In April 2006 I started freelance work for some local companies. My first client was Newport Fitness Centre who needed help in planning a CMS for a future website. I evaluated their options and took on CMS customization work and staff training for them. I also assisted in some general Windows support work.
The second client in this period was local start-up Alpha Computers who needed assistance with marketing data-bases, client management and stock handling. Work done here was developed using MS Access 2003 and SQL Server 2005.
In September I completed my MCSD (VB.NET)
During October I put together a design for a CMS based web site for the Pontypool charity The Garnsychan Part-nership. I then managed by word of mouth to gain additional work My current clients include The Garnsychan Partnership, Marriots Business Consultancy, Fast Fluid Power, Belmey Industrial Supplies, Bow-Cem, Alpha Computers and Newport Fitness Centre, for whom I am perform database, reporting, web design, and support tasks.

Skills: SQL Server 2005, Access 2003, VBA, HTML, CSS, PHP, Training, Project Documentation, MS Office, Mac OS

Responsible for providing and presenting national strategy, staff training and production of training materials, database development, MI reporting, web site updates and full support for all ICT in SNAP Cymru. Web work was based upon updating news systems and maintaining an existing web site. I ran a project to rewrite a national client database in Access. I also implemented a national work prioritisation and tracking database to help co-ordinate work between geographically separate offices using an Internet based application. I became involved in analysing data from a series of older Access databases and Excel spreadsheets in order to provide more accurate financial reporting for the European Union using Excel and Crystal Reports. Left for a career break in order to recover from a serious health problem, but have remained in touch on good terms with SNAP Cymru.
Skills: VB, VBA, Windows Server, MS Office, Access, MySQL, PHP, Crystal Reports, HTML, CSS, PHP, FTP

Onsite Support Engineer for NexitraOne, based at HBS Cwmbran. Charged with ascertaining client requirements, presenting solutions to the client, progress report writing to both the client and my management team; developing software for and supporting the Altitude platform and training staff to use newly developed software. The work also required regular performance analysis to be made in relation to the data in these systems; and reporting on this information using Excel and Crystal reports from Oracle databases.
Skills: Oracle, Altitude Assisted Server & uagent windows, VBA, MS Office, Crystal Reports.

Web Database Manager for the Wales Tourist Board. Responsible for managing data integrity and data protection for the web site http://www.visitwales.com. The mainstay of this work was checking the work of an out sourced development team, and to provide a contact point for client businesses (small tourism operators in Wales). Left to return to working directly in a more dynamic development led environment (contact centre support and devel-opment).
Skills: MS Office, Bespoke Database Querying Facilities, CMS

Working on development projects at Corresoft Ltd. The companies primary product was a multi-user document management and tracking system primarily used by Canary Wharf Developers. The document management sys-tem was written in VB and could use Access, MSDE or SQL Server as a database. I was involved in requirements analysis, rewriting and testing this system to work as a mutli-user invoice tracking system for the Canary Wharf Developers finance department. Reporting modules for this were implemented in Crystal Reports. Left due to redundancy, when Corresoft Ltd went into receivership.
Skills: VB, SQL Server, Access, Sourcesafe, Exchange, MS Office, MSDE

Created the company Kashiko Consulting. Kashiko was a combination of freelance IT projects and IT subcon-tracting. Clients included companies such as Halifax Card Services, Bank One International, Chartered Trust Bank and the Environment Agency. Primarily this work involved running development projects, determining software features and benefits, creating databases, creating software, performing data analysis,and training corpo-rate users. The common threads for my work for these clients was the use of SQL Server and MS Access as data-bases and VB and VBA as primary development tools. Access, Excel and Crystal Reports as reporting tools; and MS Project and Visio as documentation and project management tools. Major parts of the work involved project documentation, assisting project manager, building and updating multi-user Access installations or in upgrading Access databases to SQL Server. Web related work here involved maintaining HTML for the website Me-dia01.com and in preparing data feeds from suppliers for use in that web site.
Skills: VB, VBA, Access, SQL Server, MS Office, Crystal Reports, HTML, Training, Project Co-ordination, Project Documentation, Visio, Sourcesafe, FTP

Responsible for assisting in the management and support of all bespoke software development and of all desktop applications at Torfaen County Borough.
Skills: Clipper, Dbase 3+, Access, DB2, SQL, Kopyking, Oracle, CICS, Wordperfect, MS Office

Operational IT Support, for PC desktop support, PC based databases and support for mainframe to PC focused client server operations.
Skills: Dbase 3+ Clipper, Kopyking, CICS, TSO, WordPerfect, Lotus 123, Training, DB2

Software coach, improving IT literacy and skills of adult trainees.
Skills: Dbase 3+, Pascal, WordPerfect, Basic, Assembler, Lotus 123