Business Skills:

• Very oriented towards customers and understands their business concerns
• Well disciplined and organised.
• Technical & Sales Experience at International Level.
• Experience across all Business Sectors.
• Project Management

Employment History:

As a contractor worked on following Projects in USA for Unisys as a Project Manager/Technical Consultant:

Confidential,(July ’09 to July ’10)
Swindon, UK
Visa Disputes Documentation
Upgrade Visa Disputes for Multi-Card Use.
Test & QA

Confidential, (Oct ’01 to June ’09)
Confidential,USA (Oct ’00 to Sept ‘01)
New York State Civil Service Dept, Albany
Maintenance of Exam Staffing System.
Conversion of above subsystems from mainframe Unisys 2200 to NT Mapper.
Implementation Of Unisys Web Based Cool-Ice 2.1 Scripting Language and subsequent identification and implementation of Application Systems to Cool-Ice both as an Intranet & Extranet.

Confidential,USA (Apr ’99 to May ’00)
Department of Corrections, Confidential,USA (Feb’00-May’00)
Project Management, DBA in migrating/rewriting an InMate BANKING Mapper System from a Mainframe Unisys 2200/900 to NT servers. Re-engineer all Cobol Batch programs to Mapper. Redesign Mapper Database.

Confidential,Texas, USA (Oct’99-Jan’00)

Unisys 2200 to Unix Mapper conversion of a Students System for 150 Schools. Mainly involved in re-engineering Cobol programs to Mapper runs.

Department of Corrections, Confidential,USA (Apr’99-Oct’99)

Project Management, DBA in migrating two Mapper Systems - a Personnel System and a Juvenile Information System from Unisys 2200/900 to a number of NT servers.

Confidential,England (Nov ’98 to Mar ’99)
Conversion of a Unisys 2200 Mapper system to NT Mapper for Bensons Shoe Company.
Maintenance of a Preventative Maintenance System for British Navy.
Involved in writing a Contracts System for Rolls Royce.

Confidential,Manchester, England (Sept ’98 to Nov ’98)

Involved in redesign & enhancements to existing Business Customer Information Systems on Unisys 2200 Level 40 Mapper.

Confidential,Milton Keynes, England (Feb ’98 to Aug ’98)

As a Y2K Test Consultant .
Involved in advising Application Groups on Y2000 Policies, Test Strategies, Test Policies mainly on Unisys & IBM Hardware..

Confidential,Swindon, England (Aug 97 to Feb 98)

Involved in full Y2K cycle Changes & Testing for existing Mapper Applications.
Share Save, TESSA, Business Expansion Schemes (BES)

Confidential,Hilversum, Nederlands (Apr 97 to Aug 97)

Maintenance of a new Retail System which Interfaces with a global Shipping system called Airborne.
Wrote two new systems using Mapper Windows GUI facility.
One of which had to interface with the Unisys 2200 Mapper system in the USA

Confidential,England (Nov ’96 to Mar ’97)

Writing Unix Mapper Systems for MOD.
Involved in writing a Multi-Networked Mapper Administration System
SQA Testing of above systems. Year 2000 Compatibility checks on above systems.

Confidential,Leicester, England (Aug ’96 to Nov ’96)
Conversion of Unisys 2200 Mapper Applications to Unix Mapper and Documentation.

Confidential,Derby, England (Apr ’96 to Aug ’96)

Working on a 3-month contract developing a Contracting System to be written in Unix Mapper Level 5R1 using the Middleware Mapper Tools from ICS Ltd. This system uses both Ingres and Mapper as their databases. Ingres to hold the live contracting data and Mapper to hold the Audit trails. Also providing advice/support in these tools. November \'93 to April ‘96

Confidential,Sale, Manchester
As a Technical/Marketing Consultant Contractor, I was responsible for the following areas:

• Establishing Overseas Markets for Mapper Workbench (MWB) which was developed in Unisys 4GL - Mapper.
• Defining migration paths at Pre-Sales level for prospective customers moving from Mainframe Mapper to Unix Mapper using these Middleware tools.
• Interfacing to relevant Unisys Program Managers or direct approach to customers worldwide.

