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Experienced business, industrial, retail analyst-designer-developer. 20 years experience including hand held and support of legacy systems. VB, VBA, VB.NET, ASP, crystal reports, access, SQL, office automation
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SkillsCV
Design and maintenance of IT solutions (hardware, software & total solution).
Design and implementation of numerous client specific solutions in areas of stock, asset, works & fault management, safety, network measurement, corporate reporting, contract monitoring, estimating, sales quotations, manufacturing, digital surveillance, interfacing, process control, data collection, surveying, field service, GIS, GPS and communications.
Analysis of problems from an overall business and systems perspective.
Development of business critical single & multi user corporate systems.
Windows and Internet/Intranet applications (including .NET) using Visual Studio (VB / VB.NET / ASP / ASP.NET / VB.CE) and VBScript.
Web and kiosk applications using FrontPage and Flash.
Search Engine Optimisation.
Good data access, SQL, component and COM skills.
Integration of tools & components including Crystal Reports, MapInfo, MapX.
MS Office automation and MS Access development.
Development of Multi-user restricted bandwidth WAN systems.
Client/server, data analysis and data warehousing applications.
HHT (hand held) systems development incorporating GPS, GIS and data acquisition.
Some server database DBA. Some PLC development. Device communication using various interfaces and protocols.
Software version control & build systems.
Skilled in development of test strategies and plans for software modules and whole systems. Advanced problem avoidance and solving skills.
Wide FAT/UAT experience.
Experienced in concurrent development & support in test & live environments.
Fast to learn new systems and assess business impact.
Employment History
(Jul 2005 & ongoing)
Principle Consultant
Brighton, UKPrinciple consultant and contractor for the company.
Provision of IT infrastructure and development services to corporate customers (contract based and job based).
Provision of business analysis and project management services to clients in order to identify business and process improvement opportunities.
(Feb 1997 to Mar 2005)
Joint Managing Director
Horsham UKProduct manager for data collection & warehousing products and services.
Hands on manger and engineer. Designed, developed and supported many customer projects as prime engineer. Provided technical lead and management for engineering team for many large and long term projects.
Managed in house and customer development projects ranging in scale from £10k to £10M involving teams of 3 – 50 internal and client engineers.
Managed the development, user acceptance, system handover and support of numerous customer projects.
Solution architect for many integration and bespoke projects.
Significant role in presentation and negotiation upto senior levels including Chairman – Railtrack PLC, Director of Operations - Tubelines.
Managed various contracted projects where I was directly approached by the client for organisations including Amey PLC and Orange.
Undertook analysis for requirements, feasibility, specification & costing.
Interface between customers, engineers and contractors.
Implemented and managed many of the company internal IT systems.
Projects delivered were amongst finalists for “Modern Railways Innovation Awards (Technology)” for 2 years in succession.
Joint MD & general manager for company. Managed due diligence and sale of company (to a company in USA)
(Mar 1989 to Feb 1997)
Technical Director
Advanced New Technology Limited, Nutley, sussex, UKResponsible for the development of a range of database and associated hand held computer data collection products (self + team of 5 engineers).
Managed all aspects of customer implementation projects including modifications, validation, acceptance, system integration training and support for contracts ranging from £10K to £250K. Clients included Pfizer, Esso, Octel, Transfleet, Network South East and London Underground.
Provided specifications, costings and resource plans for special projects.
Assessed and advised on the use of new technologies within the product range.
Developed technical training programs for dealers and agents.
Education
(Sep 1984 to Aug 1987)
Cranfield Institute of Technology
PhD, Computer Integrated Manufacture.
An industrially based research programme researching, proposing, developing and implementing the use of manufacturing databases linked to production simulation and optimisation algorithms and product manufacturing schedules to make most efficient use of factory to reduce lead times and operating costs.
(Sep 1979 to Jul 1983)
Loughborough University of Technology
1st Class Honours Degree - Engineering Design & Manufacture
A sandwich degree in product design for optimised manufacture focussing on mechanical engineering, production engineering, manufacturing management, and engineering design. Here I specialised in the development of computer algorithms and applications to improve the effectiveness of all aspects of organisational operation.
