Experience

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  Northgate Information Solutions

  • Bracknell

  • Software Developer

    • Jul 2009 - Present
    • Bracknell

    Development and maintenance of Apex screens and Oracle SQL package code for web based Revenues and Benefits application for Local Government.DMS (Data Migration Systems) team – PL/SQL based code for ETL systems to migrate various Local Government Housing Benefits and Local Taxation and Billing application data (Civica, Pericles, Academy) to Northgate’s own application. Design and development of PL/SQL ETL process for migration of Central Government Insolvency Service data to new Northgate system. Also involved in the design and development of ETL process to migrate data from the Police National Database to new Northgate system using PL/SQL and Talend. (Oracle PL/SQL, Toad, SQL Plus, MS Dos, Unix Shell Scripting)Development and maintenance of Apex screens and Oracle SQL package code for web based application for The Insolvency Service (Oracle SQL and Apex)

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  Anite

  • Slough

  • Software Developer

    • 1995 - 2009
    • Slough

    Development and maintenance of Application and Business Objects supporting the web based Revs and Bens application (Pericles) for Local Government, and the development and maintenance of batch objects using MS SQL, T-SQL.Design and implementation of Crystal Report files to produce printed output from overnight batch runs.Involved in the full product life cycle for numerous software releases including customer support and defect fixing to release deadlinesDesign and implementation of code generators written in VB5/6 to produce code for VB Objects and for the Pericles batch objects

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  ICL Fujitsu

  • Reading, United Kingdom

  • Contractor

    • 1985 - 1995
    • Reading, United Kingdom

    Contract Developer on the following projects:LAFIS Project – Local Authority Financial Information System (VME 2900, IDMSX, IDMS batch and TP, SCL)LAFISVision project – GUI for LAFIS system (VB3, VB4, Dialogue Manager)Also Finance Controller Project, REX Project, Powerfis ProjectVME 2900 IDMSX COBOL programmer on the LAFIS project working in all areas of this project, including the development of new IDMSX batch modules and the maintenance of existing IDMSX and IDMS TP modulesLAFISVision project design, development and maintenance of a Visual Basic Graphical User Interface for part of the LAFIS Update and Enquiry TP Services

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  RACAL Management Services

  • Bracknell

  • Lead/Senior Software Developer

    • 1981 - 1985
    • Bracknell

    Software Developer using 1900 COBOL, 2900 COBOL including IDMS and TP. As Senior Programmer, lead a team of seven programmers, responsible for the training of new members to the team and allocation of work from analysts to appropriate team members. Additionally responsible for the maintenance of four live databases. Experienced in database establishment and maintenance and accrued some knowledge of DDS and TPMS.