Anthony Dawson
I am rational and analytical in my thinking and planning and trust my own judgement and decisionmaking. I am a goal-orientated person, with a can-do attitude, who enjoys challenges in a stimulating
environment. I am persistent and resolute in my pursuit for excellence and success.
Personal Particulars:
Position sought:
Qualifications:
Languages Spoken:
Experience:
IT Executive / Program Management / Solutions architect/Technical
manager / Business Transformation Management
Age: 47 years
Availability: 2 weeks notice
BSc. Hons. Computer Science (London), MBCS (Member of the
British Computer Society)
English and Italian (fluent), some French, a little Thai, Tagalong
Over 25 years experience in the I.T. industry of which 15 in
Telecommunications as a billing, integration and solution architecture
specialist. Engaged in a number diverse disciplines and rules including
CTO, program manager, solutions architecture, business continuity,
system design, business transformation, business analysis and business
development. Chief consultant to EDS, Accenture, IBM, Microsoft,
The Bank of England, Lloyds of London, Qantas Airlines, Chrysalis
Multimedia, Ericsson, And tier 1 Telecom companies; MTN Group
SA, Telecom Italia, Noos, UPC France, British Telecom.
Security and business continuity – Disaster recovery design,
implementation, process and procedures. ISO 27001 auditing,
compliance and policy implementation.
Business Development: business development techniques as employed
in product and services marketing of medium to large companies;
gained though experience in business building roles in the IT world.
Telco billing integration and Architecture: Expert knowledge of EAI
including experience with WebLogic, Vitria, Seebeyond, Singl.eView,
Arbor BP and FX12, Informatica. Acquired in roles of program
manager, project manager solutions architect, developer and consultant
on large Telco projects for Botswana Telecom, Lyonnaise Cable,
ACEA Telefonica, PLDT, Telecom Italia, Lucent, Technologies,
MTN SA.
Contact:
Anthony Dawson
Mob: +39-347-68-10-172 (IT)
Mob: +66-81-30-40-378 (TH) Current
Tel: +44-14-22-57-14-28 (UK)
E-Mail:
anthony.dawson@bcs.org
Skype ID:
aegdawson
Profile
www.linkedin.com\in\anthonydawson
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
SEP07 – SEP09
MTN through Atos Origin (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Management/Consulting/Solutions Architecture/Business continuity
Engaged by Atos Origin to work on their MTN SA project as solution architect. This
project implements one of the largest Singl.eView mobile billing solutions in the
world. During this engagement Anthony Initially designed and implemented POCs for
the Operational Data Store. Later worked on several enterprise architecture and
integration aspects of the solution to bring together the complete solution. Finally
designed and implemented a specialist business continuity and disaster recovery
architecture as well as processes, policies and tests. Managed the implementation of
MTN’s dark fibre implementation, testing and integration in the overall DR solution.
MOBILE BILLING SYSTEMS, MANAGEMENT, BUSINESS CONTINUITY
PLANNING,, DISASTER RECOVERY ISO27001, IMPLEMENTATION ROAD
PATH, ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE. OPERATIONAL DATA STORE
DESIGN.
JUNE07 – SEPT07
COMVERSE (Rome, Italy)
Principle Solutions Architect for Telecom Italia Project
Engaged by Comverse to work on Telecom Italia’s Kenan FX2 upgrade and
integration with legacy systems.
TIBCO, SONIC ESB, Kenan Service Broker (Mediation Zone), WEB LOGIC,
TUXEDO HPUX, Kenan FX 2.0
FEB06-Ongoing
THELASIS (Bangkok, Thailand)
CIO / Technical Director / Program Manger
Anthony was involved in several aspects of Thelasis. The company is primarily
concerned with offshore development of Telco projects specializing in Telco billing
systems (FX Kenan & Singl.eView) and their integration within the Telco
environment. Pioneering SIP based VOIP technologies, using a combination of open
source tools and technologies.