(Sep 1977 to Jul 1979)
City of Bath Technical College
OND (Technology), Pass with Commendation
Categories & Skills
Administration Support
Categories
Skills
- Access (Microsoft)
- Crystal Reports
- Excel (Microsoft)
- FrontPage (Microsoft)
- Microsoft
- Outlook (Microsoft)
- PowerPoint (Microsoft)
- Publisher (Microsoft)
- Word (Microsoft)
Education and Research
Categories
Engineering & Technical
Categories
IT & Internet
Categories
- Application Development
- Business Software
- Database Development & Admin
- Hardware
- IT Management
- Networks
- Operating Systems
- Programming
- Project Management
- Reporting & Analysis
- Routers & Firewalls
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Server Software
- Software Testing
- Web Design & Usability
- Web Development/Prog
Skills
- .NET (Programming)
- 3 Com (Routers & Firewalls)
- ActiveX (Programming)
- ADO
- Adobe (Web Design & Usability)
- Apache
- Application Architecture (Application Development)
- ASP (Programming)
- ASP.NET (Programming)
- Backup Systems (Project Management)
- Basic (Programming)
- Business Continuity
- Consultancy (IT Management)
- Crystal Reports (Reporting & Analysis)
- DAO
- Data Conversion/Mapping (Database Development & Admin)
- Data Warehouse (Database Development & Admin)
- Databases (Project Management)
- Design (Project Management)
- DOS (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- DOS (Programming)
- Dreamweaver (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- Flash (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- FrontPage (Web Design & Usability - Microsoft)
- FrontPage (Web Development/Prog - Microsoft)
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Management)
- Functional Documentation (Project Management)
- GIS (Reporting & Analysis)
- HTML
- IIS (Web Development/Prog)
- Illustrator (Web Design & Usability - Adobe)
- Implementation Management (IT Management)
- LAN (Networks)
- Macromedia (Web Design & Usability)
- Microsoft (Web Design & Usability)
- Microsoft (Web Development/Prog)
- Microsoft (Operating Systems)
- MS Access
- ODBC
- Offshore Development (Project Management)
- OLE DB
- Oracle PL/SQL (Programming - SQL)
- Outsourcing (IT Management)
- PC Hardware
- Photoshop (Web Design & Usability - Adobe)
- Problem Management (IT Management)
- Professional (Reporting & Analysis - Crystal Reports)
- Project Support (Project Management)
- QuickBASIC (Programming)
- RDO
- Senior Management (IT Management)
- Server Configuration (Hardware)
- Service Delivery Management (IT Management)
- Service Level Agreements (IT Management)
- Software Evaluation (IT Management)
- Software Implementation (IT Management)
- Software Rollout (Project Management)
- Solutions Delivery Management (IT Management)
- SQL (Project Management)
- SQL (Programming)
- SQL Server (Programming - SQL)
- Standard (Reporting & Analysis - Crystal Reports)
- Subcontractor Management (IT Management)
- TCP/IP (Networks)
- Technical Management (IT Management)
- Test Execution (Project Management)
- Test Planning (Project Management)
- TFTP (Networks)
- UDP (Networks)
- VBA (Programming)
- VBScript (Web Development/Prog - Microsoft)
- Visual Basic (Programming - Visual Studio)
- Visual Basic .NET (Programming - Visual Studio)
- Visual Studio (Programming)
- VPN
- WAN
- Web Design (Web Design & Usability)
- Web Development (Web Development/Prog)
- Website Strategy
- Win32 (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows 2000 (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows 2003 (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows 9x (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows CE (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows NT (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Windows XP (Operating Systems - Microsoft)
- Wireless (Networks)
- XML
Management Consultancy
Categories
Skills
- Business Continuity (Project Consultancy)
- Business Development (Business Consulting)
- Business Integration (Business Consulting)
- Capital Project Appraisal
- Communication All Levels (Project Consultancy)
- Company Sale
- Company Start-up
- Company Turn-round (Business Consulting)
- Competitive Analysis
- Cost Reduction
- Data Warehousing (Project Consultancy)
- Disaster Recovery
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Consultancy)
- General Management (Business Consulting)
- Interim Managing Director (Business Consulting)
- Interim Operations Director (Business Consulting)
- IT Staff Management/Motivation (IT Consulting)
- IT Strategy Development (IT Consulting)
- Joint Ventures
- Just in Time (Business Consulting)
- Multiple Projects (Project Consultancy)
- Networking (Business Consulting)
- Operations Analysis (Business Consulting)
- Organisational Development
- Process Design
- Product Development (Business Consulting)
- Profit Improvement
- Project Management (Project Consultancy)
- Project Strategy Development (IT Consulting)
- Project Support (Project Consultancy)
- Rail Industry (Project Consultancy)
- Requirements Analysis (Business Consulting)
- SLA's (Project Consultancy)
- Small Business Development (Business Consulting)
- SME (Project Consultancy)
- SME Sector
- Stock/Inventory Planning (Business Consulting)
- Strategic Analysis (Business Consulting)
- Systems Implementation (IT Consulting)
- Systems Planning/Design (IT Consulting)
- Test Execution (Project Consultancy)
- Test Planning (Project Consultancy)
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