Précis - Tony Hargreaves

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Tony Hargreaves CV
Précis
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Graduate with over 20 years experience as an Analyst/Programmer - Everything from Sales support to installation,
including 6 years experience as a web-site designer.
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XHTML, HTML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, graphics, Dreamweaver etc. Some PHP/MySQL, XML/XSL, Java, ASP,
Perl, Director Lingo and WML. Also Cobol, EPLX, Unisys assemblers, and several other Unisys languages. Plus a
bit of Unix, C, C++, XWindows, Oracle, Basic++ and Pascal.
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I have hand coded around 2000 pages and done thousands of HTML modifications, often used Dreamweaver,
Ultradev, Paintshop, Photoshop etc. and coded to W3C, accessibility, cross-browser compatibility standards before
most became defined.
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I completed a contract at the end of 2002 as Website Designer at Keighley College. Between 1999 and 2000 I
created websites of courses as part of the Adapt project, and have worked on the various Keighley Community
Learning Club sites, the Keighley College websites and the Keighley Arts Factory. I have a wide enough experience
to easily learn new systems and languages and I am interested in working in Web site design and server or
mainframe programming and in providing computer delivered courses. Please note my wide experience and recent
courses.
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I am currently studying part-time, keeping up-to-date and occasionally providing assistance and training. I enjoy
producing high quality work within budget. I am content to work initially as a junior or trainee whilst gaining
experience. I am also happy to relocate.
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Please note that the examples of Photoshop, Director, Java and JavaScript on my web-site are as they were
completed for the courses and my work has progressed since then. Also the two external links in yellow do not link
to my work.
Personal Details
Address:- 23 Emily St.,
Keighley,
Yorkshire,
BD21 3EG
Website: www.thnet.co.uk
News Feed: www.thnet.co.uk/rss/TH.xml
E-mail: tonyh98@hotmail.com
Tel: 01535-214376
Date of birth: 5/10/48
Marital status: Single
Interests: Keeping up-to-date with computers, languages and applications. Listening to music; Drum n' Bass, African,
avant-garde. Reading and TV- Science, music, technology, comedy, futurology, news, philosophy, religion, traditional
cultures, new wave science fiction. Continuing to study; Graphics techniques and arty design, XML, CSS, VB.net, ASP,
Java, JavaScript, Flash, PHP/MySQL, 3-D graphics, Director and Lingo, Perl, and maybe AS400 RPG.
Education
Jul 04 to Aug 04 - Advanced Webpage Coding - Keighley College
Accessibility, CSS, XHTML, DHTML, Javascript and DOM.
Sep 03 to Jun 04 - PHP and MySQL - Keighley College
City and Guilds Level 3 though the course covered far more than the qualification. See: thnet.port5.com
Sep 02 to Dec 03 - CLAIT New and Plus; Database, Spreadsheet and DTP modules - Keighley College.
Sep 99 to Dec 99 - Digital Multimedia - Evening class - University of Bradford
Multimedia Authoring with Director and Lingo.
12 Jan 98 to 2 July 98 - BTEC Professional Diploma in Electronic Publishing - Leeds College of Technology
Publishing, Multimedia authoring; Photoshop, Director, and SoundHandle, HTML, Java, Networks, QuarkXpress, Claris
and Perl.
I passed all the coursework modules but did not complete the research into Publishing.
19 June 97 to 26 Sept 97 - Post Graduate Certificate in Software Technology - Liverpool University
Unix, C/C++, X Windows, Internet, HTML, CGI, Oracle-SQL, Java.
Unisys Courses - Data Comm. for B800's, Medium Systems COBOL, DMS II/Inquire, EPLX, S4000 Data Comm.,
Advanced CTOS ops. in Pascal.
1971 B.Sc. Mathematics (CNAA) - Lanchester University, Coventry.
Keighley Secondary Technical School
1967 GCE A levels - Maths, Physics, Chemistry.
1965 GCE O levels Maths (x2), English, Physics (x2), Chemistry, Tech.Drawing, Geography.
ULCI -French.
