Experience:

Twenty five years experience from IBM 360 training and orientation with PL/1 to cutting edge Internet technologies.  Strengths include development management, troubleshooting, technical support management, project management, technical authorship, mentoring, architectural design, data and business modeling, development, project glue or evangelising and ‘product champion’. 

IT and Development Strategist – assist clients in augmentation, reorganization, and understanding of IT and development strategies. Managed development and marketing teams of up to 35 staff.  Translated client and customer business requirements into technical requirements and vice versa.  Reviewed client’s staff and helped them rate themselves in competencies, generated training plans.

Product Development I have been responsible for the Product Development, Management and Support of a number of products, both for specific clients and off the shelf distribution or distibution through a dealer network.

Technical Authoring I have authored a wide range of documentation and technical writing over my career, from the first book on MS-DOS for programmers in the UK to documenting applications and development for users and developers.

Secured consultancy and development work for my own company, planned and directed my own employees and client’s staff to achieve objectives.

Employed by major manufacturers and software publishers; ACT, Apricot, Tandon. Digital Research and Novell in all areas of the development life cycle of both hardware and software.

Skills:

Systems Architect, Technical Support Management, Project Management, Business Analysis, Financial Analysis, Training, Seminar Development and Presentation, Trouble shooting, Technical marketing, Product Rollout, Product Champion and Advocacy, Technical Authoring, Editing, Publication Management, Document Translation Management, Systems Integration, Strategic Planning, Development Management, Systems Development, Software Development, OO Design, Client Server Development, Relational Database Modelling (ORM & EM), Database Design, Heterogeneous Database Integration, Staff Development and Management.

Product Developments, designed, managed, developed and/or supported by [snip] Ltd:

Bluebell, Magpie, Sator Financial, Accounting and CRM systems.  Written in Visual Foxpro 8/9 interfacing with Access Accounts and Pegasus Opera I and Pegasus Opera II

AccessEdit a HTML editor control designed to make it straightforward for users without HTML knowledge to produce content that is compliant with W3C Accessibility guidelines, in Javascript and CSS for all CSS compliant browsers. http://www.objective2k.com/AccessEdit

Knowledge Management Applications – Structured content databases with Search and Browse clients, eg Law Society Compliance Q&A's, NICE NHS Summary of Guidance. 2002, 2003 in Visual Foxpro 7

Voodoo - cross platform email and messaging client currently in design and planning.  Prototypes built in Java 2 using Swing and Mozilla using XUL UI (XML dialect) and XSLT. 2001, 2002

Mozilla Projects - development projects based around Netscape’s release of their browser source code.  All in C++, Javascript, XML, XUL.  Building and configuring the free open source browser Beonex for Win32 www.beonex.com 1998 - 2005

Database driven websites using West Wind, ASP, Zope etc.

Rotas version of the Email Marketing Tool for Pegasus Opera - integrates sales and purchase accounts with full filtering on analysis codes. Product available through Pegasus dealers. 2001

Email Marketing Tool and Mass email database system integrated with BOSS Casino systems - allows controlled and managed emails to subscribers, maintaining statistics and campaign results.  Written in Visual Foxpro 6 using Codemine Classes.

WebLogger - a utility to capture, manage and generate statistical reports from raw Web Server hit logs.  Product used daily on a large recruitment company's site.  Product available directly from Objective 2000 Ltd

Opera Products in Foxpro 2.6 & Visual Foxpro - DDE Servers: providing business objects and processes. Opera Glasses: an inspection tool for accounting data. Sales Analysis Reports Engine: complex analysis of current and historical data OLAP. Purchase Amendment History: keeps complete version history of all purchase orders. Sales Order Processing replacement front ends. Various discounting and price list products.  1992-2003 

Sample Client List, past and present:

[snip] 2004 Systems Architect and Lead Developer, complete design of back office systems for Order Processing, Inventory Management, Purchasing, CRM. Designed to be web enabled from the beginning allowing Customers access to ordering/history/accounts and so on.  A distributed database system, satellite shops to central database for both online, telephone and contract sales.  Written in Visual Foxpro 7, upgraded to Visual Foxpro 8.  Uses both native VFP databases and SQL Server.  Interfaces to Access Accounts.

[snip] (current) Systems integration, Nominal Accounts Ledger system.  Address Server, cleaning and validation online.  Email to Sales orders.  Visual Foxpro 7, 8 and 9.

[snip] (current)XHTML and CSS site template for an accessible web site.  Zope Product Development for Ad Agency Photo Portfolios

JKT 2002: Ecommerce application.  System Architect and Lead Developer, Perl, C++, XML,XUL and T-SQL on SQL Server 2000.  MP3 streaming Server and Client utilising Real Audio.  Prepared custom codec using standard MP3 sources. Windows and Linux.  Design planned and documented using UML.  XML schema design for music content from the SQL Server database.

