I offer over 25 years in systems programming and IT administration and ten
years experience of working at the public face of local government. I have
chaired public meetings and given presentations as well as organising
meeting agendas and coordinating with council officers. I am looking to
resume my career in IT or the public sector in roles that use my skills and
allow me to develop them further.
Sheffield College, Loxley Centre. September 1994 to May 1996 City & Guilds Electrical Installation Part 1 and 2
University of Stirling, Scotland. September 1987 to September 1990.
Computing Science BSc Major, taking Environmental Science and Japanese Language
as a subsidiaries.
| Managing and administering computing, IT,
database and networking resources with in-depth experience of working with
multiple systems, protocols and architectures.
| Experienced in C, Pascal, Modula 2, Cobol,
Visual-Basic, Basic and BBC BASIC; ARM, PDP-11, 6809, 6502 and Z80 machine
code, and of UNIX, VMS, MSDOS Windows and BBC operating systems, with
specialist knowledge of Econet and co-processor systems.
| Writing computer programs and designing and
building computer hardware; writing much of the software that I use.
| Able to translate object code back into
recompilable source code and recreate schematics from hardware.
| Skilled in technical and cartographic drawing,
including maps, plans and electronic schematics and circuit board layouts,
and technical writing and HTML authoring.
| Administering and organising back-office
support, organising agenda, coordinating meetings and taking minutes.
| |
Party membership secretary and city-wide Data Officer, maintained party
membership and electoral databases, analysed and used data for targeted and
untargeted mailings, organised and mapped optimal delivery rounds. Ran the
party print shop with high-speed high-volume printers, folding and stuffing
machines, coordinated with suppliers and external print companies. Set up
and ensured correct operation of server systems, on per-user and shared
basis.
| Am interested in cartography, drawing many of
my own maps, including the ones listed below.
| Member of the Society of Genealogists and the
Sheffield Family History Society. Have traced my family in Sheffield and
Whitby back through 12 generations to about 1700 and across more than 15
families, identifying over 1100 members.
| While at University, co-wrote, produced and
presented a breakfast-time news and current affairs radio programme.
| Have been a school governor for 12 years,
chairing the Buildings & Site committee at Myers Grove, my former
school.
| Was a board member of South Yorkshire Housing
Association for three years and continue as a shareholding member.
| Qualified electrician, have had Health &
Safety training and property management experience.
| Member of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical
Society.
| Conversational fluency in Japanese, French and German.
| |
January 1997 to May 1999
Sheffield Liberal Democrat Group, Sheffield City Council
Deputy Office Manager/IT Manager.
Setting up and maintaining shared and segregated user areas. Configuring
software to correctly function on a per-user basis. First point of contact
for Group members for IT problems.
July 1996 to January 1997
Channel 5 Broadcasting
Television Reception Engineer. Retuning and testing video
equipment as part of the Channel 5 retuning project. This involved
working in people's homes ensuring that the new transmissions would not
interfere with existing equipment.
March 1994 to April 1994
Owain F Carter Information Services, STIRLING
Programmer. Consultant to debug a WordPerfect filehandling
enhancement program. Reconfiguring a PC system to use the Cyrillic
character set to BS2979, optimising memory-management and disk cacheing
under DOS and Windows, and installing the hardware and software for a
communications link.
November 1993 to December 1993
IT Department, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, SHEFFIELD
Programmer. Rewriting medical information systems designed by
medical students with little computer knowledge; and rewriting systems to
use Windows from Visual Basic.
July 1992 to July 1993
AFE Computer Services (Acorn Far East), HONG KONG
Network Systems Manager/In-house Technician. Responsibilities
included installing, customising and maintaining software, and installing
and maintaining hardware. Managing a mixed Acorn UNIX Ethernet and Econet
network of RISC OS and PC computers, liaising with the English schools in
Hong Kong and installing and teaching staff about new software and helping
them with problems, and coordinating service and maintenance requests.
June 1992 to March 1993 (part time)
May 1991 to June 1992 (full-time)
Tokyo Kyoei Gakuen, HONG KONG
Maths, Science and English TEFL Teacher. Teaching 'O' level
Mathematics and Science to mainly Japanese and some Chinese secondary
school students. Teaching Geography and French, and conversational English
to adults with a wide range of abilities.
January 1991 to April 1991
Watford Electronics, WATFORD
Technician. Responsible for taking telephone enquiries and orders,
doing minor computer repairs, and dealing with mail returns of
microcomputers and peripherals.
September 1990
Dept. of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Stirling, STIRLING
Computing Consultant. Responsible for the installation of software
for an RISC OS Network system, installing and setting up programs, and
preparing a connection to the campus Ethernet system to connect to JANET;
Beta testing of pre-release software for Unix workstations.
June 1988 to August 1988
Camp Beaumont, Albrighton, SHROPSHIRE
Computing Activity Instructor. Teaching children in the 5 to 16
year range how to use various computer applications including word
processors, databases, spreadsheets and graphics packages. Assisting 14
to 18 year olds in programming activities; looking after children of
foreign nationalities and some informal experience of TEFL teaching.
June to Aug 1987, 1986, 1985
Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Medical Physics Dept., SHEFFIELD
Technician. Designing and building, and writing control programs
for, electronic computer hardware for sensing medical data.