Tony Hargreaves - Career History
Website Designer for the Keighley Community Learning Club - January 2001 to December 2002.
Incorporating Keighley On-Line, Keighley Disabled People's Centre, The Russell St. Project and the Sangat Centre. Also responsible
for the Keighley College website, the Arts Factory site, the Walking Club site. Assisted staff and students in many aspects of IT and I
continue to develop and extend my skills.
Co-ordinator of the Adapt project - Keighley College - May 99 to December 2000
Adapt is a national project aimed at using multimedia and the internet in the delivery of courses. I developed web-sites for; The 1999
Water Regulations, Combination Boiler Fault Finding and Industrial Robotics. I also created pages for the College Course Information
and pages for the Arts Factory art gallery. I have also in my spare time continued to study various computer languages and
applications. Please see Interests on the first page.
Website Developer - European Studies University of Bradford - Dec 98 to Apr 99
Brightening, extending and updating the Departments' web-site. I also had the opportunity to use Paintshop, Photoshop and various
applications including AOLpress, FTP, text editors and scanning applications used in the creation of web-pages.
Dec 92 to May 97 - Unisys re-structuring lead me to become self-employed, and I later had to spend a large amount of time sorting out
taxation problems regarding my work in America, and winding up my company. During 97 and 98 I studied for a Post-Graduate
Certificate and a BTEC. See Education on first page.
Consultant (Contract) - Unisys Citygate London - Sep 91 to Nov 92
Solely responsible for maintaining the S4000 part of Lloyds Bank cheque processing. Also Midland and Ulster Bank and UK Base IPS,
using V430's with VCS.
Consultant (Contract) - Unisys Livingston Scotland - Apr 90 to Jan 91
Design, documentation, test script writing, testing and consultation for the DP500 PTA and RPA packages.
Consultant(Contract) - Unisys Chicago USA - Feb 89 to Dec 89
Consultation and programming S4000 applications including the RPS part of the S4000 Concentrator package and the Unisys award
winning S4000 Mark-Sense project also systems for the Chicago Fed. Contract cancelled Dec 89.
Consultant (Contract) - Unisys Stockholm Sweden - 26/11/88 to 15/12/88
Consultation and problem solving on bank Giro processing applications for Privatgiro ab.
Consultant (Contract) - Unisys Boston USA - Dec 86 to Nov 88
Consultation and programming on S4000 for Banks, Credit Unions, Mutual Fund Investors, etc. Mainly remmittance processing and
data-comm transfers to processing centres.
Consultant (Contract) - Unisys Livingston Scotland - Oct 84 Aug 85
Development of S4000 systems software utilities. Special responsibility for the Archive/Retrieve utility and the Foreign Language
options.
Systems Analyst - Unisys London - Jan 83 to Sep 84
Manufacturing LOB Dept.
Designing and development for B.A.T. Time and Attendance system using MT1500's and twin CP9500's Mainly in COBOL using
CANDE on a B1900. The system is permanently on-line and has automatic and real-time features.
CMS Dept.
Suite of programmes for Citybank in COBOL for a B90 which edits, reports and re-formats data from an S3900 for transfer to an IBM
370.
Series S Dept.
Proof of Deposit programmes in EPLX using CANDE on a B1900, for S4100's used by Midland and National Westminster Banks
Analyst/Prog. - Clarksons Int. Coventry - Feb 81 to Dec 81
General programming on a large commercial system on a Univac 90/60 (similar to IBM 370) with some work in RPG and OS/4
assembler. Supervising and training 2-3 people. I left as the department (and later the site) was being closed down.
Head of Unisys L and B Depts. - Simdell Coventry - Sep 78 to Dec 80
Responsible for producing applications software, projects included:
B700 Sales system written in COBOL, RPG and AEL. B800 on-line sales system in COBOL using CANDE and GEMCOS. Supervision
and training of 3-4 programmers. Lack of customers for the sales package and loss of market share prompted me to leave.
