David Horton
Senior Technical Consultant
Career Highlights
Ø Telco Network fault and performance reporting systems deployments using HP OpenView Operations(OVO), Network Node Manager (NNM) and IBM Tivoli NetView
Ø Network performance audits of Telco networks and support systems
Ø ATM standardization and implementation – AToMMIB, NHRP, LANE, PNNI, MPOA, CES, VTOA, FRF.5/8
Ø SNMP agents and NMS for ATM networks for new hardware for NEC Japan, Eulix Networks, Carrier Access Corporation
Ø SNMP CNM M3 Proxy agent for NEC
Ø CMIP manager for Newbridge ATM
Ø OpenView Network Management deployment and application development experience
Ø Configuration, fault, billing and performance monitoring systems in the Telco environment
Ø CORBA and distributed transactions
Ø UNIX (> 20years. Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Ultrix, FreeBSD, SunOS)
Ø systems integration
Ø statistical analysis
Ø real-time systems
Ø www back-end systems (ASP, PHP, Perl, CGI)
Ø SIMD supercomputer
Key Skills
Ø Network and Element Management
Ø OpenView Windows, Network Node Manager, Operations (OVO),
Ø C, C++
Ø ATM
Ø SNMP
Ø Shell, Perl, PHP, Javascript and other scripting languages
Ø Java
Ø Requirements analysis and design
Ø Visual Basic, ASP
Ø Unix application development
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Experience
With Lead Up, I mostly worked with telcos in planning and deploying systems supporting fault reporting, performance analysis and billing data collection. HP OpenView Network Node Manager and Operations were used as a platform for some of these systems. Other systems and analysis included use of Perl and other scripting. Subsequent to Lead Up, I have worked on deploying OpenView Operations in a telco.
Since 2002 I developed IN-network configuration applications for AAPT using Visual Basic, ASP and Access databases.
In 2001, I worked with HP in
From 1993 to 2001, I worked on SNMP
agents and NMS systems for the management of ATM networks. Implementations have
been based on ATM Forum and IETF derived standards such as RFC 1695/2515 (AToMMIB) and M3 interfaces as well as proprietary
interfaces. The NMS systems included advanced prototypes using early releases
of MPOA, NHRP and PNNI management in ATM. Some implementations were based on
HP’s OpenView network management platform with SNMP agent development based the
use of CiTR’s MIB Master SNMP toolkit. David is active in the IETF, and
attended IETF meetings, introducing RFCs jointly
developed with NEC Japan. For NEC
In 1999, I was seconded to Astracon to work on IP-VPN network designs and CMIP based ATM switch configuration.
Prior to this I was involved as a project architect for the Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation's Fastpac Network Services implementing a network management system for the AOTC Fastpac 2 Mb/s service. This was developed on the OpenView windows and SNMP-DM APIs.
I was also involved in research into finding applications
that would suit a massively-parallel supercomputer (MasPar)
in addition to supporting about 80 users throughout
An earlier project was the A-Series SQL*Star product for the Australian Centre for Unisys Software (ACUS). This project involved porting Oracle products to the Unisys A Series platform to enable A Series systems to participate in SQL*Star networks. On this project David worked with a real-time system and large databases, response time performance analysis and developed quality control methods.
Before joining CiTR, I was a
software specialist for Digital Equipment Corporation in Brisbane and
Melbourne, developing custom technical applications for customers. This
involved tuning large databases, creating real-time applications, and
generating quality control and test plans. Some particular specialisations were
Personal details
Ø Name: David Hugh Nicholas Horton
Ø Marital status: Married
Ø Nationality: Australian
Ø Birth date:
Ø Hobbies: Cycling, Family tree research, Travel
Contact
Ø Phone: (07) 33788912
Ø Fax: (07) 33788912
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Ø Email: dhorton@iprimus.com.au
Ø Postal: 12 Marney St,
Ø Web: http://www.chapelhill.homeip.net
Education and affiliations
Ø Graduate Diploma in Computer Science, 1988,
Ø BSc (Honours) in Physics, 1980, The
Ø Member of the System Administrators Guild of
Ø Member of the Australian Computer Society.
Employment history
Ø Consultant to Hutchison Telecom (2004-)
Ø Lead Up Software (2002-2004)
Ø CiTR (1990-2002)
Ø Digital Equipment Corporation (1985-1990)
Ø La
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Referees
Ø Scott Mann (Managing Director, Lead Up) 0408 070 073
Ø Clive Tudge (Marketing Director, Lead Up) 0402 999885 or ctudge@gil.com.au
Ø Norm Lawler (Senior Program Manager, QLD Health) 0412 361652 or n.lawler@iinet.net.au (Engineering manager CiTR)
Ø Rob Cook (Chief Technology Officer, CRC for Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC)) (07) 3365 4672 or rob.cook@dstc.com (was Managing Director at CiTR, then at Astracon).
