Dr Paul A Daniels Email and Phone Number

Ascot, Berkshire - ContractI provide support to EuroLAN's secure, run-time Access 2000 database distributed quarterly on CD-ROM to subscribers. I converted the database from Access 2 to Access 97 and, recently, to Access 2000.

North Ascot, Berkshire - ContractI provide PC consultancy services to Aquaflow and have developed an Access 95 contact database with automated mail-merge links to Word for the production of mailshot letters.

Staines - ContractAugust 2007 to March 2008 & October 2008 to presentETES organise several UK & Ireland regional engineering and electronics exhibitions during the year and a smaller number of craft shows.I maintain and upgrade the Access and SQL Server corporate databases both of which use SQL queries/views and, in the case of SQL Server, T-SQL Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions. Extensive use is made of VBA in the Access databases for both data manipulation in those databases and also for interaction with the SQL Server databases. I am also developing new and extending existing Access software tools for generation of data lists and management reports according to specified criteria. Some management reports are in the form of Excel worksheets and use Excel VBA for the analysis.I add new features to the ASP-based corporate web-site, design and insert new web content and also design and create marketing HTML emails; some of these contain forms to return automatically information to ETES' database.I provide documented advice on steps to be taken to improve the company's IT infrastructure and procedures and liaise with an external public-relations consultant on ways that the web-site may be developed.I provide general IT administrative support by, for example, creating database queries to support mail-merge mailings and have carried out basic administration of their corporate server.It is fully understood and agreed by ETES that my work for them will default to evenings and weekends on gaining a full-time contract. At present it seems likely there will be little work from them until December 2011.

Guildford - VoluntaryI have been a member of GAS for several years and am now in my sixth year as the President of the society of 179 members. Prior to this I served on the committee as their webmaster. This has involved the transfer of a website and domain from one host server to another, the introduction of a bulletin board, members'​ webmail accounts and setting up individual logins for members to allow access to information from the GAS website. There is also ongoing maintainence and development of the website and bulletin board and the creation of online AJAX-based utilites such as a booking form for the society's observatory and a registration form for allowing invited guests to access the website and make use of the bulletin board.Development is for an Apache environment using a combination of XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Perl and MySQL databases.

In September 2013 Swiss Postal Solutions completed purchase of most divisions of Pitney Bowes Management Services including the DSC. I worked as a direct contract with SPS and continued development on the Citi Worldlink software. Some re-configuration was required: in part due to the different infrastructure but also because use of PB’s proprietary Spectrum address-resolution software had to be dropped due to licensing issues.Some other small VB.NET projects were also completed in this time.

I started work for PBMS at Harlow where I spent 15 months designing, developing and implementing a payslip barcode-tracking application. This required development of some complex C# Windows Forms code and a database using SQL Server 2005.Later, at Leavesden, I worked for 9 months on a cheque information tracking system developed using VB.NET and designed and developed a related database using SQL Server 2005.I also designed, developed and implemented a small overnight process application in C# for removing duplicate details from sets of cheque information files. During the contract IT support was also provided in several other areas.

Central London - ContractI designed and developed a fully flexible Excel-based analysis & reporting application to allow users to 'drilldown' into tables of data. This required development of a wholly new recursive algorithm making extensive use of complex VBA for generating the subtotalled data (to supercede the limited outlining facility provided by Microsoft) which was then automatically grouped, outlined and formatted in a user-configurable fashion to produce the final Excel report.External data sources could be other Excel workbooks or Access or SQL Server database tables with the data being retrieved via a user-configurable ODBC connection and SQL string.The application had a facility for right-clicking on the output report's data items and, depending on the item selected in the customised Excel pop-up context menu, allowed drilling further down to other sources of related data.The application required the development of several complex, VBA-driven Excel forms to aid the user in defining the configuration of the application and made significant use of ActiveX controls.The development required presentations to the end-user and user documentation was provided.

Porton Down, Wiltshire - ContractI was responsible for the continued design and development of a large CBRN Agent Microsoft Access Database Project linked to a SQL Server 2000 data source with significant use of VBA and T-SQL.I also designed and implemented a SQL Server database application using an Access 2003 ADP client and multiple databases for use in a secure environment.Also fully responsible for the design and implementation of three other medium-sized Access Database Projects (two linked to MSDE) and another smaller Access-only database.I have some recent experience in development of a MySQL database application with a web-based client hosted on Apache employing PHP server-side scripting and some

I supported the upgrade of the large number of Access 2, 95 and 97 databases to Access 2003 across several NATS sites and designed a utility to scan and analyse Access databases to help anticipate potential upgrade problems.

Ashdown House, Victoria Street, London - Maintenance ContractI supported a secure, multi-user Access 97 audit tracking database. It augments proprietary SQL Server-based timesheet software (data structure reverse-engineered) to produce key performance indicators. I designed and created Queries, Forms, Reports and extensive VBA code.

Eland House, Bressenden Place, London - ContractI worked on an existing secure, multi-user Access 97 application used in the Government Offices around the UK to help manage the processing of planning casework. Ultimately it became a secure replicated database. Extensive use of Queries, Forms, Reports and VBA including use of Form and VBA library modules and use of Windows API routines. A more sophisticated Access 2000 version was developed that included, for example, a configurable reporting system.

Sportisan provide a common web service to subscribing cricket clubs. I worked on the initial import of club details and began the development of an Access 2000 tool to help with the entry of historical information.

