Name:Michael Collinson
Address:11, Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW 2011, Australia
Mobile+61-404-254-288
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Nationality:British
MA (Cantab) Natural Sciences
§ Chemistry, Geology, Maths, Physics, Philosophy of Science
§ FORTRAN
MSc Marine Earth Science
§ Marine geology and geophysics
§ Thesis: Geophysical detection of marine placer deposits
§ FORTRAN, JCL
§ 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 ...
§ 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.
§ Project managed all technical activities relating to EasyCall's test deployment of Motorola DataTAC 5000 Two Way Wireless Data System.
§ UNIX Operating System and middleware development
Ø C, Assembly, Shell script Porting
Ø Technology scouting, evaluation, license contract negotiation
§ FORTRAN, PL/1, scientific and graphic programming, IBM Mainframe, minicomputers
§ ICOM - MCSE Windows 2000, Cisco CCNA
§ TAL - Spread-spectrum wireless internet
§ Sun Microsystems - Java
§ ARAMCO - PL/1, Clists, ISPF, JCL
§ 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.