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Currently travelling around Europe. Available from 15 August 2002. An updated copy of this CV may be available at http://cv.fell-services.net/.
HTML/Web developer and technical author.
A range of editing tools, including Allaire Homesite, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft Frontpage, NetObjects Fusion / ScriptBuilder. Also various text editors, graphics packages (Paintshop Pro, Photoshop, Micrografx Suite, Macromedia Fireworks, Microsoft Image Composer), browsers and internet tools.
HTML (all versions), XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, Javascript and some Perl, have worked with JSP and JHTML, exposure to PHP/MySQL.
Microsoft Windows 3.x/9x/NT, Linux/Unix (various), Microsoft Office, StarOffice, OpenOffice.
The initial contract (through an international management and technology services organization) was primarily a testing role, detecting and solving cross-browser/cross-platform issues on the playstation.com e-shop. Subsequently, I was involved in design, development and implementation of added functionality to the e-shop and (after the closure of the e-shop) in a similar role for parts of the main playstation.com site. I was also involved in preliminary work on the WebTV / Playstation browser side and in front-end design for some internal tools.
This position involved converting a large number of independently-produced pages from the QCA intranet into standards-compliant XHTML.
While at Fi System I worked on a variety of projects, ranging from building templates and developing content to generating cross-browser/cross-platform DHTML pages. I also had some exposure to Macromedia Fireworks.
During this contract I worked on the redesign, testing and deployment of the Honda UK website. As well as increasing my experience of Javascript, I have made some use of Java Server Pages (client side) for the more dynamic sections of the site. I was also responsible for repairing and/or rebuilding most of the redesigned site to correctly implement Cascading Style Sheets, restore cross-platform usability, and rationalise the use of Javascript. In addition, I was also involved in maintenance and content generation for both the old and new versions of the site (http://www.honda.co.uk/).
This contract involved working on the Abbey National web and Internet Banking sites (since redesigned). I was also involved in building parts of demonstration sites for ABN-AMRO and Cable & Wireless's "Planetkids" child-friendly subscription service.
The first part of this contract involved writing and producing the owner's manual for a telephone conversation recorder. After that, I reworked the company's web site (http://www.storacall.co.uk/) concentrating primarily on graphics optimisation and ensuring that the site was viewable by a range of browsers, and worked on users' manuals for the automated call distribution subsystem of a call centre control application. Finally, I produced a web site for a subsidiary company of the Storacall Group (http://www.beta-air.co.uk/).
This contract involved the development of a "look and feel" for the Y2K intranet site that was consistent with, but stylistically distinct from, the rest of the BTS web. Cascading Style Sheets were used to ensure that the pages, derived from Microsoft Office documents, had the same "look and feel" to users of both Internet Explorer and Netscape.
Three consecutive contracts, the first two in Quality Management, the last in Technical Strategy.
The first contract (to October 1997) involved the conversion of a collection of project lifecycle documents in Lotus Notes format into a set of HTML documents on the Bank's Technology Intranet.
The second contract (to April 1998) built on this experience and involved producing the "Know the Ropes" section of the Technology Intranet from the Framework project lifecycle and methodology documentation.
While the final contract involved significant work on the Technical Strategy Intranet pages and some Y2K testing, the major portion of the contract involved the extraction of the Bank's Data Dictionary from a non Y2K-compliant mainframe application (MSP's Datamanager) and the use of Perl to convert the raw text into a hierarchically-arranged set of ca. 100,000 hypertext documents on CD-ROM.
My duties here included the design and production of a corporate web site on our own server (still visible with a few updates at http://www.alphadata.co.uk/), rewriting of documentation to impose an overall house style, dealing with customers (both pre- and post-sales), some day to day office management and PC system building. This post also involved some internal support and training in Office 95 and Internet facilities.
Two projects in collaboration with Daicel Chemical Industries of Osaka. The first involved the design of a sample tracking and registration system, addition of chemical functionality to Microsoft Office, and writing a molecular display program for the Psion 3a. The second was more broadly based, involving chemometrics and preliminary work on database mining. I also assisted other members of the department in making the best possible use of the available IT facilities, ranging from conducting on-line searches to the use of molecular drawing software.
This post, first on the Research Funding Project team and then with Finance Liaison Implications of Policy, involved working on the NHS Research and Development Task Force and on funding policy for teaching and dental hospitals. This allowed me to hone my writing skills by providing answers to Parliamentary Questions and drafting correspondence for Ministers. As a result of handling teaching and resarch budgets, I was involved in contract monitoring of the Regional Health Authorities and liaison with other Government departments (ranging from the Treasury to the Higher Educational Funding Councils). Although this post had no formal support/training component, I spent a significant portion of my time helping colleagues with OIS (the NHS Executive's integrated office system). Finally, not only did this post give me my first experience of working within a strongly-hierarchical management system, it was also the first position in which I had some degree of managerial responsibility.
