IT Consultant - Armagh, County Armagh, UK
I work in programming, testing, diagnosis through to maintenance and rollouts.
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CV
Employment History
(Jun 2006 & ongoing)
IT Consultant
March – Present ‘07 Client: Northgate Information Systems
• Service and repairs to Primary & Secondary schools IT equipment throughout N.Ireland
• Network profile management within Active Directory
• Problem solving of hardware and software faults including smart boards UPS’s and Servers on a daily basis covering a multitude of sites.
• Received great feedback from Northgate and school representatives
Oct - January '07 Client: Hewlett Packard / Bank of Ireland
* Remote configuration management of Laptops and PC's using Radia HP Openview Application Manager to the needs of each staff member of BOI Corporate
* Configuration of Lotus Notes, SAP, Aviator, Hyperion, and various financial packages. etc
* Network profile management within Active Directory
* Pilot scheme testing and error diagnosis of packaged MSI software installations
* Problem solving of hardware and software faults on a daily basis.
* Achieved outstanding feedback from Bank of Ireland Staff and HP.
Oct Client: ALDI (Ireland)
* Installation of MW Sarian ADSL/GPRS and IR routers
* Software upgrades on linux based, laser debit card systems
* Terminal, cabling and router testing
* Problem solving of hardware and software faults.
* Excellent client facing skills including document writing and asset recording
Jun - Aug Client: Ulster Bank / Royal Bank of Scotland
* All aspects of onsite desktop installations in Ulster banks
* Experience of performing site surveys and producing site diagrams
* An extensive knowledge of LAN Connectivity and experience of working with laptops, desktops and thin clients
* Installation of rack mounted servers, removal and installation of desktop machines, asset recording and problem solving of hardware and software faults.
* Optimisation, integration, migration and troubleshooting skills
* Ethernet flavours, QOS and switching technologies and windows and Unix flavours.
* Excellent client facing skills including presentation and document writing and the ability to create innovative designs, content and accurate documentation
Major achievements included the successful integration of every location, with the Royal Bank of Scotland.
(2004 to Sep 2005)
Intern
Working along side the project manager of the second largest project in HP and functioning effectively with a network of colleagues around the globe in a virtual team to achieve the goal of complete and effective ICT asset management.
Daily activities required development and testing VB, ASP, SQL and SharePoint applications, planning systems, installation of software, maintenance of development servers and databases and helping customers with IT asset management queries.
Major achievements included developing secure training portals, reporting portals and issue ticketing systems which in turn increased the efficiency of asset managers and the development team, productively managing and enhancing part of one of the largest Ethernets in the world with a potential audience of 350,000, and the successful development of a tool to make and distribute opt-in electronic newsletters to update sales teams, managers and clients on a monthly bases.
Professional Qualifications
Present member of The British Computer Society (BCS)
Sep 2000 - Jun 2002 Informatics and communication technology, Grade BC
AVCE Double Award, Advanced
Sep 1995 - Apr 2000 GCSE
7 GCSE's Grades B to C including English and Math's.
Currently in receipt of Enhanced CRB Disclosure (Issued 25th April 2007)
Education
( 2002 to 2006)
University of Ulster
BSc Hons in Computing Science with a Diploma in Industrial Studies
Honors thesis: 'A Web-Based System for Searching and Sharing Microsoft PowerPoint Files'
Detailed the steps incurred in the development of a final year project for a BSc (Hons) in Computing Science. It covers the development of a system capable of extracting text from PowerPoint files to record metadata that shall provide the basis for an index. The index shall in turn allow for the creation of a web-based system that shall allow a large repository of PowerPoint files to be searched online as a typical search engine searches web pages.
Final Year Modules: Interactive computing, Advanced database systems, Software Systems Engineering, Advanced computer networks, - Natural language processing
Additional Information
Skills:
• Enthusiastic and focused
• Excellent written/oral communication
• Keen eye for detail
• Highly motivated
• Exceptional interpersonal skills
• Computer literate
Development Languages:
Java, Visual Basic, Perl, HTML, XML family including VoiceXML, ASP, SQL, JavaScript, VB Script & VBA
Additional relevant skills:
Database maintenance and design including JDBC & ODBC with Cloudscape. Experience with specialist tools such as Radia HP Openview Application Manager and DOORS requirements management software package.
