Brian's Employment History

Independent Training/Consultancy & Technical Writing

As a sole trader, this role had me travelling Europe and beyond delivering training, troubleshooting project bottlenecks and seemingly intractable technical problems, delivering technical talks at conferences and user group meetings, working on development projects, mentoring developers, developing reports on systems with regard to current status, identified problems, ways forward and background information on the problems and solutions therein. This role involved many technologies including Delphi, COM, DCOM, C++, .NET, C#, interop.

Contract Delphi developer/consultant, BAE Systems, Somerset

Brought in as a key Delphi technical resource for a client's scheduling project.

Used as go-to troubleshooting resource.

Regularly used as lone skunkworks developer for side projects to shore up the integrity of the testing and continuous integration systems for this comprehensive project.

Contract C# developer, UBS Investment Bank, London

Main developer in a splinter team building side projects off the main department flagship product, typically C# ASP.NET web sites using JavaScript, AJAX, Flex, Delphi and Sybase technologies.

Key achievements:

• Initiating RAD solutions to optimise department workflow
• Implementing a system that allows automatic UI-based testing of grid-based modules
• Assisting other teams with low-level debugging techniques on production machines
• Offering online company-wide support on .NET and database support tools

Borland International (UK) Limited

Borland was a pioneer in the use of object-oriented technology and at one time was the world's leading supplier of development tools for personal computers.

• Technical Sales Consultant, all products, May 1994 to January 1995.
• Languages Product Manager, January 1994 to May 1994.
• Developer Program Manager, October 1993 to May 1994, in parallel with above position.
• Technical Support Specialist, May 1990 to October 1993.

Other Employment

Contract Applications Programmer, Apr 1990-May 1990, PPG Ltd., Slough.

Designing and implementing a world-wide forecasting spreadsheet system in Microsoft Excel.

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