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Morerecently he has acted as adviser and author in the Symbian Press team.Educated at Balliol College, Oxford with an MA in Natural Science(Physics), Richard also gained an MSc in Astronomy from Sussex University, and spent a further two years of postgraduate research in theAstronomy Group at Imperial College.Outside work, Richard’s interests include a fascination with lights in thesky – stemming from life-long loves for both Astronomy and Fireworks.These days, his interest in Astronomy tends to be of the armchair variety,but he still acts as an occasional firer on a range of public and privatefirework displays.Mark Shackman, Lead AuthorMark graduated with a first-class honors degree in Computing Studies,followed by a Masters in Digital Systems and finally a PostgraduatexiiABOUT THE AUTHORSCertificate of Education.
After six years of teaching mathematics, physicsand computing and a spell at Morgan Stanley, he joined Psion Softwarein 1997 as a Technical Author working on SDK content and installationtechnologies.After the formation of Symbian, Mark joined the Connectivity Engineering group, with sole responsibility for authoring, producing, delivering andsupporting the Connectivity SDK. He also wrote a chapter in Symbian’sfirst book, Professional Symbian Programming. In 2001 Mark moved tothe Kits team, becoming Technical Architect shortly afterwards, with theresponsibility of introducing both the new Package Manager Kit formatand subsequently the Component-Based Releases.In 2004, Mark transferred to the Symbian Developer Network, andnow provides technical support to developers in the form of presentations,papers, books and tools.
He specializes in platform security, has givenpresentations in the USA, Brazil, Israel, India, the Philippines, Singapore,at 3GSM & at the Smartphone Shows, and wrote for the Symbian OSPlatform Security book.Mark spends some of his spare time shooting things – but only frombehind a Canon lens. He’s only ever had two pictures published andfirmly expects it to stay that way.Adi RomeAdi has a BA in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.
After a spellin teaching, she worked in Quality Assurance, moving to analysis, designand implementation of embedded systems, before joining Symbian in2004. Having spent a while in the Multimedia team, becoming involvedin all aspects of the development and delivery software lifecycle, Adijoined the Developer Services team as the multimedia guru. Withinthis team, she also provided technical consultancy across all areas ofSymbian OS, with a special emphasis on hardware – she was responsiblefor communicating the Symbian roadmap to silicon and multimediapartners, and was Symbian’s lead on the partner component validationprogram.
Away from technical work, Adi has been involved in settingup the Symbian China partner-consulting organization and is in muchdemand for her presentation skills, having given sessions at a wide rangeof partner and industry events, including 3GSM World Congress.Andrew JordanAndrew joined Symbian in late 2000 where he worked in the Connectivityteam for a short time before moving to the Base Peripherals team. Herehe worked on device and media drivers, the file server and file systems.Working mainly with Japanese customers for the Japanese market, AndrewABOUT THE AUTHORSxiiicurrently lives in Japan where he has been for the last two years havingmoved to a product development team.Alex WilburAlex graduated from the Royal Military College of Science in 1999 witha first-class honors degree in software engineering.
A keen third-partysoftware author for the Psion Series 5, Alex joined Symbian’s PIM teamin 1999.2001 saw Alex joining Symbian’s Professional Services department asa Senior Technical Consultant. Since then he has been living in Tampere,Finland at the heart of Nokia’s S60 Research and Development site,consulting on all the S60-based smartphones, from the 7650 onwards.Alex enjoys all aspects of home cinema, the Finnish outdoors and alsospending time with his partner, Ina, and their daughter, Elli.Douglas FeatherDouglas joined Symbian (then Psion) in 1994.
He started by leading thewriting of the text formatting engine for the Psion S5. He has also workin the Web Browser and Core Apps teams where he rewrote most of theVersit parser to greatly improve its performance. For seven of the last nineyears, he has worked mainly on the Window Server, where he addedfull color support, fading support, a framework to allow digital ink tobe drawn over the other applications, support for multiple screens andtransparent windows.Douglas has a BSc in mathematics from Southampton University anda PhD in number theory from Nottingham University.