Also Providing Technical Authoring (Using HDK)/MultiMedia/HTML expertise in developing ‘Electronic Catalogues’, ‘Help Systems’ for a number of Component Distributors, Computer Manufacturers.January ‘84 to August \'93

Confidential Uxbridge

As a Technical Sales Consultant seconded to the Joint Venture company in Warsaw, Poland my responsibilities/objectives were as follows:
Primary Objectives:

• To Market Mainframe & Unix Technical Solutions to various Polish Government & Public Sector Departments: Council of Ministers, Railways, Police, Air Defence, Health Sector & GIS Sector.
• The World Bank funded some of these projects. Polish Railways adopted my strategy by buying the Coopers & Lybrand Business Strategy Tool (BPW) and the LBMS - Systems Engineer Case Tool to develop their Railway Systems. Also did a countrywide exercise to market the Unisys Health Care System - Caresys to Hospital Administration Boards. Polish Railways and a number of hospitals have now adopted this system.
• Secondary Objective to establish a firm sales/pre-sales presence in Warsaw, Poland with the Joint Venture Company - Unilot. For an initial time I was the manager in charge for the Public Sector Sales/Support teams.

Confidential,Manchester

As a Senior Pre-Sales Consultant my responsibilities/achievements were as follows

Confidential,Account:

• Acting as the prime interface to TSB and the Unisys Sales Team for receipt of New Statement of Requirements and the co-ordination of timely responses as the Bid Manager.
• Providing Pre-Sales Support in specialist areas of the Unisys product areas:
• Hardware: Unisys 2200,Unix; Software: Mapper 4GL, Linc, Oracle;
• Linc & Mapper Applications: Global Wholesale Banking (GWB); Loan Systems, Insurance Systems, Credit Scoring & MIS.
• Ensuring that the TSB Sales & Support teams were kept abreast of developments that were in early stages of discussion. Active participation in the management of the TSB Support team.

Other Accounts:

• Responsible for Pre-Sales activity for Unisys 4GL in all areas outside of London including Ireland. Initially for Sperry Corporation in all sectors of Business and later for Unisys in the Financial Sector. An active member of the sales team in this time with a number of major clients buying mainframe systems: TSB, Tankfreight, Dept. of Agriculture NIreland, Fexco, Abbey National, and Nationwide.
• Also involved in a technical role as a \'Mapper Guru\' to help develop and optimise these systems from an application and performance point of view.
• Also involved internationally with the Pacific Asia Division in defining the Computer Strategy for United Malaysian Bank in Kuala Lumpur & Pre-Sales activity with the Unisys distributor in Istanbul, Turkey.

August \'82 to December \'83

Confidential,Paarl, South Africa

The KWV is a Governmental company controlling all production of wine in South Africa.
As the MIS Manager - New Applications Development (Mapper) my responsibilities/achievements were as follows:
Responsible for the development of strategic applications for the Wine Industry.
Main tasks: Daily Management of the IT Development department (10 people); Training of the IT people in the Mapper 4GL language; Project management of all applications; Advise user committee on feasibility of application development in Mapper.

June \'80 to July \'82
Confidential,Cape Town, South Africa; Computer Manufacturer
As aConsultant, my responsibilities/achievements were as follows:
Main tasks: To provide pre and post-sales consultancy to the sales team. Responsible for Mapper pre-sales activity. Also involved with writing a Cobol DMS/HVTIP Hospital System for Cape Provincial Council.

March \'79 to March \'80
Contactor Analyst/Programmer
Subcontracted to Confidential at Sasol, Secunda to develop a Payroll and Administration
System on CDC Cyber using COBOL.

February \'78 to March \'79
Confidential,Johannesburg, South Africa.
As a consultant, my main responsibilities/achievements were:
To provide IT Cobol Consultancy to the Post Office in Pretoria, notably providing Database Administration Standards.

August \'74 to January \'78
Confidential,Cape Town, South Africa; Banking Sector
As a Analyst/Programmer my main responsibilities/achievements were:
To have sole responsibility in programming in COBOL a complete Savings Deposit System on Burroughs 35000 machines. Also involved in writing an Investments Portfolio system.

August \'70 to June \' 74

Confidential,Liverpool
As a Trainee Analyst/Programmer my responsibilities/achievements were as follows:
Implementation of Mail Order Accounting/Warehousing System at Peter Craig in Preston.
Continuous development/maintenance of Warehousing System using COBOL on Honeywell Machines