## BIO
Employer : Luminar Plc (Pulse + Vogue) [Contract Work] May 2001 - Position : Graphic Design Duties : Employed to produce animated graphics for in-club promotions for projections. Assisting Promotions Manager in his duties. Unsupervised creative freedom allowed. 3D Studio Max, Lightware 6.5, Cool 3D and Photoshop 6.0 used for all graphic work. Employer : WorldPay, Cambridge, Jan 2000 – Apr 2000 Position : Partner Programme Development Manager (Contract) Duties : The establishment and development of a revenue generating partner programme with a target of 50 fee-paying partners. Promotion of e-commerce principals and practice to our partners and their clients. Providing business practice and technical training to our partners. Providing presentations at regional seminars on e-commerce for small business. First point of contact for all partners and personal responsibility and ownership of support issues from identification through to solution. Employer : CyberLife Technology Ltd, Cambridge, Jan 1999 – Dec 1999 Position : Web Developer Duties : The testing of products (games such as Creatures 3). Development of the Quality Management System Intranet site. Development of on-line test request and CD request system. Creating Test Plans as far as possible. Development of QA (ISO 9001) procedure for use within the QA Department. Development of inline defects tracking system. Use of FileMaker Pro 4.1, Lasso, HTML, JavaScript and XML used extensively in the development of the QA systems. Some use of C to write cgi for password validation. Configuration test machine in NT, 95 and 98. Setting up Networking (internal and Internet). Employer : Multi Media Services, Berkshire, Sep 1998 – Dec 1998 Position : Visual Basic Developer (Contract) Duties : Checking current systems compliance with Y2K needs. My job involved checking the code for the correct handling of dates. I also had to make sure that the data that was written was being done in a Y2K compliant manner. Re-wrote parts of code that were non-Y2K compliant. Checked user input and parsing code for Y2K compliance. Employer : ICL Sorbus, Stevenage, May 1998 – August 1998 Position : Technical Support / Help-Desk (Contract) Duties : Provided Help-Desk support to users for McDonalds in store systems. This included learning (in two weeks) the details on the McDonalds’ software and hardware set-up. I also had to learn the proprietary Networking specifics of the McDonalds POS. Created Visual Basic Based Knowledge based application. Configuring test machine in NT, 95 and 98. Setting up Networking (internal and Internet) Salary £12,000 Employer : LK Global Healthcare, Hitchin, November 1997 – Jan 1998 Position : Software Support Technician (Contract) Duties : Provide software and hardware support for users via the phone and site Visits when needed. Diagnosis of errors and source of data corruption. Resolution of those problems. Where data corruption had occurred, I had to dial in and browse through the data and fix it on-line, since it was important to get the client site up and running in the shortest possible time. Development of automatic data validation utility in OpenInsight AREV language. Configuring test machine in NT, 95 and 98. Setting up Networking (internal and Internet).
## Area of Expertise
Visual Basic, JAVA, JavaScript, HTML, C/C++