Ø Phil Gunter (OpenView Administrator, Citec) Philip.Gunter@member.sage-au.org.au (colleague at CiTR)
Job History
Contracting (current)
Hutchison (current)
F OpenView Operations agent and SPI deployments for 3G and 2G mobile network operations and business support
F Design, documentation and implementation of custom alarming
Catholic Education
F
Network Node Manager
re-configuration
Lead Up Software
AAPT
F Network and Performance Audit (LAN)
F Application and WAN performance
F Application security audits
F INCharge IN service design tool (enhancements)
F (Prototype) WEB based IN service administration and design tool (JavaScript, ASP, MS-Access)
Hutchison
F OpenView Operations SPI and custom log files
F Network Node Manager redundancy configuration
Depart of Emergency Services
F Tivoli NetView deployment
Telstra Mobile
F Performance reporting
Optus
F OpenView Network Node Manager fault configuration
F OpenView Operations map and event configuration
Optus
F Support for billing data collector for ethernet to building network.
CiTR (as a customer) - AccessPoint
F
CiTR
AAPT INCharge
Intelligent Network (1800, 1300, 13 number) number translation design utility for sales force to perform off-line services definition
F INCharge1... Visual Basic/Access DB end-user application
F INCharge2 WEB based on-line number maintenance (JavaScript, ASP, MS-Access)
F Team leader, designer, requirements and specification, test and documentation
Optus - Billing Data Collection
F Perl application to collect byte and packet counts from cisco routers
F Perl application to massage, collate and choose primary/redundant data
TransACT - VDSL/ATM/Telephony network monitoring
F OpenView console for network events
F Serial port and Telnet port monitoring
F Log file scraping
F PC integration of OpenView Java UI
F Team lead, design, requirements, specification and training
Telstra - Bill Reporting Bureau
F Database backend design for providing customised phone/internet bills
F Java and Tomcat application server with Oracle database
RequestDSL - Network managenet
F (Proposal) Network management of ADSL/ATM/IP network. Fault, performance, billing
Astracon - Adapter building
F
Tools for automating creation
of Astracon Connection Manager device interfaces, particularly for SNMP devices
(
HP Internet Data
Center
Design for automated configuration of racks of computers, switches, routers and storage to partition into multiple customer sites.
F e-Speak and other messaging buses
F Ethernet switching, routing
F Storage
F
(
HP Unified Messaging
F Design of management/control of unified telephony, voice messaging, email, fax system.
F SNMP
F H.323, VTOA
(Internal)AccessPoint
Integration of location maps and other content to WAP enabled phones.
F WAP and WML
F GIS
F Java and JDBC
Carrier Access Corporation
Design for management system for new Multiprotocol ATM multiplexing device for customer premise
F SNMP Agent development based on UCD & CMU code base
F Lumos framework (SNMP/Java manager application writer platform)
F ATM, Frame Relay, CES, VTOA, TDM
F
Team lead, designer. Based in
Astracon Private iWay
Research, requirements and designs for new carrier product to provision private IP networks over MPLS, VPN, ATM/FR infrastructure including service quality guarantees.
F IP Routing
F VPN
F Corba
F TeMIP integration invesitgations with Compaq
Astracon Adapters
Corba to CMIP mediator from
Astracon Connection Manager object API to Newbridge private CMIP interface (for
Telecom South
F CMIP
F C++
F Corba
Corba to SNMP mediators to Fore ATM switch and Cisco (ATM equipped) router.
F SNMP
F Cisco IOS
Definition of the FrameConnect
product in association with
McData
Analysis phase only for management system for fiber channel switches and directors.
F Corba
F Fibre Channel
NEC Research labs (Princeton , NJ
Multi-protocol ATM access device (DeltaX). Requirements, architecture and design of API, user application, SNMP MIBs and agent and internal message APIs into device controler.
F SNMP Agent development based on UCD & CMU code base
F Corba (Including access by C++ and Java components)
F Messaging interface to real-time OS
F Harris and Jeffries protocol stack
F ATM, Frame Relay
F ILOG GUIs
AToMate - ATM configuration product
Based on NEC ATM NMS and as a pre-cursor to Astracon Connection Manager, this product abstracted the ATM specific from the device specifics of particular manufacturers to provide a product.
F ATM (VC & VP) PVC configuration across an ATM network with least-cost configuration with customisable cost function
F Automatic reconfiguration around failures
F Automatic ATM network discovery based on multiple algorithms (IETF/ATM forum standard neighbour, ILMI addresses, Fore standards)
F Interface and PVC status monitoring
F Support for multiple disparate device types in network
F Support for ATM switches, edges (hosts and routers) and ATM networks (eg M3 interfaces) as ATM elements
F Customisable layouts for vendor devices
F OpenView windows (UI, datastore, integration)
F Alternate SNMP stacks
F
SNMP, Shell device controls
F
Demonstrated to AT&T, HP (
F Intelluctual property sold to Astracon
F Architect, team leader
NEC research lab (Kawasaki
NEC ATM NMS and SNMP agents. Development of manager and control agents for research and product versions of Model 5 and 7 family of ATM switches (and later) router over 5 years of development.
F OpenView windows API
F OpenView direct SNMP API
F SNMP agent development based on CMU code base (also MIT base)
F lex/yacc
F ATM, NHRP, MPOA, PNNI technology
F Motif (minimal)
F Change control layers on RCS
F Networking (TCP/IP, UDP, sockets, SNMP, ...)
F IETF standards
F Team lead, designer, coder, requirements.
F Japanese based Research and Development lab client for 5 years
F Highlights
F 3 of first 5 implementations of AToMMIB in world (as presented IETF Stockholm)
F First implementation of ATM neighbour discovery
F World first implementation of IF-MIB
F World first implementations of NHRP clients and servers with management interfaces
F MPOA (multi-protocol over ATM) server and client SNMP MIBs for ATM Forum
F ATM configuration protocol prototype and spreification for ATM forum
NEC ATM CNM Agent
Specification, design and implementation of an ATM Forum M3 interface compliant SNMP interface to Model network management system. The management system was a CMIP-based system supporting all the customers of a carrier (initially Sprint). The M3 interface provides an end-customer with a view of just their end-points via a standards based SNMP view giving 15-minute liveness of all their billing/performance data.
F SNMP agent development based on CMU code.
F ATM, Sonet, DS1, DS3
F Customer Network Management
F Change control layers on RCS
F Networking (TCP/IP, UDP, sockets, SNMP, ...)
F Team leader, coder, tester
NEC transmission division
Analysis and evaluation of X/Open and Corba transaction and sub-transaction standards for application to a hierarchy on networks (Sonet).
NEC switching division (Japan
F Definition of CMIP MIB for new wave division multiplexing < protection including equipment switching>
Reuse repository (internal)
Perl CGI based information repository supporting intellectual property register, and general process and procedures. Identity and RCS used to preserve audit trail. Searchable interface via WML through WAP gateway.
F Perl
F RCS revision control system
F WAP / WML (wireless protocols)
Resource Discovery prototype (internal)
Mid-1990s prototype of site-wide search and document control.
F Mosaic, WWW
F HTML
F HTML conversion tools
F WAIS
Telstra - Fastpac Release 2
F OpenView DM API for SNMP (XOM/XMP)
F Transaction/message routing
F lex/yacc
F Ingres DB design, tuning
F Ingres/Net, Ingres/Star
F Networking (TCP/IP, UDP, sockets, SNMP, ...)
Telecom-HP NM
Work with a Telecom - Hewlett Packard consortium in the definition of tools for use in the telecommunications market.
F lex/yacc
F OpenView
F GDMO
F XOM/XMP
CiTR MIBMaster - SNMP Manager and Agent toolkit product
Designer, developer, documenter of internally developed toolkit and product to take SNMP MIBs and produce an easier to use set of libraries, database schemas and user interfaces. Tools supported SNMP agent instrumentation (inclusion of code to support the custom features of the MIBs through callbacks).
F SNMP
F yacc/lex/C
F XOM/XMP
F Relational Database (Ingres, PostGres)
F X and Motif
F OpenView
F NetSNMP, UCD, OpevView SNMP stacks
OTC/Telstra - Fastpac release 1
F OpenView OVc-SNMP API (now obsolete)
F GDMO
F SNMP
F Ingres DB design
F Embedded SQL
F lex, yacc
F Source control systems (SCCS)
F Networking (TCP/IP, UDP, sockets, SNMP, ...)
MasPar super computer (Data Parallel Research Institute)
Initial setup of Data Parallel Research
Initiative + MasPar training and support.
