Bourkie
User Names: Bourkie, Captain Subtext
Location - Current: Melbourne, Australia
Location - Residential: Melbourne, Australia
Visiting since: 2002
Posting since: September 2002
Claims to ABC Forum fame:
- Member of the English Language Police Force (ELPF) specialising in apostrophes, contractions, abbreviations, and most importantly, correct usage of the suffix 'ize'. For those that are not aware, '-ize' is the original English (UK) spelling and the United States maintains that original spelling. Last century many Commonwealth countries slowly started adopting the French '-ise' suffix.
Unique Skills:
- Able to peel a mandarin whilst managing to keep the skin all in one piece
Vocational Interests:
- Java, JavaEE
- C#, .NET
- Agile software development methodologies
- SQL Server
- PostrgreSQL (the only 'completely free' commercial-grade database)
- Sun Solaris
- Subversion (SVN)
- Mercurial (HG)
Other Interests:
- Travel (more than 14 months overseas to date)
- Cuban (Rueda) Salsa
- L.A. Salsa
- Piano (Classical and Jazz)
- Golf
- Basketball
- Running
- Reading
- Writing
- Google-ography
- Commodore Amiga
Qualifications
- BEng Computer Systems Engineering and BSc. Computer Science, RMIT University, 2001.
- Level 2, Australian Basketball Referee
- AMEB Level 8 (Piano, practical) / Level 5 (theory)
Occupation:
- Senior Analyst Programmer
Industries worked in:
- Health (hospital)
- Finance (insurance)
- Telecommunications
- Government (state)
- NGOs (charities)
- Manufacturing
- IT Services
Current PC:
i7 Quad Core running Windows 7 64-bit laptop with built-in Panasonic 6X Blu-ray Burner
