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. Degree in Computing

. Charter Member of British Computer Society

. Over 35 Years in computing

. Systems for Banking, Finance, Loans, Investment, Payroll, Laundry,

Energy Saving, Venue Management, Utility Billing, Property Management,

Customer Relationship Management

. 25 years of Systems Analysis and Project Management

. 20 Years Progress Software Development - versions 7,8, 9 & 10

. 3 years gaining skills for Internet application development, including

HTML, JavaScript, ASP, XML, SQL, C++, VB and C#.

. Experience in Programming, Systems Analysis, Project Management,

Strategic Consultancy. Technical Architecture, Design, Data Analysis

. Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in Microsoft Dynamics NAV

2009 C/SIDE Solution Development

I am a very experienced IT professional with a degree in computer based

information systems and membership of the British Computer Society. My

academic background was mathematical and from there I moved into computing

and information technology. In my long career in IT I have gained a lot of

analysis and design experience as well as good experience in project

management and strategic studies.

I worked for over 16 years with National Girobank in Liverpool, England

starting as a systems analyst and working my way through analysis and

design to project management and eventually technical architecture. While

there I dealt with a variety for projects including bank account ledgering

and maintenance, credit scoring & debt recovery. Part of this time I worked

as a project manager with responsibility for planning, resourcing,

coordinating, monitoring & controlling a number of projects. I managed a

team of 9 people and obtained resources from software houses and

consultancies outside the organization. I had to prepare invitations to

tender and the associated assessment criteria including questionnaires and

weighting systems.

I then worked in a small IT team in Highlands and Islands Enterprise in

Inverness, Scotland, the main government training and enterprise funding

organization covering all of the Highlands and Islands. There I turned my

hand to all aspects of providing computer based solutions for the business

needs including a strategic study of the computer based systems needed for

the business. I also led a project to replace the organizations financial

system. This project included integration of the new software with existing

legacy systems. I prepared the invitation to tender and worked with

suppliers who had expressed interest so that they could provide tenders,

which I then assessed and put into a pre determined weighting system.

Since then I have worked in a variety of roles broadening my experience to

other types of company; software houses, insurance company, automobile

manufacturer, and to other ways of doing things so that my experiences

included traditional project lifecycle developments as well as prototyping,

internal developments as well as software house developments, bespoke as

well as package based. I set up my own software house with two of other IT

professionals to develop internet based applications using C# and other

.net tools. To set up this company I had to develop a business plan and a

proposal document for funding from the local enterprise company.

I have worked at all stages of project development including feasibility

study, data analysis, systems analysis, design, construction, testing,

implementation and support.

I have written a wide variety of documents along the way including

feasibility studies, requirements specifications, outline & detailed design

specifications, unit and system test plans, post implementation reviews,

third party contracts, service level agreements, risk analysis documents,

technical architecture, applications architecture, project plans and many

others.

I have liaised with many types of people including internal technical

staff, internal users, managers, senior managers, directors, chief

executives, software providers & external contractors.

I have as a Progress software developer with skills in V7, V8, V9 and V10

GUI development as well as SmartObjects and .NET. Much of the software

development work I have done has meant management and execution the whole

project from establishment of the requirements with the users through to

implementation and support. I have been getting to know Visual Studio.net,

VB, C#, HTML, XML and ASP and using them to build Internet and windows

based applications. The Version 10 (Open Edge) Progress work is using

Microsoft's .net environment.

My current employment is using Microsoft Navision to develop and support

Payroll and Human Resource systems. I am a Microsoft Certified Technology

Specialist in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 C/SIDE Solution Development

Employment Summary

From To Employer Business Position Systems

May 2011 Now Miracle Dynamics Software House Developer Payroll, Human

Tewkesbury, Gloucs Resources, Fleet

Management

Mar 2007 Apr 2011 Miracle Software Software House Developer Financials, Source

Perth Control, Housing,

Payroll

Nov 2003 Feb 2007 Walker Martyn Ltd. Software House Analyst Programmer Energy Savings Reporting

1 Park Circus Place, Glasgow

Mar 2003 Oct 2003 Shoreline Software Ltd Internet Application Managing Director Village Hall Management

Edinbane, Isle of Skye Development

May 2002 Mar 2003 Skye and Lochalsh Enterprise Developing Business, Consultant Software House

Portree, Isle of Skye People and

Communities

Nov 2001 May 2002 Daimler Chrysler Financial Loans and leases for Consultant Loan & Leasing

Services Car Manufacturer

Milton Keynes

Aug 2000 Oct 2001 Clerical Medical Investments Insurance Consultant Investment Policies

