Employment History

October 2015 – March 2016Wessex Water Services Limited, Bath, SomersetSoftware Developer.Working within an operation team supporting the business by installing third party software onto Company laptops and investigating reported problems.

Key responsibilities include: Develop and maintaining in-house production systems, carrying out remedial work Monitor key, externally developed, systems and processes, making recommendations for

subsequent corrective action if problems are detected Follow scripts to promote functionality through development environments Installation of ‘licenced’ third party software on User laptops Clean decommissioned laptops

May 2015 – September 2015DAM Computer Services Limited - Bristol, South Gloucestershire. Consultant.Designed and developed WPF applications for ‘not-for-profit’ organisation to capturing fund raising data, track and communicating with members, and produce analysis reporting functionality.

Key responsibilities include: Liaise with client to obtain User requirements, agree project timescales Design and implement SQL relational database created within a SQL Server Management

Studio environment. Design and write interrogated functionality development primary in C# and ASP.Net within the

Microsoft Visual Studio environment. Create User manual

August 2014 – April 2015Cross trained into C# and ASP.net, moving on to MVC, developing Systems within Microsoft Visual Studio and deploying to the Microsoft Azure platform. This training included attending the Microsoft courses described in Personal Development section.

September 2010 – July 2014Took a short break from consultancy work to help look after my ailing Father and see my Mother through the subsequent period after his death. I then took some time to travel and recover from the stresses of this period.

June 2007 to August 2010John Wiley & Sons Limited - Bognor Regis, West SussexConsultant.Working as a systems developer delivering stock control, order processing, sales and distribution systems enhancements and management information reports to support the company’s business operations on an iSeries platform.

Key responsibilities included: Developing and maintaining the Customer Services, enquiries, order processing and stock

control systems Development and production of management reports (using Java) from an AS/400, and

imported 3rd party data, in Microsoft Excel for automatic email distribution throughout the company

Verifying and formatting data received before uploading onto the AS/400. Designing, writing and maintaining integrated functionality written in RPG ILE/400, Synon/2E,

SQL and Java. Designing efficient automated data import feeds from spreadsheets with error checking and

correction to minimise data entry timescales leading to operational efficient gains and cost savings.

Prioritising development requests Presenting to end-user departments proposed systems changes and scheduling systems

testing resources and functional implementation to minimise disruption to end-users

August 2005 to March 2007 Australian Financial Investment Group - Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaConsultant.Project manager and systems developer for financial and management information systems associated with the banks credit/debit card operations on an iSeries platform.

Key responsibilities included: Manage a virtual team of client managers representing 5 companies spread over two countries

and 5 time zones. Establishing project responsibilities, the project plan and milestones, monitoring progress against the program of work and resolving scheduling and resourcing conflicts with appropriate client manager.

Co-ordinating full end-to-end System test, simulating a ‘real’ card application and posting transactions to dummy customer accounts, creating comprehensive test plans, verifying results and communicating back to project team the outcomes.

Ensure legal compliance with Australian and New Zealand financial legalisation. Developing Debit/Credit cards order processing Exporting data file extract from the company’s iSeries platform for delivery to a 3rd party for

card and security strip creation. Creation of application notification data (passed to 3rd party bank acting as the agent as AFIG

did not process a banking license) Importing transaction data and posting transactions to customer accounts. Working with end users and clients at AFIGs sister company gathering requirements,

documenting and designing system enhancements and agreeing inter-organisation data exchange formats.

Developing Synon/2E and RPG functionality to build card security and embossing details to pass to external organisations, and functionality to receive card transactional data and post to customer accounts.

Integrate new functionality into existing Systems and arrange for regression testing. Arrange signoff from all organisations to go live, agreeing data transfer schedules taking into

consideration the number of time zones involved.

August 2004 to February 2005 Grantfort Computer Systems – Northampton, NorthamptonshireConsultant.Working as a developer on the company’s retail sales, stock control, distribution and management information systems on an iSeries platform.

Key responsibilities included: Developing and maintaining commercial software system to monitor and replenish warehouse

and branch stock levels. Produce functionality to allow price changes, both permanent and promotional, correlating and

distributing this data to third party outlets. Creating integrated functionality written in RPG ILE. Working with Customers, capturing and documenting system requirements. Produce User interface data definition catalogues to support data exchange between our

bespoke system and client owned systems. Supporting external clients’ user acceptance testing programmes incorporating changes made

to the core system.

