Education

Postgraduate Certificate in Development Management. 2005. Open University.

MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems. 2003. Sussex University Department of Cognitive and Computing Sciences.

BA (Oxon) Human Sciences. 1983. St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Skills

Languages Greek (bilingual), Spanish (spoken), French (schoolboy).

Other Car and Motorbike Licence.

Experience

redware research ltd

Brighton September 2003 -

Database consultant building large scale web database and billing systems for various clients. Customised web analytics and telecommunications billing systems delivered to clients. Web database development with SQL Server 2005 data mining and Microsoft CRM and Sage Line 50 integration consultancy a speciality. [ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server 2005, Microsoft CRM, FoxPro, Java, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Linux]

Sussex University

Brighton September 2002 – September 2003

MSc with courses on artificial life, animal and machine intelligence, neural networks, computational neuroscience, and evolutionary programming with genetic algorithms. [Java, C++, MATLAB]

Affinity Wireless

London October 2001 – August 2002

Applications manager supporting a complex 3-tier software installation integrating a call centre in Gloucester with telecommunications equipment supporting 100,000 customers in Birmingham. [FoxPro, SQL Server, MTS, Citrix]

Rebus Technologies

London September 2001

Software audit of 3-tier life insurance application. [FoxPro, VB, SQL Server]

Enron Power

London January – April 2001

Contractor implementing a website for online portfolio management of bankruptcy swaps. [JavaScript, ASP, MTS, SQL Server, Excel]

REDPAY.COM Limited

London September 1999 – December 2000

Founder of start-up company providing electronic billing (EBPP) and paperless direct debit e-commerce solutions implemented for monthly presentation of telephone bills over the internet for 40,000 customers. [AUDDIS, SQL Server, ASP]

First Telecom PLC

London March 1997 - July 1999

Head of IT in rapidly growing telecommunications company growing from £9 to £80 million turnover. Full responsibility for IT development and internet infrastructure. Call centre software in use 24 hours by over 70 call centre personnel servicing 150,000 customers and processing £2 million credit card transactions each month. System architect for billing system implemented internationally in UK, France, and Germany. [Microsoft NT Server, MTS, VB, SQL Server, FoxPro, TCP/IP, Checkpoint Firewall-1]

RED

London February 1996 - March 1997

Self employed developer of software utilities for database programmers using SQL Server. Author of Handbook for SQL Server development with Visual FoxPro marketed on the web at www.redware.com. [FoxPro, SQL Server]

F1 Computing Systems Limited

London November 1988 - January 1996

Founder and Technical Director of start-up software consultancy built up to thirty employees and £1.2 million turnover. Commercial and technical responsibility for a development team delivering bespoke database applications mainly to market research, insurance, and government departments. System architect and project manager for our Pro-Action sales and marketing application installed at over 100 sites in the UK. Author of five day intensive training courses for both Visual FoxPro and SQL Server and trainer of over 250 delegates. [FoxPro, SQL Server, Access]

Britannia Airways

Luton January 1988 - September 1998

Contract programmer working on the computerisation of the customs documentation of duty free trolleys. [HP 3000, Speedware, Image].

Glaxo AEBE

Athens February 1987 - November 1987

Designed a cost accounting system manipulating manufacturing data and implemented a Medical Representatives management system. [Speedware,HP 3000].

Scicon

Rotterdam September 1985 - January 1987

Part of team specifying a 40 man-year project to implement an Oil Refinery Management System for British Petroleum. [Database Design, DEC VAX. Rally, Rdb, Fortran and Datatrieve].

British Aerospace

Bristol October 1983 - August 1985.

September 1979 - June 1980. Easter 1981.

Database administrator and programmer for the manpower forecasting database used for all recruitment planning at the 2,000 person site. [Metier Artemis, RAMIS, Fortran].