About my work

For the past 10 years I've been working in automation as a SCADA and PLC programmer, primarily concerntrating on SCADA; I've also done HMI work with touch panels. The majority of my work has been in the automation industry, but I would like to work in other areas as well.

The following is shamelessly borrowed from the CERN website, because it happens to describe SCADA nicely:

SCADA stands for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition. As the name indicates, it is not a full control system, but rather focuses on the supervisory level. As such, it is a purely software package that is positioned on top of hardware to which it is interfaced, in general via Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), or other commercial hardware modules.

SCADA systems are used not only in industrial processes: e.g. steel making, power generation (conventional and nuclear) and distribution, chemistry, but also in some experimental facilities such as nuclear fusion. The size of such plants range from a few 1000 to several 10 thousands input/output (I/O) channels. However, SCADA systems evolve rapidly and are now penetrating the market of plants with a number of I/O channels of several 100 K: we know of two cases of near to 1 M I/O channels currently under development.

SCADA systems used to run on DOS, VMS and UNIX; in recent years all SCADA vendors have moved to NT and some also to Linux.

You can tell it's a little dated by the reference to NT, but the general description holds true.

I also have skills in network and systems adminstration, with particular reference to Cisco devices and Unix based operating systems. I have been acredited has a CCNA, but I allowed it to lapse as it wasn't being used. I'd like to resume the profesional certification path with Cisco at some point in the future.