Personal Details

Name

Gerald Fritz George McMullon

Location

Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

Telephone

mobile : 07712212310

E-mail

URL

http://www.mcmullon.com

Main qualifications

BSc (Hons) Mathematics (University London 1976)

 

P.G.C.E. (University of London & N.E.L.P.1978)

Nationality

BRITISH

Drivers licence

Full, car owner

Foreign Languages

Spoken German and a little Hindi

Overview

I am an experienced project manager and developer of SQL database systems for direct marketing, syndicate insurance, office and factory information systems; successfully taking the projects from requirement specification through to client acceptance. As an experienced teacher I have developed computer based training modules using multimedia. I have also been customer and technical support manager for UNIX, NT, Windows, Novell and DOS systems and IT Development Manager.

I am imaginative, creative, with a flair for the solution of complex technical problems and a clear orientation towards ideas, concepts and intellectual pursuits generally. I am independent, ready to make decisions and take the initiative. I am highly motivated but also sensitive, understanding and have a willingness to help others.

Languages, Operating Systems and Networks

Languages, OS,Network

Duration

Period

Comment

Visual Basic

11 years

9112-0201

Microsoft VB6.0 sp 1,VB5.0 sp3 & Access 97 (Active X documents and controls) also VB 1.0,2.0, 3.0 Professional, Access 2, Q+E SQL database library, Attachmate, DDE

Access VBA (Excel VBA)

13 years

Access with VB since 1993. VBA 9703-

Rapid application development and report writing using Access VBA, Version 2.0, 7.0 and 8.0 & ODBC, Access 2000, XP

HTML

7 years

9711-

Projects for information display, web site of 5Gb storage

Informix

3 years

9110-9504

SQL/Ace (2.1,4.x, SE5.0) Brock 4GL 7.3,7.4

Oracle

6 months

99.01-99.07

Using SQL Plus 3.3 and Hummingbird GQL

SQL Server

 

9801-9806,0104-

Documentation to stored procedures, VB&Access ODBC

dBASE

3.5 years

8906-9110, 9305-9307, 9407, 9701,9807

dBASE III Plus, IV, Clipper, FoxBase, FoxPro, Q+E

C

short projects

8903-9106

ANSI, Microsoft and using Code Base 4

Obj-C

short projects

9409-9603

NeXTSTEP OO, Objective C

TenCORE

6 months

8806-8901,9106

CBT authoring language

Pascal

5 years

8005-8806

ISO, HP1000, Prospero, Turbo 3/4

BASIC

10 years

7809-9006

Microsoft, NewBrain, HP(85, 9830, 1000, 2100, 3000), Apple, BBC,MSX,Oric,IBM 370,CDC6400

UNIX

11.5 years

8311-9704

System V, 4.3 BSD, SCO 3.2, Bull DPX2, Risc-iX, X, X.desktop, Ethernet, Sun NFS, PC-NFS, TCP/IP, Korn, Bourne & C-shell, NeXTSTEP.

MS DOS

17 years

8312-

3.x,4.x,5,6,6.2x

Windows

14 years

8802-

Windows 3.x, Win95, NT 3.1, 3.51,4 (Server)

Novell

7.5 years

8806-9110, 9305, 9407-9506, 9604-9703

using Ethernet. Systems manager

Risc-OS

6 months

8901-8906

including Econet with Acorn equipment

MISCELLANEOUS information

Published a list of computer component prices and suggested bespoke systems, a dictionary of Internet related terms, a directory of WWW sites, and software documentation standards. Articles and letters published in Personal Computer World, Micro Computer Mart, other computer, hi-fi and photographic magazines. Ran the NewBrain User Group producing newsletters and supplying software, hardware and books. Attended several conferences on Education and helped organise a conference on Examination Boards as a member of the IMA committee on Education.

Personal system consists of PC network, broadband, postscript printers, optical, DVD RAM, Jaz,, graphics tablets, scanners, Web cams, DVC camcorders and iLink/IEEE1394 interface cards. Windows 95-XP,  Office 4.2-XP, Corel Draw, Visual Basic 3-6, Visual Studio 6, Publisher, Project, NeXTStep, FreeBDS, HTML, Netscape/IE, Superfile, Adobe Premiere, Ulead Media Studio.

Languages, Operating Systems and Networks – Experience includes Visual Basic, Access VBA, Excel VBA, HTML, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server, dBASE, Clipper, C, Obj-C, TenCORE, Pascal, BASIC, UNIX, MS DOS, Windows, Novell and Risc-OS.

