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Julian D. R. Griffin

More than 20 years IT experience. 

An IT Expert
England ~ South Coast
Mobil: 07787 528 328
JulianGriffin@HotMail.com
 3rd June 1961 ~ British ~ Male 

 

 

         A patient, persevering and talented Systems Engineer / Analyst with a high degree of intellectual & logical skills, well able to solve business and system problems.

         A talented Systems consultant with more than
20 years IT experience. A skilled professional in analysis, specification, design and implementation of complex business systems. Accustomed to structured methodologies in a creative and innovative environment. Experienced at all stages of product Life Cycle management, from conception through design, implementation, maintenance and revision.

 

 

Major Achievements:

Company

Designed, wrote, installed & maintained desktop maintenance systems (Application delivery and control). 

Office

Designed & installed a number of office control and automation systems.

Retail

Designed, wrote & installed an EPoS (Electronic Point of Sale) system.

Training

Trained - individuals, schools and companies in effective IT operations.

Education

Designed & wrote a multi-user “Seminar Booking” & “Mailing” system.

Flight Simulation

Implemented new off-line Processing and Editing methods.

Manufacturing

Maintained a “Design Control” & “Change Management” system

 

 

Employment History:

Systems Consultant

JPMorgan Chase
(Bank)

98 - 02
Supplied by Hays IT

Wrote the Polices & Practices for application delivery (NT & NAL), also police quality.

Designed an improved application delivery system (NT & McAfee).

Designed and maintained a documentation system (Lotus Notes) for application integration.

Orchestrated the move to Novells NAL application delivery system.

 

Systems Analyst

British American Tobacco
(Manufacturer)

97 - 10 month
Supplied by ATM

Wrote Polices & Practices for application delivery (McAfee)

Re-wrote McAfees application delivery system adding a number of control functions.

 

Systems Consultant

The Nuffield Trust
(Hospital charity)

97 - 1 month

Specified and implemented an Intranet system (Windows 95).

Installed &/or upgraded all hardware & software.

 

Systems Analyst

United Friendly
(Insurance)

95 - 97
Supplied by ATM

Implemented McAfees inventory system.

Trained IT staff in McAfees desktop menuing system.

 

Systems Consultant

ATM
(Professional Services provider)

95 - 00

Main responsibilities listed above.

Performed a number of short-term consultancies to a variety of companies.

 

Systems Analyst

The Findhorn Foundation
(Educational Charity)

95 - 3 month
Secondment from The Body Shop

Designed and wrote a Course Booking & Mailing system.

 

Principal Retail Engineer

The Body Shop Int. PLC
(Cosmetics producer, distributor and retailer.)

91 - 95

Designed and implemented an EPoS system.

Supported all retail systems (Head Office and Branches).

 

Computer Systems Engineer

IMACS
(Flight simulator contractors for Military and Civil.)

88 - 91

Technical Assistant to managing director - providing assessments & reports.

Designed and wrote the in-house invoicing system.

Worked with Rediffusion engineers on four major simulation projects (inc. Training).

 

Retail Consultant

C.J.E. Micros
(Microcomputers and Accessories retailer.)

85 - 88

Special responsibility for customer support. (Software and hardware problems).

 

Technical Clerk

Weir Electronics
(Power supplies and VDU manufactured for Military and Civil.)

81 - 84

All clerical tasks in the drawing office. (Data entry, Parts system, Design Mod system & QC).

 

 

Education:

Novell, NAL, NT, McAfee,

A number of In-house Courses   

ATM   

95-00

MS Packages ~ Word, Excel, etc, …

A number of In-house Courses   

Body Shop Training   

93-95

Software Projects / Planning / Execution, QA,

Approaches to Software Project Management (PM686)

Open University   

92

Engineering ~ Electronics, Workshop, Maths (Traditional), Technical Drawing.

City and Guilds in Engineering [CREDIT]

Chichester College   

79-80

Maths (Modern), Physics, …

2 O-Levels & 5 CSEs   

Westergate School   

75-78

 

 

Experience:

Operating Systems :

Windows NT, Windows 98, DOS, Apple Mac, MPX

Hardware :

IBM PC, SEL 32/67-77

Languages :

High

VB5, Power Script, FoxPro (Windows), Batch, SkyBol (4GL)

Low

Z80, 6502, ARM (RISC), R2000 (CISC)

Packages :

Design

MS Project, EasyCase, EasyFlow, TurboCad

Office

MS Office (Word, Excel ), WordPerfect, Lotus 123, Lotus Notes

Database

MS Access, Clipper, FoxPro (Windows), dBase, Filemaker

Graphics

AutoDesk Animator, AuthorWare, Coral Draw

DTP

MS Publisher, Serif Page

Web MS Frontpage

Utils.

WinZip, Xtree, Corefast, etc,

Networks :

LAN

Novell, Windows, LANtastic, NetWare Lite

WAN

Excellenet

Delivery

NAL, McAfee

Comms

PC AnyWhere, Kermit, ProComm +

 

 

Other Information:

 

I led a team that entered a Table Tennis robot competition (At the world championships in Brussels we came 4th).

I worked in a two-man team to design of a single board computer.

I have a private network for practice and training (Windows XP / NT / ME / 98 / 95)

I enjoy all types of problems and intellectual games.