He is a committedChristian and can be regularly seen on a Sunday afternoon at Speaker’sCorner (Hyde Park, London) engaging in theological debate to defend thebiblical truths about Jesus Christ.Ernesto GuisadoErnesto is a senior C++ developer. Between 2001 and 2006, he workedat Symbian as developer, technology architect and technical lead forSymbian OS v9.1. In the process, he learned more about Platform Securityand API compatibility than any sane person would want to.
In his sparetime he publishes articles for computing magazines and contributes toopen source projects in C++, Perl and Ruby. He has a website and blogat http://erngui.com.xivABOUT THE AUTHORSHassan AliHassan joined Symbian’s Crystal team 2000. He started work on the9210 project mainly on defects triage, true testing and Java compliancetesting. He then moved onto Techview messaging and worked on theSyncML application, SyncML Ui Notifiers, messaging MTMs and Automated Smoke tests. Hassan then joined the Multimedia test team wherehe worked on automating the hardware testing and was a technical leadfor Multimedia’s EABI compiler migration. Currently he is working inProduct Delivery as OS technical lead of maintenance products, wherehe automated the patch (ICD) delivery system.
He is also involved in theJava automated build system and providing defect analysis support to theproject office to help prioritize customer issues.Ioannis DourosIoannis received his PhD in three-dimensional human body modelingfrom University College London, where he has also worked for a numberof years as a research fellow in the areas of computer vision and intelligentsystems.He joined the Symbian ecosystem in 2004 and is currently a softwareengineer in the Converged Communications team.
He is an AccreditedSymbian Developer, as well as an unrepentant caffeine addict. He livesin rural Buckinghamshire with his partner, Sue.John PagonisJohn joined Symbian in 1998, where he worked on the developmentof the Ericsson R380 smartphone and later for the team that developedthe Symbian OS Bluetooth stack. Since then, John has worked on manyareas of Symbian OS with his experience ranging from communicationprotocols, security, location-based services and operating system internals to software-engineering methodologies, developer consulting, teamcoaching and organizational improvements.Currently, John is working as a consultant to developers, trying to keepthem happy, among other ways, by writing articles and code and givingseminars and presentations to whoever wants to learn about developingfor Symbian OS mobile phones. John is a visiting lecturer at City Universityin London and is (still) a PhD candidate at the University of Essex, fromwhere he holds an MSc (Hons) in computer and information networks aswell as a BEng (Hons) in computers and networks.
John also believes thatit is better when certain things are kept unread.ABOUT THE AUTHORSxvLucian PirosSince joining Symbian, in January 2006, Lucian has worked with the PIMand Internet team on various releases of contact model architecture andhas been involved in the latest contact model architecture design. Beforejoining Symbian, Lucian worked for two years as independent developeron core Symbian OS applications for a number of UI platforms based onSymbian OS. He has eight years industrial experience, most of them spentas a C++ programmer writing telecommunications applications.
Educatedat Babes-Boliay University, Cluj Napoca, with a BSc in mathematics andcomputer science, he enjoys spending his free time reading, traveling andcooking.Mark CawstonMark joined Symbian after graduating from the Computer Science Department of the University of York. Since then he has worked across theoperating system, from the kernel and device drivers, through file systems, databases, contacts and messaging engines, security, short-rangeconnectivity and communications, up to the user interface and applications. He has combined a career developing the core Symbian OSfunctionality, with helping manufacturers to deliver phones powered bySymbian OS.Martin HardmanMartin joined Psion in 1994, remaining with the company for 10 yearsas it evolved into Symbian. During that time he worked in several areasand had several roles including Senior Technology Architect and SystemArchitect.
He was also Symbian’s representative on the SyncML andOMA Data Synchronization and Device Management working groups.He graduated from South Bank University in London with a first-classdegree in computing.In 2004, he moved to Vancouver, where he now lives with his wife HaiWei, to spend more time snowboarding. He works for Intrinsyc Softwarewhere he is still involved with Symbian development.Mathew InwoodMathew joined Symbian’s technical consulting group as a graduate in2003. Since then, he has been involved in the development of themultimedia subsystem for the Symbian OS v9.1 range of Sony EricssonxviABOUT THE AUTHORSphones. He has a BA in computer science from Cambridge University,during which he worked as a summer intern at Amadeus in France. He isa keen paraglider pilot and tries to go flying as often as he can.Rick MartinRick is a New Zealander who joined Symbian in 2005.
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