What I do!
An innovative, creative IT solutions designer, with over twenty years
experience! Currently employed by Sun
Microsystems and working with many of the world's leading companies, I am
based in Sun's City office and have worked with the UK's leading Banking,
Broking and Media companies. I have spent over 25 years in the IT industry
working in Government, Banking, Insurance and IT supply. Over this period, I
have acquired massive experience in technology solutions design, primarily
using RDBMS software with UNIX computers.
I have worked
for Sun since 1997, initially in the Professional Services team, and worked
later in the UK Client Services Organisation. In Oct 2007, I became the Chief
Technologist, for the Global Sales and Services EMEA region.
I finished my time in Sun UK by acting as Chief Architect in the BT team,
and leading the Sun JP Morgan Chase team's technology team in EMEA. Previously,
I led Sun's IT economics consulting team in the UK, conducting consultancy,
engagements offering advice to customers seeking to improve their cost
management function. Prior to that I worked in both the bid & execution
phases of Sun's customer projects, in technical design or quality assurance
roles. I was appointed as 'Principal Engineer' during this period. My personal
record highlights include a large scale consolidation for one of the european
owned investment banks, Instinet's Fixed Income Trading platfom,
Western Provident Association's Sybase/GEAC Migration from HP, and Sun
UK's first implementation Oracle Financials. I have also undertaken numerous
consulting/project work designing and implementing system platform for the
investment banking industry's applications software packages such as Summit,
GLOSS, Devon FX & Infinity.
Prior to Sun I
worked at Credit Suisse as Chief DBA for their northern european
Treasury where during 1996 I was responsible for their database platforms
consisting of Sybase, Oracle & Microsoft SQL Server systems on Sun &
DEC Alpha platforms.
For most of
1995 I worked for Steel, Burrill, Jones as a project manager. SBJ were
(and still are) Lloyds' insurance brokers and I managed a platform refresh
implementing a series of new business systems using Oracle RDBMS, client server
hardware and Oracle Financials. together with a desktop integration capability.
The applications were SBJ's first systems connecting to LIMnet.
Between 91
& 95, I worked at Pet Plan, the UK's first and largest pet
insurer. I left in 1995 as IT Director. I led the IS department in implementing
& managing business systems using Sybase SQL Server and client/server
hardware. At the time Pet Plan were Sybase's first UK insurance customer. The
systems performed, quotations, underwriting, claims management & reserving
& financial functions.
From 1989 to
1991, I worked for Pyramid Technology, then the world's leading
symmetric multi-processor, RISC systems vendor. I worked with customers such as
BT, London Transport, GEC Plessy and the Performing Right Society. I developed
the european benchmarking practice for high end, symmetric multiprocessing UNIX
systems, using RDBMSes such as Oracle, Sybase, Informix and CA-Ingres.
During 1987-89, I worked for
Jansen Green, one of Lloyds' of London's leading underwriting
syndicates. It was a technologically pioneering Lloyd's managing agency using
Oracle RDBMS and IBM mainframe systems.
From 1978 - 87, I worked for the
(then) Department of Employment, initially as a Civil Servant, then in
the IT department culminating in time as DBA for the Employment Census
database.
Professional Qualification
I joined the
organisation that became the "Chartered Institute of Management"
in 1994 and am a professional member. This entitles me to the MCIM.
I joined the
BCS in 2000 as a professional member (MBCS)
and have now obtained the Chartered IT Professional (CITP) accreditation. My
ongoing training has earned my the BCS certificate of training excellence since
2001. I have the also passed various systems design and project management
accreditation exams including the NCC Systems Analysis certificate and the
Association of Project Managers PRINCE 2 Foundation exams.
I.T. Industry
In 2007, I was
appointed as Sun's representative on the EU Commission's software and serrvices
technology platform's steering committee. This is better known as NESSI.
From 2003 until
2006, I acted as one of the judges for the BCS's "Infrastructure Developer
of Year" competition. I have also served as member of user groups'
committees (Oracle & Sybase). .Through 1988 to 1995, I was a member of
firstly the Oracle User Group committee and then the Sybase User Group
comittee. I served as National Chairman for the UK Sybase User Group from
1995-1997.
Publications
"Migrating to the Solaris operating system" - Pepple, Down &
Levy - Prentice Hall 2003
"Optimising perfromance for write intensive environments
- Uk Sybase User Group May 1996
"An Overview of
the UK Computer Aided Software Engineering market - Oracle European User
Group Spring 1990
January 2005
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