Experience

Principal Logistics Technologies

• Ireland
• Warehousing and Storage
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Oct 1993 - Present

  Dublin, Ireland After leaving Vision I formed Principal Systems (now Principal Logistics Technologies) with a view to providing business systems/solutions mainly to the financial and supply chain sectors. Hence the name "Principal"​ rather than "Principle". We sold a number of WMS solutions, developed a credit information and loss adjusting system. Some of our clients included the Doyle Hotel group and Thornton and Partners. We also inherited a number of Wang VS Speed II customers from Wang Ireland after they… Show more After leaving Vision I formed Principal Systems (now Principal Logistics Technologies) with a view to providing business systems/solutions mainly to the financial and supply chain sectors. Hence the name "Principal"​ rather than "Principle". We sold a number of WMS solutions, developed a credit information and loss adjusting system. Some of our clients included the Doyle Hotel group and Thornton and Partners. We also inherited a number of Wang VS Speed II customers from Wang Ireland after they closed down in Ireland. Our WMS product and client base steadily grew particularly in the 3PL Cold Storage and Chemical markets. In 1998 we re-developed the product from scratch in a windows environment specifically suited to the 3PL market and began to focus on this product, In-DEX. In 2001 we made the decision to focus solely on the WMS market which is the market we serve today. Show less



VISION Consulting Ltd

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Systems Consultant

  • Jun 1992 - Sep 1993

  Dublin, Ireland I joined Vision with a view to developing, promoting and selling the WMS product further. This was a one year trial for developing and selling the WMS as packaged software and while Vision supported this completely, owning and developing software products was not a direction that they were heading at that time. After the year trial, I left and formed Principal Systems Ltd.



Aztech Information Systems

• Ireland
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Joint Managing Director

  • Apr 1990 - May 1992

  Dublin, Ireland I moved to Ireland and formed Azetch Information Systems. We developed and supported the leasing and financial systems for Woodchester Bank, financial systems for Heitons Holdings, GEC and many other companies as well as subcontracting to Wang Ireland. During this period I developed a WMS system on behalf of Wang Ireland, which was initially used by Norish Food Care PLC in Birmingham.



Hannanprint

• Printing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Systems Analyst

  • May 1989 - Apr 1990

  Sydney, Australia Hannan print, a member of the fairfax group at that time, produced many magazines such as the Woman's Weekly, Live to Ride etc. They also published many local newspapers. I was responsible for maintaining and developing the Caylex financial systems on the Wang VS.



Weddel Swift Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Financial Systems Development

  • Dec 1988 - Apr 1990

  Sydney, Australia I left McGir's and was contracted directly by Weddel Swift. As a result I was also charged with supporting and developing there Payroll system in Rockhampton as well as their Kill floor control and Offer/Order systems. During my time here as a contractor, I was afforded time to take on other contracts which I did.



McGir and Associates

• System Analysts Programmer

  • Jun 1987 - Nov 1988

  Sydney, Australia Within three days of joining McGir and Associates I was given a Speed II programming manual and Caylex Financial Systems User Manual for the Wang VS, all three I had never seen before. I was then contracted on-site directly to Weddel Swift (The Angliss Meats). McGir's had a philosophy of sink or swim, so I swam and soon became responsible for all the development of the financial applications for the group. At this stage Angliss had 7 meat works, the largest in Rockhampton - 800 head of… Show more Within three days of joining McGir and Associates I was given a Speed II programming manual and Caylex Financial Systems User Manual for the Wang VS, all three I had never seen before. I was then contracted on-site directly to Weddel Swift (The Angliss Meats). McGir's had a philosophy of sink or swim, so I swam and soon became responsible for all the development of the financial applications for the group. At this stage Angliss had 7 meat works, the largest in Rockhampton - 800 head of cattle per day and were responsible for 25% of Australia's meat export. Show less



Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney

• Systems Analyst

  • Dec 1985 - May 1987

  Sydney, Australia Created the system specification for the hospital's new Diagnostic Billing System, a copy of which I still have today. Up to this point, all my experience had been technical, reading HEX dumps from system crashes, reading code, writing code applying code patches in object form etc (even used punch cards!). This opportunity allowed me to learn how to design and develop software systems for Business. Like many large public organisations, training is always available and I attended many System… Show more Created the system specification for the hospital's new Diagnostic Billing System, a copy of which I still have today. Up to this point, all my experience had been technical, reading HEX dumps from system crashes, reading code, writing code applying code patches in object form etc (even used punch cards!). This opportunity allowed me to learn how to design and develop software systems for Business. Like many large public organisations, training is always available and I attended many System Analysis and Design courses. Show less



Cincom Systems

• United States
• Software Development
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Cincom Systems

  • Jan 1984 - Nov 1985

  Sydney, Australia Providing technical support for Cincom's database product Total, TIS, Supra, Mantis and the Control Financial and Manufacturing products. Programming languages where C, Cobol, Assembler and Mantis. Operating system were IBM VS, IBM VSE, VAX VMS