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT, STRATEGY, RECRUITMENT,
TECHNICAL DIRECTION
AUG05 –FEB06
COVANSYS / LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES (Rome, Italy)
Senior consultant / Technical management offshore development
Originally employed to supplement the management effort for the development and
deployment of the IPCentrix (VoIP) product developed by Covansys (CVNS) for
Lucent Technologies (LU) and deployed at Telecom Italia. This challenging project
uses the latest Voice over IP technologies and protocols including SIP and Parlay. The
development involved managing and coordinating project teams in China, India, US
and Italy and Spain.
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
FEB01-MAR05
SoftBolts Technology (London, England)
EAI / Architect and product developer / Project Manager / Business developer
This was a major development effort to design, develop this integration platform. Born
from work carried out originally for Ericsson then later for EDS. This work resulted in
the in the production of a real time EAI engine. Anthony was involved in the
Design, development and marketing of the Thunderbolt integration platform. The
system is essentially an integration server and TP monitor which may also be used for
B2B, B2C and other EAI projects spanning intranet and extranet domains, involving a
number of differing network media
Through this engagement Anthony designed and developed considerable parts of the
main system in C++ and Java as well as the Arbor/BP, JDBC and HTTP connector
sets. In the last year development has shifted to the implementation of web services
within the product and has involved the use of Java and sun’s JWSDP including J2EE,
SOAP and XML in Sun’s JAXB, JAXR, JAXM, JAXP, using TOMCAT Servlets as
Thunderbolt Integration server clients.
JAVA, J2EE, JWSDP, TOMCAT, XML, SOAP, ARBOR/BP & APIs, LINUX,
ORACLE, MYSQL, C & C++, NETWORKING HARDWARE CONFIGURATION.
JULY00 – JAN01
ANDERSEN CONSULTING / ACCENTURE (Paris, France)
VITRIA Support Team Manager / Technical Expert
Engaged to work on Accenture’s UPC project. During this time Anthony managed
the VITRIA middle-ware support team as well as to act as a technical expert on other
areas of this integration project for Accenture on this Multinational Telco Company.
Involving ARBOR/BP, CLARIFY and various other peripheral systems. The middleware solution chosen uses VITRIA technologies Business Ware and a number of
Java transformers and connectors.
During this engagement Anthony also developed significant parts of the solution
(workforce mgt tool ClickSchedule) using Vitria, Java and IDL.
KENAN-ARBOR/BP & APIs, TUXEDO SUN-UNIX, PRO-C, & ORACLE,
CLARIFY, VITRIA BUSINESS WARE, CORBA, JAVA, C
MAY00– JULY00
SMARTEN SOFTWARE (Rome, Italy)
Senior business development manager for VOI billing software
Hired to research and build awareness in the Asian markets for this state of the art
billing system provider. Target countries Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, China,
Philippines and Australia. During this period of time Anthony was based in Thailand
where he opened a temporary office. During this time he forged contacts and
alliances with local system integrators in each country and travelled to Singapore,
Philippines and Malaysia where he opened and organized Smarten permanent Asian
office. The project culminating with the Kuala Lumpur billing exhibition.
At the end of this fixed length contract Anthony was offered a permanent position
with the company.
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
APRIL00
EDS (Rome, Italy)
Interim Startup management/consultancy. After a period travelling in the far-east
Anthony was engaged to EDS/Rome for a 1 month consultancy to recruit and train
EDS members on a ARBOR/BP, Vantive, and UHPT integration project.
KENAN-ARBOR/BP & APIs, HP-UNIX, UHPT, VANTIVE
APRIL99 – DEC99
EDS (Paris, France)
Project Manager / Solution Architect / Middle-ware Specialist
Initially employed as consultant to help EDS France define the start-up phase of the
Lyonnaise Cable project. Then appointed as middle-ware Project Manager with
overall responsibility for integrating a number of different systems, including
Arbor/BP, with a Vantive application. During the project Anthony covered the roles
of project manager, team leader and developer. He was responsible for designing and
developing the solution. The resulting middle-ware solution integrates Arbor/BP,
Vantive, a mediation platform and delivery database. The system can be used to
model and re-model business events as required as well as extend its connectivity
though the development of other connectors.