Interests:
Athletics, investments, property, agriculture
References/Referees:
Available on request
Categories & Skills
Finance & Accounting
Skills
- Accounting (Software Experience)
- Analysis/Management (Software Experience)
- Asset Software (Software Experience - Assets/Funds)
- Assets/Funds (Software Experience)
- Banking/Compliance (Software Experience)
- Bloomberg (Software Experience - Data/Price Distribution)
- Data/Price Distribution (Software Experience)
- Intellimatch (Software Experience - Banking/Compliance)
- Intellimatch (Software Experience - Settlement/Trading/Securities)
- Line 50 (Software Experience - Accounting - Sage)
- Oracle Financials (Software Experience - Accounting)
- QuickBooks (Software Experience - Analysis/Management)
- Quicken (Software Experience - Analysis/Management)
- Sage (Software Experience - Accounting)
- SAP (Software Experience - Accounting)
- Settlement/Trading/Securities (Software Experience)
HR/Training & Development
Categories
Skills
- Graduate Recruitment (Recruitment)
- HRM Software (Software Experience)
- Induction Process (Recruitment)
- Interviewing (Recruitment)
IT & Internet
Categories
- Application Development
- Customer Relationship Mgmt
- Database Development & Admin
- Electronic Data Interchange
- Enterprise Systems
- Foreign Languages
- Hardware
- IT Management
- IT Tools/Middleware
- Networks
- Operating Systems
- Programming
- Project Management
- Reporting & Analysis
- Routers & Firewalls
- Security Software/Systems
- Server Software
- Software Testing
- Telecommunications
- Web Design & Usability
- Web Development/Prog
- Web E-commerce
Skills
- .NET (Project Management - Microsoft)
- 3 Com (Routers & Firewalls)
- 3G (Telecommunications)
- 610 (Routers & Firewalls - 3 Com - Switches)
- ADO
- Adobe (Web Design & Usability)
- ADSL (Telecommunications)
- Advanced Manager (Security Software/Systems - Symantec)
- Altiris (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Antennae (Telecommunications)
- Anti-Virus (Security Software/Systems - Norton)
- Apache
- Application Architecture (Application Development)
- Application Integration (Application Development)
- ASP (Programming)
- ASP.NET (Programming)
- Asset Management (IT Management)
- Backup Systems (Project Management)
- Basic (Programming)
- Blackberry (Telecommunications)
- Bluetooth (Telecommunications)
- Bourne Shell (Operating Systems)
- Broadband (Networks)
- BSC (Telecommunications)
- C (Programming)
- C Shell (Operating Systems)
- C# (Programming)
- C++ (Programming)
- Category 5 (Networks)
- CDMA (Telecommunications)
- Citrix (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Cognos (Reporting & Analysis)
- COM (IT Tools/Middleware)
- COM+ (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Communication All Levels (Project Management)
- Compaq Insight (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Configuration Management (IT Management)
- Consultancy (IT Management)
- Content Management
- Crystal Reports (Reporting & Analysis)
- CSS (Project Management)
- DAO
- Data Architecture (Database Development & Admin)
- Data Protection (IT Management)
- Databases (Project Management)
- DB2 (Database Development & Admin)
- dBASE (Database Development & Admin)
- Desktop Rollout (Project Management)
- Desktop Upgrades (Project Management)
- DHTML (Project Management)
- Domino (Server Software - Lotus)
- DOS (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- DOS (Programming)
- Dr Solomon (Security Software/Systems)
- Dreamweaver (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- Enterprise Firewall (Security Software/Systems - Symantec)
- Enterprise Systems (Project Management)
- Event Manager (Security Software/Systems - Symantec)
- Excel (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Exchange (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Exchange (Server Software - Microsoft)
- Financial Analytics (Reporting & Analysis - Cognos)
- Financial Systems (Project Management)
- Fireworks (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- Flash (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- Freehand (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- French (Foreign Languages)
- FrontPage (Web Design & Usability - Microsoft)
- FrontPage (Web Development/Prog - Microsoft)
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Management)
- Functional Documentation (Project Management)
- GHOST (IT Tools/Middleware)
- GoLive (Web Design & Usability - Adobe)
- GPRS (Telecommunications)
- GSM (Telecommunications)
