MARK WHITFIELD

Current

IT Technical Initiatives Manager at Insider Technologies Limited

Past

ITL Operations Products Manager at Insider Technologies Limited
Senior Development Engineer at Insider Technologies Limited
Lead Analyst at The Software Partnership / Deluxe Data International Operations (2007 - now FIS via EFD eFUNDS)

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Education

Bolton Institute of Higher Education (BIHE) - The University of Bolton. Deane Road, Bolton. BL3 5AB
Leigh College ( now Wigan & Leigh College )
Park High Secondary School

Hindley Green County Primary School

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

MARK WHITFIELD’s Summary

Currently employed as an IT Manager at Insider Technologies Limited in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester (UK).

My main area of expertise is HP NonStop (formerly Tandem Computers & COMPAQ Himalaya). This current role involves me with RTLX, Reflex, BASE24, BASE24-eps (formerly BASE24-es) & the certified integration of ITL's primary product set with leading Electronic Payment/Transaction applications & Enterprise Managers such as BMC Patrol (COMMAND/POST), TIVOLI & HP OpenView Operations (HP OVO) (for Windows). Also IBM WebSphere MQ Series queue monitoring, management, tracking and MI reporting.

RTLX (Real Time Log Extraction) is an ATM, POS & EMS monitoring product that enables multiple Browser based views for real-time alerting of transaction & interchange SLA issues, e.g. MasterCard, VISA & LINK. RTLX deploys lean extractor agents to the HP NonStop platform(s) to relay TLF, PTLF & EMS data to a Windows Server running MS SQL Server.

Previously employed at Deluxe Data International Operations, Runcorn, Merseyside (see NOTE below) in Electronic Banking & developing the sp/ARCHITECT (sp-architect) product & host interfaces. I also supported the Periphonics Voice Processing systems (VOS) (bought by NORTEL in 1999) & interfaces developed for GiroBank in Denmark.

NOTE : The Software Partnership (TSP) was bought out by Deluxe Data to become Deluxe Data International Operations in 1994 (based in Runcorn in the UK). This in turn then became eFUNDS (EFD) in 2000 which recently became Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) in 2007. The UK based wing of FIS is based in Daresbury in Warrington (UK) - see link below.

- http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/tsp.html

A LinkedIn GROUP has been set-up for original employees of The Software Partnership & Deluxe Data International Operations in Runcorn.

Contact me through 'My Website' (link at bottom of page).

MediaCity:UK (BBC) Photo Timeline Webcam :
www.mawhitfield.com/mcuk.htm

MARK WHITFIELD’s Specialties:

Programming :
(HP NonStop formerly Tandem Computers & COMPAQ NonStop Himalaya):
ASP.NET, .NET, C#, Visual Basic, TAL, C, C++, COBOL85, SCOBOL (Screen COBOL), COBOL74, TACL, NonStop & Microsoft SQL
NSK Utilities – SCF, ENSCRIBE, TMFCOM, SPOOLCOM, PATHCOM, PATHWAY, PERUSE, PUP, INSPECT, MEASURE, EMS etc. also XPNET, BASE24, BASE24-eps

O/S :
HP NonStop Server (formerly TANDEM & COMPAQ Himalaya) GUARDIAN with PATHWAY on K, S, Integrity series
(C, D & G GUARDIAN Operating Systems)
WINDOWS

MARK WHITFIELD’s Experience

IT Technical Initiatives Manager

Insider Technologies Limited

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Market Research industry)

May 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)

Employed as a Project Manager & Pre-sales Technical Consultant. This role enables me to remain technically ‘hands-on’ for any issues or software initiatives that may arise for the company’s primary product set;

Project management of complete software development life-cycle for new product initiatives
Providing technical assistance in support situations
Production of functional design documents, installation scripts & program specifications for any new or proposed NSK developments
A key part in major NSK sales bids in UK & abroad which also includes presenting to ITL's IT Partners like Insession (now re-joined with ACI)
On-Site at Crestco (now Euroclear) developing benchmarking software
Providing 24x7 support (team) for Thales e-SECURITY products; Security Resource Manager (SRM) which runs on NSK platform & both SafeSign Authentication & SafeSign Management Server which run on Windows & Unix platforms. These products provide for request & response of Cryptographic functions.
ITL Operations Products Manager

Insider Technologies Limited

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1998 — May 2000 (2 years )

Product Manager assigned to project manage the complete development life-cycle for 4 software products, 2 HP NonStop based and 2 Windows based. This software has its main focus in the system management, automation and SLA monitoring of critical path applications running on hp NonStop systems at major financial and telecommunications institutions around the world.

