| Experience |
Independent contractor working on a variety of projects
mainly in the area of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM/CAD/CAM)
and e-business. |
SW Germany
1987-present |
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Development Engineer for Securitas
Technolgies. Developing PC and microprocessor-based Access-Control
systems. |
Tewkesbury, UK
1985-1987 |
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R&D Technician for Research
Machines Ltd. (now RM plc) Assist in development and testing
of PCs for use in schools and further education. |
Oxford, UK
1983-1985 |
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Test Equipment Technician for Chubb Alarms Ltd. Design,
build and maintain computer-controlled test equipment. |
Enfield, UK
1980-1983 |
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Jnr Development Engineer for Sacol Controls Ltd. Build
and test photo-electric control systems. |
Southampton, UK
1979-1980 |
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| Recent projects |
New Web design. Content managed by Documentum. Content served by Websphere 5.
Jakarta Struts used for form processing. Jakarta Lucene used for full-text search of the web-site.
My role was to assist in converting from a Tomcat environment to Websphere, bug-fixing and the addition of enhancements. |
Arburg
GmbH, Lossburg
09/2003-present |
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Information System for company intranet. Access back-end data
(DB/2, Oracle, CICS ECI, SAP BAPI etc) & display results in browser
in highly configurable modes. Multi-locale. I am the technology
architect in a team of around 8. OOD. Presented on the IBM partner stand at Cebit (Hannover)
2002. |
Arburg
GmbH, Lossburg
07/2001-present |
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An e-commerce pilot project to allow customers to query and
order parts for their machines using the internet. Use Java servlets
to communicate with legacy applications in CICS and use JSP
to dynamically create HTML result pages. Use XML to provide
B2B facilities for larger customers. Lead designer in a team
of 5-7. Presented on the IBM partner stand at Cebit 2002. |
Arburg GmbH, Lossburg
02/2001-07/2001 |
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Pilot project to investigate use of Java & Websphere for intranet
& internet use. Develop design & coding standards. |
Arburg GmbH, Lossburg
04/2000-01/2001 |
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Introduction of new CAD system and Parts-Management system (VPM
Dassault Systeme). I designed and implemented the AIX side
of the connection between VMP (AIX) and the existing Parts-Management
system on a mainframe. The programs were written in C++ and
MQ Series used for message transport. SQL used to
access parts database (DB/2) and for message-logging. |
Arburg GmbH, Lossburg,
Germany
05/1998-present |
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A dynamic test envirnoment for machine controller. This test
system can dynamically adjust itself to test the actual configuration
of the machine contoller. I desgned and implemented the application
which is written in Visual Basic (VB6) and based on an Access
database. Other technologies used were: Windows NT, SQL,Siemens
S5 |
Arburg GmbH, Lossburg,
Germany
07/1997-05/1998 |
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A graphical front-end to a Stores administration system.
This front-end was written in C++ and made use of the Open
Class library from IBM. I designed the class structures and implemented
a number of the masks. In the first release (1995), OS/2 3.0
was the target platform and APPC was used for host communication.
In 1999 the application was ported to Windows NT and TCP/IP
was used for communication. The front-end was installed on around
60 client PCs through-out the factory. |
Arburg GmbH, Lossburg,
Germany
11/1994-11/1995
1999 |
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| Education |
HTEC Electronic Engineering |
Oxford Polytechnic, UK
1983-1985 |
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Degree in Technology (not yet complete) |
Open University, UK
1995-present |
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IBM Certified OS/2 Engineer |
1995 |
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IBM Certified OS/2 Developer |
1995 |
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IBM Certified PM Programmer |
1995 |
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Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 |
2002 |
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Sun Certified Web Component Developer |
2003 |
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| Hobbies |
Family!, Travel, Painting with watercolors, Radio-control model
glider construction and flying.
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