Employment Experience

Applications Programming

I have specified and developed:-

·         intelligent network tools to aid in the requirement capture and design of telecommunications networks,

·         in collaboration with marketing developed control applications for spectrophotometers,

·         menu interfaces for Quality Analysis Systems, scientific, mathematical and statistical calculators,

·         word processors, terminal and Prestel emulators,

·         room booking system for meetings and conferences,

·         rapid addressing system,

·         mobile phone bill statistics and proportional payments by department,

·         herd stock control for pedigree stock,

·         medical diagnose entry and report writing,

·         student registry and accountancy reporting,

·         stock control and invoicing,

·         syndicate re-insurance data modelling and aggregation risk analysis and report,

·         converting call centre applications to international language use

·         adding OO features to CAD and RAD tools for production design applications

·         reporting suite to Sun and Tempo SQL databases, Centralised billing and key client tracking

 Computer Based Training and Multimedia

·          I advised on and developed computer-aided language learning applications for the London School of English using computer controlled audio cassette recorders.

·         I have written, in TenCORE, a module on Finance for Non-Financial Managers and converted a suite of generic interactive video courses from PAL to NTSC.

·          I improved the British Telecom Operator Service System training courses, reducing training costs. Written in Turbo Pascal, CD-ROM was used for audio.

·          I wrote and marketed a typing tutor program.

·         For Applied Interactive as part of team developed a Computer Based Training authoring system using Visual Basic 5 (Active X documents, OLE and Active X controls) and driven by data stored in Access 97 database.

·          Collated, captured, written, scanned, photographed and developed the 3.2Gb of information published at www.submin.com and it’s CD-ROM version with over 36,000 photographs.

Customer Service, Technical Support and Systems Manager

·         I set up customer service and support on the R140 UNIX for Acorn, establishing uucp email and report links to Granada Microcare.

·         I was manager for the customer hotline at IIS Ltd.

·         In my own company I offered support and products for the NewBrain that followed from answering technical enquiries for Grundy Business Systems.

·         I have also been manager of UNIX and Novell systems and have installed PCs (using PC-NFS, TCP/IP) onto a Sun network, linked in a Novell server and enabled PCs access to both.

·         At BT I installed and supported a NT and Windows 95 workstations and at Anglian Water I ran the support desk and remote update services for 300 PCs.

·         At the Corporate Services Group, I was IT Development Manager leading a team of 13 programmers. I introduced documentation and coding standards for the full development cycle of projects and established training schedules for the staff. Liaising with internal clients, as business analyst, I produced proposals for new projects and trained development staff to do the same. These included contact management systems, OCR systems and data backup. I managed the day to day running and requests for enhancements, reports and maintenance of the payroll system. The role also involved a hands on approach to programming as well as analysis and enhancements for current projects in VB5 SQL and Access 97 involving asset management and requests for change tracking systems.

Direct Marketing and Data Collecting Systems

·         I have implemented direct marketing and contact management systems for Bull and Hutchison using Brock and Informix SQL and for British Telecom using Visual Basic, Attachmate and Access.  I included campaign targeting, guided teleprospecting, direct mail, appointment booking, product and contact profiles. The systems rapidly gained the enthusiasm of users for its extensive features, minimal training, quality of data and availability. Using Visual Basic, DDE and Attachmate I enhanced a system to profile the customer database for use in telemarketing.

·         As part of a team I developed, in Clipper, a Planned Maintenance Management System including the relational database, added utilities, improved performance and was project manager of the (dGE) graphical sub-system.

·         I designed and implemented quality data reporting, creating a unified QA logging system.

·         I researched into down streaming agent technology with DIAS (CORBA) to legacy systems using VB and NeXTSTEP and Objective C.

Technical Author, Feasibility Studies, Equipment Selection

·         I have advised clients on the selection of multimedia hardware, suitable local area networks, office configurations and the market requirement survey for a hand-held Z-system computer.

·         I am author of comparison and selection criteria reports on DOS and UNIX databases, GUI tools for SQL Client/Servers and advised upon the design of the Sales Activity Manager to run on pen-based portables.

·         I have written users' notes and manuals for naive users, managers and system programmers including systems written over a number of years by an assortment of programmers.

·         I have instigated program documentation standards.

·         I have had articles and letters published in Personal Computer World, Micro Computer Mart and other computer, hi-fi and photographic magazines.

·         I ran the NewBrain User Group (Nov 83-Sep 88) and was editor of the bi-monthly newsletters.

Lecturer and Teacher

·         I taught mathematics to all abilities ranges, up to GCE, achieving scale 2 promotion in 1978. Between 1986 and 1988 I was part-time teacher, covering mathematics, physics, chemistry and GCSE Computer Studies. I also lectured B/TEC, GCSE & GVP courses in mathematics & Information Technology at the Cambridge Further Education College.

