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Dorchester, GB

Bishops Waltham - Southampton

Step Ahead Technology Ltd consultant, providing IT and Project Management services for Quartix based in the Southampton office. Over the course of several years the role has covered management of IT resources, project management as well as recruitment and team building. The projects have ranged from product upgrades and developments to infrastructure.

United Kingdom

Step Ahead Technology provides a range of project management, technical and business consultancy services. With a focus on small to medium UK businesses looking to expand their operations into the USA, Step Ahead Technology offers a range of services to support this.

London, United Kingdom

• Head of UK Corporate Systems.Management responsibility for multi-disciplinary team with software application development, support, project management and business analysis roles. The team supported applications for.
• Team management and co-ordination of activities with Head office
• Project management and reporting to senior management.
• Planning and co-ordination of development, testing and software release activities.
• Analysis of business requirements, review of test plans and system design.
• Budget preparation, cost and progress monitoring and reporting.

London, United Kingdom

• IT role within finance department providing specialist support and development for systems.
• Development and support of multi user Ingres data warehouse providing business critical Management Accounts information and regulatory reporting.
• Software development, testing and support (24 hour) for client and server processes.
• Ingres (DBA) Database Administration, performance tuning and project management.
• Designed and developed scheduler for overnight batch processing.
• Planning, installation and testing of software upgrades for database systems and PC apps.

• Design, development and support in IT and Avionics systems over a period of 7 years as a senior system Engineer and team leader (initially starting as a graduate Engineer).
• Responsible for design, development and support of Ingres database systems eg multi user aircraft equipment inventory management system with a capacity for over thirty million pounds worth of equipment to ISO9000.
• Design, development and coding of real time software simulations for use on the EuroFighter project using Object Oriented design techniques.
• Responsible for systems integration of a computer controlled oxygen breathing system which was successfully used on a prototype fly by wire aircraft. Developed software simulations and validated the system reporting.
• Systems analysis, design and testing for Tornado IDS and ADV systems.

Grantham, Lincolnshire

Hydraulic system design and development, fault finding and investigation. Engineering industrial placement (Internship).

Chester, United Kingdom

Engineering apprenticeship in plant maintenance, installation, fitting, machining, fabrication, welding, electrical, control and instrumentation systems.

Pgce

B Eng Hons

Ordinary Technical Certificate (Level Iii) / Higher Technical Certificate (Level Iv)

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