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= About Me =

I've been using Ubuntu since about 2005, and had previously used Mandrake (aka Mandriva) and then RedHat/Fedora, as well as spending a year working with Solaris in a Telecomms Environment.
I'm a MEng student of Electronics & Software Engineering at Queen's University Belfast.
Usually Located in Belfast, UK (UTC).
Have worked in a software development/automated testing environment while working for Ericsson LMI, working within Cellular Management.

= Availability =
(All times in GMT)
Generally available 
 * Mondays, All day
 * Tuesday, after 1900
 * Wednesdays, before 1900
 * Thursdays, after 1200
 * Fridays, after 1500
 * Saturdays, All day
 * Sundays, All day

I would be prepared to give at most 8 hours a week (The joys of MEng...)

For more specific availabilities,  [[http://www.andrewbolster.info/blog/about/|My Calendar]] or [[http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/me%40andrewbolster.info/public/basic.ics|ICAL]] 

= Programming Experience =

== Novice/Intermediate ==
 * Python
 * C/C++ (+MPI,CUDA)
 * Java
 * Perl
 * PHP
 * Bash


== Novice ==
 * Ruby (+on Rails)
 * Processing
 * Matlab

= Admin/System Experience =
 * Windows / Linux / Solaris Enterprise-level servers
 * Linux Cluster services (RHEL)
 * GPGPU Optimisation (CUDA)
 * Firewall and IDS deployment
 * DNS/LAMP/WAMP
 * Active Directory

= Areas of Interest =
 * Geolocation Applications;
 * Parallel Acceleration (GPU/Cluster/Distributed Computing)
 * Networking (esp Wireless/BT)
 * Data Visualisation
 * Kernel Development

= Contact =
Mail:ubuntu@andrewbolster.info

IRC:bolster

Blog: [[http://andrewbolster.info/blog]]

Linkedin: [[http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewbolster/]]

Launchpad: [[https://launchpad.net/~bolster/]]

Twitter: [[http://twitter.com/bolster|@bolster]]

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