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Engineering Tripos Pt 1
Electrical Sciences Tripos (2.2 Hons)
A-Level (Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Gen.
Studies), (All Grade A)
Special Paper (Maths). (Grade 1)
O-Level (Maths, Physics, Chemistry, English Lang, French, German, Latin)
C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, .NET Framework 1.1 & 2.0,
Visual Studio .NET (2003 & 2005)
Embedded VC++, Embedded VB, .NET Compact Framework
Borland Delphi (Versions 1 – 7)
Perl, PHP
'C', 'C++', Visual C++ (incl MFC),
Java (Sun), Visual J++, Borland JBuilder
COBOL, Pascal, Fortran, Algol
Microsoft Assembler
Visual Basic, VBX SDK, OLE2/OCX,
Pro*C & PL/SQL (Oracle), ESQL/C
(Informix),
Uniface, Borland C++Builder,
WWW - HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT,
WAP - WML, WMLS.
Active Server Pages, PHP, CGI, Perl, Borland Intrabuilder.
Oracle, MS SQL
Server, MS Access, Informix, Dbase, MySQL.
UNIX (Unisys System V, Unisys BSD,
Motorola, HPUX, Ultrix, SCO, Sun, DEC Alpha), Linux, AIX (RS6000), AIX (6150),
AIX (PS/2)
DOS(3,4,5,6), OS/2, Windows 3.11, Windows NT 3.51 / NT 4 / 2000 / XP, Windows
95/98
Windows CE (Pocket PC 2000, 2002 & 2003), Windows CE .Net 4.20, Windows
Mobile 5, Palm OS
Novell 2.15 & 3.11 (NLM SDK)
BTOS/CTOS
Unisys A-Series MCP, IBM OS/400
TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, IPX/SPX, Netbios,
X25, SMTP/POP3
Lan Manager, Windows 3.11 / 95 / NT Network (Netbeui).
Oracle Manufacturing. Movex, mTMS,
BAAN
Connectware. BPA (Clear
Orbit).
1980 - Present
Director / Consultant
Waverley Business Services Ltd.
Technical / Manufacturing Systems Consultancy / PDA & Portable Data
Consultancy.
Technical Design of Integrated Manufacturing &
Financial Systems for Mainframe, Mini, Micro and Personal Computers, including
initial design, management of programmer and analyst teams, and project
management of initial customer installations.
Technical Design of Systems for Portable Data Collection and Display on
mobile devices such as PDAs, Smartphones, and
hand-held terminals.
2006 – 2007 - Large Telecom Supplier
Major project undertaken to Design, Act as Lead-Developer, and Implement Win XP/.NET based Telephone Call-Centre call management system using MS SQL Server and VB.Net. This system replaces their current web-based call management system for the logging and progression of Telephone faults, and is deployed at some 250 work stations in several sites across the country. It provides increased responsiveness and functionality compared with the web-based system, allows hand-over and escalation of calls between agents and managers, and also integrates with their legacy IBM-Mainframe based systems for accessing sales, customer and technical data regarding the telephone line at fault.
2005 – 2006 - K3 Business Technology Group
Two Major projects undertaken to Design, Program and Implement Win XP/.NET based Point-Of-Sale systems in C# using touch-screen cash-till/terminals and scanners, processing Credit Card transactions, and communicating with Back-end Order Processing system and PAF Addressing subsystems using XML. Data transformation and migration from native Uniface/SQL server database to XML data for accessing by till software. Additional projects undertaken for them, to interface both Sage Accounting and Microsoft MapPoint into their Back-end Order Processing System.
2005 - Supply Link Systems
Project undertaken to Design, Program and Implement an RFID Kanban Replenishment system using C# and SQL Server, with Samsys UHF RFID readers connected to WiFi/GPRS enabled PDA devices in-turn connected to controlling PC’s.
2005 - Westwood Technologies
Project undertaken to Design, Program and Implement an unattended embedded Linux system using Arcon industrial linux-based units in C for data-acquisition, using GPRS for data transmission, and GPS for accurate time reference.
2005 - Gilbraith Transport
Project undertaken to Design, Program and Implement an Internet-Browser based front end system in ASP.NET using C# and SQL Server for a Warehousing/Transport company to allow their customers to schedule receipts into and deliveries from the transport company’s warehouse. Data transformation and migration from legacy systems to MS SQL Server database.,
2005 - Sheila Rose Accessories
Project undertaken to Design, Program and Implement a Web-Based Online Store with dynamically generated catalogue and shopping cart, written in ASP & PHP. Integration with MS SQL server database. and both PayPal and ProTX merchant gateways for real-time credit card processing.
2005 - General Dynamics
Project undertaken to Design, Program and Implement a Warehousing Front-End system for General Dynamics using Delphi, Oracle Manufacturing and Intermec WiFi, Static and Offline Bar-Code terminals and Intermec Bar-Code printers.
