Personal Information

Other                      :               Full clean UK driving licence (member of Institute of Advanced Motorists) 

Profile / Key Skills

·         Over 18 years of systems design and development experience in the Oil, Chemical, Commercial and Manufacturing sectors.

·         Proven track record of successful development and project delivery to a high standard

·         Team player with good multicultural and interactive skills

·         Experience of managing small/medium development teams, and budget planning and control

·         Provision of business solutions, re-engineering and simplification of existing systems with an emphasis on cost efficiency

·         Enjoy working directly with customers and end-users

·         Conversational French and German

·         Well experienced in delivering training programs tailored to customers requirements

·         Committed to the maxim “on cost, on time, every time” 

Technical Skills Summary
 

Expert                     :               Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, VBA, SQL, ASP, HTML, ODBC, DAO

                                                Microsoft FrontPage, Macromedia Dreamweaver/Ultradev

Intermediate          :               Oracle, JavaScript, SQL Server, VB, ActiveX, IIS

Basic                      :               Delphi, Microsoft Project

Historical               :               Lotus 1-2-3, Turbo Pascal, C, Cobol, dBase III 

Employment History
 

1998-2002            Senior Analyst Programmer - [snip] UK Ltd., Hemel Hempstead, Herts 

Responsible for design and development of an intranet-based system for tracking project costs. This was developed using ASP screens talking to an Oracle database using Macromedia Ultradev as the main development environment. Tasks included:

·         Leader of small development team

·         Setting up web server using IIS

·         Liaison between project management and development team

·         Coding in ASP, JavaScript, SQL and Office Web Components

·         Delivered the first “global view” of the project portfolio 

Design and development of a mass price update system using MS Access talking to an Oracle Database (VBA and SQL). Allowed what was previously a day’s repetitive manual input to take place in a 10-minute PC session. 

Design and development of a “Euro Conversion” system using MS Access talking to an Oracle Database (VBA and SQL). Provided a visible and auditable method of changing key price information. 

Development of advanced spreadsheet-based packages using VBA and VB Forms  within Excel. Financial modelling modules allowed substantial cost savings to be made.  

Development of an Access-based system to generate SQL scripts in place of manual input. What had previously been a manual task taking six weeks per year was reduced to seven minutes. 

1993-1998            Senior Analyst Programmer – Mobil Data Systems Ltd., London             

Design and development of a “Sales Force Automation” system using Excel to communicate with a central SAP system. Allowed sales force to be sure of having the latest prices on their laptops and saved costs previously incurred with mistakes. 

SAP to Oracle conversion using MS Access to process data. Estimated cost saving of $250,000 compared with a peer-to-peer solution. 

KPI reporting system using distributed Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets. Standardisation allowed cross-border analysis of performance for the first time. 

1988-1993            Analyst Programmer – ICI Chemicals & Polymers Ltd., Wilton, Cleveland 

Design and development of a PC front-end to a Mainframe commercial system using Turbo Pascal and Assembler. Cost saving of $500k compared with rewriting mainframe user interface. 

DEC to IBM Cobol Conversion resulting in a cost saving of $200k pa in server charges. 

1984-88                 PC Specialist – IGE Medical Systems Ltd., Radlett, Herts 

Responsible for all PC-based systems within the company and introduction of this “new” technology 

Design and development of “VAT recovery” system in dBase III. Company was able to reclaim over $1m pa once goods had been re-exported. 

Development and implementation of “Just in Time” manufacturing solutions in Lotus 1-2-3. Company was able to reduce inventory from 260 days to 60 days as a result. 

Setting up and management of Help Desk 

Education

1973-79   :               Alleyne’s School, Stevenage

                                4 A Levels, 14 O Levels

1972-73   :               Bristol Grammar School (Scholarship) 

Some Open University study in Mathematics and Physics