Douglas, Isle of Man

Apr 2000 Jul 2000 Gael.net Software Development Consultant Heritage System

Portree, Isle of Skye

May 1999 Apr 2000 Saracen Computer Systems Software Development Software Developer Laundry Management

Uttoxeter, Staffordshire

Feb 1998 Feb 1999 Springbrook Software Inc Software Development Analyst, Designer, Finance

Washington Street, Portland Developer Utility Billing

Oregon

1993 1998 Highlands and Islands Enterprise Developing Business, IT Consultant Property Management

People and Finance

Inverness Communities Project Control

Customer database

1982 1993 Girobank, Banking Design Manager Banking

Bootle, Merseyside G1R 0AA Project Manager Ledgering, Debt

Principle Technical Recovery, Credit

Architect Scoring. Letter

Production

Technical Architecture

1980 1981 Manufacturers Hanover Trust Banking Project Leader Letter of Credit

Broad Street, New York

1978 1980 Distillers Company Limited Whisky Distillers Senior Systems Payroll

Edinburgh Analyst

1974 1978 Post Office Data Processing Banking Junior Systems Post Office

Service Analyst

Girobank, Bootle, Merseyside

EXPERIENCE (in reverse order)

Miracle Dynamics LTD.

MAY 2011 - NOW SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

The development and maintenance of software using Microsoft Dynamics

Navision. Particular responsibility for the maintenance and development of

Fleet Management software. As well as support and enhancement of Payroll

and Human Resources software. I have also been liaising extensively with

customers to carry out end of year payroll upgrades.

Miracle Software LTD.

FEBRUARY 2007 - APRIL 2011 SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

The development and maintenance of software using Progress V9 and Open

Edge. Particular responsibility for the maintenance and development of

Financials software. Provision of an internal scource code control system

and assisting in the maintenance of the Housing Maintenance system. I have

also been supporting the Progress based Payroll system liaising extensively

with customers to carry out end of year upgrades.

Walker Martyn LTD.

NOVEMBER 2003 - FEBRUARY 2007 SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

The development and maintenance of software using Progress V9. Its purpose

was to help control jobs implementing energy saving measures and to report

on their uptake. Design and specification of Technical Monitoring,

Reporting and Document Scanning modules. Working dynamically with Excel to

import and export data and to provide formatting and flexibility using

Pivot tables.

Shoreline Software LTD.

MARCH 2003 - OCTOBER 2003 MANAGING DIRECTOR

Setting up and getting the new company functioning. Initiating and getting

funding for a community based project to support the management of village

halls and community centres over the Internet. Software was developed in

the Microsoft .net framework which includes use of Visual Studio.net, HTML,

ASP.net, C#, Access, SQL Server.

Skye & Lochalsh Enterprise

MAY 2002 - MARCH 2003 CONSULTANT

Investigating and writing a Feasibility Report on the establishment of a

software house using teleworkers in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland.

Identifying likely developers to participate in the new company and putting

together the case for funding.

Daimler Chrysler Financial services, Milton Keynes

NOV 2001 - MAY 2002 CONSULTANT

Support for system to administer loans and leases for the provision of

vehicles to customers. The system has a Progress front end written in

Version 8 and working against and Oracle database. PL/SQL is used to

interact with the database.

Clerical Medical Investments, Isle of Man

AUG 2000 - OCT 2001 CONSULTANT

Support of a system to calculate commissions on policies sold.

Continued development and implementation of a benefit review system to

review customers policies and mail a statement to them. The system includes

complex actuarial calculations and interfaces to Microsoft Word for mail

merging of the customer letters. The system was a GUI development using

Progress version 9 on NT.

Analysis, design, development and implementation of a system to monitor the

activity of organisations which introduce clients to the insurance company

with particular attention to identifying potential money laundering

situations. The system was a GUI development using Progress version 9 on

NT.

Gael.Net, Portree, Isle of skye, Scotland

APR 2000 - JUL 2000 CONSULTANT

Production of a Feasibility Study for a project to be funded from the

European Union. The study looked at the provision of local heritage

information using a geographical information system over the internet.

Saracen Computer Systems, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England

MAY 1999 - APR 2000 PROGRESS SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Laundry Management System - Continued development in Version 8 of a new

Progress based GUI database system to replace existing character non-

database system. The development was done using Smart Objects and Smartpath

from DataSpeed. The systems purpose was to support the work of laundries in

processing laundry mostly from hospitals. Tracking of laundry and clean

supplies was done using barcoded items.

Springbrook Software Inc, Portland, Oregon

FEB 1998 - FEB 1999 PROGRESS SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Utility Billing System - Analysis, design and development of the data

model, database design, system design and construction of new modules to

support Accounts Receivable, Customer Information and Licenses and Permits.

