Mobica's Symbian OS experience

Project Management

Design and development of new user interface features for Symbian OS, to be delivered into the product roadmaps of market leaders such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola.
Development of the MMS Client MTM (Multimedia Messaging engine) for Symbian v7.0.
Porting the Magic4 SMS/EMS/MMS messaging solution (written in C) to Symbian for a Japanese licensee.
Design and development of the Pearl Reference UI (early Symbian project to produce a standard smartphone UI for Symbian v6.0).
Development and delivery of Symbian OS training courses to developers at Nokia, Symbian, Siemens, Sendo, France Telecom and Intuwave.
Project Management/Technical lead on the Messaging application for the Ericsson R380 (the first Symbian phone).
Porting standard Symbian reference applications from ECKON (Ericsson R380 UI platform) back into Symbian's base platform.

Design and development of a multimedia interface framework for a silicon vendor, including custom components to allow use of DSP based codecs, including audio components (MP3/AAC/MIDI).
Lead design of a Base Port development project to port a reference platform of a silicon vendor from Symbian 7.0 (EKA1) to 8.0b (EKA2). Project included port of ASSP layer and bootstrap components.
Technical analysis and comparison of various mobile OSs (including Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm, Linux, Brew, SavaJe) for a major Network Operator's terminal strategy.
Design and analysis of security components for a silicon vendor's Symbian reference platform.
Project Management and Technical lead, porting Flash memory to two different hardware platforms. Port optimisation included the development of an optimisation tool.
Development, testing and integration of a major phone manufacturer's GPS framework software onto the Symbian OS platform.
Technical support to Symbian licensees on new versions of the Symbian OS.
Design of MMF codec plugins to support Ogg Vorbis audio format.

Enhancements to the messaging server for the core Symbian platform.
Enhancements to Bluetooth L2CAP v1.2 in the core Symbian platform.
Core Symbian OS Applications Development including contacts engine and agenda engine.
Design and development of asynchronous messaging DLL for Symbian OS.
Merging functionality provided by Nokia's Mobile Location Framework into core Symbian OS.
Development of device drivers for keyboard, text display, serial port and infrared (SIR).
Enhanced LBS functionality to provided platform security requirements for Symbian OS 9.x and future operating system releases.
Implementation of a base port of Symbian 8.0a/8.0b to new hardware, a PDA form factor reference platform based on an OMAP1510 processor.
Development of device drivers for a new hardware platform, including digitiser (touch screen), keyboard, text display, serial port and infrared (SIR), and CompactFlash card.
Development of an image-loader program to communicate with a PC via the serial interface. Porting the Bootstrap code.
Porting and enhancement of the Kernel Variant layer with more peripherals, hardware initialisation, system tick timer, real-time clock and the hardware abstraction layer (HAL).
Creation of a complete Symbian image with graphical user interface and applications.