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CURRICULUM VITAE

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

July 1957 to June 1963 at 33 Central Workshops REME Newark as a Telecommunications Technician Apprentice.

Doing - Module and final testing and repair of refurbished radio and telephone equipment. Repair and calibration of electronic test equipment. Supervision of assembly line staff. Awarded annual apprentice prize 3 times.

June 1963 to June 1964 at GEC Telecommunications Coventry as an Electronic Test Technician

Doing - Module and final testing of microwave radio relay systems.

June 1964 to October 1966 at States of Jersey Telecommunications Department as a Telecommunications Technical Officer.

Doing - Installation, maintenance and repair of any electronic equipment within the responsibility of the Civil Service including: Jersey Airport Authority, Jersey Harbour Authority, Fire, Police and Ambulance, Schools.

December 1966 to October 1967 at Lenkurt Electric of Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia as an Electronic Test Technician.

Doing - Module and final testing of microwave radio relay equipment.

January 1968 to December 1980 ICL (UK) Ltd in Edinburgh, Birmingham, Swindon as a Computer Engineer, Computer Engineer in Charge

Doing - Installation, commissioning, maintenance and repair of computer equipment located on customer premises.

Supervision of a small team of shift engineers.

Liaison with customer management on such matters as performance and reliability etc.

Milestones Project managing the installation of systems for a number of major customer accounts.

Actively involved in conducting technical seminars for senior local and regional management on what was then the new ICL 2900 range.

 

January 1981 to April 1987 House of Fraser Computer Services as a Procurement Analyst

Doing - Procurement of Computer Goods and Services, research into computer retail industry trends, Capacity Planning, maintenance of a corporate computer goods and services inventory system.

Milestones - Working with a small team of external consultants in the preparation of 'A Definition of Data Processing Strategy' document followed by major involvement in a multi-million pound procurement project to establish an integrated national network for on-line credit sanctioning and warehouse applications.

  • · A project to implement laser printing facilities within the Fraser Centre.
  • · A procurement project to rationalise a mixed ICL and Honeywell environment to a totally Honeywell solution.
  • · A re-assessment of Office Automation strategy.

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    April 1987 to May 2002 Yorkshire Water Services Ltd. as a Senior IT Professional

    Doing - Member of a small team responsible for the development of the organisation's Datacentre and Client Server infrastructure in line with the needs of the business, within budget and in a timely manner.

    The monitoring and regular reporting to management of corporate and end user computer system performance.

    The evaluation of proposed new or enhanced applications and their impact on existing computer capacity.

    The preparation and issue of an Invitation to Tender for major computer equipment and software acquisitions to the relevant preferred supplier (ICL, HP/COMPAQ & Zenith).

    Evaluation both technical and financial of suppliers' tenders.

    Agreement with supplier on deliverables and financial arrangements.

    Monitoring of departmental Capital and Revenue budgets.

    Assisting in the Directorate annual Business Plan submissions with particular reference to Recharging for Computer Services to both internal and external clients.

    Assisting in the preparation of Capital Asset Replacement profiles for the 5 yearly OFWAT determinations

    Milestones Phased enhancement to and replacement of the ICL mainframe environment, progressing from an ICL 2966 super dual through a 3960 dual, SX485-20 to the current twin ICL Trimetra Nova configuration. Phased enhancement to and replacement of the Corporate HP(COMPAQ)DEC VAX cluster moving from a base of 2 x VAX 8650 and 1 x VAX 8700 installed in one operating centre with a VAX8350 in each of 5 remote locations to 2 x VAX7740, 1 x VAX7710 and 1 x VAX7730.

    This VAX configuration is being wound down and business functions transferred to other platforms.

    This ICL and DEC Datacentre environment is split across 2 adjacent operating centres to provide mutual back-up in a disaster situation.