Head of Software - Diba Co. (UNISYS) Tehran Iran - Aug 77 to Dec 77
Sales support and software development for Series L. Responsible for 3 programmers. Projects included re-designing a sales system
for Ceiba-Geigy which abolished an 11 month, 1000+ cassette backlog, and reduced the monthly processing time from 164 hours to 18
hours. I was unable to renew the contract due to the revolution.
Consultant - Statham Consultants Manchester - Mar 76 to Apr77
Systems design, programming and installation on Series L's. Projects included a sales system for timber merchants, which became a
Unisys programme product, and a suite of programmes for a marine engineering company. Some programming in RPG and COBOL
for B700's and B1700's.
Senior Programmer - Queens Rd. Hoyles Halifax - Oct 75 to Feb 76
Design, programming and installation on Series L's. Supervision and training of 3-4 programmers.
Programmer - Northern Data Processing Bradford - Oct 72 to Sep 75
Applications programming in Burroughs (Unisys) Assemblers on Series L's for many different customers. Some of my programmes
became Burroughs Programme Products.
Tony Hargreaves - Computing Experience
Machine
Languages
Time
Applications
IBM 1620/2
Elliot 803
Unisys Series L
Unisys
B700,B90,B1900
etc,
Fortran
Algol
SL3,SL5 Assemblers
COBOL
1 Year
3 Years
7 Years
4 Years
Part of Maths Degree.
Part of Maths Degree.
Wide range of applications.
RPG
12 Progs
Accounting, Time Recording, Contracting, Banking, Series S interface.
COBOL
1 Year
Large Commercial system.
RPG + OS/4
6 Progs
Unisys B20
Basic
8 Progs
Critical Path Analysis, Pattern Generation.
Unisys B30 + DP500 Pascal
A little
IPS, DP500 systems software.
Unisys S4100 +
Remittance Processing, Data Transfer, Proof of Deposit, UK IPS,
EPLX *
5 Years
S4000
Systems software
* Note EPLX is VERY similar to COBOL with extensions for document processing and has data-comm and real-time facilities.
Unisys V430
COBOL
A little
IPS.
Assembler
2
Systems
Unisys MT1500,
Time Recording, Commercial.
IDE's
AEL
2 Systems
Also some work with Unisys data-comm languages TCL, NDL and MPL II and Yourden design using Teamwork on Appolo's.
HTML (text editors)
Around 2000 pages. This CV, a CGI shop, numerous course exercises
XHTML, CSS, JavaScript 6 years +
and projects. Dept. European Studies Bradford University. Keighley
and DHTML
College, Arts Factory and Adapt projects at Keighley College.
PC's
Java
3 Months
CV examples and course exercises.
PHP/MySQL
5 Months
Examples at www.thnet.co.uk
XML, ASP, Perl, WML
A bit
Couple of small projects each
Shell scripting, C, C++,
1 course
HP Unix
Oracle, Forms Designer, X
Shop's - car rental, video hire. Pools coupons.
project each
Windows
Univac 90/60
Systems Software
Machine
Systems
Time
Unisys B20/B30
Unisys B1900
CTOS
Native mode
CANDE
CMS
Used for Basic, Pascal as above
Used for 4 years S4000 developments
Very familiar
Very familiar
Written 2 TCL's, modified 2 NDL's and
2 MPL II progs.
1 year JCL
1 year modification, 5 years use.
3 years data comm to IBM and other
systems
6 Months
Used for 1 year S4000 development
Used for 4 months
Used for 6 years +
6 years. See examples in CV and
Keighley College work
Unisys Small B
Series
Univac 90/60
Unisys S Series
Unisys DP500
Unisys V430
Unix
PC's
GEMCOS
OS/4
Utilities
Bisync II
Customiser
CANDE + VCS
Unix
Windows NT, 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP
Dreamweaver, Paintshop, Photoshop
PC,s and Mac's
Director, Frontpage, QuarkXpress, Animation
Shop etc.
Some, see examples of Director in CV.
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