January 2001 to December 2003Boxclever (Thorn UK/Granada) - Swindon, Wiltshire

Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400System software Query, SQL Synon/2E rel 7.0Applications Securitisation, Warehouse and Management Information systems

Duties Develop and maintain systems to produce sales and ledger information from both pre-merger companies, received electronically, for securitisation purposes. Produce Management Information functionality to analysis the combined sales and ledger data. Develop functionality, written in SQL, to correlate sales and stock movements and upload to a web-based ‘Cognos’ Management Information system.

July 2000 to September 2000

NCH Marketing Services Limited - Corby, Northamptonshire Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400System software Query, SQL Synon/2E rel 6.0Applications Retail Outlet loyalty card and Management Information systems

Duties Develop system to calculate department store loyalty awards dependent on the value of purchases by the consumer for the previous year. Produce file of addresses along with appropriate inserts to be sent electronically to the Post Office to be parcelled and sent to the Consumer. Produce Management Information functionality to analysis consumer profiles (information taken from questionnaires) and types of purchases.

July 1999 to September 1999Chubb Fire Limited – Sunbury, Surrey

Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400System software Query Synon/2E rel 6.0Applications Retail Sales, Management Information systems

Duties Rewrite existing functionality to run on parent company systems, making the programs year 2000 compliant.

October 1998 to May 1999 Midas IT Services Limited – Orpington, Greater London Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400System software Query Synon/2E rel 6.0Applications Retail Sales, Stock take Reconciliation and Distribution systems

Duties Develop system software to download sales information from PC based till and back-office systems for individual retail outlets. Write programs to correlate this information, preparing Financial and Stock Control data to be retained on the AS/400 via a SAP System, and upload warehouse stock releases and inter-outlet goods transfers to the retail outlet back office PC.

May 1998 to October 1998John Wiley & Sons Ltd – Bognor Regis, West Sussex

Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400System software Query Synon/2E rel 6.0Applications Product Ordering, Invoicing/Crediting and Financial systems

Duties Amend existing functionality to allow for the charging of VAT on products and delivery charges governed by E.U. rules.

September 1997 to April 1998Coopers & Lybrand Insurance Services – Bristol

Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400System software QueryApplications Reinsurance systems

Duties Develop functionality to 'take over' defunct insurance companies, analysing existing systems and replicating them. Produce legal documentation and figures as well as facilities to record and analysis feedback resulting from legal representation.

December 1996 to June 1997Toyota (GB) Ltd – Redhill, Surrey

Position Consultant. Languages CL, Synon/2ESystem software QueryApplications Vehicle Sales and Financial systemsDuties Investigate User requirements for new functionality and analysing the effectiveness of the

development, design and write the programs and assist in the user testing and implementation.

September 1996 to November 1996Swan National Leasing Ltd – Leicester, Leicestershire

Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400System software QueryApplications Vehicle leasing and accident management systems

Duties Make specified alterations to the existing systems in anticipation of company reorganisation. Investigate analysis and report upon improvements in efficiency and business practices.

March 1996 to May 1996 EPG Computer Services Ltd - LondonPosition Consultant. Languages CL, Synon/2ESystem software QueryApplications EPG Genus Insurance system

Duties Make specified enhancements to the existing software and investigate change requests initiated by clients.

October 1994 to February 1996Castrol UK Ltd – Swindon,Wiltshire

Position Analyst/Programmer Languages CL, RPG/400, Synon/2ESystem software Query, DFUPC software Ami-ProApplications Pricing, Management Information systems Duties Liaising with Users in the development and improvement of existing systems.

September 1993 to September 1994DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Company - Bristol

Position System Builder Languages CL, RPG/400, GenesisSystem software Query, SQL, DFU, OfficeApplications Litigation (Summons') system

Duties Liaising with the Users in the design and development of systems, help with the User testing and advise on any business procedures that require change or implementing.

June 1989 to September 1993Hoskyns Group Plc - Bristol

Position Analyst/Programmer Languages CL, RPG/400, Synon/2ESystem software Enhanced Viewdata, Query, SQL, DFU, OfficeApplications Marketing, Insolvency and Debt Recovery systems

Duties Write technical specifications for programmers, develop system software, liaising with clients on the user and volume testing before implementation. Advise on any business procedures that require changing or implementing.

October 1987 to June 1989Nationwide Anglia Building Society – Swindon, Wiltshire

Position Programmer Languages CobolApplications General banking, Automated Teller Machine Reconciliation systems

Duties Sole programmer involved in the support and development of an Automated Teller Machine system.