These products are developed by ITL and their ongoing research, design and delivery make up the primary day-to-day role of a Product Manager at ITL, with any issues being reported directly to the Operations Director. This role involves the project management of each development phase of the products and the use of Microsoft Project (in conjunction with Outlook) for tracking progress and reporting status. It is also the responsibility of the Product Manager to provide technical guidance and leadership to assigned team members.
Senior Development Engineer

Insider Technologies Limited

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 1995 — June 1998 (2 years 11 months)

Recruited as a senior hp NonStop developer to aid in the team leading of a number of staff responsible for adding new functionality to an existing ITL software product.

In 1997 placed at CRESTCo (now Euroclear) in London for 3-months (contracted out as a consultant by Insider Technologies Limited) producing volume testing and benchmark software. This software was used to test the performance of the CRESTCo Stock Settlement application on newly installed S7000 G Series hp NonStop systems (first delivered in the UK). The results were compared against the live K series systems running the same application.

http://www.insidertech.co.uk
Lead Analyst

The Software Partnership / Deluxe Data International Operations (2007 - now FIS via EFD eFUNDS)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1990 — August 1995 (5 years )

The Runcorn office started as The Software Partnership (Norton House, Crowngate & then Wingate House in 1992, Northway) in the mid-80's (co-founded by Nigel Walsh) but purchased in 1994 by American company Deluxe Electronic Payment Systems. This in turn is part of Deluxe Corporation which is one of the largest cheque printers & debit transaction processors in the US, & a major supplier of secure card management systems (now FIS (2007) but was also eFunds International EFD - based in Daresbury, Warrington). TSP started out developing on-line banking systems for Tandem & UNIX.

Involved in developing Electronic Banking software subsequently installed at a number of major banks (including Barclays Bank & RBS) allowing corporate customers to obtain information about their various accounts & make payments electronically using a PC. I also worked on-site at Barclays (Radbroke Hall) Knutsford & Wimborne Road, Poole - Dorset.

http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/thesoftwarepartnership1.html

MARK WHITFIELD’s Education

Bolton Institute of Higher Education (BIHE) - The University of Bolton. Deane Road, Bolton. BL3 5AB

BTEC HND Distinction , Computing , 1988 — 1990

The HND course I attended at BIHE was a 2-year, full-time course made up of the following modules :

Computer Systems Architecture
Programming Methodology Theory / Practice (VAX)
Data Processing
Business Studies
Quantitative Techniques
Systems Analysis
Business Information Systems Theory / Practice

My final year project consisted of an ORACLE SQL-forms designed GUI interface running under an MS-DOS operating system. The GUI interface provided traditional insert, update, delete and transaction rollback facilities for recording information about students attending courses at BIHE, along with their module assignment and exam result details. The student data was held in an ORACLE SQL database set-up on a PC local to the application. The tables were designed in accordance with Third Normal Form (TNF) design methodology in order to cancel out repeating student data. Systems analysis work was carried out using SSADM.

http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/bihemain.html (BIT)
Leigh College ( now Wigan & Leigh College )

A Levels , English, Biology & Computing , 1985 — 1988

Marshall Street,
LEIGH,
Lancashire,
UK.
WN7 4HX

My ‘A’ Level Computing Project was developed on a Amstrad PC 1512 and was written in Turbo Pascal. The software provided a means for a local town newspaper to store, track and calculate the money payable to delivery staff based on paper round metrics. These metrics related to size of round, papers delivered and any leaflets attached to a delivery for that week.
http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/alevelcomputingcourse.html

My ‘O’ Level Computing Project was developed on a LINK 480Z Research Machine and was written in Extended BASIC. Three submissions were required with appropriate design and testing. The excerpts below show details of a BASIC program for storing and displaying student exam results.

