CURRICULUM VITAE as at 2005

Ashok Kumar Parbhubhai PARMAR
B. Com (IS)  Otago

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 18th of January 1959
Age:46
Race: Indian
Nationality: Fijian by birth
New Zealand  Citizen (1987)
Living in Dunedin NZ, since  1977
Status: Married in 1982, since  divorced
Children: Two boys aged 16 and  19
Current Address: Dunedin, New  Zealand
E-mail Address:ashok_nz@hotmail.com
Web  Page:http://geocities.datacellar.net/ashoka_kumar_2000
Mirror:   http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ashok
                http://curryzone.tripod.com
Detailed CV at:http://geocities.datacellar.net/ashoka_kumar_2000/akcv.htm

Qualifications

Marist Brothers Primary School, Suva,  Fiji
Fiji Secondary School Entrance Exam (1971)

Marist Brothers High School, Suva, Fiji
Fiji Junior Exam (1974)
NZ School Certificate  (1975)
NZ University Entrance (1976)

Logan Park High, Dunedin, NZ
NZ English Exceptance Exam (1977)
NZ Bursary Exams (1977)

Otago University, Dunedin, NZ
Bachelor of Commerce (Information Systems) (1982)

Associated Member (1985 - 1991)
Member of New Zealand  Computer Society Inc. (1991-1995)

Training Courses

IBM System/36 - Operations (IBM)
IBM System/36 - RPG  Programming (IBM)
Effective Documentation (NZCS)
Project Management (NZCS)
IBM AS/400 - Operations (IBM)
IBM AS/400 - CL Programming  (IBM)
IBM Quality Assurance (IBM)
Quality Assurance (NZCS)
Delegation Management (NZCS)
AS/400 AS/SET Case Technical Operations (IBM Aust)
IBM  4680 POS Introduction (IBM)
IBM 4684 POS Skills Transfer (IBM Aust)
IBM  AIX Introduction (IBM)
IBM Linux and DB2 primer (IBM Aust)
Coumpter based training - DB2, JAVA, MS.NET, ASP.NET, MSSQL

Experience

• Positions Held

Software Development Manager
Technical  Manager
Programming Manager
Project Leader/Manager
Analyst  Programmer
University Tutor

• Tasks Performed

Systems Consulting - Software, Technical, Training, Disaster Recovery
Systems Analysis
Software Design and Development
Systems  Programming
Software Testing
Software Documentation
Staff Training,  Evaluation and Appraisal
Systems Integration and Installation
Client Training and Support
Contract Project Managing and Programming
Advising to  Company Board
Acting General Manager (in General Manager's absence)

• Coumputer Systems used

IBM AS/400 (all aspect of maintaining and upgrading a  site)
IBM System/36
IBM System/34
IBM 4680, 4694 Store Systems
IBM  RS/6000
Digital PDP-11
Personal Computers (IBM: PC, AT, PS/1, PS/2, P50 and non-IBM)
Laptops (Toshiba: T4400, T4800, T4950, IBM: L40, 770, Dell XPiCD, I4000)
Computers pre-IBM (NEC, NCR, HP, SWPTC, ONYX, SORD,  BBC)
Others (scales, scanners, printers, barcodes, displays, serial comms,  touchscreens, PalmOS based devices, PDA's, wireless systems)

• Software used

Programming (Dbase/Clipper, *Basic*, Pascal, RPG, CL, Cobol, Fortran, JAVA)
Windows programming (CA-VO, Xbase++, Delphi, VBasic, Vdbase, JAVA, C#)
Linux programming (JAVA)
CASE (Asyst, AS/Set, ProIV,  IPG/400)
MIS (Forest&Trees, AS/400 Query, Crystal Reports, Seagate  Info)
Internet (FrontPage, NetFusion, CGI, VBScript, ActiveServer, JavaScript, WebSphere, ASP.NET)
IBM AS/400 (OS/400, SSP, PC/Support, TCP/IP  & Comms)
IBM 4680 (Supermarket, General Application, Comms to AS/400)
Operating Systems (CPM, DOS, Flex, CDOS, OS/400, SSP, Windows  95/98/Me/2000/XP, Linux RedHat 7.2)
Office tools (Wordstar, Displaywrite, MS Word, MS Office etc.)

Employment History

Mar 81 to Oct 81 University of Otago,  Dunedin

• TUTOR
  For Quantitative & Computer Studies, Stage 1. Two classes of 15 students each.
   

