Professional Qualifications

Secondary Education: Frome Grammar School, Somerset, England.
GCE Ordinary Level: Maths, English, Geography, Physics, Chemistry, General English.
GCE Advanced Ordinary Level: Additional Maths, Use of English.
GCE Advanced Level: Maths, Physics (ordinary pass).
Foreign languages: French (CSE grade 1)
Further Education: Teesside Polytechnic, UK. Studied HND in Maths, Statistics and Computing.
British Computer Society: Passed part I in 1969, MBCS since 1976. CITP since 2002.

Additional Information

Previous work history:

May 00 Nov 00 Contract Oracle / Tuxedo Developer Securicor Group (ViVista) Chippenham.
NSPIS Case Preparation and Custody UNIX network Oracle 8 and Ingres. Oracle Pro*C, Tuxedo FML32 services, UNIX/C, Windows NT, Visual C++, XML, Rational Rose – SQA and UML. C code on Ingres, Oracle, Unix and Windows. Multi-tiered.
Sep 99 Dec 99 Contract Oracle / VB Tuxedo Developer Britannic Assurance, Wythall.
Technical Architecture Group UNIX network Constructed hub monitor using Tuxedo MIB, VB5, FML32, Tuxedo workstation. Used Windows NT and UNIX/C environments to provide Pro*C Tuxedo services. Multi-tiered.
Apr 97 Feb 99 Contract Oracle FinancialsDeveloper Britannia Building Society
NASA project UNIX network Oracle Financials 10.7 modules GL, AP and FA Smart Client and NCA, multiple organisations and currencies. Automated import of journals. Applications Objects Library (AOLSC) course Oct 98.
Oracle Analyst Momentum Insurance project UNIX network Oracle 7.3 Data feed using Database Triggers and stored procedures. Attaching triggers to Insurance package black box.
Oracle Analyst Members Register project UNIX network Produced strategy for running and recovery. Coded KORN, SQL*Loader, and sqlplus with PL/SQL stored procedures.
Oracle Analyst Training new support team Set up PL/SQL stored procedure for JAVA, JDBC clients.
Oct 96 Mar 97 Contract Oracle /VB Developer British Telecom, Cardiff DEC Vax/Vms
Sun Solaris Oracle 7, PL/SQL, Pro*C, Unix (SUNOS). VB3 Sheridan Widgets, Jet database, ODBC.. New VB3 forms, PL/SQL stored procedures and triggers.
Aug 96 Sept 96 Web /VB4 developer Symsys Limited, Software products .Windows NT Built Symsys Web site using Front Page express, HTML. ASP, VBScript and JavaScript. Built “Brand Price Trade-Off” for AIM.
Nov 95 Jul 96 Contract Oracle Developer Gas distribution, Transco, Solihull IBM RS6000 and HP AIX, HPUX, Oracle 7. Data migration to regional databases. Shell scripts, SQL*Loader, SQLplus, PL/SQL packages