KENAN-ARBOR/BP & APIs, KENAN-ARBOR/OM, HP-UNIX, C/C++, TCP-IP,
IPC, PRO-C, & ORACLE, VANTIVE, TUXEDO
NOV 98 – APRIL99
X-TENSION Ltd. (London, England)
Consultant / Integration / Middle-ware Specialist
Anthony was called back by X-Tension to work as a consultant on the Ericsson
Botswana Telecom (BTC) project . The work involved the use of Kenan Arbor/OM,
Kenan Arbor/BP, a bespoke Customer Trouble Ticketing (CTT) system built with
Remedy/ARS and the real time middle-ware integration system previously built by
himself. Further work involved analysis, design and configuration of Arbor/BP &
OM to meet deployment specific requirements for BTC as well as occasional
business analysis and consultancy work for Diamond Cable at their site in
Nottingham. This site deploying IBM’s Cable Master billing system with Tertio
provisioning on GTP and DMS switches.
HP-UX (UNIX), KENAN-ARBOR/OM, KENAN-ARBOR/BP & APIs, TERTIO
PROVISIONING, REMEDY, HP-UNIX, C/C++, TCP-IP, IPC, CORBA, PRO-C, &
ORACLE, SWITCHES (GPT & DMS)
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
MAY 98 – SEP 98
CONSULTANCY AND PROJECTS SRL (Rome, Italy)
Consultant
Working in Rome (Italy) for Consultancy & Projects Srl. On a pilot project to design
and implement trading/risk management software in Java C++ and using OOC’s
Corba 2. The project uses a distributed architecture and push technology on multiple
UNIX platforms.
Previous work with CPG involved carrying out upgrade modifications to credit card
transaction approval software, previously designed and (in part) implemented by
himself for CILME Srl. (the final client).
The upgrade, in two parts, involved modifications to ensure Euro/Lira currency
compatibility and an upgrade to the banking approval protocol module to adopt the
new ISO 8583 standard.
The credit card transaction approval software mediates between the credit card
issuing banks and the various points of sale (POS) systems residing with the vendors.
The system is capable of providing authorisations though a number of different
credit card agencies including AMEX, JCB, MC, VISA and supports different points
of sale systems including NEC and HGE.
SUN-UNIX, BANKING PROTOCOLS, C++, TCP-IP, ORACLE PRO-C, CGI,
CORBA, JAVA, HTML
NOV 97 – MAR 98
X-TENSION (London, England)
Consultant
Anthony worked for X-Tension (Brighton) on an Order Management (OM) billing
system integration project involving Remedy and Arbor/BP.
He was responsible for the overall solution, analysis, design and development of the
middle-ware system built to integrate the Remedy/ARS OM component to the Kenan
Arbor/BP system.
The resulting Middle-ware integration consists of three units: the middle-ware
engine, the Kenan/BP adapter and the Remedy adapter. Anthony was responsible for
the design and development of the engine and Arbor/BP adapter. The development
involved extensive use of IPC, Kenan Arbor/BP APIs and SQL/Pro ‘C’. Anthony is
now contracted out until the end of March to present, install and hand over the
project to Ericsson Stockholm (the final client).
HP-UNIX, C & C++, TCP-IP IPC, CORBA, KENAN-ARBOR BP & APIs,
REMEDY
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
MAR 97 - SEP 97
FINSIEL SPA (Rome, Italy)
Consultant / Team Leader
FINSIEL Spa. is part of the Telecom Italia group of companies. On this project
Anthony specified, designed and implemented an Intranet pilot project to be used as
the basis for further development. Development was carried out on a Sun Ultra
Spark stations. As team leader of a group of four Anthony Installed and configured
the web server and proceeded to develop three Web/Java applications including a
slide show engine, a system to access Telecom Italia’s SMS (Short Messaging
Service) interface and a stock quote/screening service.
