Seller 274905 - Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
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| Hourly Rate: | £55.56 | |
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| Overview: | Architect/developer with 25 years experience in IT ranging from research to commercial work. Strong OO background and business requirements/modelling skills. |
CV
| I have worked mostly in software development - throughout the whole project lifecycle. Following Ph.D. work on advanced control systems I concentrated on OO- and DB- related projects on Unix(es) and DOS/Windows (16-bit up to Vista) using C, C++ and C# and various SQL dialects: projects ranged from industrial control to investment banking, security (PKI) and network mangement tools. I also worked on EPOS, order-processing and other MIS. |
Employment History
(Jul 2007 to Feb 2008)
Software Engineer
WorcesterAccessibility software for a world-leading company. This involved architectural redesign and interfacing with user programs like Office suite.
I was also involved with evaluating the feasibility of using Six Sigma techniques to improve the running of the company.
(Jul 2006 to Apr 2007)
Senior Software Engineer
LeicesterEducation
(Oct 1985 to Sep 1988)
Aston University
Ph.D. [Artificial Intelligence].
Proved that 'smart' techniques could be used to control complex decisions in manufacture. [I later worked for the company involved on a software suite, which had used similar approaches to solving like planning problems at the same factory.
(Oct 1981 to Aug 1983)
Birmingham University
M.Sc. in Computer Science
(Oct 1975 to Jul 1978)
Birmingham University
B.Sc. (hons.) Medical Biochemistry
Categories & Skills
IT & Internet
Categories
- Application Development
- Business Software
- Foreign Languages
- IT Management
- IT Support
- IT Tools/Middleware
- Operating Systems
- Programming
- Reporting & Analysis
- Security Software/Systems
- Software Testing
- Web Development/Prog
Skills
- .NET (Programming)
- A/UX (Operating Systems)
- ActiveX (Programming)
- ActiveX (IT Tools/Middleware)
- ADO
- AIX (Operating Systems)
- Application Architecture (Application Development)
- ASP (Programming)
- ASP.NET (Programming)
- AWK (Operating Systems)
- Bash Shell (Operating Systems)
- Basic (Programming)
- Bourne Shell (Operating Systems)
- C (Programming)
- C Shell (Operating Systems)
- C# (Programming)
- C++ (Programming)
- Change Control (IT Management)
- COM (IT Tools/Middleware)
- COM+ (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Consultancy (IT Management)
- CORBA (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Crystal Reports (Reporting & Analysis)
- CSS (Web Development/Prog)
- DAO
- Debian (Linux)
- Developer (Crystal Reports)
- Digital Unix (Operating Systems)
- DOS (Programming)
- DOS (Microsoft)
- DR-DOS (Operating Systems)
- Fedora (Linux)
- French (Foreign Languages)
- GHOST (IT Tools/Middleware)
- HTML
- IIS (Web Development/Prog)
- Informix 4GL (Programming)
- Informix SQL (SQL)
- Italian (Foreign Languages)
- Java
- JavaScript (Web Development/Prog)
- KNOPPIX (Linux)
- Korn Shell (Operating Systems)
- Lex (Operating Systems)
- Linux (Operating Systems)
- Lisp (Programming)
- Microsoft (Web Development/Prog)
- Microsoft (Operating Systems)
- MS Access
- MS Visio (Reporting & Analysis)
- MTS (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Multi-Threading (IT Tools/Middleware)
- ODBC
- OLE DB
- openSUSE (Linux)
- OpenVMS (Operating Systems)
- Oracle Case Tools (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Oracle Development (Programming)
- Oracle PL/SQL (SQL)
- Oracle SQL (SQL)
- Oracle SQL*Plus (SQL)
- OS (Sun)
- Pascal (Programming)
- Professional (Crystal Reports)
- Public Key Cryptography (Security Software/Systems)
- PVCS (IT Tools/Middleware)
- QBasic (Programming)
- Rational (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Rational Rose (IT Tools/Middleware)
- RDO
- Release Management (IT Management)
- REXX (Programming)
- Risk Management
- Second Line Support (IT Support)
- Smalltalk
- Software Asset Management (IT Support)
- Software Evaluation (IT Management)
- Software Implementation (IT Management)
- Software Selection (IT Management)
- Software Upgrades (IT Support)
- Solaris (Sun)
- SQL (Programming)
- SQL Server (SQL)
- Subcontractor Management (IT Management)
- Sun (Operating Systems)
- System Architect (IT Tools/Middleware)
- Team Leadership (IT Management)
- Technical Standards Development (IT Management)
- Technical Writing (IT Management)
- TOPS (Operating Systems)
- Transact-SQL (SQL)
- Ultrix (Operating Systems)
- UML (Programming)
- Unicode (Programming)
- VBScript (Microsoft)
- Version 10 (Crystal Reports)
- Version 9 (Crystal Reports)
- VMS (Operating Systems)
- Win32 (Microsoft)
- Windows 2000 (Microsoft)
- Windows 2003 (Microsoft)
- Windows 9x (Microsoft)
- Windows NT (Microsoft)
- Windows Vista (Microsoft)
- Windows XP (Microsoft)
- X Windows (Operating Systems)
- Xenix (Operating Systems)
- XHTML (Web Development/Prog)
- XML
- XSL (Web Development/Prog)
- XSLT (Programming)
- XSLT (Web Development/Prog)
- Yacc (Operating Systems)