From/ To Title Business Computers Skills
Feb 95 Sep 95 Contract Oracle Developer Systems Computer Technology (SCT) for North West Water IBM RS6000 Oracle 7, Pro*C, SQL, PL/SQL, SQLPLUS, RPF Emulation (RPT). Porting SCT Banner public utilities software. Anderson’s Design/1 toolset.
Nov 94 Dec 94 Contract Consultant Oracle UK DOPRA Systems Integration Advising on the use of Pro*C. Version 2. Advice included - methods, benefits, pitfalls, tools.
Dec 93 Oct 94 Contract Analyst/
Developer Unisys, Solihull, NatWest Life Insurance Postal2000 message switch Unisys U6000 UNIX system 5.4, C/VC++, Oracle v7 r1.5, . Pro*C, SQLPLUS and PL/SQL OLTP client/server TUXEDO. Built the ‘secure’ message switch. and
Test Harness for TUXEDO, X25, TCP/IP, FIFO, OLTP.
May 93 Aug 93 Contract Analyst /Prog North West Water IBM RS6000 Anderson Design 1, AIX, C,
Xwindows, aic, Pro*Cobol, TickIt, BS5750, Forms 3 course
Nov 91 Apr 93 Contract Analyst /Prog IBM Chiswick for Coral Racing, IBM PCs with IBM RS6000 Oracle 6, Pro*C, AIX, Telephone Credit Betting, Multi-tiered, mission-critical.
Apr 91 Sep 91 Contract Software Engineer Barclays Bank, Radbrook Hall, IBM RS6000 Ingres, embedded SQL, AIX, Back Office Branch Platform
Nov 89 Mar 91 Contract Software Engineer British Steel Skinningrove GEC 4080 Babbage, Coral 66, Ethernet levels 5, 7, real-time control
Mar 89 Aug 89 Contract Test suite designer ICL Networks, Stevenage Stratus VOS UNIX, C, X400,
X500, real-time comms
Feb 88 Feb 89 Contract Test suite designer ICL Networks, Stevenage Stratus VOS UNIX, C, Oracle, ERNA III German Press Agency
Jun 87 Jan 88 R&D Symsys Limited, Software House Bleasedale 680a UNIX V7, C
Dec 86 May 87 Contract Software Engineer ITL Hemel Hempsted ITL Momentum Coral 66 Assembler COBOL, , Data Management Systems
Jun 86 Nov 86 Contract Software Engineer GEC Measure, Leicester GEC 4080 / OS4000 Babbage, RAF Project Uniter,( Security cleared)., real-time.
Feb 85 May 86 Contract Software Engineer GEC Computers, Borehamwood GEC 4080 / OS4000 Babbage, Prestel /CEPT Teletext, real-time telephony
Oct 83 Jan 85 Contract Team Leader GEC Computers, Dunstable GEC 4090 Coral 66 Babbage, Telecoms Call Billing, real-time
Mar 83 Sep 83 Contract Team Leader ICL, Feltham ICL System 25 Assembler, Telecoms Call Logging, real-time telephony
Oct 82 Feb 83 Contract Design Engineer GEC MSDS, Kidsgrove GEC 4090 Babbage, Command and Control (C3), real-time control
Jun 81 Aug 82 Contract Design Engineer GTE/ATEA, Herentals, Belgie Intel 8088, 8039 Intel ICE, Telecoms, PABX, real-time
Sep 78 Apr 81 Principal Sys. Eng. Systems Designers, Manc. GEC 4080, Motorola Babbage Assembler, Telecoms, System X, real-time comms
Apr 74 Aug 78 Senior Sys. Engineer GEC Electrical Projects, Rugby GEC 4080, DOS Coral 66 Babbage, Steel Production, real-time control
Apr 70 Mar 74 Analyst / Prog British Steel, Redcar IBM 1800 DACS Fortran Assembler, Steel Production, real-time control
Jun 68 Mar 70 Analyst / Prog Borough Treasurers, Middlesborough IBM 1440, 360/30, DOS Assembler COBOL, Local Government, PAYE, mortgagees, Immunisation.

Testing Highlights

I used “ Mercury Test Director” at Littlewoods and BT. Most of my work at Stockley Park for BT was “Unit test”. I wrote “test harnesses” for Tuxedo at Unisys and at Britannic Assurance. All my work at ICL Stevenage was “system test” on ERNA III, the equivalent of Reuters! The test scripts were “multi language”, in this case English and German. I have tested teletext, Ethernet and X25 protocols with “protocol monitors”. I have tested external boxes and devices with ICE. I am developing a “Test Data Generator” as part of the Symsys product range.

Unit Test
I specified the test plan, test method and test steps with full automation where possible. I prepared scripts to load test data, call the code unit, run SQL to get results and check the expected results. Reports were constructed showing pass/fail logs. Most of the labour was spent in setting up the test data. The essence of the effort was “fully automated testing”. To test Oracle stored procedures I used KORN shell scripts to call SQLPLUS scripts to call PL/SQL anonymous blocks or stored procedures.

System Test
Tuxedo Test Harness, Britannic and Unisys. Tuxedo is a service broker message switching environment. The test harnesses were created for use in a “system test” environment but were actually used for “Integration Testing”. Test messages were set up by shell scripts using multiple queues. The results were also checked by queued scripts. The order of request/response could be specified but real-time multi-threading had to be processed “as it happened”.

Testing forms
ICL Networks, Stevenage. Set up test plans, method and test steps for testing ERNA 3, a “News Agency Network” that is the German equivalent of Reuters. Scripts were created to display Forms in parallel in English/German, with data entry in German, using a team with no knowledge of the German language. The script generator used an English / German data dictionary.

Testing protocols
Setting up test scripts for checking 5,6,7 and 8 bit Teletext protocols for ERNA 3.
On a subsequent project, set up a test plan for testing the Directory Administrator on a X400 network.

Assignment History

(This Seller has recently been shortlisted or contracted for the following people4 assignment)

• Cobol developer: An excellent opportunity has come up for Cobol developers on Unisys Mainframe in the Banking/Financial Services sector. Required skills: - Mainframe, Cobol developer - 2/3 years of experience - Trained on Unisys - Knowledge of French Preferred skills: - Oracle knowledge and skills Location: Paris, France Start Date: ASAP Duration: 12 months Please apply for more details.