SUN/OS, NETSCAPE, HTML, JAVA, C++ , CGI, CORBA, PERL
SEP 96 – FEB 97
TELECOM ITALIA (Rome, Italy)
Consultant
During this period Anthony has was employed to develop part of an Intranet
application for Telecom Italia Networks. Anthony's task was to develop and code a
Java application to connecting a Sybase customer database to an HTML/Java
browser based application. The project was carried out in a distributed environment
using Sun Sparc stations, JAVA and Orbix-Web’s CORBA technology.
C++ UNIX ORBIX-WEB
JUL 96 - AUG 96
JAVA
HTLM
SYBASE
TECNO MULTIMEDIALE SRL (Rome, Italy)
Consultant
After a further three months in the Philippines Anthony was engaged to resolve a
technical problem involving TCP/IP communications through serial port using a
free-ware product called TCOM.
TCOM substitutes the Microsoft Windows COM driver and enables window
applications to view an Ethernet card as a modem. The requirement was to enable
two applications to share the same port in a coherent manner. The solution finally
implemented was the development of windows serial port communications manager.
Developed in C++ this product, complete with documentation, has been distributed
to every Telecom Italia Mobile agent as part of the system used for telephone
contract signups.
MS WINDOWS FWG, MICROSOFT’S C++, MODEM, ETHERNET
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
JAN 96 - MAR 96
CONSULTANCY AND PROJECTS SRL (Rome, Italy)
Consultant
After three months in Australia Anthony was engaged to convert a Unix based
multi-user Fax server into a Telex server. The program was completed and installed
at the Italian Merchant navy headquarters (the final client).
C, UNIX AIX
JUL-95 TO SEP-95
CONSULTANCY & PROJECTS SRL (Rome, Italy)
Consultant
Anthony was engaged by C&P Srl. in Rome to port a FAX program from the SUN
Open-View environment to the Motif/X11 on HP workstation. Interfaces were
generated using UIMX 2.9. And RPC functions enabled communication between the
client and server parts of the application. A centralised server application running on
a separate platform across a network was responsible for sending all Faxes.
Communication between this and the Clients was achieved via RPC calls.
C, HP UNIX, X11, MOTIF, UIMX 2.9
SEP-94 TO JUN-95
DBC Live signal feed installation and set-up
Omega Trade-station software
VB and C
Trading system development
For the last 6 months Anthony has been developing programs used for the tracking
and estimating stock market movements. Anthony has been successfully day trading
stocks and Options on the US market. Using Data Broadcasting Corporation’s
(DBC) live feed Anthony has developed a number of programs both in Visual Basic
and in Omega Research Propriety Easy language.
During time considerable practical and theoretical experience has been accumulated
in the complexities of trading stock markets using electronic order placement
systems and statistical analysis packages.
MSFT VB, DBC FEEDS, C, MSFT WINDOWS, EASY LANGUAGE
OCT-94 TO DEC-95
TECNO MULTIMEDIALE SRL. (Rome, Italy)
Consultant
Anthony was engaged for a period of time to resolve technical issues involving
ODBC, Microsoft Access on MS Windows and DB/2 on OS/2. An application
created in Visual Basic (VB) running on MS Windows required access to data in a
DB/2 database. Interconnection between these two systems was achieved by the use
of an ODBC interface. Several performance issues had to be addressed including
some requiring the direct use of ODBC DLL functions.
MS WINDOWS FWG, OS/2, DB2, ODBC, ETHERNET
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
FEB-94 TO SEP-94
BOROS LTD. (London, England)
Design & Development.
Engaged as a consultant and developer for a project involving the development of a
stock keeping system similar to those found in many supermarkets. The system was
developed in C++ using object design and development methodologies. The system
incorporates multimedia elements including sound and images.
MS WINDOWS 3.1, VISUAL BASIC, ACCESS, PARADOX, VISUAL C++
OBJ
SEP-93
LASALTECH INC. (Bacolod City, Philippines).
Anthony is involved in organising an offshore software development centre in
collaboration with an already established company in the Philippines. The task
involved winning projects in Europe and carrying out the majority of the
development in the Philippines where labour costs are reduced. Anthony is involved
in both sales/client liaison and is also involved in some of the development aspects.
