This document is available for download in MS word format. Click on the icon.Name: Mark Boyle
Date of Birth: 21/10/67
Telephone: Mobile - (07889) 731013 or Gillingham, Dorset (01747) 822006
Email: terminus_est@severian.demon.co.uk
Acceptable Locations: West Country / London & South-East. Will consider other working locations in the UK and abroad.
Next Availability: Immediate
HND Computer Studies
Hardware Software Operating Languages Systems
See section 5 See section 5 MVS/XA PROGRESS V6, V7, V8 & V9* FLEXOS See section 5 VMS* for others OS/2* UNIX* XENIX* MS-DOS* AIX* Windows 95, 98 * - This indicates skills which I am willing to contract in
I joined P-E International as a trainee in 1987, after completing a Higher National Diploma in Computer Studies. During my time with P-E, I gained experience with DEC, IBM and NIXDORF hardware, mainly in a programming role. I spent my first 4 months working on an in-house development project, programming in COBOL in a VAX environment. I also spent 7 months on an IBM CICS/DB2 project, programming in COBOL 2.
My NIXDORF experience comprises a 9 month programming project and 6 months testing as part of an EFTPOS system for 2 different clients.
Since then, I have adopted the PROGRESS 4GL/RDBMS as my main area of expertise and initially spent 3 months working for ICL, programming in PROGRESS. My latter experience is as follows: 16 months contract for Grand Metropolitan Retailing (now Chef & Brewer Group); 4 month contract with ICL Retail in Bracknell; 2 months with ICL Retail in Maidenhead; 3 month contract for AT&T Istel in Wakefield; 6 more months with ICL Retail in Maidenhead; a 1 month fill-in contract with NCR (Manufacturing) in Dundee; 5 months with Strathclyde Regional Council in Glasgow; 7 months with Standard Check Book in Radstock, near Bath; 3 weeks with Trafalgar House Construction in Croydon, this contract being terminated due to injury; 3 months with Distributive Computer Services Ltd., based in Leamington Spa; 8 months with Trafalgar House Construction in Maple Cross; 9 months with ICL Retail again in Bracknell; 4 months with CAP Gemini in Aston, Birmingham, 2 months with ATMS, also in Aston, 12 months with TEC (UK) in Watford, 5 months with Overland Footwear in London and, finally, 8 months with W.T. Burden in Keynsham. Following this, I took a 2 month break which was extended by several months following the unexpected death of my father. I resumed work with a 4 month contract for Systemcare in Cleveland. This was followed by a placement at A.F. Blakemore in Willenhall, which ran from January 2001 until March 2006. At the time of writing I am currently seeking a new contract.
January 2001 Assigned to A. F. Blakemore, Willenhall (5 years, 2 months) - March 2006 PC, UNIX, Win/NT, PROGRESS V9 Design & development of Blakemore's in-house Bay Ranging system for central control of the planogram profile for 200+ of their SPAR franchises, utilising Progress V9.
June 2000 Assigned to Systemcare, Cleveland (4 months) - September 2000 PC, AIX, Win 98, PROGRESS character-based V8 Development of new functions and enhancement of existing routines for Systemcare's Mfour distribution system, utilising character-based Progress V8.
March 1999 Assigned to W.T. Burden, Keynsham (8 months) - October 1999 PC, Win 98, PROGRESS character-based V8 Development of new functions for W.T. Burden's Unison stock control/invoicing system, utilising character-based Progress V8.
October 1998 Assigned to Overland Footwear Ltd., London (5 months) - February 1999 PC, Win 95, UNIX, AIX, PROGRESS character-based V7 & GUI V8 Development of new functions for Overland's Styleman clothing distribution system, utilising character-based Progress V7. Also developed new interface to Overland's Shipping database using Progress V8 GUI and produced overnight backup scripts for new AIX box.
July 1997 Assigned to TEC (UK), Watford (12 months) - July 1998 PC, Windows 95, MS-DOS, UNIX, PROGRESS (character-based V7 & GUI V7) Development of new functions, enhancement of existing routines and fault correction for TEC's Pro- Store retail system. This development work was carried out for two of their clients, Black & Decker and The Caravan Club, and necessitated involvement with both back office and front end till systems. I was also responsible for system administration on the main archive and software distribution machines.
May 1997 Assigned to ATMS, Aston, Birmingham (2 months) - July 1997 PC, MS-DOS, PROGRESS V6 ATMS primarily produces shop floor data collection and warehouse management systems. During this period I was engaged in the development of new functions and enhancement of existing routines for warehouse systems used by two of their clients, Firmin Coates and Fylde Ice. I also upgraded a production scheduling system for another client, Arjo Wiggins.
January 1997 Assigned to CAP Gemini, Aston, Birmingham (4 months) - April 1997 PC, HP-UX, PROGRESS (character-based V7) Development of new functions, enhancement of existing routines and fault correction for CAP Gemini's Vision 2000 company car fleet maintenance system. This development work was carried out for two of their clients, Vauxhall Master Hire and BRS Car Lease.
January 1996 Assigned to ICL Retail Systems, Bracknell (9 months) - September 1996 ICL PC, OS/2, PROGRESS Development of new functions, enhancement of existing routines, and fault correction for ICL's ISS400 supermarket retailing system. This involved working at different times for several of ICL's clients, such as WH Smith, Sainsburys and foreign clients such as Migros and Sonae.
