Christopher (Chris) Malcolm Durney
6 Highfield Close
Bucks
Tel: 01908 616501
(preferred to mobile) Mob:
07913 507287
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scanners my e-mail address is not included here; please use the link from my
home page (www.chrisdurney.me.uk).
British, Married, Full clean UK Driving licence.
Experienced
IT professional with 18 years in Relational Database Management Systems.
In
his last company he joined as junior programmer and within three years was the
IT mgr. Having been in that position for over 10 years he is now re-focusing on
software / database development in mainstream technologies.
Recent studies include; .NET
(VB, C#), SQL (MS, Oracle, MySQL) and Web
technologies (including Java, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript).
General Skills and Qualities
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Logical, Analytical, Problem
Solving
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Lateral Thinker, Creative
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Excellent at working both
alone and as part of a team
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Friendly / Personable /
Patient / Can work at all levels
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Responsible, Committed and
Supportive
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Good at prioritising and load
management skills
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Good knowledge of business
processes and project planning
Recent Accomplishments
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Exploiting the ERP System, writing many new queries and adapting displays
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Introduction of Document Management System
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Development of archiving routines for ERP system
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Eliminated use of MPS and initiated Focused Factory Management process
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Using Excel VBA to enhance report writing
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Use of scripting to automate running of reports
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Recently posted the Milton Keynes Sinfonia’s website (www.mksinfnia.org.uk) for which he is webmaster. Originally designed by a non-technical orchestra member he manually tidied up the code reducing the page sizes by more than half and is now responsible for all new content.
Undertaken ad-hoc contract work (software maintenance and programming) with Schlegel UK.
Studies include .NET
Express 2005, (VB, C#), SQL (MS SQL Express 2005, Oracle, MySQL) and Web
technologies (including Java, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript and Perl), also UML and ERDs.
1989 – 2005 (took redundancy)
Schlegel (UK) Engineering Ltd. (Manufacturer of weather
seals and architectural hardware).
IT Manager
When Chris joined
in 1989 he was appointed junior programmer in a five man IT team (3 permanent,
2 long-term contract). He was initially put to work on an instant sales
analysis system and then continued to work to further develop and expand the
company’s manufacturing system. This covered most major company processes
including sales order entry, purchasing, warehousing, resource planning, bills
of materials and accounting.
As IT mgr Chris
was in charge of all aspects of IT for the UK site (e-mail and internet service
were later provided by the European manager, as was holiday cover) from
installing PC hard drives to working on the company’s annual budgets.
In 1998 Chris
worked closely with the Financial Controller on the year 2000 project with a
budget of less than £250k. The project was done on a clean sheet approach, the
choice being primarily to find applications that met the company’s current and
planned business requirements. The project was a success, being both on time
and within the budget, and entailed a complete replacement of the Enterprise
Resource Planning systems. This involved learning and implementing from scratch
a completely new database system and development language for almost all of the
company’s business processes. The mini-mainframe system was replaced with a
Windows Server based system.
Over the years
Chris has mentored people from government retraining schemes and accepted YTS
student placements.
Whilst in charge
of IT at Schlegel, in addition to the mini-mainframe, Chris was responsible for
the centralisation of PCs within the company and establishing the network and
e-mail systems. He also set up links to remote units.
1987 - 1989
Myson Copperad
(Manufacturer of air-conditioning units).
Initial duties
were operations, but rapidly became involved in programming and database
management of the manufacturing system. This included accounts, sales orders, purchasing
and manufacturing. Also ran month-end programmes. Trained a junior operations
person. Set up a link for remote site access. Was responsible for running the
systems for 3 months whilst a new manager was recruited.
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B.Sc. with Honours in Physics - Birmingham University
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3 'A' Levels (Maths, Physics, Chemistry) – Radcliffe School, Milton
Keynes
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10 'O' Levels - Radcliffe School, Milton Keynes
IBM (Informix) - U2 UniData (Pick database), System Builder (SB+)
UniBasic, UniQuery. Epicor’s Avanté ERP system. Optio ODCS (forms printing
software).
COBOL, VPLUS, POWERHOUSE
3GL (QUIZ, QTP, QDESIGN, QDD). HP3000 Software - Largotim's PRODSTAR (Mfg and
PO) and bespoke GL, PL and sales order entry. TurboImage, KSAM, MPEX,
EDITOR/3000, WRQ Reflections, Pericom, DBMGR, BACKUP/3000. ASK’s MANMAN.
PC software
- MS Office + Access, VBA principally in Excel, MS Project, Lotus Smartsuite,
FaxNOW!, McAfee VirusScan, ARCServe (backup software), INVU (document
management system), Unistar Time & Attendance ,DASYLab (data acquisition
software), DataEase.
Operating Systems - Novell NetWare. TCP/IP addressing. Windows 2000, XP,
NT Server/Workstation, Windows 95/98/3.x, MS-DOS. MPEiX 5.0. Trialled Linux installations.
Interests:
Plays violin in
local groups, likes to get out of doors, enjoys reading, swimming and DIY.
References:
Available upon request