CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal Details

D.O.B:                                  28th September 1967

Nationality:                           British

Marital Status:                      Married

Dependants:                         2 children

Profile

I’m a friendly, confident, team player with much drive and enthusiasm for delivering tailored solutions that deliver customer satisfaction.  

Employment Situation

I currently manage a small systems development section of [snip] which is the UK sales arm of the [snip] – a major global automotive OEM. Having been at [snip] for a little over ten years I’m now looking for fresh opportunities. I’m comfortable with managerial and technical roles and am looking for positions primarily in the West Midlands/Shropshire but also in the North West. I’d particularly be interested in roles that utilise my UNIX or CAD administration skills rather than my CAD application skills. 

Primary Technical Skills

UNIX administration (Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10 / AIX 4 / some AIX5, HPUX 10.20 and Linux)

CAD administration and use (CATIA V4 / I-DEAS Master Series V10.2 / CADDS5)

CAD administration only (CATIA V5)

Ethernet skills including network design, analysis and troubleshooting. Working knowledge of most major protocols (SMTP, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, FTP etc)

Microsoft (Office 97, 2000, XP / Windows NT, 2000, 2003, XP)

Lotus Notes advanced user and basic administration and design.

Employment History and Content

[snip]

July 96 to present

Current Position: Engineering and Development Manager ISD 

The following represents only my main projects undertaken and not day to day management and administrative tasks. 

2007

• SharePoint sites delivered to date include a small company portal, department sites for ISD, AirCon and EMS as well as dedicated areas for sharing information between [snip] offices in Telford, Germany, Sweden and Japan.
• Successful ISO27001 re-audit of Hatfield achieved.

2006

• Assisted with the preparation for the initial ISO27001 (Information Security Management – was ISO 17799) audit that resulted in successful accreditation for our head office at Hatfield (1^st UK automotive supplier to achieve). As well as assisting in the policy creation and the supporting risk assessment register, the training of several auditees was undertook in preparation for the audit as well as arranging the audit visits from BSI. Took on the same roll for a second audit later in the year directed at our Coventry office with the same result.
• Building on activities over the last two years Windows SharePoint Services was installed on a dedicated system (two Proliant DL360 G4’s running as a SharePoint/SQL group) that is intended to bridge the gaps between the disparate systems at DSUK as well as provide a user customisable collaborative environment that will eventually provide the framework for a company wide intranet.
• Managed the development of a Lotus Notes document library with workflow, automation and subscription used by a global sales group for one of our major customers.

2005

• Managed several company wide projects that built upon the recommendations of the EDM report delivered last year. Almost exclusively these projects involve the use of VBA automation and application linking in Microsoft office. The systems successfully delivered include an employee absence control system for authorising holidays and sickness etc, a travel booking system, a purchase order system and a market analysis tool for tracking price trends in the alternator market.
• Managed the development of an Extranet for use with several of our large customers. Using SSL technology within Lotus Domino, this will enable customers and internal staff to collaborate on projects using common data and work areas.
• Managed installation of SunFire V240 rack mounted server to  replace the ageing E450 CADserver.
• Managed installation of new Ford C3PNG environment (CATIA V5/TeamCentre Engineering environment).
• Working as a member of a team of people aiming towards the eventual accreditation to BS7799 (ISO17799) in March 2006.
• Managed the development of a HR recruitment database in Lotus Notes.
• Managed the provision of a HR intranet using Infosys.

2004

• Finalised Electronic Document Management investigation and submitted a report on the findings to the IT team and the Network Strategy Working Group.
• Presentation on suggested future direction of Electronic Document Management at [snip] given to the Network Strategy Working Group.

2003

• Managed further development of IT infrastructure in the new building including provision of new network segments.
• The installation of a 12cpu Linux cluster was managed to serve as the new Computational Fluid Dynamics facility.
• Carried out a major investigation into document management systems in general and the feasibility of their application at [snip].
• Invited to become a member of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) E-Business Committee.

2002

• Due to continued increase in business a large expansion of the Coventry office was planned for this year along with a 10 year long lease of a nearby office building. Responsible for the coordination of the ISD team in delivering the telecom and networking requirements of this expansion. To meet the requirements of this project and my management obligations, the day to day running of the CAD/CAE area was passed to the CAD Specialist, however I retained overall responsibility and continued to manage him.