http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/olevelcomputingcourse.html
http://www.wigan-leigh.ac.uk/
Park High Secondary School

O Levels 1980 — 1985

Park High Secondary School (Park High School)
(formerly Hindley and Abram Grammar School now PDC)
Park Road,
Hindley,
WIGAN,
Lancashire,
UK.
WN2 3RY

http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/overview.html#ResumeParkHighSchool

Activities and Societies:

Chess Club, Art Club
Hindley Green County Primary School

General 1975 — 1980

Hindley Green County Primary School
(now Hindley Green Community Primary School)
Thomas Street,
Hindley Green,
WIGAN,
Lancashire,
UK.
WN2 4SS

http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/overview.html#ResumeHGCPS
http://www.hindleygreen.wigan.sch.uk/

Additional Information

MARK WHITFIELD’s Interests:

Golf ( Marriott Worsley Park Golf Course ), Badminton, Photography, Website Technologies, Tennis, Movies ( My Top 100 - http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/mytop100.html ), MediaCity:UK Salford Quays Manchester - Home to the BBC 2011

MARK WHITFIELD’s Groups:

- ITUG (International Tandem User Group),
- SATUG (Southern African Tandem User Group),
- BITUG (British Isles Tandem User Group) & SIG,

LinkedIn Group Moderator for :
- EBUG (European BASE24 User Group) & TFG,
- The Software Partnership / Deluxe Data International Operations (RUNCORN),
- Bolton Institute of Higher Education BIHE ( University of Bolton ),
- Leigh College UK (Marshall Street & Railway Road),
- Park High Secondary School & Hindley and Abram Grammar School,
- Salford Quays and MediaCityUK,
- Worsley Park Golf Course (UK),
- Temples of Siem Reap - Cambodia,
- Insider Technologies Limited (ITL) - Salford Quays

Tandem Alumni
Facebook.com
DotNetNuke Community
IT Specialist (27,000+ Information Technology Professionals)
Project Manager Networking Group
.NET People
eMarketing Association Network
Banking and Finance Technologies
Open Source Universe
HP NonStop Tandem Professionals
The Software Partnership / Deluxe Data International Operations, sp/ARCHITECT-BANK - Runcorn UK
HP Technology Fans
Payment Systems Network
LinkedNW
University of Bolton & Bolton Institute (BIHE), Deane Road
EMEA BASE24 (BASE24-eps) User Group (EBUG) - For the Users of Products of ACI Worldwide
PRINCE2 Project Management and Managing Successful Programmes MSP (4000+)
COBOL Professionals (a.k.a. Grace Hopper Appreciation Society)
Microsoft Business Intelligence
Information Security Experts
BASE24 & BASE24EPS COMMUNITY
Payment Card Industry Network
Tandem User Group
Mobile Software Development Group
ACI Worldwide Alumni
MQSeries
Job Batch Scheduling on HP NonStop Guardian or OSS, ServerNet, Integrity and Itanium
Park High Secondary School & Hindley and Abram Grammar School, Park Road
MediaCityUK BBC North Salford Quays Peels MediaCityUK BBC ITV QVC University of Salford NWDA BOVIS
Insider Technologies Software House, Salford Quays, Manchester - near Peel's MediaCityUK (BBC North)
HP NonStop Tandem Open System Services ( OSS ) Monitoring - Users, Experts and Technical Authorities
Temples of Siem Reap (Cambodia)
Southern African NonStop™ Server User Group (SATUG)
ITUG
TV Researchers
Payments & Cards Network
Payments Experts
Payment and Fraud Professionals
Connect HP User Group Community
Transaction, Payments, EMS, XML, JMX, OSS & Message Monitoring & Tracking HP NonStop Windows & Unix
BASE24-eps, HP NonStop Open System Services (OSS) and Real-Time XML Monitoring - Experts and Users
Wimbledon Tennis
Classic Film Scenes and Moments
Tailored Custom Bespoke Software Development Solutions for HP NonStop Tandem, Windows, Unix & Linux
Manchester Digital
Base 24 Classic/EPS Consultants
Real Time View
Friends of BBC R&D North
BASE24 Networking and Careers