Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

 

Name: Oliver Bromley
Telephone: 023-80367188
Driving licence Full
eMail obromley@hotmail.com
Location Highfield, Southampton, Hampshire

Core Skills & Experience

Training


Management Studies                  4 weeks       Java Programming         12 weeks

Structured Programming Course       1 week        'C' Programming Course   1 week

Objected Orientated Design in C++   1 week        Plain Speaking Course    1 day



Education


1993        British Gas             BTec in Management Studies



1983-84     Southampton Institute   Associateship in Computing Techniques



1976-79     Southampton University  B.Sc. Biology 2.2



1976,1982   Creighton School        'A' Levels:  Chemistry, Biology,

                                                 Env.Sc., Computer Science



1974        Creighton School        'O' Levels:  Eight,including Maths and English

Employment

Microsoft Access Developer


Jul. 2006 to Present:          			            Self Employed

Working for a local landlord keeping information on tenants, rents and
outstanding property repairs.

The databases are relationally structured and have lookup tables, forms,
queries and reports.  Tenants can be allocated to rooms, monthly outgoings
summarised and rent collection sheets printed.

Team Leader


Oct. 1998 to May 2000:          			            Ordnance Survey

Recruited and led a team of contractors to assist the rollout of Windows 98
to over one thousand staff.  The team were highly successful and were recruited
with a cost saving of 44% from the allocated budget.  Responsible for
rationalisation of software in the organisation and keeping license records.
Wrote Access 97 systems to log PC movements and to assist Internal Audit.

Database Consultant


Aug. 1997 to Oct. 1998:    	         		Animated Systems Ltd.

Worked on various projects including the publishing of a vegetarian
guide to London and a marketing system for the London Institute, which
runs the admin for several London Art Colleges.



Test Engineer


Jan. 1997  to Jul. 1997:   			                  Xyratex

Testing software for Xyratex, (formerly IBM).  Supervising the implementation
of test plans for software which checked hard disk drives.
Created a skills database to track the monthly staff appraisals and to
help managers allocate staff to projects.

Web Developer


Oct. 1996 to Jan. 1997:	  				Self Employed

Created the Cherwell Tutorial College website.  It included all
the text and some photos from the prospectus which was forty pages
long.  Prints were scanned and converted to JPEGS for deployment.

http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/chercoll/

Analyst Programmer

Nov. 1987  to Oct. 1996:   				British Gas

Activity Based Costing experience during outsourcing
of five hundred IS staff. IS activities were recharged across the
business units using a large Access database. It tracked physical
assets as well as the complex lease and service contracts.
Data entry was restricted by using look up tables to ensure that
all new data conformed to the data integrity rules.


Technical support provided for an expert system which used
billing data to determine whether a particular debt should be
written off or pursued by British Gas.

Helpdesk Operator

July 1986 to Sept. 1987:  		     Southampton City Council

Computing support in the Archaeology Section, assisting users of
wordprocessors, spreadsheets and databases.

Clerk

July 1979 to July 1986:

Various positions, mainly clerical support, also doing landscape
gardening.

Interests

Conservation, first aider with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers.