I am a professional freelance software engineer with over 25 years experience in software development and testing. I have expertise in Unix / Linux systems to shell scripting level. I am able to offer data generation, transformation, porting, validation and merging services e.g porting data from excel and transforming the data to make it suitable for input to other applications and vice versa. My work experience includes work for major blue chip companies in the UK, where I have delivered projects on time and to a high quality. I have done work for major blue chip companies, which include British Rail Research, Tesco, IBM, Experian, European Space Agency, Deluxe Digital Media, The Highway Agency and Communisis (The Nationwide Building Society projects).