- Hardware Installation (IT Management)
- HP Openview (Routers & Firewalls)
- HP Web JetAdmin (IT Tools/Middleware)
- HTML
- IIS (Web Development/Prog)
- IIS (Server Software - Microsoft)
- Illustrator (Web Design & Usability - Adobe)
- Instant ASP (Server Software)
- Internet (Project Management)
- IP (Networks)
- IS/IT Auditing (IT Management)
- ISDN (Networks)
- J2EE (Project Management)
- Jakarta Tomcat (Server Software)
- Java
- Java Web Server (Server Software)
- JavaScript (Project Management)
- JDBC
- JSP (Web Development/Prog)
- LAN (Networks)
- Large Company - UK (Project Management)
- Leadership
- Lisp (Programming)
- Lotus (Server Software)
- Macromedia (Web Design & Usability)
- McAfee (Security Software/Systems)
- Microsoft (Project Management)
- Microsoft (Web Design & Usability)
- Microsoft (Web Development/Prog)
- Microsoft (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Microsoft (Operating Systems)
- Microsoft (Server Software)
- Microwave (Telecommunications)
- MIIS (Server Software)
- Mobile (Telecommunications)
- MS Access
- MS Visio (Reporting & Analysis)
- Multi-Threading (IT Tools/Middleware)
- MySQL (Database Development & Admin)
- Network Design (Networks)
- Network Upgrades (Project Management)
- Norton (Security Software/Systems)
- Notes (Server Software - Lotus)
- ODBC
- OLE DB
- Online Payment Systems (Web E-commerce)
- Outsourcing (IT Management)
- PC Hardware
- Perl (Programming)
- Phoenix BIOS (Operating Systems)
- Photoshop (Web Design & Usability - Adobe)
- PHP (Web Development/Prog)
- PowerPoint (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Project (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Project Support (Project Management)
- Public Key Cryptography (Security Software/Systems)
- QBasic (Programming)
- QuickBASIC (Programming)
- QuickBuild (Programming)
- Rational (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Rational Rose (IT Tools/Middleware)
- RDO
- Remedy (Customer Relationship Mgmt)
- SAP
- Server Installation (Hardware)
- Server Specification (Hardware)
- SharePoint (Web Design & Usability - Microsoft)
- SharePoint (Web Development/Prog - Microsoft)
- SharePoint (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- SMTP (Networks)
- SOAP (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Software Evaluation (IT Management)
- Software Implementation (IT Management)
- Software Rollout (Project Management)
- Software Selection (IT Management)
- Software Update Service (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- Solutions Delivery Management (IT Management)
- SPSS (Reporting & Analysis)
- Spyware (Project Management)
- SQL (Project Management)
- SQL (Programming)
- SQL Server (Programming - SQL)
- SSL (Security Software/Systems)
- Standard (Reporting & Analysis - Crystal Reports)
- Switches (Routers & Firewalls - 3 Com)
- Symantec (Security Software/Systems)
- System Security (Project Management)
- System Upgrades (Project Management)
- TCP/IP (Networks)
- Technical Documentation (Project Management)
- Telelogic DOORS (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Training (Project Management)
- VBA (Programming)
- VBScript (Web Development/Prog - Microsoft)
- Visio (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Visio (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- Visual Basic (Programming - Visual Studio)
- Visual Basic .NET (Programming - Visual Studio)
- Visual C# (Programming - Visual Studio)
- Visual C++ (Programming - Visual Studio)
- Visual SourceSafe (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- Visual Studio (Programming)
- VPN
- WAN
- WAP (Telecommunications)
- Waterfall (Project Management)
- Web Design (Web Design & Usability)
- Web Development (Web Development/Prog)
- Web Services (Project Management)
- WebObjects
- Website Strategy
- WebSphere (Server Software)
- WebTrends
- Win32 (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows 2000 (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows 2003 (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows 9x (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows NT (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows NT Migration (Project Management)
- Windows Update Service (IT Tools/Middleware - Microsoft)
- Windows XP (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- WinGate Pro (Server Software)
- Wireless (Networks)
- Word (Project Management - Microsoft)
- X25 (Networks)
- XCOM (IT Tools/Middleware)
- XHTML (Web Development/Prog)
- XML
- XSL (Web Development/Prog)
- XSLT (Web Development/Prog)

