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Terry Ellison
I am a maths graduate who has worked in the IT industry for over 30 years, starting in as a commercial programmer in my gap year before university. After graduating, I worked for a leading UK systems house and consultancy after graduating initially in mathematical and real-time programming (via the signal processing connection). I also led various embedded system and commercial system developments, and then worked up the development and services hierarchy to become chief engineer and technical manager of various business units. My company was acquired by EDS and for the last 15 years I've worked within the EDS organisation that was itself acquired by HP last year. The last three posts that I held were divisional CTO jobs. I am also an EDS Distinguished SE (this is an award given to the top hundred or so engineers in EDS).
My career was put on an abrupt hold in Dec 2007 when I went down with what is called CFS and I have been largely bed-bound since. My body doesn't too well, and being bedridden I am of little use to HP. However, after the first few months my brain worked fine as long as I didn't do any daft like walking to the bottom of my garden, so I have kept involved by contributing to various Open Source communities such as OpenOffice.org where I am the lead administrator on the OOo User Community website, and the VirtualBox.org User Forum where I maintain this installation and also act as a moderator. These forums all use phpBB as their engine. I am also an occasional contributor to Wikipedia. As a CFS sufferer, I came across Sarah Myhill's work and her website. I am currently working with her team to improve this service to the ME/CFS community by migrating her website to a Wiki format.
The good news is that I discovered that I had a subtle gluten intolerance which had one small side-effect: it pretty much stopped my small intestine absorbing most minerals, vitamins, EFAs, etc. I've been on a wheat-free diet for the last three months and am slowly recovering.
List of contributions
Current OOo Community Forum Work
phpBB3.0.4 Migration
(Activities now closed)
- Standardisation Strategy
- Detailed Implementation Notes
- Closed Issues and Actions
- Cache Tuning
- Cron Tasks
phpBB3.0.5 Migration
Obsolete OOo Community Forum References
My Pages
- Current working draft based on Flossy originalDraft Constitution
- Proposed OOo User Community Roles