Support of existing modules, written in Progress version 8, including

direct liaison with customers. The customers were all cities or utilities.

The new modules were all written in Progress version 8.3. The work included

re-vamping the security system and re-writing the main menu window using

ListBar and TreeView OCXs

Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Inverness, Scotland

1993-1998 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - SELECTION, INTEGRATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF

A FINANCIALS PACKAGE, CODA FINANCIALS. INTEGRATION WITH EXISTING PROGRESS

APPLICATIONS.

Customer Database - Analysis, design and specification of a Customer

database to hold details of existing customers including profiles, contacts

and history. The system was centered on a package with the linking software

being written in Progress version 8. The project included the assessment

and selection of the package.

Business Analysis - Business analysis exercise to establish the overall

picture of computer applications required to support the work of the

Highlands & Islands Enterprise Network. This involved analysis and high

level design following interviews with Directors of HIE, Chief Executives

of the Local Enterprise Companies and senior managers across the network..

Project Control System - Completion and implementation of a Project Control

System to control the allocation of funds to a wide range of business,

personal and community development projects.

Property Management Information System - Analysis, design and development

of a Property Management Information System to keep track of the property

portfolio, the development and leasing of properties. This client/server

system was developed using Progress RDBMS and 4GL. The clients were located

in ten Local Enterprise offices throughout the Highlands and Islands.

Development was carried out by prototyping working closely with the main

users, the Property Department, as well as the Finance and Legal

Departments.

Direct Debits - A 3-month contract to design a system to facilitate the

automatic processing of loan receipts as direct debits. This involved DEC

VAX, COBOL, Progress RDBMS. The project required close work with the

Finance Department, the suppliers of a communications package and HIE's

bank - the Bank of Scotland.

GIROBANK PLC, MERSEYSIDE

1990-1993 PRINCIPLE TECHNICAL ARCHITECT

Strategic Studies - The leader of a small team of IT professionals on

studies to determine strategies for Open Systems and the use of UNIX, on-

line documentation, client/server computing and the RDBMS which would be

used on non-mainframe processing platforms. The resulting proposals were

adopted as the strategies .

Target Technical Architecture - The development and maintenance of the

Target Technical Architecture to provide a framework for efficient

development of hardware and software facilities to service the needs of the

Bank.

Technical Architecture Review - A review of the strategy for the core

computing requirements of the Bank. This required an investigation of the

bank's main computing systems, their interelationship and the resource

usage. It also required an assessment of the options and costs of migrating

to each scenario. The resulting strategic recommendations were presented to

the Information Technology Technical Steering Committee which adopted them

as strategy for the Bank.

1989-1990 Project Manager

Knowledge/experience gained in this role includes project management,

planning, control, staff management, quality management, BIS structured

techniques and contract negotiation. Further use was made of various PC

based tools such as PMW, Word, Multiplan and Rbase running under DOS.

Personal Banking Development Strategy - The development of a strategy to

meet the Information Technology needs of the Personal Banking Directorate.

Marketing and Management Information System - Management of a project team

to establish a Management Information database and to start to use the

database for selection of mailing populations, profitability calculation

and production of statistics.

Generalised Letter Production System - Management of a project to develop a

generalised system for the production of standard letters either on request

or as a result of other processing.

Debt Recovery System - Management of a project team to develop a system to

support the recovery of debt. The job included the negotiation with the

software house of contracts for development and maintenance.

Application Processing System - Management of a project team for the

automation of the processing of applications for accounts, including credit

scoring and vetting. The analysis and design were done using BIS structured

techniques tailored.

1982-1989 Design Manager

Customer Account Ledgering and Maintenance - Design manager for the

predominantly interactive half of a major project to replace the core of

the bank's ledgering and account management systems.

Knowledge/experience gained in this role includes data & activity modeling,

data analysis, database design, the PMW planning tool and quality

management

MANUFACTURERS HANOVER TRUST, NEW YORK

1980-1981 PROJECT LEADER

Letter of Credit - Analysis, design, testing and implementation of a system

to produce letters of credit and all other documentation associated with

them throughout their life. The system was based on a letter of credit

package run on IBM 4300 using CICS and the IMS database. The development

standards included the use of Yourdon and Jackson structured techniques.

DISTILLERS COMPANY LIMITED, EDINBURGH

1978-1980 SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST

Payroll - Analysis, design, testing and implementation of a payroll system

using a package called KPAYE. The system was tailored for a number of

independent users and was to run in three sizes of machine, Honeywell 115

under MOD 1 MSR, Honeywell 2000 under 0S2000 and Honeywell L64 under GCOS.

POST OFFICE DATA PROCESSING SERVICE, GIROBANK, MERSEYSIDE

1974-1978 JUNIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST

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