Stuart Woodward's Resume

Personal Details

Employment History

1998 - Present
Product Manager/Product Designer Lotus Smartsuite

1991- 1998
Senior Software Engineer

Developer responsible for localizing 32 bit MS Windows application software for the Japanese Market.

• Researching and developing software for local Japanese and Asian Features.
• Working with and in a team of Japanese engineers in Tokyo
• Converting single byte US software to support double byte Japanese Shift-JIS & Unicode character sets.
• Debugging and fixing problems in the local features and in the original US software.
• Co-ordinating distributed development over sites in several countries.
• Informing and advising overseas developers about local requirements and how to implement them.
• Experience in using, creating and maintaining Lotus Notes databases used to co-ordinate the work of developers and quality assurance engineers in several sites. English and Japanese Lotus Notes user since 1992.
• Development and debugging experience in C & C++ under Visual C++ 4.1 on Windows 95 & Windows NT.
• Experience of several full development cycles.
• Experience in setting up the version control system, Visual Source Safe.
• Responsible for the training of new employees in Windows Software Development.
• Researching and developing test scripts in Lotus Script.

• 2 years full time experience of design, development and debugging in 8086 Assembly Language.

1989-1991 
Computer Engineer

Engineer supporting the development of IBM PC Compatible Keyboard & Peripheral Control Chips

• Writing test and graphical demonstration software in mixed C and 8086 Assembly Language
• Designing, documenting and building test hardware & software for development kits
• Supporting overseas customers by telephone, fax and on-site visit
• Administration of a electronic bulletin board for customer support.

1998-1989
Assistant to the Chaplain of the Port of Yokohama.

1 year volunteer work with the Missions to Seamen.

Education

1985-1988
The City University, London, UK

• BSc. (Honours) Computer Engineering (2.2)
• Final year project: Software research and development using a Novix RISC processor which implemented the core of the FORTH programming language in silicon.

1983-1985
Binswood Hall, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK

• GCE A Levels:
• Chemistry, Physics, Pure Mathematics with Mechanics and General Studies

Languages

• Native Speaker of English
• Conversational Japanese, able to read basic office E-mail and discuss development issues with Japanese engineers.

Other Interests

Computer Related Interests

• Using Internet Applications
• Writing PERL scripts
• Writing HTML and maintaining Web Pages
• Administration of several Internet mailing lists
• Developing software using MFC
• Secretary and Past President of The Tokyo PC User's Group
• Desktop Publishing
• Front Cover Designer of the Tokyo PC User's Group Magazine made using a wide variety of graphical tools including digital photography, video capture and ray-tracing software.
• Creating posters, menus & business cards.

General Interests

• Indian Cookery
• British Government and Politics
• Celtic Christianity