C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E
| Name - Alun HARRIES | Address - (postal address available by request) |
| Current availability - Immediate. | |
| Date of birth - 19/8/56 | Status - Single |
| Nationality - British | Driver - No |
| 6/97 - 3/99 | ITnet, Gordon
House, Greencoat Place, LONDON.
Hardware - as below. |
Initially a one year contract, extended a number of times, converting several systems to be compliant with dates approaching and subsequent to 2000.
| 3/97 - 6/97 | Performing Right
Society, LONDON.
Hardware - ICL mainframe running VME. |
Contract, testing changes to procedures which distribute money to members of the society.
| 11/96 - 2/97 | ITnet, Gordon House, Greencoat Place, LONDON.
Hardware - ICL mainframe running VME. |
Contract, supporting and enhancing GEAC Accounts Payable in a four way multi-mill service for the British Airports Authority.
| 7/96 - 9/96 | London Borough of
Hammersmith & Fulham, 275-281 King
Street, LONDON.
Hardware - ICL mainframe running VME, ICL DRS 6000,
Sequent. |
Contract, I was involved in writing a number of Cobol programs for the conversion of GL, Creditors, and Sales data to OLAS a unix based ledger system.
| 1/96 - 4/96 | Sandwell
Metropolitan Borough Council, Oldbury,West Midlands.
Hardware - ICL running VME. |
Employed on contract, I assessed and implemented a D&B document suggesting improvements to the Millennium service, and also worked on support and development. During the contract my major achievements included the implementation of append mode GL History filters.
| 6/94 - 3/95 | North West Thames Regional Health Authority I.T.
Services, Villa 3, Friern Barnet Hospital, Colney Hatch Lane,
LONDON.
Hardware - ICL running VME and Unix. |
Employed on contract, originally for 3 months, extended for a further 6 months. I was involved in the day to day support of 13 Millennium services providing financial information for the customers of the RHA.
Additionally, I worked on converting programs, written in COBOL running under DRS/NX on a DRS3000, from accessing files to using an Oracle database.
| 7/93 - 4/94 | Scottish
Power, Cathcart House, Spean Street, GLASGOW. G44 4BE.
Hardware - ICL 3980 running VME. |
Employed on a contract basis, supporting and developing Accounts Payable and General Ledger. During the time of my contract the major projects I was responsible for included the payment of invoices by direct transfer to BACS, and the processing of invoices for Customer Billing.
| 7/90 - 7/93 | BBC
Enterprises, 80 Wood Lane, LONDON. W12 0TT.
Hardware - ICL 3965 running VME. |
Senior/Consultant Programmer in charge of support and amendments to Financial Systems including Bought Ledger, Sales Ledger, Investment Ledger and Corporate Reporting. From August 1991 I was a member of the Millennium support team involved in upgrading to Millennium 2.1, GL:M 2.3, from TPS to TPMS, and AP:M 5.2 to 5.3.
| 7/86 - 7/90 | Milk Marketing Board, Thames Ditton, SURREY. KT7 0EL. | ||
| Hardware - | ICL 3980 running VME. ICL DRS models 50E, 155 running DRX. ICL DRS 300 running Unix. |
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| Software - | Mainframe - | SCL, Cobol, Cobol Manager, IDMSX, TPMS, and Quickbuild Tools. | |
| Micros - | CIS Cobol, Microfocus Cobol/2, and unix shell. | ||
Senior Programmer/Programming Team Leader writing and maintaining mainframe and micro systems with groups of up to 3 people. In addition I took part in the support of mainframe/micro systems, analysis, and user contact.
| 1/84 - 6/86 | Wales Gas, Helmont House, Churchill Way, Cardiff, S.
GLAMORGAN.
Hardware - Dual ICL 2966 running VME. |
Programmer writing, testing, and implementing a number of programs in both batch and Database/TPMS environments, using Jackson Structured Methodology. Also the maintenance and support of an existing stores system, and user training.
| 2/83 - 11/83 | Newport Borough
Council, Civic Centre, Newport, GWENT.
Hardware - ICL ME29 running TME. |
Employed, by the Council in association with the Manpower Services Commission, as a Programmer controlling the collection and analysis of data from a Household Survey. My duties included liaison with end users and the specification and production of programs to meet their requirements.
| 10/78 - 12/80 | Standard Telephones & Cables, Wednesbury Street, Newport, GWENT. |
Technical Graduate. Worked in the laboratory as a Technician, and on the shop floor as a Process Engineer in charge of production machinery.
In addition, I am conversant with Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98, Excel, Word, Wordperfect, Exchange, and HTML.
| 1969 - 73 | Sidcot
School, Winscombe, AVON. BS25 1PD. 7 GCE "O" Levels. |
| 1973 - 75 | Gwent College Of
Technology, Allt-yr-yn Ave., Newport, GWENT. GCE "A" Levels - Physics, Mathematics. |
| 1975 - 78 | Leicester University. BSc Physics with Astrophysics. |
| 1981 - 82 | 18 week TOPS sponsored computer programming course, covering IBM Assembler, Cobol (with an associated project), and RPG 2. |
| 1984 - 88 | Courses at ICL Beaumont on VME Conversion, SCL, IDMS Cobol, AM Programming, IDMS Database Design, and First Steps in Systems Supervision. |
| 1989 | 3 day course at ICL Manchester - Introduction to Unix. |
| 1990 | 2 week course from ICL on Systems Analysis and Logical Design. |
| 1991 | 2 separate, week long, courses at Dun & Bradstreet Bristol on Millennium Basic Concepts, and M:SDT. |
This document was last updated 20th May 2001.