Attained Class 2(ii) honours degree,
graduated June 1996.
Subjects include : Maths, Science, English, French.
Delphi (1,2,3) - 12 months
VB 5 - 12 months
Oracle 7/8 – 12 months
Access 7 – 6 months
Building company website; Building corporate intranet
Management of projects involving Javascript, ASP, HTML, XML
Currently I am working as an external consultant for Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO). My role is to carry out a complete review of their recruitment programme for IT volunteers, and to help them implement change where necessary.
This is a voluntary position.
During the past few months I have secured job offers with two companies, as a Technical Consultant, and a Senior Technical Engineer. Unfortunately due to financial circumstances, neither have been able to honour these offers.
July 1999-September 2000
Roles taken
Project Manager
Systems Design Consultant
Software Engineer
Sinara Consultants is a small software consultancy based in the City of London. It offers programming, design and consultancy services to clients from financial and e-commerce sectors.
For my first two years with the company I worked mainly in programming roles. Following that I took a one year break to travel and work abroad. From 1999-2000 I worked at Sinara managing project teams varying in size between 2 and 5 people.
eBusiness
I have worked with several eBusiness companies, including QXL.com and other smaller internet start-ups. Whilst my work has been mainly concerned with design and development issues, I have also worked as a consultant on technical and strategic issues for some smaller dot-com companies.
Projects
Automated Email Notification system.
The client, an eCommerce company with a very large user-base had problems with their current customer Email system. They had no version control for Email templates, and editing or creation of these was a complicated process, which could only be carried out by their DBA. They required a new system to allow templates to be edited in several different languages, whilst maintaining version control with differing security levels, from all of their pan-European offices. I worked with the client on a functional specification. I then translated these requirements into a design which I managed the implementation of with the development team. I followed the project lifecycle right through to delivery and client acceptance. The software package was released in a form that could be easily installed in multiple locations. The software was written in C++ Builder, interfaced with an Oracle database, and included integration with PVCS version control.
Website Customisation tool for B2B Start-up Company
The client required a tool that would allow them to rapidly create customised versions of their website. I worked with their development team, to produce, in a very tight timeframe, a version of their website that could be highly parameterised using data held within their database. This work required knowledge of the capabilities of Javascript and ASP in conjunction with their Oracle database system.
Implementing Realtime Financial Datafeed
The client, a small data distribution company, wanted to implement a system to deliver financial market data via Satellite to customers in areas where internet connectivity was a problem (specifically the Middle East). I worked as the project manager advising on the many issues of transmitting and maintaining a realtime market datafeed, such as security and data consistency where the feed was sourced from a number of different exchanges.I managed the project from the initial stage where the client had very few ideas beyond that they had identified a need to deliver realtime financial data to the Middle East, through to delivery of the final product. The project took 8 months and I was in charge of a team of 5 developers. As with many projects I have worked on, a high level of client-facing was required, as was the ability was to convey technical concepts to non-technically minded people, often at board level.
Full time work within the Facilities Management department of P&O Services in Sydney, Australia.
During my time with P&O I took a key role in a project to automate several of their day-to-day client management operations, using an Oracle database with a VB front-end. An important part of this project was liasing with end-users to establish project requirements.
Full time job as Computer Operator within GIS project at small cartography firm.
