One of the managers of a multimedia company in the States, this position required technical support and installation of both computers and software pertaining to video and audio. Specifically, OSX, Digital Performer and Final Cut 5.0 using Mac Pro and iBooks. This included doing some editing work in both audio and video. Included was the building and design of video support equipment such as dollies, camera booms, matte boxes and a steady cam. Determined the best compression codecs for webcasts uploaded to different websites for promotional purposes. Design and programming of promotional websites. Moving equipment, wireless network maintenance and many varied duties were part of this position.

This position involves the day to day maintenance, support and planning of the systems and requirements for a kitchen manufacturer both at the head office and with 10+ shops around the UK. Maintenance duties involved SME Server, Smoothwall Firewall VPN, Mac OSX client and Linux server maintenance and support, and then using an Apple Xserve, and the administrative/network/mail tools provided with Mac OSX Server.. This covered all computers in the shops as well, usually iMacs running OSX. VPN links and Retrospect backups of clients in all the shops via the VPN tunnels and HQ are maintained – with the Xserve, this was changed to Rsync to improve network efficiency. Development and maintenance of FileMaker Pro 5 databases, maintenance and development of webpages as needed on the company's websites, and research and development of client/server SQL databases are some of the software responsibilites, as well as MS Office and Open Office support. A Lasso middleware implementation of a web based database sales/customer/order system has begun to be implemented to replace the Filemaker databases.

On a self employed project basis, working on hard disc drive ghosting/replacements, server and rack installs, and pc client replacements. This includes configuration & installs of client workstations using Windows 2000 on Sainsbury’s backoffice networks. Drive copying and replacements in schools for Research Machines. And erection of racks and installing new servers for Sainsbury’s.

Shopping cart (Perl) development and implementation and some HTML development for various websites for a small multimedia company located in both the UK and France. Included online processing research and integration with the shopping cart(s). Some accounting duties included in the function, as well as tax planning.

Technical support for web registrar/hosting firm. Involved maintenance of WHOIS databases on Sun servers using vi and standard file operations within Solaris, maintenance of files, processing of new orders and amendments to existing details for customers on WHOIS, checking and maintaining daemon operations, sendmail maintenance, answering enquiries from customers and chasing support from contractors. Contact with the public was both via phone and email.

Technical support, testing and implementation for the Agresso Financial System (version 5.12) on NT, on both clients and server. This was running on an NT front end, with the Oracle database on Solaris. Responsible for technical support of Adaytum Budgeting Software (SQL Server), also for Tranmit document processing software (SQL Server) on client NT and Win 95, and 2000 clients. Analysis of problems reported back to management for revision by suppliers. Responsible for some daily administration of NT servers, for the administration of members within the Finance domain, and for setting up and rebuilding of NT clients as required. General pc and Apple Mac support, as well as Atex workstations given as required. This covered MS Office, Outlook and Exchange. Courses taken in NT administration and in SQL. Also began Linux installs privately. Left for move to France.

This position involved the day to day running and planning of I.T. services within a small 15 employee company. Network topography was changed from BNC to 10 Base T, and installed by myself. The network was moved over from a peer to peer Windows for Workgroups to OS/2 Warp Server, incorporating both Windows 3.11, Windows '95 and Apple Mac clients. MS Access databases were developed and maintained and a new global database system was written in Borland Delphi. 10 machines were built, 8 clients and 2 servers, and a platform change to Macs was executed for the editorial department. Used Samba as a means of file transfer. A second major responsibility was the execution of formulary switches in surgeries for a major pharmaceutical client, this being done both by myself and through a network of consultants set up and trained by myself. These were executed on over 20 different medical systems (e.g., EMIS, VAMP, and GENISYST) and platforms (BOS, Unix and Windows NT), the number of changes being in excess of 20,000 patients. Additional projects, including the selection and training and management of external contractors was ongoing. Made redundant in July, 1998 due to outsourcing.

A varied role: programmer in dBASE 4, C, C++, in DOS and Borland ObjectVision and Novell Visual Appware in Windows, system builder, and Novell network installer and engineer. Worked with both the private sector (mainly two large clients) and public sector probation services. Took over and completed a badly specified and complicated personnel management system for probation services written in dBASE 4 after the principal programmer took ill and left the company. Completed programming a Windows parking permits database application in Novell's Visual Appware for the City of Westminster. Also helped install a Microsoft Mail system for East Sussex Probation Service (ESPS) using ISDN links between offices, and acted as a consultant on a WAN database system for ESPS using the Microsoft Mail system for data transfer. Silicon City was put into voluntary receivership in December, and I was made redundant.

Particularly varied functions and projects. Involved in many small, and a few medium size projects, writing in C, Clipper 5.01, Visual Basic and MS Access on the pc, in both DOS and Windows. Most of the systems interacted with other existing systems and hardware, such as mainframes. Also involved in Multimedia using Asymetrix Toolbook, in developing a business presentation package for PMS and in development and support of training packages for Shell. Supported and acted as consultant over 2 years on an existing budget system used by a number of departments during the annual budget process at Shell. Participated as part of a team over a 1 year period in the analysis and development of a Property Management System (PROMIS). Provided additional support with DOS and Windows problems not resolved by Shell's support staff. Responsible for all DTP (user manuals), using both Impression (Acorn) and MS Word 2 (Windows). Left for more varied role in Silicon City.

Support of QSP OLAS accounting software on IBM 9370 and Token Ring networks for the accounting departments in the regional offices of PPS. Wrote, using the QSP Report Writer, the standard management reports to be utilised by the regions in their reporting to the HO as specified by the Pru's internal auditor. Also chose and documented the benchmarks which were to be utilised for comparing the different hardware platforms and manufacturers for systems, running Unix using Tetra Chamelon, which were to replace QSP and the 9370's until the decision was made by the Pru to sell PPS. Wrote a report comparing operating systems from a technical basis. Produced a comparative analysis of 15 different Unix hardware platforms with 40 models, showing price and performance analysis, along with VAR support in order to provide a recommendation of Unix platform to run Tetra on. Later became a member of the development team programming the Branch Support System (B.S.S.) in C++.