Nov 81 to Feb 82 University Of Otago,  Dunedin

• ANALYST
  Design and program Entity Relationship working model and Student Records System.
   

Feb 82 to March 85 Software Associates Ltd., Dunedin (Co-founder)

• ANALYST PROGRAMMER
  Analysis, design and programming of systems based on the Entity Relationship model for clients as well as systems for resale. Debtors, Reporting Systems, G/L, Budgets, Newspaper  Delivery, etc.
   

Mar 85 to Feb 88 Businessworld Computers (Otago) Ltd., Dunedin (Renamed to Computerland Dunedin in 1987)

• ANALYST PROGRAMMER
  Systems design and programming of DOS based as well as System/36 systems. Membership System, Order  Processing, Auction System, Inventory Systems
   
• PROJECT LEADER
  Leading a team to  develop systems for the IBM System/36 - Meat Kill Processing, Parts Dealership,  etc. Also involved in Analysis and Design of system.
   

Feb 88 to Sept 2002: Infodata Systems Ltd., Dunedin, renamed to ISL NZ/AUST 

• PROGRAMMING MGR
  Maintenance and Support  of System/36 systems - inhouse and for clients. Manage bureau clients. Design SAA Dialog Manager and associated systems.
   
• TECHNICAL MGR
  Responsible for an AS/400  bureau network. Programming enhancements to IBM 4680 Point-of-Sale systems and  interface of data with the host system. Involved in Consulting internal and  external, on systems and procedures.
   
• DEVELOPMENT MGR
  Create PC based Point-of-Sale  system and associated systems. Consult clients on modifications to the system. Involved in RFP preparations and demonstrations. On-the-fly  programming/prototyping.
   
• DEVELOPMENT MGR (NZ)
  Create Java based Point-of-Sale system and associated systems. Multi-threaded, multi-teared client server system.

Sept 2002 to present: Enabling Technologies Ltd., Dunedin 

• SENIOR PROGRAMMING
  Development of systems relating to Accounting Packages, namely ACCPAC, Greentree and Microsoft AXAPTA. Creation of ETOptions - extention modules for ACCPAC. Similar system created for Greentree.
  

• DEVELOPMENT TEAM LEADER / MANAGER (December 2003)
  Coordinate systems design and implementation, mainly for custom development. Projects under way include ACCPAC CRM customised development, online Document Management System, extentions to ACCPAC.
  

Software Manuals Written

SAL Debtors System (PC)
SAL Cash Management System (PC)
SAL Budget Management System (PC)
SAL Accounting Practice Set  Generation (PC)
SAL Plumbers Management System (PC)
IOOF Membership System (PC)
Auction System (S/36)
Kill Sheet System (S/36)
AIC Parts System (S/36)
ISL Correspondence System (AS/400)
ISL Dialog Manager (AS/400)
Info/Pos Modules (PC)
Release notes for Software Modifications 

Other

Submitted an article for publication to two international  IBM Mid-range Systems magazines. Programming and Operations of IBM's Systems  Application Architecture (SAA) Common Programming Interface (CPI) Service - The  Dialog Manager. (1991). Overview Document, Summary  Document.

Author of What! Laptop Battery & System  Monitor for Windows95 - Freeware written in Delphi 3 implementing lots of Windows95 API's, including Registery, timers, timezones and  multimedia controls.

Convert personal software to most versions of Visual Basic and Delphi

Design and implement own Internet Personal Web site at http://geocities.datacellar.net/ashoka_kumar_2000 in July 1997. Averaging about 1,000 hits per week. Content includes Free software - What! Laptop Battery & System Monitor, Games, Curry Recipes  and Bach Flower Remedies and Modem Monitor Graph. Mirrors at http://geocities.datacellar.net/modemgph and http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ashok

Author of Modem Monitor Graph for Win98/Me/2000/XP, CPU Monitor Graph, NetTraffic for Win98/Me/2000/XP and SWSClock -  Virtual Clock. Freeware software written in Delphi 3 implementing  lots of Windows95/98/NT API's, including Registery, DialUp Networking, RAS,  TCP/IP Sockets, Graphing tools, Multimedia, Timers, SNMP, drag/drop etc.

Addition of  MammaGamma - gamma correction and volumn adjustment at the touch of a button while playing a game. Includes transparancy of any WinXP program including Task Bar.