2002 – 2005 - PDA Data Ltd
Several major projects undertaken to provide mobile data on Smartphone PDA devices, including Design, Programming & Implementation of https based interface to third-party Manufacturing and Accounts Software using PHP, ASP, Embedded VC++, Embedded VB and C#, allowing secure data-collection, product and customer enquiry and order entry by means of GPRS equipped PDAs and similar devices. Extensive Design, Programming & Implementation of https based Canvassing Software using ASP, Embedded VC++ and Embedded VB, and Java allowing secure questionnaire presentation and data-collection by means of GPRS equipped PDAs.
Design, production and marketing of ‘Lone-Worker’ monitoring and panic-alarm software using SMS messaging and Cell Tower addressing with Embedded VC++ and C# on XDA phone/PDA devices.
Migration of these systems from Embedded VC & VB to .NET with C# and Embedded VC++ 4.0.
2002 – 2003 - Masons Solicitors
Provided extensive expert assistance to the defence team for a complex Computer Litigation action. Designed and carried out comprehensive system testing on the computer systems which formed the basis of the action, with the subsequent production of system analyses and reports. Assisted with the interviewing of witnesses, and the collation, analysis and presentation of evidence. Following presentation of evidence in pre-trial discussions, the plaintiffs dropped the case and paid the defence team costs.
2002 - MGH Group
Designed, programmed and implemented a complete
bespoke stock-control, goods receiving, manufacturing and sales-order processing system in
1997 – 2002 - BEC Systems Integration Ltd
Several projects undertaken involving the Design,
Programming & Implementation of Shop-Floor Data Collection into Oracle
Manufacturing System using fixed and radio-link data collection terminals and PDAs using Pro*C, PL/SQL, Embedded VC++ & VB, C# and
Perl, to integrate Connectware, BPA (Clear Orbit), bespoke,
and In-house-developed systems, for companies such as Madge Networks, Xerox,
Cummins, ArvinMeritor Automotive, Partner Orange and
Colt Telecom. Implementation
at warehouses and factories in
1996 – 1997 - Cedardata
Major project undertaken to provide consultancy and programming services to Cedardata, a financial software house as part of their portation to a Client/Server environment using Oracle Forms 4.5, Pro*C, Java and Delphi.
1995 - 1996 - Fujitsu Systems
Project for Fujitsu – Siemens to Design, Program and Implement a Warehouse Data Collection System developed with Pro*C using radio-link bar-code terminals connected to Oracle Mfg. System on Fujitsu/Compaq Unix Servers.
1994 – 1999 - Eurodirect
Consultant to Company specializing in Graphical Information Systems, combining Ordnance Survey, Census and Postcode data into a windows-based demographic analysis system for Mailing, Lead Tracking and Lifestyle analysis. Data warehousing & provision of Marketing Information Data to large companies using Oracle Servers. Data transformation including cleaning, de-duplicating, postcode lookup and address cleaning for their clients’ customer information databases.
1985 – 1995 - BEC Systems Services
System Designer, Technical Architect and Programming Manager for Integrated On-Line Manufacturing and Financial System (mTMS) based on Networked Super- Micro (CTOS) Computers..
System Design, and Programming Manager for all
modernisation and enhancements to mTMS including porting to Unix, Unisys
Mainframes, IBM AS400, VAX VMS. Porting to PC architectures
including DOS and Windows with development of custom windows controls using
visual rapid-development tools. (Uniface, Visual Basic, Visual C++,
Borland's
1980 – 1985 - Burroughs Machines
System Designer, Technical Architect and Programming Manager for Database-based On-Line Manufacturing and Financial System (TMS) for Burroughs Machines which was sold worldwide as their flagship ERP product. Implementation, Project Management and User Training for such systems at Customer Sites, including acting Computer Manager, British Telecom Factories where I was responsible for Installation, Implementation and Project Control of initial implementation of this product.
1977 - 1980
Data Processing Manager, Burnley Engineering Products Ltd.
Responsible for the management of an eight-strong computer department and the
implementation of both packaged and in-house-developed Production Control,
Shop-Floor Data Collection and Financial Systems in the aerospace industry.
1975 - 1977
Senior Systems Programmer /
Analyst, Don International Ltd.
Responsible for Technical Design & Systems Programming on
Burroughs Medium-System Machines.
1974 - 1975
Lecturer in Computing. Oldham
Technical College
Teaching Computer Science & Data Processing to A-Level and City &
Guilds Students.
1972 - 1973
Analyst / Programmer, North Western Electricity Board
Programming in assembler (BAL) on IBM 360 & ICL 4/70 Systems
1969 - 1972
Undergraduate Electronics Student
Programming many of the University's Systems, including IBM 360 & 370,
Atlas, IBM 1130 in FORTRAN, ALGOL & Assembler.
1968 - 1969 GAP Year between
School & University
Laboratory Technician, Leeds University, Dept. of Medicine
Programming the University's English-Electric KDF9 system in ALGOL, and
Olivetti Programma system in machine-code using
Curve-fitting & statistical techniques.