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Consultancy Projects and Assignments

2009

Scripting and editing training modules on Software Engineering for unique on-line video-based delivery to Asian university students

2005-08

Designing, developing, and maintaining numerous websites for commercial and not-for-profit organizations

2003-04

Developing the software process definition and improvement programme for major media company

2003

Defining new product and markets for a CASE tool supplier

2000-02

Developing and documenting a component-based process for a leading tools supplier

2000

Coaching the development team specify, design, and deliver a new system for a high street bank

1999

Assisting the move to component-based development for new store initiative by a  major high street food retailer

1999

Guiding the development of a new internet-based solution for the country's leading automobile association

1999

Coaching business analysts through specification of requirements for tenders on a new system for the storage of digital media for the national library

1999

Assisting board members and senior managers define a new vision for their software products aimed at land and agricultural management

1999

Developing the processes for building software solutions using third party products from the worlds largest software supplier

1999

Guiding process definition for development for major high street electrical retailer

1998-99

Assisting business and project managers in managing the component development process, project planning, risk identification and management for a leading high street retailer.

1998-99

Ensuring that the business requirements were met by a software solution to supporting the commissioning and delivery of web-based content for the broadcast industry.

1998

Defining process improvements and migration strategies for moving to component-based development for a number of major organizations in the news media, logistics, and financial markets.

1998

Guiding the development of a on-line bookshop system for UK's major academic bookseller

1998

Assisting senior management in a leading information provider develop a model of their business processes in order to re-engineer their IT support

1998

Contributing to the development of component-based system for all the stores of a leading High Street retailer

1997

Setting a new IT vision for the Regulators of the UK financial institutions

1997

Assisting senior management of a major high street bank set up a component reuse programme for IT development

1997

Development of an enterprise business object model for the world's leading copper products producer

1996

Exploration and development of an enterprise process model as a vision for the future for America's leading enterprise solution provider

1996

Development of a persistent object model for a leading enterprise solution provider

1995 

Counselling major supplier to the power distribution industry on the adoption of new development technologies

1995

Management support, coaching and training for America's largest railroad company

1995

Assessment of the capabilities and future development strategies for key system providers to the NHS

1995

Review and guidance on IS development strategy for a major high street building society

1994

Recommendations of improvements to the IS services for the world's largest film and entertainment company

1994

Assessment of IT strategy for leading Ministry of Defence consultant suppliers

1994

Design and build of a database of Patient Administration Systems in the National Health Service 

1993

Definition of an IT strategy for the exchange of bibliographic information between the National Libraries of the European Communities

1993

Audit and assessment of IT development activities for a leading London Borough prior to FM contract negotiations

1993

Specification of the IT development methods for use throughout a major group of companies in the Republic of Ireland

1993

Assessment of the development capability of a hospital system supplier for leading merchant banker 

1992

Assessment of capability of the Danish Hydraulic Centre in meeting ISO 9000 and BS5750 standards

1991

Design of a Costing and Pricing system for NHS trusts and units

1990

Establishing an information and computing strategy to one of the largest Health Boards in Scotland.

1990

Improving the development and quality of a new generation of railway signalling and associated systems for metro-style trains.

1989

Development of generic model for all screening programmes: cancer, immunisation, vaccination, and child health for the IMC of the NHS 

1985

Improving the quality of the diagnostic products for a major medical product company

1984

Development of a range of new generation of medical and scientific instruments for leading instrument manufacturer

1982

Analysis and design of the IT systems for the breakdown service of the Royal Automobile Club (RAC)

1979-84

Management and development of a wide range of computer systems for public and private enterprises   

1970-79

Management and development of leading typesetting systems for the world's newspapers and book publishers

1966-70

Exploration of the feasibility of computer-based mapping systems for Admiralty Charts