F Supercomputer programming (SIMD)
F Data parallel versions of C and Fortran
F Consultancy in MasPar applications
F Training courses
F System administration of DPRI (UQ) MasPar machine - charlotte (later Penguin)
F
Connection Machine (CM-2 in
SQL Star Net/Connect (for Unisys/ACUS)
F Port of Oracle SQL*Star from Unix & IBM MVS to
F Port of Oracle SQL*Net from Unix to A-Series
F Unisys A-Series (OS(MCP/AS), Algol, C, SQL, SIM, TCP-IP, Networking)
F Oracle database internals
F Oracle database design
F Oracle end user application
F Source control sytems (RCS+A-series)
F Networking (TCP/IP, UDP, sockets, ...) plus involvement in other projects
Pre-CiTR with Digital Equipment Corp (DEC)
(Mostly VAX/VMS and PDP-11/RSX, but also some Unix, RT11, VAX/eln, RSTS)
Boyne Island
F Real time OS and database (VAX/ELN)
F VMS
F Rdb relational database (design, tuning, internals)
F Embedded SQL/C
F Ethernet packet analysis
DEC pre-sales support
F DEC CASE tools (source control, debugging, build control, code analysis
F
Performance tuning, editors,
languages (C, Fortran, Cobol,
F News software
POWERPAC (a NZ consortia of the regional electricity suppliers)
F
F Rdb database tuning and consultancy
F OO design review (back when OO was starting to pop up)
F Rally 4GL
F TI-Information-Engineering
F CASE tools
F Estimation, software auditing, Bohm tools
Qld TAB Betting system
F Transaction processing monitor for distributed VAXes
F Ethernet based 'transport layer' (implementation from driver to appln)
F Distributed database (implementation of all layers)
F Rdb database internals, RDO, SQL, Ada Parsers
F
F Source control
F Estimation, software auditing, Bohm tools
BHP Project Jindalee (over the horizon radar)
F
F Background ionospheric knowledge support for pre-sales
Pioneer seeds
F Cobol custom application managing research program of grain strains
DEC Health care systems
F Medical records translations
F Fortran
F DEC health care package (pharmacies, hospitals, ...)
F Structured analysis and design training
F DEC upper-CASE tools
DEC QTELEX
F TELEX interface for VAX/VMS, RSX11 and RSTS
F Maintenance and new developments
F Cobol
F Telephone support
Hertz
F Telex based booking service
F Basic, Qtelex
NSW TAFE (with DEC Artificial Intelligence centre)
F Expert system for analysis of diseases in roses
F C, Nexpert
F Integrated generic API for UI for workstations, dumb terminals and PCs
Australian Antarctic Division
F PDP-11 based mail and message system running over telegraph, telex, modem, DECNET etc
F Cobol, Assembler, DCL, MCR
F Direct device control (modem, telegraph, printer)
DEC Office automation pre-sales support
F ALL-IN-1 DEC OA product
F Email
GMH Fishermens Bend plant
F Engine plant production line control
F RSX-11
F Fortran
F Programmable logic controllers
Telecom
F Management system for video links interstate
F Pascal, PDP-11
Australian Society of Accountants
F Videotex system (precursor to WWW for internal systems)
F Videotex product (one of the first applications/deployments)
F C, Fortran
F Relational database (Rdb one of the first applications)
Attorney-General’s Department
F RSX-11 serial line test system
F Raw device control from assembler
Other programming
Latrobe Uni
F Microprogramming of a NMR spectrometer
F Device control of a GC-mass spectrometer (magnetic) (GC-MS)
F Data analysis of MS and NMR spectra
F System admin
Monash Uni
F PC version of a project scheduling tool (our competitor was MS-Project)
F Cobol, Fortran, Dbase-(2&3)
Comalco smelter
F Scheduling system for smelter pot maintenance
Uni of Qld
F Data analysis of many spectrometers (NAA, SIM, NIR, elipsometer, MS)
F Other data analysis of experimental data
F Device control and display for a ionospheric sounding antenna array
QUT
F Co-routine library for HP-RISC (1st in Qld) for QUT's 'Gardens Point Modula' compiler
Other work
La Trobe University
Technician supporting department's nuclear magntic resonance spectrometers (NMR) (magnetic) mass spectrometer with attached gas chromatographic inlet. Included routine maintenance of liquid helium, nitrogen supplies, hard disk maintenance, software support.
University of Queensland
Research and development of electrodeposited thin-film solar cells. Included development of electrodeposition, heat curing and metal film evaporative deposition techniques. Development of analysis techniques for thin films including x-ray, neutron activation, and many optical techniques.
University of Quensland
Research into ionospheric layers via development of doppler radar using kilometer long radio antenna arrays.