2001

• Installed EAI Vismockup software and VisNetWork web software running on Apatche to enable visualisation of CAD data on the PC network thereby allowing non-CAD users to view and interact with CAD data.
• Managed upgrade of EngDat software to DAXWARE Communicator 2000 – web based application.
• Restructured data backup operation from an outdated 4mm/8mm DAT system using operating system commands (tar, ufsdump. cpio, dd etc) to a robotic library based DLT system driven by network backup software (NetVault).
• I developed a disaster recovery strategy that involved the specifying of hardware items on DR contract, writing of procedures to replicate [snip] CAD and PC systems on remote site and finally testing of procedure on NDR equipment on remote site.
• Managed upgrade of c3p software (7.1)
• Recruited replacement CAD Specialist (previous specialist left company).
• Assisted in the recruitment of a CFD engineer.
• Became a member of the Network Strategy Working Group, set up as a cross discipline team to develop ways of using IT infrastructure to an advantage. Over it’s 4 year history it was responsible for coordinating a complete restructuring of the network data storage areas and a substantial rework of the policies and procedures that governed e-business.

2000

• Completed investigation into IMI - Ideas MetaPhase Interface- the connection into Fords Enterprise wide EDM system and managed its installation.
• Installed an 8 CPU computational fluid dynamics facility to meet the needs of new business. System that comprised of  a cluster of single and dual processor Ultra60’s, STAR-HPC CFD software, ICEMTetra meshing software with direct interfaces into the CATIA and I-Deas CAD systems.
• Installed two additional I-Deas seats (ULTRA 60’s) and one additional CATIA seat to meet increased need of engineering departments. Migrated existing CATIA seat from RS6000 to Sun Ultra 60.
• Managed upgrades of c3p software (6.1, 6.2).
• Completed upgrade of Honda and Rover CATIA V4 environment to reflect the customers new requirements. In both cases this was a major revision upgrade of software.
• Promoted to Assistant manager of ISD answering to ISD manager based in the head office at Hatfield. Fully responsible for the Coventry team comprising of 4 people (PC and networking Specialist, CAD specialist, AS400 technical specialist and PC technical specialist)

Brief Previous Employment 

[snip]

July 95 to April 96

Position Held: CAD Design Contractor working on CADDS5  

[snip]

Sept 89 To June 95

Position Held: Project Design Engineer 

Education

Training Achievement

In addition to the certified training listed below, I have gained a broad spectrum of other skills over my 10 years of IT experience whilst working with colleagues on the job. These skills include; 

General telephone PbX administration (Realitis 7.1). Red Hat Linux + clustering. Firewall administration (Checkpoint 4). The installation, administration and use of MS Windows 2000/2003 and MS Office 2000/2003/2007. Basic VBA programming (in MS Office 2000, 2003). NAS administration (NetApps F740 using Data-On-Tap). Unix and MicroSoft disaster recovery methodologies. Advanced use of NetVault backup software. Sun DiskSuite. MS Windows Server 2003 Active Directory administration. Layer 3 switch configuration. ISDN router configuration.

2006

• Management Development Course – Series of six day long workshops held off-site by external consultancy (Exemplas)

2005

• Dignity and Respect Workshop – Two day on site training by external consultancy (XR Associates)

2004

• CATIA V5 Administration – Two day training course (Applied)

2002

• Developing Others (On site training given by XR Associates Ltd)
• Motivation (On site training given by XR Associates Ltd)

2001

• Administering MS WinNT4.0
• Supporting Microsoft WinNT4.0 Core Technologies

2000

• PIM For Data Coordinators (Ford Dunton Engineering Centre)
• ICEMTetra Basic Training (On site with External Trainer from Computational Dynamics)
• Star-CD Basic Training (On site with External Trainer from Computational Dynamics)

1999

• I-Deas drafting and Detailing (Jaguar Cars Engineering Centre)
• PIM For Suppliers (Ford Dunton Training Centre)
• ICEMSurf Magic/Master Training (Topologies)

1998

• I-Deas Data Management and System Administration (Ford Dunton Training Centre)
• CATIA Basics (IBM Warwick)
• CATIA Surface Design (IBM Warwick)
• CATIA Advanced Surface Design (IBM Warwick)
• CATIA Solid Design (IBM Warwick)
• CATIA Drafting and Integration (IBM Warwick)
• CATIA Installation and Administration (IBM Warwick)
• AIX Administration for CATIA Administrators (IBM Warwick)

1997

• Bespoke Solaris 2.6 System Administration training (Concurrent Engineering)
• Bespoke TCP/IP and Networking training (Concurrent Engineering)

Interests and Hobbys 

Music, literature, walking, cycling, playing the guitar, anything outdoors.