MAY-93 TO AUG-93
MICROSOFT, DATAPOINT, QANTAS (Sydney, Australia).
Software Consultant/Developer
In October 1992 Anthony decided to do some travelling. He first visited California,
then Asia and Australia. On his travels Anthony visited a number of software
companies and built up a large number of contacts. Once in Australia Anthony was
offered contract work with, Data-point. Through Data-point Anthony worked on
projects for Microsoft and Qantas.
A major part of work involved developing software for a telephony project using 'C'
on IBM PS/2s running the OS/2 operating system with Presentation Manager (PM).
The objective of the project was to deliver telephone calls with their associated
caller information to a human answering agent (CTI). A number of tricky interconnectivity problems between OS/2, Windows NT, SCO UNIX and AS/400
platforms were resolved.
The caller would call into an automated Voice Response Unit (VRU) and be
requested to enter his membership number. This number would then be verified
against an AS/400 based database. The caller would then be allowed to request
further information though the VRU or chose to be transferred to a live agent. On
requesting the agent transfer the call is queued on a software controllable Automatic
Call Distributor (ACD) and tracked along the queue by a SCO UNIX system. At the
same time a Windows NT database is queried for caller information. As the agent
answers the call the caller's details are married to the call and displayed on the
agent's terminal.
Anthony's task involved the development of a DLL module to be used by the
Intervoice software, running on the PS/2, for the transfer of caller ID via a serial line
to the UNIX host. The developed software involved two parts: the DLL to be loaded
and used by the Intervoice software and a serial server module. The implementation
involved the use of shared memory under OS/2. The project was completed
successfully and on schedule.
CTI, TELEPHONY, C, OS/2, SCO UNIX, WINDOWS NT, INTERVOICE VOICE
RESPONSE UNIT
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
FEB-92 TO APR-93
CHRYSALIS MULTIMEDIA LTD. (London, England)
Software Manager
In this role Anthony was responsible for the continued development of the
multimedia software department at Chrysalis. Responsible for some fifteen software
and graphics development staff.
Responsibilities ranged from advising management on software and hardware
related issues to recruitment of staff and purchase of software and hardware. During
this period Anthony was responsible for setting up software quality standards and
bridging the gap between sales led management and the technical development
team.
Considerable communication skills were acquired during this work. Technical skills
acquired were Windows 3.1 development using Microsoft C/C++, SDK, and MDK.
During the last months CD-RTOS (Philips CD-i technology) on a Sun OS (UNIX)
workstation environment.
C, C++, SDK, MDK, UNIX, SUN/OS
NOV-91 TO JAN-92
LLOYD'S OF LONDON (London, England)
Analyst/Designer Programmer.
During this short contract Anthony worked in the City of London to produce a
training Simulation of the forthcoming Electronic Placement Support (EPS) system.
The EPS system is a new introduction to the London insurance market. Utilising
IBM's LIMNET network it enables brokers to offer risk packages directly to the
underwriters at Lloyds. During this period Anthony gained substantial knowledge of
how the insurance brooking market operates.
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
JUL-91 TO OCT-91
CHRYSALIS INTERACTIVE LTD. (London, England)
Project Leader.
OS2 / LAN manager / OS/2 Presentation Manager
Again Chrysalis extended Anthony's contract for three more months. During part of
this period Anthony helped Chrysalis set up their CDI development kit based around
four SUN Spark Stations. Subsequently Anthony designed and implemented a
Presentation Manager Interface to the AVC synchronisation aid he had previously
developed for IBM.
During the last month and a half Anthony helped Chrysalis prepare IBM's exhibits
for Telecom 91, first on location at the IBM lab in La Gaude (South of France) and
subsequently at the PALEXPO exhibition centre in Geneva. During the preparation
to this exhibition, for which IBM had been working on for the last two years,
Anthony set up a network involving some forty PS/2 machines. The network
spanned two sites and involved two 16 Mbit Token Ring LANs and one FDDI
100Mbit WAN section interconnecting the LANs.
