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Jonathan Vaughan

 

Address: 30-38 rue Louis Blanc, 93310 Le Pré St. Gervais, France

tel: +33 (0)1.48.46.19.66            email:

Date of birth: 8.3.77            Nationality: British            Status: Married

Education

1995-98                     St. John’s College, Cambridge University

                     BA Hons. Mathematics: 2.1

 

1991-95                     Ashby Grammar School

                     A level: Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry, General Studies; all grade A

                     9 GCSEs (including French); all grade A

 

Employment History

XandMail, Paris (La Courneuve), France (July 2002 – present)

Web-based email software for ISPs, currently running 45 million mailboxes worldwide

·         Responsible for defining the company’s test structure and managing a small QA team

·         Exploited knowledge of underlying web technologies to dramatically increase test efficiency

·         Prepared and presented hands-on HTML tutorial for test team and project managers

 

Pi Research, Cambridge (September 1998 – December 2001)

Data logging and telemetry systems for Formula 1 motor racing

·       Managed testing for 10-man project team supplying calibration tool to BMW race engineers

·       Planned, wrote and maintained automated test suites of 400 scripts for two complex applications

·       Played a key role in user interface design for new data analysis tool

 

Courses attended

-          Principles of Software Testing          (Anglia University)          2 days

-          C++ and the STL                   (QA Training, London)         5 days

 

Skills

Experience writing/debugging: C/C++, JavaScript, Perl, HTML, TeX

Clear understanding of different testing approaches and their implementation

Test automation of Win32 applications using Rational Visual Test

Good working knowledge of Unix systems (Solaris/Linux)

Strong logical and analytical skills

Spoken and written French

 

Interests

Puzzles

            Set up 150-strong Internet team to crack Stage 9 of Simon Singh’s Cipher Challenge

            Solved 4-D Rubik’s cube, one of only fourteen people to do so

Music

            Play violin and trumpet to a high standard (achieved Grade VIII for both in 1995)

Dancing

            Competed in Modern and Latin Ballroom, also enjoy Argentine Tango

 

References

Available upon request


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