNTP message parsing (Internet RFC's 821, 977, 1341, 1641 and 2980), and much more.

Deutsche Bank - Wood MacKenzie

74-77 Queen Street Edinburgh Scotland

1999/10 2000/03 Perl Consultant

This role involved consulting on the development of a product using the MediaSurface application server product. Involving all aspects of development and project management. In particular working towards extending MediaSurface to have better templating facilities and XML support.

British Broadcasting Corporation

Bush House Aldwich London England

1999/07/01 1999/08/31 Web Developer and Web Consultant

Investigating several new technologies for the BBC's high profile web site (the most used content based web site in the UK) and developing modules for use on the site. One module is now used on every page on the BBC web site. Investigations into new technology covered search engines, personalisation technology, database backends and mod_perl. All work was conducted using Perl.

Ericsson Mobile Communications (UK) Limited

The Keytech Centre Ashwood Way Basingstoke Hants RG23 8BG England

1998/04/06 1999/06/30 Contract Developer

Developing an MMI for a "black box" device. Using Java over a tiny web server. Working initially with Visual J++, then with Sun JDK. Following on, working in Development IT doing internet/intranet development. Leading the development teams to create interactive business functionality. Key developments include large amounts of XML work, designing XML search tools (based on XQL and XML-QL), XML re-formatting tools (as a pre-cursor to XSL - see my web site), online XML editing protocols, and indexing techniques. The culmination of this work has been a global XML-based timesheet application, to be deployed all over the world to Ericsson employees. Some of this work has been made available to members of the Perl community via the Perl-XML mailing list and CPAN.

O'Reilly and Associates

90 Sherman Street Cambridge MA 02140 United States of America

1998/12 Present Author

Co-Authoring a new O'Reilly book called "XML applications with Perl". This will detail ways to use perl to process and generate XML. It will included details on XML::Parser, and the many modules that use it. Details of my CGI to XML gateway, are also included and some of my other XML modules. This work is in my "spare" time! [Addendum: This book has now been cancelled due to lack of time for all three authors. This item remains here for reference]

O'Reilly and Associates

90 Sherman Street Cambridge MA 02140 United States of America

1999/03 1999/04 System Architect / Developer

Developing the NNTP module for O'Reilly's WebBoard suite of software (see http://webboard.oreilly.com). This involved designing a new system from the ground up to do NNTP to a backend database, implementing authentication and ensuring performance was scalable. WebBoard 4.0 was released in June 1999.

Integrated Sales Systems Limited

Regal House 70 London Road Twickenham TW1 3QS England

1996/06/05 1998/04/01 Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Team Leader, Project Leader

Employeed again as a graduate I rapidly rose through the company, taking on projects such as a major upgrade for Searle Pharmaceuticals (mostly development work), Designing and implementing Comms security over RAS (working with the Win32 RAS and TCP/IP functions in C++), Internationalisation in the Oxygen application, performance improvements and internal tools. While working in Client Development I worked both on and off site for major corporations including Monsanto Searle Pharmaceuticals, Schering Plough, Lombard Business Finance, Astra Pharmaceuticals and Royal & Sun Alliance. A major project while at ISS was developing their intranet. This rapidly grew from a project running on my own workstation, into a dedicated web server, serving up thousands of documents, and running some of the core infrastructure at the company. The server was a test bed for many new web tools - beta testing ASP (when it was called Denali), working with HiP Communications to bring Perl to Win32, and testing out the new IIS 4.

Integrated Sales Systems Limited

Regal House 70 London Road Twickenham TW1 3QS England

1995/06/01 1995/09/01 Junior Software Engineer

Working over the summer at this lively new software house. I worked in small teams helping to realise their first Windows version of their aging DOS application. I worked in Visual C++ and T-SQL. I also designed a database consolidation routine called "Behemoth".

O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2001, San Diego AxKit - XML Application Serving with mod_perl mod_perl as an HTTP RPC Daemon Exception Handling in mod_perl Cross Database Perl Applications Orchard: a new API for XML Open Source Web Solutions 2001, Stockholm Developing XML applications with Perl and AxKit Building a web portal with XML and Perl XML Dev Con 2001 New York Building XML Based Web Sites with Open Source Tools Apache Con 2001 San Jose AxKit - the XML Application server for Apache XML Dev Con Europe 2001 London Building XML Based Web Sites with Open Source Tools XML Dev Con Fall 2000 San Jose Building XML Based Web Sites with Open Source Tools XML Dev Con Fall 2000 San Jose Generating XML From Form Data Apache Con Europe 2000 London AxKit - the XML Application server for Apache XML Dev Con 2000 New York Generating XML From Form Data XML Dev Con 2000 New York XML Little Languages (compilation, optimisation and execution of XML languages) Oracle Performance Tuning Oracle Training Oracle Advanced SQL Oracle Training Object Oriented Design QA Training