The Anvil Organisation Ltd.
Swindon, United Kingdom
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- Chippenham Contact at NO2ID
- Director at The Anvil Organisation Ltd.
- Comms Officer at Ogri MCC
- Western Region Chairman at Motorcycle Action Group (UK)
- Past
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- Senior Systems Engineer at Motorola ECID
- Software Developer at Advanced Digital Technology (UK) Ltd
- Software Developer at Creativity Software Limited
- Motorcycle courier at C+C Express
- Maintenance Engineer at Huddersfield Polytechnic Student Union
- Software Developer at BICC
- Mechanic/Salesman at Cotswold Camping
- Education
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- The University of Huddersfield
- Hereford Cathedral School
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Andrew Meredith’s Summary
Open Source Systems Mentoring for Small Businesses
Andrew Meredith’s Specialties:
Linux Systems Administration
IT Training
Information Systems Design and Installation
TCP/IP Networking Design and Installation
Andrew Meredith’s Experience
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Chippenham Contact
NO2ID
(Political Organization industry)
December 2005 — Present (2 years 6 months)
The local contact simply ensures that there is a local face for the NO2ID group. The Chippenham area is currently sparsely populated with active supporters, so we tend to back up the nearby Swindon group's activities. However, we did get the District Council to approve a motion preventing the use of the National Identity Register as a mechanism for accessing local services.
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Director
The Anvil Organisation Ltd.
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1999 — Present (8 years 6 months)
As the owner/operator I look after all aspects of the company, from sales and strategy, tax, accounts and other red tape through to answering the phones. I also, sometimes it would seem almost as a sideline, ensure that my customers receive a first class service and that their IT infrastructures keeps humming away supporting their businesses. This involves keeping a daily close eye on the logs and notification emails and making sure that any service alerts from my companies monitoring system are handled swiftly and without any actual user affecting incident.
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Comms Officer
Ogri MCC
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
August 1998 — Present (9 years 10 months)
Ogri MCC is a Motorcycle Club that started in 1978 in Germany. I am currently the Comms Officer and look after all things geek for the club.
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Western Region Chairman
Motorcycle Action Group (UK)
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Political Organization industry)
April 1985 — Present (23 years 2 months)
The Motorcycle Action Group is a political pressure group for bikers in the UK. It tries to prevent mindless negative regulation and promote positive moves to promote biking as a pleasurable and green way of getting about the place.
As usual in groups of this kind you don't just get one position, you keep getting them till you learn to duck at the right moment.
I was elected Comms Officer for the Western Region and as such gained a place on the regional committee over a decade ago now; in fact I'm not quite sure when it was. This position is to try and promote electronic communications within the region. With it comes the stewardship of the regional mailing lists.
I was elected chairman of the Western Region at the 2007 AGM. All I have to do for this role is stop the rest of the committee from killing each other 6 times a year ;)
For the national organisation I look after the creation of local and regional web sites and email aliases as well as the national mailing lists. -
Senior Systems Engineer
Motorola ECID
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
February 1992 — April 2000 (8 years 3 months)
Requirements, design, implementation, installation, training, administration, user feedback for both Software Engineering projects and IT systems. Represented Motorola at European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). Internal consultant to other departments on IT issues.
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Software Developer
Advanced Digital Technology (UK) Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1989 — February 1992 (2 years 8 months)
Design, implementation and subsequent support for a number of bespoke UNIX systems. Using C, Bourne Shell, Sculptor 4GL & SQL, Informix SQL & C-ISAM.
Telephone support for:
* PCs
* Printers
* VDUs
* Bespoke Systems
* UNIX
* MSDOS
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Software Developer
Creativity Software Limited
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1988 — July 1989 (11 months)
Co-operating with Technical Director on Design, implementation and extension of a PC based graphical planning tool for senior executives, written in Turbo Pascal. From February 1989 I spent a proportion of my time with clients, installing and updating their systems and discussing future extensions. I was involved in the logistical planning for several Board level computer based conferences. I also set up the conference equipment and provided on-site technical assistance.
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Motorcycle courier
C+C Express
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
April 1988 — September 1988 (6 months)
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Maintenance Engineer
Huddersfield Polytechnic Student Union
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)
April 1987 — September 1987 (6 months)
Overhauling and repairing the Huddersfield Polytechnic Students Union PA system. The system was an 11 kW Soundcraft/Marten Audio/Rauch set-up.
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Software Developer
BICC
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
April 1984 — September 1984 (6 months)
Writing a Stock Control Package on an HP Touch screen Micro.
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Mechanic/Salesman
Cotswold Camping
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
April 1978 — April 1982 (4 years 1 month)
Mechanic/Salesman for Outdoor Pursuits equipment and Bicycles.
Andrew Meredith’s Education
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The University of Huddersfield
BEng, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, 1984 — 1988
Final Year Options:
Electronic Design
Communication Systems
VLSI Systems
Computer Engineering
Intelligent Systems
Final Year Project:
Designing, building and testing a high quality stereo active 3-way
cross-over network for use in a 3-way hi-fi amplifier or a PA system.- Activities and Societies:
- Student Union "Ents Crew", Motorcycle Club, Rock Society
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Hereford Cathedral School
O & A Levels 1977 — 1984
- Activities and Societies:
- Stroke for the School Rowing Team, Captain of the School Shooting Team, School Monitor
Additional Information
Andrew Meredith’s Websites:
Andrew Meredith’s Interests:
Geeking with new technology, Riding my Motorbike, Films and Music, Growing things in the garden that I can eat
Andrew Meredith’s Groups:
Motorcycle Action Group, IET, BCS, Ecademy, Wired West
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Ogri MCC Friends & Family member
Andrew Meredith’s Honors:
Elected Corporate Member of IEE, now IET
Elected Corporate Member of British Computer Society
Elected Member of the Engineering Council
Andrew Meredith’s Contact Settings
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