1. Employment History
October 2015 – March 2016
Wessex Water Services Limited, Bath, Somerset
Software Developer.
Working within an operation team supporting the business by installing third party software onto
Company laptops and investigating reported problems.
Key responsibilities include:
• Develop and maintaining in-house production systems, carrying out remedial work
• Monitor key, externally developed, systems and processes, making recommendations for
subsequent corrective action if problems are detected
• Follow scripts to promote functionality through development environments
• Installation of ‘licenced’ third party software on User laptops
• Clean decommissioned laptops
May 2015 – September 2015
DAM Computer Services Limited - Bristol, South Gloucestershire.
Consultant.
Designed and developed WPF applications for ‘not-for-profit’ organisation to capturing fund raising data,
track and communicating with members, and produce analysis reporting functionality.
Key responsibilities include:
• Liaise with client to obtain User requirements, agree project timescales
• Design and implement SQL relational database created within a SQL Server Management
Studio environment.
• Design and write interrogated functionality development primary in C# and ASP.Net within the
Microsoft Visual Studio environment.
• Create User manual
August 2014 – April 2015
Cross trained into C# and ASP.net, moving on to MVC, developing Systems within Microsoft Visual
Studio and deploying to the Microsoft Azure platform. This training included attending the Microsoft
courses described in Personal Development section.
September 2010 – July 2014
Took a short break from consultancy work to help look after my ailing Father and see my Mother
through the subsequent period after his death. I then took some time to travel and recover from the
stresses of this period.
June 2007 to August 2010
John Wiley & Sons Limited - Bognor Regis, West Sussex
Consultant.
Working as a systems developer delivering stock control, order processing, sales and distribution
systems enhancements and management information reports to support the company’s business
operations on an iSeries platform.
Key responsibilities included:
• Developing and maintaining the Customer Services, enquiries, order processing and stock
control systems
• Development and production of management reports (using Java) from an AS/400, and
imported 3rd
party data, in Microsoft Excel for automatic email distribution throughout the
company

2. • Verifying and formatting data received before uploading onto the AS/400.
• Designing, writing and maintaining integrated functionality written in RPG ILE/400, Synon/2E,
SQL and Java.
• Designing efficient automated data import feeds from spreadsheets with error checking and
correction to minimise data entry timescales leading to operational efficient gains and cost
savings.
• Prioritising development requests
• Presenting to end-user departments proposed systems changes and scheduling systems
testing resources and functional implementation to minimise disruption to end-users
August 2005 to March 2007
Australian Financial Investment Group - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Consultant.
Project manager and systems developer for financial and management information systems associated
with the banks credit/debit card operations on an iSeries platform.
Key responsibilities included:
• Manage a virtual team of client managers representing 5 companies spread over two countries
and 5 time zones. Establishing project responsibilities, the project plan and milestones,
monitoring progress against the program of work and resolving scheduling and resourcing
conflicts with appropriate client manager.
• Co-ordinating full end-to-end System test, simulating a ‘real’ card application and posting
transactions to dummy customer accounts, creating comprehensive test plans, verifying
results and communicating back to project team the outcomes.
• Ensure legal compliance with Australian and New Zealand financial legalisation.
• Developing Debit/Credit cards order processing
• Exporting data file extract from the company’s iSeries platform for delivery to a 3rd
party for
card and security strip creation.
• Creation of application notification data (passed to 3rd party bank acting as the agent as AFIG
did not process a banking license)
• Importing transaction data and posting transactions to customer accounts.
• Working with end users and clients at AFIGs sister company gathering requirements,
documenting and designing system enhancements and agreeing inter-organisation data
exchange formats.
• Developing Synon/2E and RPG functionality to build card security and embossing details to
pass to external organisations, and functionality to receive card transactional data and post to
customer accounts.
• Integrate new functionality into existing Systems and arrange for regression testing.
• Arrange signoff from all organisations to go live, agreeing data transfer schedules taking into
consideration the number of time zones involved.
August 2004 to February 2005
Grantfort Computer Systems – Northampton, Northamptonshire
Consultant.
Working as a developer on the company’s retail sales, stock control, distribution and
management information systems on an iSeries platform.