Three consecutive research projects, which involved the use of state-of-the-art molecular modelling hardware and software on a variety of platforms (mainframe, minicomputer, workstation and PC) and operating systems (VM/CMS, VMS, PrimOS, Unix, DOS and Windows).
The first project (with the Protein Group to June 1986) was a jointly-funded project between the SERC and GD Searle Ltd. This post involved the use of molecular graphics and energy minimisation techniques in drug design. As in my later University posts, I spent a significant percentage of my time training both students and other staff members in the use of departmental computer facilities.
This was followed by two Agriculture and Food Research Council (AFRC) funded projects on the modelling of carbohydrates. During the first of these projects, I spent some time working at the AFRC Institute of Food Research, Norwich and at the Institut National pour la Recherche Agronomique in Nantes. The second project continued both the emphasis on molecular modelling and the visits to France, while my time in Leeds was increasingly taken up with training as we moved away from microcomputers and mainframes towards workstations and client-server architecture.
Dissertation: MODEL: A Program for Molecular Modelling |
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Thesis: Structural Studies of Peptides, Alkaloids and Their Complexes |
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While I have used or worked with the Web since its text-only days in 1992-3, I also have skills in technical writing and training. Before I started contracting, most of my positions involved writing (whether documentation for programs, instructional material or reports and presentations) or training colleagues in the use of operating systems (DOS/Windows/VMS/Unix) and applications (varying from molecular modelling software through to integrated office applications and web authoring packages).
I have also been involved in conference organisation at several levels, from initial contract negotiation to publications and programme management, on events ranging in size from small weekend events with 50-100 attendees up to week-long international conventions with 5000 members. During this time, I was also a member of several writing groups and produced or edited the BSFA news magazine "Matrix" for three years.
I enjoy resurrecting old and semi-obsolete PCs on which to run various flavours of Linux. I am an active member of CAMRA, usually working as a steward at large festivals, which has led to acting as a volunteer steward at other events (including the summer solstices at Stonehenge). I am also a member of Edinburgh's Beltane Fire Society, taking part in events as a torchbearer or steward. I also enjoy walking and sailing.
SSB Glover, RO Gould & MD Walkinshaw, 8th Eur. Cryst Meet., 40, 1983.245.
SSB Glover, RO Gould & MD Walkinshaw, A Crystal Complex of Strychnine and N-Acetyl-L-Tyrosine, Acta Crystallogr. Sect. A, 40, C85, 1984.
SSB Glover, RO Gould & MD Walkinshaw, Structures of Strychnine (I),
RL Baxter, SSB Glover, EM Gordon, RO Gould, MC McKie, AI Scott & MD Walkinshaw, Solid-State and Solution Conformation of Phenylacetyl-L-Cysteinyl-D-Penicillamine Cyclic Disulfide Methyl-Ester - A Cyclic Dipeptide Containing a Trans Amide, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. I, 1988, 365-371.
D Lamba, AL Segre, SSB Glover, W Mackie, B Sheldrick & S Perez, in Biomedical and Biotechnological Advances in Industrial Polysaccharides (V Crescenzi, ICM Dea, S Paoletti, SS Stivala and IW Sutherland, Eds., Gordon & Breech, 1988), 459-67.
D Lamba, AL Segre, SSB Glover, W Mackie, B Sheldrick & S Perez, Molecular-Structure of 3-O-(3,6-Anhydro-a-D-Galactopyranosyl)-b-D-Galactopyranose (Neocarrabiose) in the Solid State and in Solution - An Investigation by X-ray Crystallography, NMR Spectroscopy, and Molecular Mechanics Calculations, Carbohydr. Res., 208, 215-230, 1990.
A Rashid, D Lamba, SSB Glover, W Mackie, S Perez & B Sheldrick, Insights into Stereochemical Features of Sulfated Carbohydrates: X-ray Crystallographic and Modelling Investigations, Glycobiology, 4, 151-163, 1994.
Mr Rick Westwell, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Ltd, 25 Golden Square, London W1F 9LU.
Ms Leah Williams, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, 83 Piccadilly London W1J 8QA.
Mr Steve Hall, Fi System, 11th Floor, Tower 42, 25 Old Broad Street, London EC22N 1HK.
Mr David Hampshire, Pres.co, 85 Clerkenwell Rd, London EC1R 5AR.
Mr Mike Millar, Technical Strategy, Royal Bank of Scotland, 34 Fettes Row, Edinburgh EH3 6UY.
Dr Yukiharu Yamaguchi, (late of Department of Pharmacology, University of Edinburgh) Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Inc., PO Box 226 Mitsui Bldg., 1-1, Nishi-Shinjuko 2-chome, Shinjjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-0461, Japan.
Mrs Glenis Redhead, Finance and Corporate Affairs Directorate, NHS Executive, Department of Health, Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UE.
Dr Bill Mackie, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT.