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Curriculum
Vitae
Career Summary (to 2001)
UK based freelance analyst
programmer (Limited Company) with a Computer Studies degree and a solid
track record in systems design and development including 7 years client
server work with Powerbuilder and SQL relational databases. In total,
a 20 year career in England, Scotland, Norway and Switzerland, spanning
many industries including banking, North Sea oil, defence, investment
management, astronomical research, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals.
Formal Education
- Doncaster Grammar School : 7 'O' levels
(1972), 4 'A' levels (1974)
- Loughborough University of Technology
: BSc (Hons) Computer Science, Diploma in Industrial Studies (1979)
IT Training Courses
Other Courses
- Spanish
- Beginners, Bucks Adult Education, 2003
- Spanish - Intermediate, Bucks Adult
Education, 2003
- Import Export , home study course
- Small Business Start Up, Bucks Enterprise,
2004
- Introduction to Geology, Oxford
University 2004
- SLR Photography, Amersham and Wycombe
College 2004
- Digital Photography Bucks Adult
Education, 2005
- Nature Conservation, Oxford
University 2005
Work Experience (reverse
chronological order up to 2001)
| Apr 98 to Aug 2001 |
Unisys, Slough |
Powerbuilder 6.5, Oracle
7.3, Windows NT, Linc, Unix, Attachmate, PVCS |
I spent over three years
with Unisys in Slough. My first project was for their Commercial
Banking practice. Here I headed up a GUI team responsible for development
of the front end of a large syndicated lending system. The base
system, which was developed in Linc for banks in London, Zurich
and New York, had over 300 screens, and was designed to run on Unix
with dumb terminals. My GUI team provided an optional Windows style
user interface using Powerbuilder 6.5. PVCS was used for source
management. On completion of the syndicated lending project, I joined
Unisys’ International Banking Services section on a part time basis,
again doing Powerbuilder front end work on their core banking products |
| Apr 96 - Feb 98 |
EDS Defence, Hants. |
Powerbuilder 4/5, MS SQL
Server 6.0, Watcom 4.0, Windows NT, S-Designor |
In 1996 I joined an EDS
team bidding to win a contract to develop 'TAFMIS', a large training
development and administration system for the Army Training and
Recruitment Agency. The prototype system I helped develop using
S-Designor and RAD techniques eventually won the bid for EDS and
I was invited to stay with the project team to help develop the
'real' system. I spent my first few months post award in data analysis,
and authored the first cut of the logical data model. Later I co-authored
the functional specification for the first tranche of the system.
The detail design was achieved through an iterative prototyping
approach in collaboration with user representatives. Following design,
I worked on construction, testing and implementation and had the
satisfaction of seeing a large project all the way through from
requirements capture to live running. My final task was the construction
of a distribution mechanism based on SQL Server Replication for
the transport of trainee details around the various Army training
schools that used TAFMIS |
| Oct 94 - Oct 95 |
Beckman International,
Nyon, Switzerland |
HP3000, Powerbuilder 3,
TurboImage, HPAllBase SQL, KSAM, WRQ Reflection |
Beckman had an ageing
Sales Order Entry system written in Cobol, with TurboImage databases,
KSAM files, and Vplus screens. Their chosen migration path to a
client server architecture involved a first step of changing the
user interface only. I was recruited to replace the old Vplus screens
with a Windows style Order Entry facility, but to still capture
the data to the original Image databases. I used Powerbuilder 3.0a
to develop the screens and used Reflection PPL (Process to Process
Link) to interface Powerbuilder to TurboImage and KSAM. I was the
sole designer / developer on this project, and saw the system through
construction, testing and implementation. I also produced technical
documentation and stayed on for user support. This project gave
me 12 months intensive experience of Powerbuilder design and development |
| Oct 89 - Sep 94 |
Baring Asset Management,
City |
HP3000/9000, Cobol,HP
AllBase SQL, Powerbuilder 2/3, Sybase, HP-UX, PMW, Excel, Word |
I worked on many projects
during my five years with this City firm, mainly in the area of
investment management. Initially I was involved in the technical
design for a dealing support system using Cobol and SQL. Later,
I spent a few months developing PC based project management utilities
in Excel and PMW. Finally, I was part of a team building a client
server fund management MIS system with a Powerbuilder front end
supported by an SQL relational database. Initially implemented with
HP Allbase/SQL under MPEXL and Powerbuilder v2, we later converted
it to Sybase under Unix on a HP9000 accessed with Powerbuilder v3 |
| Nov 88 - Oct 89 |
Pitney Bowes Leasing, Holborn |
HP3000, Cobol, Image,
Vplus |
I joined a ten man Richard
Irwin Associates team developing a leasing system for their client
PB Leasing in Holborn using a high powered macro-based form of Cobol
and large normalised TurboImage databases |
| Sep 88 - Nov 88 |
Amersham International
Plc, Bucks |
HP3000, Transact, Image |
Three months solving database
corruption problems and developing Transact programs for a sales
analysis suite |
| Aug 85 - Sep 88 |
Richard, Irwin Associates,
Abingdon |
HP3000, Transact, TurboImage |
I spent 3 years working
with Abingdon based database consultancy Richard Irwin Associates
working on projects for their client Shell Expro. Most of the work
was around Shell's large corporate materials system EMA/3000, which
played a central role supporting their offshore oil exploration
and development operations and one of the large HP3000 systems in
the world at the time. The work was carried out mainly in Shell's
premises in Aberdeen, Lowestoft and Norway |
| Sep 83 - Jul 85 |
K-Tel International (UK)
Ltd, Middlesex |
HP3000, Cobol, Transact,
RPG II, Genasys, Quiz, Fastran, Image, Rapid/3000, VPlus, Adager,
InfoCentre Accounting packages |
In September 1983 I joined
record company K-tel as Senior Analyst Programmer, taking responsibility
for all their domestic computer systems. I carried out extensive
reviews of their internal accounting systems and converted their
sales order processing system from KSAM and RPG II to Image/Fastran/QUIZ.
In Sep 1984 I switched to freelance status but remained with K-Tel
on a consultancy basis until July 1985 |
| Jun 82 - Aug 83 |
Prolog Systems Ltd, Wimbledon |
HP3000, JSP, Cobol, QUIZ,
Image, Vplus, Adager |
I was one of the first
employees of the newly formed software house Prolog Systems. I worked
onsite for one of Prolog's major clients, Her Majesty's Stationery
Office, where I joined a large team developing a bespoke system
for the storage, distribution and sale of Government documents using
Jackson Structured Cobol and Quiz |
| Oct 79 - Jun 82 |
Data Logic Ltd, Middlesex |
HP3000, IBM System 34,
Telex Lockheed System III, Data General Eclipse, Cobol, Transact,
RPG II, Image, Vplus, ASK, KSAM, Rapid/3000, Menu Driver, Process
Monitor |
On graduating from Loughborough
University I joined software house Data Logic. During my time with
them I worked on a variety of projects for their clients including
Hecht Heyworth and Alcan, Outspan, Liptons Export Ltd, Watney Man
Breweries, Godfrey Davis, Hammicks Wholesale, Glaxo Holdings Inc.
and The Consumers Association |
| Aug 77 - Aug 78 |
Royal Greenwich Observatory,
Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex |
ICL 1903T, Fortran, George
III |
As part of my four year
degree course I spent a year with the RGO at Herstmonceux Castle,
Sussex. I worked on a research project analysing deviations in the
Earth's rate of rotation over the past three centuries. I was responsible
for data management and for the development and maintenance of Fortran
programs to process the astronomical observations that formed the
source data for the project. The results of the project were subsequently
published in Nature magazine and presented at a number of
international scientific conferences |
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