What I do!
An innovative, creative IT solutions designer, with over twenty five years
experience! Currently employed by Sun
Microsystems as Chief Technologist, Global Systems Engineering Europe 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 and latterly Europe's leading banking,
broking, telco 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 &
development, primarily using RDBMS software with UNIX computers.
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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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