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Management Control Systems (1983 - 1986)
Sherwood Data Limited (1986 - 1987)
Advanced Integrated Systems (1988 - 1989)
Sutherland-Wade Associates (1995 - 2000)
CAREER OBJECTIVE:
Firstly to pursue the field of Information Presentation, addressing the needs of the age focused upon clarity, human understanding, and the science of the organization of information. Secondly in support of this goal organizing a Study/Investigatory regime so as to keep abreast of the relevant developments in information technology.
EDUCATION:
1982 - 1983
University of the West Indies. I completed first year, and afterward I applied for a years Leave of Absence on the grounds of Financial Inconstancies. The Leave was granted. This degree remains incomplete as at today.
1974 - 1982
Wolmers Boy's School | A' Level - Mathematics, AO Level - General Paper | O' Level - Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Technical Drawing, English Language, Mathematics.
1983 - 1986 | MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS |
1983-1984 | COMPUTER OPERATOR
I worked in a mainframe environment, with the main responsibility of operating and maintaining the Jamaica National Building Society Online System. Other responsibilities included batch processing functions to output the various required reports of our clients.
1984 | TRAINEE PROGRAMMER
My main responsibilities included maintenance programming for the operations department. My major project at this level was in designing, programming and implementing a data entry facility for use on the IBM PC operated under DOS. This system totally replaced the then existing system which was being hosted on ICL ME29 mainframe configuration. With the sucess of this project I was promoted to a Programmer Analyst position.
1984-1986 | PROGRAMMER ANALYST
My initial responsibilities in this position included maintenance programming for the already existing MCS software packages. I was introduced into software development when I was teamed with three other programmers to to develop a stock, savings, and mortgage system for Livingston Alexander and Levy. My main responsibilities after this project were adjusted to software development which I pursued, along with various project teams, until I left the company in 1986.
1986-1987 | SHERWOOD DATA LIMITED|
1986-1987 - DATA ENTRY SYSTEMS ANALYST
At this time the country had recently embarked on providing "Off shore Data Entry Services" to various North American Organizations. NCR was at the time a major organization supporting the development of the Industry and developed a NCR user group within which they provided training courses for various levels of the data entry related personel.
I was trained to offer technical support to the organizations that built their networks on the NCR Tower XP units which supported UNIX based operating systems. At the end of this training course I was offered the Data Entry Systems Analyst position with Sherwood Data (Member of the NCR user group and stationed in Santa Cruz). By the end of 1987 I was in a car accident and sustained injuries that made it impossible for me to commute to and from Santa Cruz as necessary and was forced to seek employment in Kingston.
1988-1989 | ADVANCED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS LIMITED |
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
My previous association with the Managing Director, Douglas Halsall, began when I was trained as a Data Entry Systems Analyst under NCR Jamaica. On learning of my availability due to my recent misfortune he offered me a position in his new company Advanced Integrated Services Limited. This became the turning point in my career, and my path into the world of Graphic design as my key role involved the study of Desktop Publishing Systems and training staff to support these service functions that the company would later offer.
1995-2000 | SUTHERLAND-WADE ASSOCIATES LIMITED |
1995 - 1996 Trainee GRAPHIC DESIGNER /1996 - 1998 GRAPHIC DESIGNER/
1998 - 2000 ART DIRECTOR
On joining SWA Ltd. in 1995 my first major contribution was manifest in my thoroughuse of the graphic design programs to efficiently prepare finished artwork and output files as related to multipage documents such as annual reports. After this my major role became annual report design.
Around the middle of 1998 our graphic design team was reduced to two, and with the other designer heavily burdened with exhibition related projects most of the Coprorate Graphic requirements became my responsibility with the exception of brochures and promotional kits which we tended to handle together.
In 1998 SWA Ltd. decided to investigate and possibly get involved with web design. With my programming background and my strong interest in this medium I was given the responsibility of spearheading it. We designed a Web Site for JABEXCO the export marketing arm of Jamaica Broilers at the end of which we were convinced that our resources would not allow us to efficiently split our focus between traditional graphic and Web Design services and so we shelved our web design pursuits for a later date.
In 2000 because of the strained economic climate with receivables a growing concern, SWA Ltd. found it necessary to offer an adjustment to our contractual agreement, which I considered and decided would be unsuitable and opted rather for the redundancy package.
RESPONSIBILITIES AT SUTHERLAND-WADE ASSOCIATES LIMITED:
1. Graphic Design, Illustration and Document Layout.
2. Digital Image Processing.
3. Camera Ready Artwork preparation.
4. Output File Preparation for Raster Image Processing.
5. Web Page Design.
PROJECT TYPES HANDLED:
Annual Reports, Corporate Stationery, Business Cards, Logos, Press Ads, Promotional Kits, Brochures, Magazines, Supplements and Manuscripts.
OPERATING SYSTEMS SINCE 1995:
Mac OS 7.6 - Mac OS 8.6, Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES:
Since 1983 - COBOL | Since 1995 - HTML, Java Script, Visual Basic 6.0 just embarked upon a introductory tutorial
SOFTWARE PACKAGES/UTILITIES:
Microsoft Word, Adobe Illustrator 4.0 - 6.0, Adobe PhotoShop 3.0 - 5.0, QuarkXpress, Microsoft Frontpage, Macromedia Flash 4.0, Macromedia Dreamweaver 2.0 - 3.0
BROWERS:
Netscape full range of versions including Communicator, Explorer full range of versions
Football, Dominoes, Digital Art, Fine Art, Surfing the Web
MR. DUNCAN SOARES
Managing Director
Tangent Limited
27 Lady Musgrave Road Kingston 5
Telephone 97-84463, 97-81363
MRS. HEATHER SUTHERLAND-WADE
Creative Director
Sutherland Wade Associates Limited
Sunnyside Hermitage Dam Road
Stony Hill
Telephone 94-23841, 94-22545
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