Martin Tasker
Martin joined Psion in 1995 after 13 years in the system-software industry. His first commercial software products were a graphics package and debugger for the BBC Micro in its early 1980s heyday, produced while studying Natural Sciences and Computer Science at Cambridge University. On graduation, he joined IBM where he worked in networking and storage management for eight years, programming mainframes in assembler, working on product development, and delivering performance, routing and management improvements in IBM's global VNET network. He learned C++, object orientation and artificial intelligence during a two-year transport research project at Imperial College, London.
Martin then joined the Protea project at Psion, whose architectural decisions form much of the subject of this book. He became responsible for Protea's documentation and SDKs, along with contributions to its architecture. His output included many technical papers on the distinguishing features of Symbian OS, which form the heart of this book. In 2000, his Professional Symbian Programming became the contemporary guide to Symbian OS programming which helped Symbian and its customers to grow their engineering teams to achieve the success we see in the marketplace today. Professional Symbian Programming also contained the definitive history of the Protea project and, until this book, the most detailed insight publicly available into the design decisions on the project. Martin then served as Product Manager with responsibility for licensing, SDKs and tools. He now works in a technology-strategy role.
Martin is married with four children. He occasionally relaxes with classical music.
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