3. Key responsibilities included:
• Developing and maintaining commercial software system to monitor and replenish warehouse
and branch stock levels.
• Produce functionality to allow price changes, both permanent and promotional, correlating and
distributing this data to third party outlets.
• Creating integrated functionality written in RPG ILE.
• Working with Customers, capturing and documenting system requirements.
• Produce User interface data definition catalogues to support data exchange between our
bespoke system and client owned systems.
• Supporting external clients’ user acceptance testing programmes incorporating changes made
to the core system.
January 2001 to December 2003
Boxclever (Thorn UK/Granada) - Swindon, Wiltshire
Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400
System software Query, SQL Synon/2E rel 7.0
Applications Securitisation, Warehouse and Management Information systems
Develop and maintain systems to produce sales and ledger information from both pre-merger
companies, received electronically, for securitisation purposes. Produce Management Information
functionality to analysis the combined sales and ledger data. Develop functionality, written in SQL,
to correlate sales and stock movements and upload to a web-based ‘Cognos’ Management
Information system.
July 2000 to September 2000
NCH Marketing Services Limited - Corby, Northamptonshire
Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400
System software Query, SQL Synon/2E rel 6.0
Applications Retail Outlet loyalty card and Management Information systems
Develop system to calculate department store loyalty awards dependent on the value of
purchases by the consumer for the previous year. Produce file of addresses along with
appropriate inserts to be sent electronically to the Post Office to be parcelled and sent to the
Consumer. Produce Management Information functionality to analysis consumer profiles
(information taken from questionnaires) and types of purchases.
July 1999 to September 1999
Chubb Fire Limited – Sunbury, Surrey
Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400
System software Query Synon/2E rel 6.0
Applications Retail Sales, Management Information systems
Rewrite existing functionality to run on parent company systems, making the programs year 2000
compliant.

4. October 1998 to May 1999
Midas IT Services Limited – Orpington, Greater London
Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400
System software Query Synon/2E rel 6.0
Applications Retail Sales, Stock take Reconciliation and Distribution systems
Develop system software to download sales information from PC based till and back-office
systems for individual retail outlets. Write programs to correlate this information, preparing
Financial and Stock Control data to be retained on the AS/400 via a SAP System, and upload
warehouse stock releases and inter-outlet goods transfers to the retail outlet back office PC.
May 1998 to October 1998
John Wiley & Sons Ltd – Bognor Regis, West Sussex
Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400
System software Query Synon/2E rel 6.0
Applications Product Ordering, Invoicing/Crediting and Financial systems
Amend existing functionality to allow for the charging of VAT on products and delivery charges
governed by E.U. rules.
September 1997 to April 1998
Coopers & Lybrand Insurance Services – Bristol
Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400
System software Query
Applications Reinsurance systems
Develop functionality to 'take over' defunct insurance companies, analysing existing systems and
replicating them. Produce legal documentation and figures as well as facilities to record and
analysis feedback resulting from legal representation.
December 1996 to June 1997
Toyota (GB) Ltd – Redhill, Surrey
Position Consultant. Languages CL, Synon/2E
System software Query
Applications Vehicle Sales and Financial systems
Duties Investigate User requirements for new functionality and analysing the effectiveness of the
development, design and write the programs and assist in the user testing and implementation.
September 1996 to November 1996

5. Swan National Leasing Ltd – Leicester, Leicestershire
Position Consultant. Languages CL, RPG/400
System software Query
Applications Vehicle leasing and accident management systems
Make specified alterations to the existing systems in anticipation of company reorganisation.
Investigate analysis and report upon improvements in efficiency and business practices.
March 1996 to May 1996
EPG Computer Services Ltd - London
Position Consultant. Languages CL, Synon/2E
System software Query
Applications EPG Genus Insurance system
Make specified enhancements to the existing software and investigate change requests initiated
by clients.
October 1994 to February 1996
Castrol UK Ltd – Swindon,Wiltshire
Position Analyst/Programmer Languages CL, RPG/400, Synon/2E
System software Query, DFU
PC software Ami-Pro
Applications Pricing, Management Information systems
Duties Liaising with Users in the development and improvement of existing systems.
September 1993 to September 1994
DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Company - Bristol
Position System Builder Languages CL, RPG/400, Genesis
System software Query, SQL, DFU, Office
Applications Litigation (Summons') system
Liaising with the Users in the design and development of systems, help with the User testing and
advise on any business procedures that require change or implementing.
June 1989 to September 1993
Hoskyns Group Plc - Bristol
Position Analyst/Programmer Languages CL, RPG/400, Synon/2E

6. System software Enhanced Viewdata, Query, SQL, DFU, Office
Applications Marketing, Insolvency and Debt Recovery systems
Write technical specifications for programmers, develop system software, liaising with clients on
the user and volume testing before implementation. Advise on any business procedures that
require changing or implementing.
October 1987 to June 1989
Nationwide Anglia Building Society – Swindon, Wiltshire
Position Programmer Languages Cobol
Applications General banking, Automated Teller Machine Reconciliation systems
Sole programmer involved in the support and development of an Automated Teller Machine
system.

7. System software Enhanced Viewdata, Query, SQL, DFU, Office
Applications Marketing, Insolvency and Debt Recovery systems
Write technical specifications for programmers, develop system software, liaising with clients on
the user and volume testing before implementation. Advise on any business procedures that
require changing or implementing.
October 1987 to June 1989
Nationwide Anglia Building Society – Swindon, Wiltshire
Position Programmer Languages Cobol
Applications General banking, Automated Teller Machine Reconciliation systems
Sole programmer involved in the support and development of an Automated Teller Machine
system.