Christopher Seed Email & Phone Number

Provider of tailored low-cost IT/Network solutions and Delphi Developer.It is possible to set up and run an office using just open-source software and 2nd user hardware.The growth of Linux and an abundance of used servers/desktops means creating a new office or expanding an existing operation needn't cost the earth. Using free software and 2nd user computers not only saves money, it gives expensive hardware a new life. Linux and open-source software is developing constantly and interoperability with Microsoft systems is becoming easier all the time. It's now possible to run a Linux small business server that Microsoft Windows desktops thinks is a Windows server. Open-source software such as OpenOffice can open, edit and save Microsoft Office documents. If there is an application for Windows, there is usually an equivalent application for Linux.Before taking up the Open Source Software cause I was a full-time Delphi developer. Easily the best 'Rapid Application Development' language of its day, it made 'Object Orientated Programming' elegant and simple.

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  Senior Analyst Programmer / Development Manager

  Rocc Computers

  Jul 2000 - Nov 2013 - Rochdale/Stretford/Middleton

  'Microrate for Windows' is a class leading software product used by council highways engineers and contractors to build Bills of Quantity for highway works. As the Senior Analyst/Programmer and later Development Manager I was responsible for the development of new versions of the product and for the development of additional applications within the suite. The applications were written in Delphi, are highly object-orientated and use Paradox tables to store data.

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  The Manchester Metropolitan University

  Computer Science