NetVoyager plc 2000: Internet development,Set top box. Software development consultancy. XML, C++

Clipper Software (ongoing): Technical consultancy, Game development, games include Kingmaker.  C++

Sankey Laminations Ltd 1997-2001: Accounting system development, IT consultancy, IT management, Project management.  Expert witness consultancy on software delivery performance.

Brandrick Holdings 1995-2001: Heterogeneous database application, IT consultancy, support.

IDS Ltd 1998-1999: Support, Troubleshooting, Software development consultancy.  UCH Infertility Database Product. http://www.btinternet.com/~idsltd  We provided all technical support for IDS Ltd, worldwide both by freephone, email and on site.

Highways Agency 1998: Internet/Intranet configuration, Proxy server development using MS Proxy Server, Gauntlet Firewall. Cisco switch configuration.

Central Law Training 1996-1999: Accounting system design, development and support.  Development Consultancy.

NCR 1996-1998: Testing and re-engineering of middle ware and device driver software for a cash dispenser. WOSA

Sparrows Offshore Services 1994-1997: Accounting system design development and support.

Netstation Ltd, NetChannel Ltd 1997: Technical Marketing and Consultancy for the NetStation product.  Based on reference machine designed by Oracle and Acorn.

CSM Ltd 1994-1996: Data modelling of the UK Personal Tax System, Software development consultancy, Systems Architect, Development management, Tax Software design.  Taxman, Auditman range of software products for the Accountancy profession.

Securicor 1995: Technical Authoring, Cellular telecommunications product.

BRS Software 1994: Compiler development for the SWIFT product, full text retrieval software available off the shelf.

Pegasus Software 1993-1994: Interim Technical Director, Software development consultancy, product development, design, technical marketing, technical author, consultancy on acquisition of third party products for re-distribution, re-branding, consultancy and due diligence on company acquisitions.  Project management of Opera from the bought in development of Sequel.  This management included the coordination of all departments as well as running both the Marketing and Development teams.  The product was successfully released in July 1993 and formally launched in September of the same year.  I wrote the Developer’s Documentation for the first release.  Opera is a market leading Accounting Modular product for the SME market. http://www.pegasus.co.uk

Employment History:

Objective Software, Objective 2000 Ltd Self Employed 1992 – 1999.  From December 1999, rationalised Objective Software into Objective 2000 Ltd to the present.

     General software development consultancy providing analysis, design, development, testing and support of major products.  Developed our own range of products.

Digital Research Inc, Novell 1990-1992   

Technical Manager Asia Pacific Region

     January 1991 – November 1992 - Technical Manager for Digital Research in the Asia Pacific Region reporting to the Vice President Asia Pacific. Responsible for handling all of the technical management in the area, both in terms of managing the technical staff and supporting and developing products.  Hiring staff in the region, setting up offices, achieving targets to budget.  Supported and sold to OEMs in the Asia Pacific region the range of operating systems produced by Digital Research and Novell.  Launched DR DOS 6.0 across Asia, presenting to between 500 and a 1,000 people at a time.  Implemented and designed BatteryMAX device drivers for AMD processors.  Digital Research products managed include, DR DOS 5.0, DR DOD 6.0, Multiuser DOS, FlexOS.  Gem, Presentation Team. 

Support pc Ltd, Self Employed 1989-1990

Software Consultant, Data Recovery by Support pc and third party support, software development and training. Developed and ported a Tandon Data Pac device driver for the real time operating system QNX. Developed a graphical database system in Windows for use in the Car components industry to replace micro-fiche systems. Wrote articles for Net Advisor and PC direct.  Gave Lan Manager and Lan Server training courses to IBM, Siemens, British Aerospace, etc. 

Tandon Computer (UK) Ltd, Tandon plc. 1985-1989        

Software and Technical Support Manager

Created and Developed the Support Department, testing labs, QA procedures, and participated in the planning and execution of Technical Marketing Programmes. Interacted with Engineering on new and existing products and developed on the spot fixes when necessary. Managed the process of manual and software production in line with product releases for all International English releases.

ACT and Apricot 1983-1985         

Support Engineer

Responsible for testing, releasing and supporting DR C, MS-COBOL, PL/1, MASM, MS FORTRAN, Pascal MT+ etc.  Developed and gave training courses on systems and assembler. Responsible for quality control and supporting the field offices. Managed a porting team working on all MS products, WORD, Excel, etc.  Produced and gave training.  Supported and wrote Windows and Gem applications, trained developers on Windows, etc. Wrote  'MS-DOS User's Book', the first technical book on MS-DOS in the UK. 

PSM Micro Computers Ltd 1982-1983

Technical Services Manager

Together with the founding directors helped start this company as Technical Services Manager, which essentially covered all of the technical operations of the company both in pre, post and during sales as well as all internal requirements.

GJT Computers Wolverhampton 1982

Technical Support

Developed Dbase II applications, including Estimating and Costing Systems and ported GJT's own accounting product to Data 100 COBOL. 

Education:

HND in Computer Studies at Wolverhampton Polytechnic.

