Experience

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  St Giles’ Church, Oxford

  • Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

  • Bass choral singer

    • Feb 1990 - Present
    • Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

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  The Open University

  • United Kingdom
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • IT Development Manager (MCT Faculty)

    • 1996 - Mar 2014

    IT Development Manager responsible for the needs of 550 users, using locally provided servers and services. Team of 5 working as System developers and Programmers for web and information services via the Lotus Notes/Domino environment and other technologies. Also responsible for operation and development of back-end hardware systems including a High Performance Cluster, managed by Alan Thrower. (see: http://www.mcs.open.ac.uk/research/IMPACT)

  • IT Training Manager

    • Feb 1987 - Aug 1996

    Responsible for running the IT Training operation for the Academic Computing Service of the Open University. Rollout training for Electronic Document creation using MS Word for Windows, Mac and DOS involving structured authoring. Also for all aspects of office systems training.

  • Administrative Officer

    • Aug 1979 - Jan 1987

    Variety of posts including academic and resource planning, IT Policy and Development committees, IT support for large academic office, including design and management of the University's first Local Area Network using 'Ring' topology connecting 100 terminals, computers and printers with serial packet switching.

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  Retired IT Manager

  • Mr. Clover

    • Mar 1980 - Mar 2014

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  Hampshire County Council

  • Depositor

    • 1999 - 2011

    Placed films relating to Portsmouth and Southsea in the 1930's for deposit. Filmic and other archive material relating to Alfred J West (my Great Grandfather) deposited for posterity. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_John_West_%28cinematographer%29 and http://www3.hants.gov.uk/wfsa/wfsa-collections/navy-marines.htm

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  Team Domino

  • Consultant

    • 1989 - 2004

    Spare time freelance working on projects including Business Process Re-engineering analysis and documentation for a large greetings card firm; rebranding MS Office document project rollout and training with Cazenove; IT Training for BP, Citibank and other City Corporates all in association with Graham Barrett of GBA International and later CEO of Team Domino.

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  BBC Education

  • IT Manager

    • Feb 1991 - Jun 1992

    Acted as IT Manager at BBC Education, prepared IT Strategy for BBC Education Director, worked on behalf of Director to source, develop and manage new IT support solution using contracted staff. Seconded to this post this 3 days a week from substantive post at Open University

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  Oxford Polytechnic

  • Administrator

    • 1974 - 1979

    Admissions Officer, Schools Liaison Officer, ran computer support for early document processing systems and briefly admin support for the Modular Course including scheduling and enhancement of batch computer systems providing management of information relating to student progress and assessment.