Project management & consultancy
See Comtech & MiiD below plus
Leith Facilities: The production of an inhouse project management style, training and documentation.
RoboVend: The production of an inhouse project management style, training and documentation.

Training
See Comtech below plus
Public courses: Fifteen years of delivering productivity & business process focused IT & business courses: Cashflow on Excel, Smarter Surfing, ACT for sales managers, Stock profiling & sales analysis.

Fermat & ROME project & job control implementations
Creative Advertising: The creation from scratch of a 30 user client server job & project control system with accounting ledgers. Client has doubled turnover in last two years due to better control over business.
Barrington Johnson Lorains: Converted 30 staff members from a paper based system to a fully computerised system in 10 weeks with minimal disruption to managing accounts such as Granada, Little Chef & Royal Armouries. Media despatch module revolutionised the ad placement process.
Cheetham Bell: Core accounting & job control modules saw this agency from a 4 man band to the top ten NW agency it is today, handling accounts such as Manchester United & Vimto.
Radford Advertising: Off the shelf job control with purchase management but with the addition of a bespoke traffic handling system.
Nickson Davies: A time recording implementation for a large firm of quantity surveyors.
Fichtner Engineering: A job booking & documentation tracking system for a consulting civil engineers running multiuser over geographically seperated sites.

Project management, consultancy, training & software development mentoring: Comtech - embedded comms & web systems
Acted as project manager & software development team manager. Responsible for all aspects (pre-sales technical input, proposals, analysis, design, coding, testing, delivery, implementation, deployment) of human interface software in embedded communications systems projects as well as all personnel issues for team, implementation of technical quality standards company wide (20 engineers) for ISO9001 & TickIT systems, implementation of key skills training and core software product development.
Pub monitoring: Client is billion pound turnover supplier of drinks dispense systems. Led project to build server side systems to collect, collate, alarm & report on data from over 400 sensors in each pub every five minutes. N-tier architecture to ensure availability, manage the volume of data, analysis requests and web accesses. Roll out to UK pub network ongoing.
Oil well monitoring: Sucessfully leveraging pub monitoring components, applied to oil well heads. Systems currently deployed in north Egypt and Aberdeen.
Gaming machine messaging: Implemented system to relay fruit machine data back to the games designers in secure & robust manner. Deployed around UK and Germany.
Communications protocol: Designed and created the new version of the embedded modules communications protocol, improving speed, reliability, scalability and development times. Patents pending.

Product development: Manchester Insitute for Information Delivery (MiiD)- online learning & interactive training systems
Acted as project manager & software development team manager. Responsible for all aspects (pre-sales technical input, proposals, analysis, design, coding, testing, delivery, implementation, deployment) of web based learning systems.
The GO course: The largest online training course in Europe with over 10,000 active students. We were responsible for the technical infrastructure, project managed all things technical & led the development staff that created the systems that delivers the course over the web and runs the back office. Used as a reference site by IBM for our early use of DB2 on Linux, presenting at IBM conferences in Europe.
KeySkills: Production of a general purpose kit for the creation of online learning environments for a consortium of nine further education colleges in the Greater Manchester area. We oversaw the technical side of the project, was responsible for the design of the kit to client requirements, managed the development team, and delivered the training to the client.
Dept of Education, MMU: Requirements from DfE meant that over 1300 questionnaires auditing ICT knowledge had to be distributed, completed, returned and analysed in the first week of a new intake of student teachers. We developed a web-based tool to allow the department to create their own questionnaires, which fed data back in to a database system for them to analyse.

Software & Web development
Air Accidents Investigation Board: Creation of the document handling system and integration in to the main database system.
Cancer Tissue Bank Research Centre: A bespoke sample tracking and results tracing system
Leek United Building Society web presence: A small society currently taking over £1.4m per quarter via its web presence, we are responsible for the technical services that go in to achieving this.
Cardex: Project manager & development team manager of a 50 user client server patient & clinical management system at the Manchester Heart Centre at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. This system is ranked at functionality level 5 out of a 6 point scale (most at level 3).
InTouch: Local authority focused contact & business intelligence system using a highly graphical user interface on a classic client server architecture, linked to a web based user interface for intranet & extranet access. I was responsible for managing the development to client specification and for the coding of the web search bots linking data in the system to web resources.
Phillips Power Semiconductors: Evaluation of existing customer service system for migration to web based interface & training of internal development staff on web based development tools.