Mark Griffin FBCS CITP

Current

Managing Director at Cyberpoint Limited (UK)
Social Organiser at British Mensa

Past

Engineer in Charge at Cray Research
Telecomms Technician at Royal Air Force

Education

St John's School, Singapore

Recommended

22 people have recommended Mark

Connections

195 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

www.cyberpoint.co.uk

Mark Griffin FBCS CITP’s Summary

I have been a web evangelist since 17th March 1995 when I started my company to provide consultancy and create web sites. This was one week after Tim Berners-Lee held a press conference at CERN to present the World Wide Web to an audience of 250 journalists from all over Europe. Back then there were just 16,000 web sites.

In that time I have serviced more than one hundred clients including: Sinclair Research, The Falkland Islands Government, the Adam Smith Institute, and the AEEU (now called Unite). For each of them, I created their first-ever web site, something I am proud to have done for scores of other clients as well. The type of sites created includes e-commerce, membership and subscription based sites, hotels and tourism, small scale retail, magazines, and business to business.

My focus has always been on the user experience, matching technical advances to the limitations of a typical personal computer and, in the early days, very slow modems. My approach with clients is first to understand their needs, and then to introduce ideas that will help them achieve their goals. By working closely with them to develop the requirements, I can ensure that their sites are exactly what they want, are as user-friendly as they can be, and are delivered on-time and to-budget. I have also provided straight-forward consultancy, written and delivered training courses, spoken at seminars and presented clients’ sites in person to HM The Queen and HRH Prince Charles.

On the management side, I am an excellent team leader, able to motivate and organise, with great communication skills, and with a relaxed and easy going manner. On the technical side, I am fully adept at hand-coding html and css, hacking php, javascript and unix codes, am conversant with accessibility and other industry standards, and performing systems maintenance on Unix-based servers. I use Drupal, Photopaint, Quark, Homesite and the usual MS Office products amongst other applications.

Mark Griffin FBCS CITP’s Specialties:

Management, leadership, creativity, imagination, anything to do with the web

Mark Griffin FBCS CITP’s Experience

Managing Director

Cyberpoint Limited (UK)

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

March 1995 — Present (14 years 5 months)

Managed all aspects of running the business; finding new clients: client liaison: job definition: web site design and creation: installation and testing: updating and maintenance: troubleshooting: installing and configuring software: hacking code as required: personnel recruitment, management and training: accounting: taxation and financial management and reporting.
Social Organiser

British Mensa

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

July 1987 — Present (22 years 1 month)

Chairman of International Licensing Committee - A volunteer role for Mensa International, vetting proposals for commercial activity from international Mensa organisations and dealing with issues that arise from unauthorised use of the Mensa name and reputation.

Special Interest Groups Officer - During a term that lasted ten years, I reorganised and promoted an activity that had 2,500 members in 80 groups at the start into one that had 12,500 members in more than 100 groups. I wrote the manual that group leaders still use and built this up into the leading activity for members of the Society. Also wrote the rule book for on-line groups.

Organiser of annual Mensa At Portmeirion Weekend - Running this for at least a dozen years, a large group of us take over all the accommodation at Portmeirion for a weekend of fun and games.
Engineer in Charge

Cray Research

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CRI; Computer Hardware industry)

February 1985 — March 1995 (10 years 2 months)

A senior hardware engineer responsible for all aspects of support on multi-million pound supercomputers, including planning and installing new systems at customer sites. Work to a very high standard under great pressure.

Skilled at: fault finding to component level, writing and use of machine-code diagnostics, higher-level programing and system diagnostics, analysis of system dumps, repair of circuit boards, disk drives, and ancilliary equipment, maintenance of power generators and refrigeration plant.

Worked on: Cray-1 serial no 1, other Cray 1's, XMPs, YMPs, C90s, T3Ds and a pile of smaller stuff, working with COS, UNICOS, Unix, C++, MSDOS.

Worked at: AWE Aldermaston, ECMWF, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, AERE Harwell, RARDE Fort Halstead, RAE Farnborogh, Met Office Bracknell, ADNOC and many others.
Telecomms Technician

Royal Air Force

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

March 1973 — February 1985 (12 years)

Served for twelve years in the Royal Air Force as a technician working on radio transmission equipment and digital control equipment. Head of a team in the Falkland Islands shortly after the 1982 war and reorganised the section looking after vital radio transmitters. Did this so well I was then tasked with setting up a management cell for the unit.

Skilled at: operating and maintaining communications equipment, repairing equipment to component level, firing guns and tossing grenades.

Worked on: HF, VHF, UHF transmitters and receivers, digital control and communications equipment, mainframe computers.

Worked at: RAF Buchan, RAF Gutersloh, RAF Locking, RAF High Wycombe, RAF Kinloss, RAF Stanley