Technical Experience:

Operating Systems

Single User Systems: CP/M, DR DOS 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, MS-DOS 1.25, 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, author of  MS-DOS User Book written/published 1983/84, PC DOS all versions, OS/2 all versions including Warp, FlexOS real time operating system, Windows NT 3.51 including alpha shell, Window NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional, Windows 95 releases, Windows 98 releases, Subscriber to MSDN Universal Level.

Multi User Systems:  IBM 360/370 DOS VS & Power, Primos to rev 18, DRI CCPM, MP/M, Multiuser DOS 5.1 Concurrent DOS, 286/386, Unix System V, Xenix System V,  Solaris,  Linux,  386 BSD, QNX, Windows NT Server, 3.51, 4.0,  Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Windowing Systems

Microsoft Windows all versions, both in support and development of Windows utilities,  Presentation Manager all versions, mostly in support, X-Windows, familiarity with the X-windows Client, some experience in programming, mostly using Netscape/mozilla Gem and X-Gem from Digital Research Java AWT windowing classes, Swing, Java beans, COM and DCOM object development, WOSA development, Mozilla cross platform development, XBL, XUL, XML dialects.

Languages and Development Environments

Particular strengths, C, C++, Visual Foxpro, Java, Perl, XML, Python, Zope

Significant knowledge and use includes: PL/1, including Subset G, PL/M & PL/P system languages COBOL ANSI 74, compilers include Prime, Data General, Northern Telecom (Data 100), Microfocus, MS-COBOL, FORTRAN 77, C compilers up to and including ANSI compliant compilers such as Microsoft C 6.0, 7.0, Watcom 10 and Borland Turbo C 3.1,  C++, BC++ 4.x, MS Visual C++ 1.5, 2.x, 4.x, 5.x , 6.x CE Cross compiling tools, Gnu compilers, A variety of HTML generating tools, Content management using Zope, West Wind Technologies for active database web sites, Perl and various macro languages, Java, Javabeans, Sun JDK 1.1, 1.3, Microsoft J++, XML and compliant dialects such as XUL, XBL, HTML etc.Visual Foxpro 3.x, 5.x, 6.x, Foxpro 2.0, 2.5, 2.6 DOS and Windows, Source Control using Visual Sourcesafe, CVS, PCVS.VB 5.0, VBA, Intel assembler, 8086, 286, 386, 486, real, protected and native modes, 68xxx assembler,   Design methodologies, conceptual modelling, ORM, Booch and UML, Rational Rose, UML for Code and Data modelling.  MS Project up to 98-SR1
Networking Systems

MS-Net 1.0 3COM 3Plus - Qualified 3Wizard, Lan Manager Lan Server TCP/IP, Including Internet implementations in DOS, Windows, Windows NT Windows 2000, XP,Unix, Linux, Novell Netware 1.0a, ELS, 2.x, 3.11, 4.x, NT Server 4.x, Exchange Server, IIS, Transaction Server, Proxy Server, ISAPI applications, Systems Management Server, Apache, FTGate Email Server, Cisco routers and switches, 3Com Office routers, Congo routers.

Database Systems

Dbase II, III etc and all variants of the Db programming language and model, ncluding Foxpro 2.0 and 2.5, 2.6,Foxpro for Windows, Visual Foxpro 3.0, Visual Foxpro 5.0, 6.0, 7.0,8.0, 9.0 ODBC using Visual Foxpro, VB and VC++ as the front end, Object Role Modelling using InfoModeler, Paradox for Windows Microsoft Access 2 and beyond, SQL Server as backend to C++, VB and Visual Foxpro clients, scaled up applications from Visual Foxpro to SQL, MDBS III, extended network database, Btrieve, Oracle.

Authoring

MS-DOS Users Book 1983/84 Sigma Press

Technical Support Manual for Tandon plc

Articles for PC Network Advisor

Articles for PC Direct

Technical Manual for Securicor Cellular Product

Various White Papers, System Architecture and API documentation

Training

Given:  ACT Assembler Course ACT Introduction to Computers Lan Server 1.2 for QA Training Lan Manager for QA Training, DR Multiuser DOS 5.1 DR DOS 6.0, Novell Netware PalmDOS, PCMCIA Interfacing, Network Optimisation Systems Manager Course for Netware, Pegasus Opera Developer and Support training,Visual Foxpro Class design training,  Various presentations and courses using a variety of presentation materials and tools.

Received: IBM 360 Orientation, IBM PL/1 Subset G, HND Computer Studies Wolverhampton Polytechnic, now University.  1980-82, Intel 286 August 1985, Intel 386 November 1987,  3Com 3Wizard July 1988,  Foxpro DevCon '93,  Foxpro DevCon '95.

Hardware Systems

Sirius. Apricot. IBM PC's and compatibles, Notebook systems,  Palmtop computers, Chip Sets, AMD LX series, static processors Highland Technology, Intel Processors, including SL Various video, Video 7, Cirrus, Tseng etc., C&T various.