IT Engineer at Brimar Ltd
Manchester, United Kingdom
IT Engineer at Brimar Ltd
Manchester, United Kingdom
Responsible for the development and management of varied data warehousing and processing systems, including MS Access databases, Cincom MRP/ERP Systems. Successfully undertook the extraction and migration of data from Cincom MRP systems into external data warehouses, and developed over 180 custom databases covering everything from product development to QA tracking systems.
Cincom MRP/ERP Systems Management
MS Access Database programing
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Managing all systems on site; servers, PCs, AS400 running MAPICS. Advising and implementation of IT policy. Support of the network and systems infrastructure. Documenting and streamlining of all business IT strategies.
(Computer Hardware industry)
December 2005 — Present (4 years )
Created the www.tekguru.co.uk web site in December 2000 and this was replaced in turn in December 2005 with www.4winmobile.com. The site caters for all Windows Mobile users offering a discussion forum, news and extensive reviews of new hardware and software.
In October 2003 I was awarded the status of MVP (Most Valuable Professional) in Mobile Devices by Microsoft and that status has been re-awarded each year since.
(Law Enforcement industry)
April 2005 — August 2008 (3 years 5 months)
Employed as a Systems Architect; designing application, infrastructure and storage technologies to support business goals. This necessitates an ability to translate business priorities, employ a project-based mentality and an innate ability to converse with the various business areas to relate technical issues and solutions in a language that they understand.
Have created and implemented solutions to consolidate and migrate ERP solutions (Saving in excess of £120K pa), designing the infrastructure, data migration schedule and managing the entire project. The major benefits from the successful completion of this project included a 70% cost saving in return for a 49% increase in delivery performance within the organisation.
(Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)
October 1998 — April 2005 (6 years 7 months)
Conducted support of the network and systems infrastructure, based on Windows NT4 and Cincom CONTROL software. Running under VMS on a DEC Alpha.
Windows Mobile Devices, communications technology
Microsoft MVP - Mobile Devices