David Rowbory Email & Phone Number

Jos, Nigeria

Helping translators check their Bible translations are high quality. Assisting with pioneering language development. Delivering language software training, exegetical and Biblical language instruction and translator training.

Specifying and building data-driven websites, general business IT consulting, hardware & software training and maintenance.

Studying MA Translation Studies at NEGST.

Pioneering online audio, podcasting, CD & DVD creation, graphic design, small-scale publishing- designed and documented a series of AppleScripts and Mac OS X shell scripts interacting with administrative web pages to semi-automate podcasting, recompression & content management on the media websiteNew extranet, custom CMS and a completely redesigned public-facing website resulting in greatly-increased traffic- custom extranet-based CRM built offering mailing label generation (RTF/Word) and other integration with Office software, cross-platformGeneral IT support, training, purchasing advice, network & infrastructure building within a cross-platform (Mac-Windows-Linux) environmentLeft at end of contract having achieved all objectives and trained others to maintain web site and systems

GlasgowStudy for personal interest; kept current with all IT developments in own time as began entering web development more significantly

Managed IT systems for office; specified & designed new donations/CRM system; improved financial reporting and internal office communications.Streamlined finance IT systems in Access, SQL Server & Excel- considerable use of Excel filtering and VBA automation to speed up financial analysis and data entry- Excel linked to Access/SQL Server through VBA and ODBC to automate the flow of data to other parts of the business- automated checking in Excel/Access/VB to identify and eliminate data entry errorsResearched, built and documented new CRM/finance solution to replace old inefficient and unsuitable previous systems- New reporting system (email-based rather than print) built using VB to send Access reports through Outlook- dramatic performance improvements and customer delight!Administered Windows 95-XP, NT4/2000 Server, Exchange Server 5.5, MS Office 97-XP, with Linux firewall and large networkPlanned, implemented and tested improved backup strategiesWeb design (conference registration system), multimedia CD creationLeft at end of contract as planned to pursue studies.

Assisting Finance Department with IT-related tasks. Successfully automated many tasks, rewrote database systems and made processes more efficient and reliable.

OxfordStreamlined finance IT systems in Access, SQL Server & Excel- considerable use of Excel filtering and VBA automation to speed up financial analysis and data entry- Excel linked to Access/SQL Server through VBA and ODBC to automate the flow of data to other parts of the business- automated checking in Excel/Access/VB to identify and eliminate data entry errorsResearched, built and documented new CRM/finance solution to replace old inefficient and unsuitable previous systems- New reporting system (email-based rather than print) built using VB to send Access reports through Outlook- dramatic performance improvements and customer delight!Administered Windows 95-XP, NT4/2000 Server, Exchange Server 5.5, MS Office 97-XP, with Linux firewall and large networkPlanned, implemented and tested improved backup strategiesWeb design (conference registration system), multimedia CD creationLeft at end of contract as planned to pursue studies and return to Glasgow for family reasons.

Studied lexicography and linguistics in preparation for multilingual dictionary-making.

Software and documentation to integrate 3rd-party hardware into robotic system: Visual C++, COM, SourceSafe, Rational Rose (UML).

GUI and file analysis tools and documentation developed using SGML, C++, Swing, Java, Solaris1997-2000 Education: BA (2.1) Computer Science, University of CambridgeProvided a solid, lasting theoretical foundation in crucial principles:Rigorous software engineering, security, digital electronics, database, networking, language processing etc.1996, 1997 Access/SQL Database Design: Summer Jobs, NHS (Gartnavel, Glasgow)Short-term work developing custom Access-based questionnaires to improve service to Rheumatology patientsGUI design in MS Access / Visual Basic, linking with large SQL Databases through ODBC.Programming & Software Development BackgroundSince picking up and devouring a BBC User Guide aged 9, I taught myself programming with BASIC (various dialects), 6502 Assembler, HyperCard, AppleScript, C/C++, HTML, Pascal, Visual Basic, Java; receiving formal education. Developing software for educational purposes, then other public and private institutions, my own style has developed and been refined over many years. I enjoy writing carefully-structured code, making full use of good procedural and object-oriented techniques for organising code into well-specified and well-documented blocks so that code can be fruitfully reused as needed.Other WorkAlongside study and other employment, I have worked on a number of supplementary and voluntary projects, stretching my software development and other skills.1996 to date Web Design - Charitable, personal and business clients1994 to date Casual Help-desk and IT Support WorkRegularly fix hardware and software problems on Windows & Mac OS and install and configure systems.1998, '05, '06 Voluntary & Social WorkLed groups of volunteers on 3-8 week development trips to East Africa in the summers of 1998, 2005, 2006.

Ma, Translation Studies

Ba, Theology (Biblical Studies And Mission)

Ba, Computer Science