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Name:Michael Collinson

Address:11, Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW 2011, Australia

Mobile+61-404-254-288

Email:

Nationality:British


Education


1996 - 1979    University of Cambridge

MA (Cantab) Natural Sciences

§      Chemistry, Geology, Maths, Physics, Philosophy of Science

§      FORTRAN


1998 - 1999    University College, University of London

MSc Marine Earth Science

§      Marine geology and geophysics

§      Thesis: Geophysical detection of marine placer deposits

§      FORTRAN, JCL


Professional Experience

1995 - Current    AYE Ltd., Asia-Pacific

Own management, consultantancy & development company

§      2002-2004 Infrastructure design for e-learning infrastructure provider

§      2002 Design/costing for a large digital animation studio

§      1996 - 2001 - Started ImagineAsia, Inc. & Spectrum Studios, Inc. (see below).

§      1996 Manila - Technical feasibility study for CDPD wireless data overlay on existing cellular network.

§      1996 Manila - Technical feasibility study for wireless security monitoring company start-up.

§      1996 Manila - Setup Tetherless Access Ltd. (of Sunnyvale, California) joint venture for public metropolitan wireless internet network.

§      1995 China - Implemention of Motorola DataTAC Wireless Data System demo systems for Matrix Telecommunications & Jitong Communications.

§      1995 - 1996 Philippines - Vice President. National ISP rollout Joint Venture with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company

§      And other projects ...

Oct 1996 - Aug 2001    Global Animation Holdings, Inc.

CTO, COO

§      Management of start-up of two companies:

Ø    ImagineAsia, Manila

Ø    200+ staff 3D digital animation and digital ink & paint services company

Ø    Clients included DreamWorks, Warner Brothers, Carey Werner/NBC Television, Cinegroupe / Columbia TriStar

Ø    Headed studio and infrastructure design and project managed implementation and initial client projects.

Ø    Spectrum Studios, Los Angeles

Ø    High end optical and magnetic motion capture house.

1994 - 1995    Matrix Telecommunications / EasyCall Philippines

Consultant Manager for Engineering

§      Project managed all technical activities relating to EasyCall's test deployment of Motorola DataTAC 5000 Two Way Wireless Data System.

1989 - 1994    NEC Corporation, Japan

Assistant Manager

§      UNIX Operating System and middleware development

Ø    C, Assembly, Shell script Porting

Ø    Technology scouting, evaluation, license contract negotiation

Early Career    Europe & Middle East

Geophysicist & Geophysical Applications Analyst

§      FORTRAN, PL/1, scientific and graphic programming, IBM Mainframe, minicomputers


Formal Training

§      ICOM - MCSE Windows 2000, Cisco CCNA

§      TAL - Spread-spectrum wireless internet

§      Sun Microsystems - Java

§      ARAMCO - PL/1, Clists, ISPF, JCL


Technical Skills

§      Project Management, Financial and Business Plans

§      Methodologies, Requirements, Analysis, Modelling, Design, Implementation.

§      UNIX (System V, BSD, Sun Solaris) - developer, administrator

§      Linux - architect, administrator;

§      MS Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 - architect, administrator.

§      NextStep, IBM JCL / JES2 ...

§      C, UNIX Shell scripts (sh, csh, ksh), PHP, MySQL, XML, XSL, XHTML

§      C# / .NET, C++, Perl, JavaScript, BASIC, ASSEMBLY, MS Office macro ...

§      TCP/IP, NetBEUI, IPX, X.25, POP, SMTP, DNS

§      Apache, Sendmail; Qmail, Bind, ipchains, FTP, VNC, Lotus Notes / Domino

§      Wireless: DataTAC / RD-LAP (Ardis in USA), spread-spectrum wireless TCP/IP.

§      2D digital ink, paint & compositing: Animo, USAnimation

§      3D animation: Softimage|3D, 3D Studio MAX

§      motion capture data processing: Kaydara Filmbox, Eva

§      general graphics, compositing & effects: Adobe Photoshop, Premiere and After Effects

§      DPS Velocity, Debabelizer, Director. Sound: Sonic Pro.

§      Plus other processes / applications / areas of expertise.