Forum Nokia Champion Personal Introduction Page

Mr. Paul Todd
Bsc (University of Natal Durban, South Africa)
United Kingdom

I started developing on a Commodore 64 a long time ago in South Africa.
After finishing university, my first experience with Symbian was the very old Psion LZ64 which I used to interface to surveying instruments. The data collected here was exported into Autocad and used to generate maps for quantity surveys. I then emigrated to England in the mid 90's where I did some work on developing quantity surveying tools until I go involved with the first enterprise sync tool for PDA's (ASL Connect)

I did 6 years of work on Windows Mobile/CE before finally getting dragged into the world of Symbian. Now I design enterprise class software for PIM Data Management (Onebridge) and device management (Afaria). I am looking at ways development can be made both faster and more reliable so that our end products (especially when developed with a number of people) provide a better end user experience out of the box.

Development Areas of Interest

Mobile platforms

Symbian, Nokia, UIQ, Windows CE, Android

Application categories

Enterprise, Commercial

Programming languages

C++, .Net CF, J2ME

Integrated development environments (IDEs)

Carbide.vs, Carbide.c++, Visual Studio, Eclipse

Wireless device technologies

Symbian, Windows Mobile

Other areas of interest

Research, Team building/management/Methodologies
High performance algorithms on mobile devices

Personal Competencies

Languages

C++, .Net Compact Framework

Mobile competencies

Symbian (S60 and UIQ), Windows Mobile

Forum Nokia Community activity areas

Symbian C++

Forum Nokia Discussion Board user name

Paul.Todd

Other competencies

Focusing on the architecture and design of enterprise applications.

Main Achievements

Applications

iAnywhere Onebridge
iAnywhere Afaria

Books and other publications

Creating a settings list in a dialog
Finding writable static data
Building an XML parser

Mobile communities

NewLC (paul)
Symbian Forums (paul.todd)

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