During this period Anthony gained an exposure to some of the latest technologies
including FFDI, ISDN and Ericsson's 2Gbit Broad Band technology with which
IBM had a joint demonstration. Finally Anthony wrote a major section of a proposal
for a Chrysalis bid based around DVI technology.
IBM, TOKEN, RING / IBM/C2, AVC.
JAN-91 TO JUN-91
CHRYSALIS INTERACTIVE LTD. (London, England)
Project Leader.
Chrysalis extended Anthony's contract, initially to help in the development of the
Colonial Mutual Group (CMG) training database and subsequently to develop a key
part of one of IBM's network exhibits for Telecom 91.
The first two months of the contract were spent analysing, and designing several
components of the CMG database. Subsequently the analysis work was handed over
to the implementation team. Several complex data integrity issues involving data
capture had been resolved. Finally Anthony designed and developed the data
capture component of the system.
The IBM project for Telecom 91 Anthony implemented software enabling an
exhibit to deliver a controlled performance of an audio-visual presentation running
concurrently across five audio-visual stations. Anthony was responsible for the
correct synchronisation of the five stations though his software as well as all the
network components of the project. Anthony designed and implemented a
synchronisation service enhancement to IBM's own Audio Visual Connection
(AVC) system. The synchronisation service uses Server/Client processes across an
IBM token ring network to co-ordinate the delivery of the five AVC stories. The
resulting work was then taken by IBM and further developed into a product.
OS/2, LAN MANAGER, OS/2, PROGRAMMING TOOLKIT, IBM TOKEN
RING, IBM/C2
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
SEP-90 TO DEC-90
CHRYSALIS INTERACTIVE LTD. (London, England)
Network Designer / Programmer and general support
During this period of time Anthony's role was one of general technical support.
During this time Anthony provided maintenance and technical support for
interactive video installations based at the various nuclear power station sites around
England. Subsequently Anthony designed and implemented a window based student
record keeping application for the Halifax building society.
Other tasks, which were carried out during this period, were the analysis and part
specification for a student database for the Colonial Mutual Insurance Group
(CMG).
The writing of client proposals for the CMG database and the network component
of the Stansted Airport information system and the costing of a possible project
involving a weather forecast exhibit.
Anthony was also used as a network consultant during a proposal made to IBM for
the production of several network oriented exhibits. The exhibits will appear at the
Telecom 91 exhibition in Geneva some time in summer 91. IBM accepted the
proposal and the contract has been awarded to Chrysalis. Most of the exhibits
involve the utilisation of IBM's new digital image and sound capture system known
as the AudioVisual Connection (AVC). The exhibits are based around the IBM PS/2
and various types of network technologies such as ISDN and TCP/IP.
MS-DOS, OS2, C
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
MAY-90 TO AUG-90
CONSULTANCY AND PROJECTS S.R.L. FOR BRITISH TELECOM
INTERNATIONAL (London, England)
Project Manager.
After a period of studies to complete his Honours Degree in Computer Science
Anthony was engaged by C. & P. in Rome (Italy) to help complete a project for
British Telecom International. He was overall responsible for the project. The
human resources consisted of two analyst programmers and three junior
programmers. His tasks were to co-ordinate the overall project as well as develop
certain modules.
The objective of the project was to produce a system which would enable radio calls
from ships, to be automatically connected to BT's land public switched telephone
network (PSTN) using custom built hardware provided by CIMAT s.p.a. The
coastal stations, receiving radio calls were linked together using an X25 based
network. A facility enabled each of the remote coastal stations to link up to the
central management unit in London in order to exchange subscriber information.
This was implemented by using the UNIX uucp facilities and modems. At each
coastal station, radio to PSTN connections were handled by a group of server
processes implemented using shared memory semaphores and message queues for
synchronisation.
Anthony was involved in designing and implementing several parts of the system,
including several server processes, the link to the central management unit and the
interface between some of the server process and the Informix database holding
customer information.
In his last week he commenced a feasibility study for the CONSOB a client of C&P.
