Permanent Work History
This page gives details of Simon's Full-Time, 'Permanent'
(rather than 'temping') Employment history from the time of leaving University.
| Position |
PeopleSoft Analyst / Programmer |
| Location |
Scottish and Newcastle Retail |
| Address |
Riverside House, Riverside Way,
Northampton NN1 5NU |
| Contact |
Liz Noblett, Tel: 01604 239000 |
| Start Date |
June 2000 |
| Duties / Experience |
- Using PeopleSoft Financials and HR 7.5
- Key role in PeopleSoft 8 HR Implementation
- PeopleCode, Query, SQR, and Crystal Reports development
- Administration and general support
- App Server admin knowledge - using 3-tier
- Oracle database with Sun Unix operating system
- Batch schedule checking / writing
- Use of PeopleSoft Customer Connection
- Work on ISIS / RealityX payroll system
- Work on interfacing to ProClarity Data Warehouse
- Team intranet design, Design of On-Line Questionnaires etc.
|

| Position |
Senior Analyst Programmer |
| Location |
Scottish and Newcastle Retail |
| Address |
Riverside House, Riverside Way,
Northampton NN1 5NU |
| Contact |
Philippa Swain, Tel: 01604 239000 |
| Start Date |
August 1997 - June 2000 |
| Duties / Experience |
- EpoS Support software development
- OpenRoad programming language
- Ingres database
- Price/Stock/Sales/Price Matrices/Keyboard Design
- Reports for 2000+ pubs/restaurants.
- Implementation of QSA Specifications
- Analysis and transfer of Stockman recipe info
- Analysis and transfer of Pricing DB
- Various Delphi apps for reporting
- FrontPage intranet development.
- Designed / ran bespoke training courses with 8-16 people.
- Created Excel-based surveys to all pubs for millennium
celebrations and suggested performance improvements, giving users
tools for collating information back in time for preparations.
|

| Position |
Application Support / Help Desk |
| Location |
Scottish and Newcastle Retail |
| Address |
Riverside House, Riverside Way,
Northampton NN1 5NU |
| Contact |
John Barr-Hall, Tel: 01604 239000 |
| Start Date |
December 1996 - August 1997 |
| Duties / Experience |
- Call logging/tracking for 2000+ pubs and 300+ office staff
- Use of Sunrise Help-Desk Software
- Development of procedures
- Ordering supplies
- 1st-line PC/Printer Repair
- VBScript development
- General Application Support.
|

| Position |
Commercial Software Developer |
| Location |
Ethos Marketing Ltd |
| Address |
Moulton Pk Business Centre, Redhouse
Road, Moulton Park, Northampton NN3 6AQ |
| Contact |
Robert Keigh |
| Start Date |
August 1st 1996 - October 31st 1996 |
| Duties / Experience |
- Specification, Design, Implementation
- Delphi-based Process Re-engineering / Quality Control mapping
application
- Small team; high-risk
- Left due to redundancy.
|

| Position |
Systems Administrator |
| Location |
Northamptonshire Chamber of Commerce |
| Address |
Summerhouse Road, Moulton Park,
Northampton |
| Contact |
Kevin Crocombe, Tel: 01604 671200 |
| Start Date |
October 1995 - July 1996 |
| Duties / Experience |
- General Maintenance of IT systems& training as part of the
Chamber's IT dept
- Help Desk
- Inventory / Ordering of IT consumables
- Inventory management of PC equipment
- Building / Installing to PCs
- Network Patching
- Novell 3.1 account management
- Application Development in Delphi
- Designed & implement training plans for 120+ users
- Designed & wrote course materials & help sheets
- Implemented range of (over 30) internal seminars with 5-12 people
- also 1:1 induction.
|

| Position |
Analyst / Support Programmer |
| Location |
Sears Sports & Leisure |
| Address |
Retail Systems Development, British Shoe
Factory, Leicester |
| Contact |
? |
| Start Date |
October 1994 - July 1995 |
| Duties / Experience |
- Support of 230+ EPoS tills
- Writing software to facilitate this support
- Development, Debugging, Documentation of proactive support tools
& version control
- FoxPro, BASIC, Delphi, Batch, Unix Scripts etc
- Development/support of Rs6000 Poller / PC / AS400 connectivity.
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