Some of the major clients I have been able to assist.


  • Wiltshire County Council - Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
    One of the toughest tasks facing local authorities today is to re-engineer their service provision to meet the objectives of e-government. Local authorities need to review their business processes and develop a strategy to allow customer relationship management (CRM), electronic record management (ERM), single points of contact, electronic delivery of services using web portals and content management (CM).
    The drive toward e-government requires radical changes to the old departmental silo approach to service delivery.
    I recently carried out a review of WCC's IT infra-structure, security and operations, and looked at some of the solutions being developed at Camden, Southall and elsewhere to enable the e-government programme office to produce its route map to electronic service delivery.
  • Sun Microsystems - McLean USA, Cairo Egypt.
    As senior systems administrator working on the design, planning and implementation in Cairo of a new ISP, portal and data center for Egypt. The project included building SunRay ultra thin client technology for the help desk and to provide access for the government ministries and leading Universities in Cairo.
  • Tokyo-Mitsubishi International
    TMI is the trading arm of the worlds largest bank. Initially working for a year on rationalising the administration of the Solaris environment and integration with NT servers and the MS windows desktop, in the second year I moved to the network team to build security into the international e-mail system, the extra net, data feeds and inter-net connections.
  • Questions Internet Information Services - Birmingham, UK.
    This little known company working in Education publishing and e-commerce, hit the jack pot in 2000 with a contract with 'ntl' to build a community intra net portal which 'ntl' wanted to bring to every school and local authority in Britain. I built the development and test environments, interfaced with 'ntl' as the technical (systems) consultant, designed the new systems architecture for the QIIS/QPC premises and secured QIIS' inter-net access.
  • WS Atkins - Epsom. UK.
    One of Britain's premier engineering consultancy groups recruited me to handle the systems migration from VAX to Sun Solaris at the company head quarters in Epsom. The migration was carried out concurrently with preparations for year 2K and as the pressure mounted on the database development team I lead a team of 4 UNIX experts providing 24 hour support for development, testing and production.
  • ALCATEL - Antwerp. BE.
    Engaged in a massive mission critical engineering development project, Alcatel were hit hard when their HP UNIX manager in Antwerp had a heart attack. Although mainly a Solaris and AIX practitioner I was able to use my generic UNIX and TCP/IP expertise to step into the breach at 24 hours notice to manage the systems and implement additional security to provide internet access to WIPRO developers working on the project from India.
  • North London University
    In 1993 the School of Computing and Mathematics at North London University had migrated for SunOS to Solaris. The migration had not been successful and the academic staff were boycotting the system for teaching purposes. I was recruited to re-architect the system and prepare the school for internet access.
  • London Borough of Hounslow
    My first experience of full time administration. Prior to joining the Consumer and Environment department as their AIX systems administrator I had primarily been a programmer and project manager. At Hounslow I built the WAN connections to the Civic Centre and the local advice centres, handled the contract negotiation and procurement of the new RS6000 system and carried out the migration from the old RT6151 to the RS6000. I implemented the new operating system without any interruption of services.

    I also built the new TCP/IP LAN for the department and integrated the AIX system with the Microsoft desktop and existing IBM mainframe environment.