Assistant Data Processing Manager
Normid Packing Midlands Limited
Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom
Employed as a Heavy Duty Packer for Export and Ministry of Defence Parts such as tornado jet, tank and helicopter parts. During my interview, I expressed an interest in Computers. Within 3 weeks I was operating a dumb terminal booking orders in and out and began working overtime doing tape backups of the ICL System 25 Mainframe Computer System. During my time within the company, they expanded their business into Canada and their Data Processing Manager, Mr Harjit Singh (Mentor One), who developed all of their inhouse systems, trained me as his assistant data processing manager. I learnt Cobol and Assembler Programming Languages and progressed onto transferring every transaction from their existing accountancy system into the Sage Sovereign Accountancy System (Installed by my friend, James Crowther of Technology Management). Here I learnt all the ins and outs of the Sage System from a development perspective which served me well over the following years. The Managing Director and Owner of Normid Packing, Mr Leslie Lee (Mentor Two), sent me to Wolverhampton University to complete my HNC in Computer Studies and invested time in my progression within the company. I was involved then in gaining more business for the company with big corporates such as JCB and British Aerospace and developing systems to support them.