May 1995 Assigned to Trafalgar House Construction, Maple Cross (8 - December 1995 months) ICL DRS-6000, UNIX, PROGRESS Development of new functions and enhancement of existing routines for Prospector marketing system (used by building trade). Also responsible for the installation of Prospector upgrades on countrywide distributed network of client machines.
February 1995 Assigned to Distributive Computer Services Ltd., Leamington - April 1995 Spa (3 months) IBM RS 6000, AIX, PROGRESS Development of new functions for DCS' on-line GDMS car dealership system.
December 1994 Assigned to Trafalgar House Construction, Croydon (3 weeks) ICL DRS-6000, UNIX, PROGRESS, BASIC Translation of existing steel decking stresses system from BASIC into PROGRESS. Forced to terminate contract due to injury.
May 1994 Assigned to Standard Check Book, Radstock (7 months) - November 1994 ICL DRS-6000, UNIX, PROGRESS Development of new on-line functions for Bowater Security Products system. Latterly developed new report suite for PECAS (Printers Estimating, Costing and Accounting System).
October 1993 Assigned to Strathclyde Regional Council, Glasgow (5 months) - February 1994 ICL PC, UNIX, PROGRESS Development of new functions for SRC's on-line Debtors System, followed by development of all on- line functions and user interfaces for the Council's Application Control System, which is responsible for the overnight scheduling and processing of all subsidiary systems, including the Debtors, Council Tax and Rating systems.
August 1993 Assigned to NCR (Manufacturing) Ltd., Dundee (1 month) - September 1993 NCR PC, UNIX, PROGRESS Customisation of Duty system for parts used in the construction of Auto-Teller Machines.
February 1993 Assigned to ICL Retail Systems, Maidenhead (6 months) - July 1993 ICL DRS-6000, ICL PC, XENIX, PROGRESS Development of new functions and customisation of existing Branchmanager system for WH Smith Ltd., including creation of Local File Maintenance subsystem for European stores. Also involved in user support.
November 1992 Assigned to AT&T Istel, Wakefield, West Yorkshire - February 1993 (3 months) ICL-DRS 6000, XENIX, PROGRESS Development /customisation of COMIS Local Authority stock system.
August 1992 Assigned to ICL Retail Systems, Maidenhead (2 months) - October 1992 ICL DRS-6000, ICL PC, XENIX, PROGRESS Customisation of generic Branchmanager back office system to meet the requirements of Our Price Music Ltd.
March 1992 Assigned to ICL Retail Systems, Bracknell (4 months) - June 1992 ICL PC, OS/2, PC-TCP, PVCS, PROGRESS Development of ISS40 supermarket system, transitory stage between ICL's old GMS2 system and the new ISS400 system currently under development. Produced exclusively for Woolworth's in Australia.
January 1992 Left P-E International to become freelance analyst/programmer.
July 1990 Assigned to Grand Metropolitan Retailing, Uxbridge (16 - October 1991 months) TANDON 486 PC/ICL PCs, XENIX, PROGRESS Development of Back Office Support System (BOSS) for use in over 1600 Chef & Brewer pub/restaurants. Involved in project from early development through to installation and support.
May 1990 Assigned to ICL Retail Systems, Bracknell (3 months) - July 1990 ICL PC, MS-DOS, PC-NFS, PROGRESS Development of GMS4 generic supermarket system. During this period I also attended a 5-day Advanced Progress course.
June 1989 Assigned to Nixdorf Computer Ltd., Welwyn Garden City - April 1990 (10 months) NIXDORF 8860 & 8812, NIXDORF PC Formed part of QA team testing Checkout Plus system developed by Nixdorf for the Tesco chain of supermarkets. This contract involved stringent testing of both back office and till software, plus training of junior staff.
November 1988 Assigned to Severn-Trent Water Authority, Solihull - May 1989 (7 months) IBM 3090, IBM PC AT, MVS/XA, TSO/ISPF, CICS, DB2, COBOL 2, SQL, AUTOMATE Development of STWA's Quality Information System (QUIS), a water quality system designed to monitor the level of pollutants in the water supply for a large proportion of the West Midlands area.
February 1988 Assigned to Nixdorf Computer Ltd., Farnborough (9 months) - October 1988 NIXDORF TARGON, PERSONAL TERMINAL (PT), UNIX, FLEXOS, VS COBOL Development of Post Office Counter Automation Project (POCAPS).
December 1987 Assigned to Westminster City Council (3 months) - February 1988 AMSTRAD PCs, WORDSTAR Production of documentation (primarily technical specifications and program specs.) for the Westminster City Council stores system.
July 1987 Assigned to Dairy Crest Ltd. (4 months) - October 1987 DEC VAX 11-750, VMS, COBOL Development of Milk Intake system for Dairy Crest Ltd.
September 1985 Dundee College of Technology (2 years) - June 1987 VAX 11-750/780, VMS, BASIC, BASIC+2, PASCAL, COBOL Two years course covering Computer Organisation, Programming Techniques, Systems Analysis & Design, Statistics & Numerical Analysis, Marketing and Management.
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