Employment History

Dates

status

Company

Aug 91 -

Programmer

Employee of GFG Microsystems Ltd contracted out to various clients

Jul 07 – Oct 07

Client

Seal Air Ltd, St. Neots

Nov 06 - Jan 07

Client

St Paul Traveler, London

May 05 -

Client

GFG Microsystems Limited, Cambridge

Jun 06

Client

RPS Group Oxford

Jul 04 - Apr 05

Client

Enviros Consulting Ltd, Cambourne

Feb 02 - Jul 04

Client

Submin.com, Cambridge

Oct 01 - Jan 02

Client

Aspentech Ltd, Cambridge

Jun 01 - Sep 01

Client

Avaya Communications Ltd, Welwyn Garden City

Mar 01 - Jun 01

Client

PA Consulting Ltd, Cambridge

Feb 2001

 

GFG Microsystems Limited

Nov 99 -Jan 01

Client

St Paul International Insurance, London

Jul 99 - Nov 99

Client

Cox Insurance Holdings, London

Jan 99- Jul 99

Client

London Institute of Higher Education, London

Nov 98 - Jan 99

Client

Holstein Friesian Society, Rickmansworth

Nov 98

Client

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, London

Sep 98 - Oct 98

Client

Footman Walker Associates (tele-working)

Aug 98

Client

Eastern Electricity, Peterborough

Jul 98

Client

Morris Ashby Castings Ltd

Dec 97 - Jul 98

Client

Corporate Services Group plc, St. Albans

Jul 97 - Nov 97

Client

Applied Interactive, Milton Keynes

Apr 97 - Jun 97

Client

Eastern Group, Russell House, Ipswich

Apr 96 - Mar 97

Client

ICL Power of 4 at Anglian Water, Cambridge/Huntingdon

Aug 93 - Mar 96

Client

British Telecommunications, BT Laboratories, Ipswich

May 93 -Aug93

Client

London School of English

Apr 93 - May93

Client

Morris Ashby Castings

Jun 92 - Apr 93

Client

Bull Information Systems Business Development Centre

Oct 91 - Apr 92

Client

Hutchison Personal Communications Direct Marketing

Jan 89 - Oct 91

Employer

ORIGIN Automation Technology Ltd

Feb 88 - Jan 89

Employer

Interactive Information Systems Ltd, London EC1

May 86 - Feb 88

Clients

Cambridge FE, Chesterton & Manor Community Colleges

Oct 86 - Jan 87

Client

Infotek Design Ltd

Nov 83 - 89

Client

London School of English

Nov 83 - Apr 86

Director

GFG Microsystems Ltd

Dec 83 - Feb 85

Employer

LKB Biochrom Ltd, Cambridge

Jul 82 - Sep 83

Employer

Grundy Business Systems Ltd, Cambridge

Jan 80 - May 82

Employer

Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd, London

Sep 79 - Dec 79

Client

Dorland Advertising, London

Sep 78 - Sep 79

Employer

Marshall's Park School, Romford

Sep 76 - Aug78

Employer

Mayesbrook Comprehensive School, Dagenham

Vacational: I contracted as an operator at IBM (W1) and a terminal operator at Alfra-Lavell. I also worked in a factory in Germany, basically to learn German

Occupational Training Courses

I have had introductory training in NeXTSTEP/Objective-C, advance training on Brock and TenCORE, also on an introduction to management, project teamwork, report writing and discussion leading as well as in service training for different projects. During 1976-79 I attended several conferences on Education and helped organise a conference on Examination Boards as a member of the IMA committee on Education.

Education

79.10-81.2

Numerical Methods, Mathematical Software, Operational Research, Statistics studied to MSc, Chelsea College, University of London

1976-78

Post-Graduate Certificate in Education, North East London Polytechnic & University of London External.

1972-76

BSc. (Hons) 2.2 in Mathematics, Chelsea College, University of London

1969-72

A Level Double Maths, Physics, Zoology, Botany, Biology

 

Maths Pure (A), Applied (B), combined (A), Physics (BB), zoology O pass

1967-70

O level grade 1 in Additional maths, Mathematics, Technical Drawing, 6 in English.
CSE 1 in maths, physics, biology, geography, technical drawing, metalwork. 2 in English.
RSA Arithmetic and mathematics.

Interests and Hobbies

I am a member of the Cyclist's Touring Club. I have a keen interest in wildlife. From an interest in music (pop, classical & ethnic), photography and gadgetry I collect sub-miniature cameras, videos, records and read Science Fiction. I make video films of special occasions for friends. At college I played badminton and did sub-aqua and Wu Shu Kwan training.

I toured India (Dec 89-Jan 90), China, via Hong Kong (Aug-Sep 91), California (Nov 97) and a return visit to Hong Kong and Canton (Feb 98), as well as having worked and lived in Germany. I hope to learn Cantonese eventually.

I have had articles and letters published in Personal Computer World, Micro Computer Mart, other computer, hi-fi and photographic magazines. I ran the NewBrain User Group (Nov 83-Sep 88) producing newsletters and supplying software, hardware and books.

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