The CONSOB is the Italian stock exchange control body. The hardware resources
consist of an AMDAHL mainframe several MicroVAX’s, PCs and a number of
AT&T 3B2s. These systems are distributed over several thin Ethernet local area
networks all linked together by one major thick Ethernet network. The study was to
establish the feasibility of creating an Ethernet network monitor.
SCO UNIX V 3.2 / C / INFORMIX SQL
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
AUG-89 TO OCT-89
BLACK ROD VIDEO INTERACTIVE SERVICES (London, England)
Senior Designer/Programmer.
During this period Anthony was contracted by BlackRod Video Interactive service
(a member of the Chrysalis group of companies) to work on an advanced interactive
video for the Colonial Mutual Group.
This project was of particular interest because of the nature of the system involved.
The interactive station besides providing the usual tuition delivered through
controlled viewing of a videodisk also recorded the user responses during the
leaning sessions.
This was achieved through the use of a micro video camera attached to a VHS
recorder. Anthony's tasks comprised the design and coding of several parts of the
program. The work was carried out following the interactive video script and
implemented using strict structured programming methodologies. The project was
awarded the prise for technological innovation by the British Interactive Video
Association (BIVA)
MSDOS / C
MAY-89 TO JUL-89
M.E.T. S.R.L. (Rome, Italy)
Project Manager
From the beginning of May to the end of July Anthony was in charge of a project for
MET s.r.l. in Rome, Italy. This assignment involved the setting up of a networked
medical database. Anthony was responsible for all aspects of this project, including
costing, designing, planning, purchasing and installing a fifteen station PC network
based around Novell's Netware.
The human resources comprised a team of four people for the development and
installation of the network and medical database. The project involved considerable
managerial skill in order to maintain it within the budget. The project was
completed successfully on schedule and within the budget.
NOVELL / C / RBASE
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
FEB-89 TO APR-89
CONSULTANCY & PROJECTS S.R.L. (Rome, Italy)
Systems Analyst / Programmer.
From January 89 to the end of April Anthony worked as a consultant for
Consultancy & Project Group in Rome.
During this assignment he developed a systems orientated application for the
CONSOB (The equivalent of the English stock exchange control body)
This project was initially developed on AT&T 3B2 machines and then at a more
advanced stage ported on to the CONSOB's AMDAHL (an IBM plug-compatible
mainframe) running under UTS (a UNIX V derivative).
The project involved the development of a batch job scheduler program. This
program would set off a number of batch jobs, which would run concurrently.
The batch scheduler would monitor the programs progress and report on their
outcome to the users.
A feature of the system developed, enabled it to monitor the mainframe's load so as
to maintain reasonable response times during the hours of peak load.
AT&T UNIX V 3.2 and UTS (AMDAHL UNIX) C / ORACLE
DEC-88
BLACK ROD VIDEO INTERACTIVE SERVICES. (London, England)
Consultant.
For a short period during this month Anthony was contracted by BlackRod Video
Interactive Services to do a hardware feasibility study in order to assess the
possibility of porting an interactive video application from a Sony View system to a
Philips leaning centre.
MSDOS, C
JUN-88 TO SEP-88
BLACK ROD VIDEO INTERACTIVE SERVICES. (London, England)
Designer / Programmer
From the beginning of June 88 to the end of September Anthony was contracted by
BlackRod Interactive Services a member of the Chrysalis Group plc. During this
period he developed a control system for an interactive video commissioned by the
Bank of England for its museum which was due to open some time in December
1988.
The project was developed in the 'C' language on Sony's PC based View system.
The system controlled a Sony video disk player and used a touch screen as input
interface. The project entitled "The Bank Today" was awarded the silver disk by the
British Interactive Video Association (BIVA).
MSDOS, C
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
JUN-87 TO NOV-87
MAXIS LTD. (London, England)
Designer / Programmer.
During this six-month period Anthony worked for a small company in SouthEast
London. During his placement with Maxis Ltd. he undertook both design and
programming work in 'C' language using a XENIX Based development system. The
project involved the development of a multi-lingual multi-currency financial
package.
SCO UNIX- XENIX / C
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