What I do!
An innovative, creative IT solutions designer, with over twenty five years
experience. Since October 2009, I have been working as an Associate Partner
Citihub Ltd., as a Consultant continuing
to solve IT problems for the Investment Banks and broking houses in London. I
joined Citihub after 12 years at Sun
Microsystems where I had held several roles finishing my time there as
Chief Technologist, Global Systems Engineering Europe and having worked with
many of the world's leading companies, I was based in Sun's City office and
worked with the UK's and latterly Europe's leading banking, broking, telco and
media companies. I have experience in the IT industry working in Government,
Banking, Insurance and for two IT systems vendors. Over this period, I have
acquired massive experience in technology solutions design & development,
primarily using RDBMS software with UNIX computers. Throughout my career, I
have worked as a manager, team leader and individual contributor and built
several high performing teams.
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Professional Qualification
I was elected
a Fellow of the BCS in January 2009,
having obtained their Chartered IT Professional (CITP) accreditation in 2004. I
have the also passed various systems design and project management
accreditation exams including the NCC Systems Analysis certificate, the
Association of Project Managers PRINCE 2 Foundation exam and the Open group's
TOGAF practioner certificate. I joined the organisation that became the
"Chartered Institute of
Management" in 1994 and am a professional member, MCIM.
I am a graduate
economist & member of the Royal Economics Society.
I.T. Industry
In 2007, I was
appointed as Sun's representative on the
EU
Commission's software and services technology platform's steering
committee. This is better known as NESSI.
From 2003 to
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
committee. 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 performance 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
Sept 2008
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