Eland House, Bressenden Place, London - ContractDepartment of the Environment, Transport & Regions (DETR; In this full-cycle project I developed a multi-user Access 97 application to track the progress of web-site publishing work for the Electronic Publishing Unit in the Division of Communication. The application included several Forms, Queries and several management Reports and made heavy use of VBA including Windows API routines. The user did not want full Access security and so a bespoke logon based on Windows NT usernames was implemented. Full user and detailed system documentation and user training provided.

Ruskin Avenue, Kew - ContractI designed and implemented an end-user Access 2000 application to store and analyse information imported from Excel 2000 spreadsheet forms. The Access application directly opened the Excel spreadsheet store and extracted the information using VBA.

Ashdown House, Victoria Street, London - ContractI designed and developed a secure, multi-department, multi-user Access 97 application for the MACC2 project which registers publicly declared 'green' commitments by companies and others and then monitors their progress towards their declared targets. This application developed as a secure, replicated application making use of Access Form, Report, VBA libraries and Windows API routines.

Appold Street, London ContractI developed a small Access 97 database application as part of a team working on the NYSE Listing Project. Database documented where required. The principal output from the database was a multi-sheet Excel spreadsheet with an index/summary sheet.

December 1998 to December 1999 and April 2000 to August 2000Farnborough, Hampshire/Portsdown West, Hampshire/Winfrith Technology Centre, DorsetI was solely responsible for the design and development of a secure, replicated, front-end/back-end and multi-user Access 97 management tool for DERA (CDA) that allows staff to enter estimates of their future likely commitment to various projects. I provided the application with both a detailed and context-sensitive Help file and comprehensive user and system documentation.

Basingstoke, Hampshire - ContractWorking closely with the Technical Manager I developed a secure prototype Access 97 staff appraisal evaluation tool. This application made use of several Forms to capture input, Queries, management Reports and extensive VBA to perform bespoke staff appraisal scoring. Following a successful trial of this prototype I converted the tool to a final, secure and robust application.

Croydon, Surrey - ConsultancyI was involved in the development of an Access 95 database application to provide a tool to match the most appropriate loan to an applicant's personal circumstances.

Wokingham, Berkshire - ContractI was part of the GOAL project team developing software to cost-optimise the scheduling of generators. The project used DEC Alphas and FORTRAN. I was also responsible for the development of a secure Access 2 database tool and provided user training and user and system documentation.

Docklands, London - ContractI was responsible for creating an Access 2 module to validate some of Texaco's gas billing records. The work relied heavily on the use of VBA and used ODBC connections to a separately maintained back-end Oracle database.

Staines, Middlesex - ContractI worked on an Electronic Territory Management System (ETMS). The system made extensive use of Access 2, SQL, VBA and complex Access reports using dynamically created SQL queries.

Luton, Bedfordshire - ContractI worked on several projects including: a demonstration Access 2 application to simulate the tele-sales order-capture process, an Access 2 mailing labels application (distributed using the Access Development Toolkit), a proposal for a conference-room management application to be written in Access, investigation and recommendations on both alternative credit-card authorisation systems and alternative remotely distributed sales-management systems.

Ware, Hertfordshire - ContractI developed software in VAX C to merge the Glaxo and Wellcome email directories following their merger.

Canary Wharf, London - ContractI was involved in two Access 2 projects for (a) determination of the volatility of Foreign Exchange and Money Market rates for use in exposure and risk assessment and (b) a system to administer the cases where payments have not been made on-time or where a customer has defaulted.

Camberley - ContractI developed an Excel 5 Visual Basic application to process automatically pre-formatted source files into a series of worksheets showing the data in a combined tabular and user-configurable graphical form.

Portsmouth - ContractI was involved with an embedded application that converts digital reports of weather and other airport runway conditions into high-quality spoken words for broadcast to approaching or departing aircraft.

Greenford, Middlesex - ContractI helped maintain, develop and provide training and additional documentation for the principal in-house clinical trials database system (PRIME & FORTRAN) during it's final year. I also developed an Access 1 (later 1.1) database application to handle the barcode-based tracking of blood and urine samples from medical study volunteers.

Bisley, Surrey - ContractI returned to the NSRA (see below) to re-implement the database applications for DataEase 4.0 on standalone PS/2s as multi-user DataEase 4.2 applications on a NEXOS LAN with PS/2s as workstations.

Plymouth - ContractI modified the High-level Software Requirement Specification and wrote module-level Software Requirement Specifications for the Swingfire Missile Automatic Tracker Improvement Programme. The project employed custom ASICs, Transputers, Occam and Image Processing.

Bisley, Surrey - ContractI developed a DataEase 4.0 application to collate and print League tables after each round of shooting, investigated approaches to automated target scoring (eg. barcodes), proposed a scheme for barcoding of their shop outlet and reorganised their memberships database.

Alton, Hampshire - ContractI worked on a PC Modula-2 application (transcribed from HP-BASIC) to received, analyse and archive MetOcean data (ie. Wave heights, Wind Speeds and Directions etc.). This software also had to be capable of retrieving archived data and graphically presenting the information both on-screen and on a colour printer.

Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire - ContractI worked on a Microsoft Professional BASIC 7 application to extract the parameters of failure curves from an oil company's North Sea Platform failure and maintenance information. These parameters were then analysed by Optimis' MainOpt package which applied failure/maintenance costs and performed cost optimisation.

Fleet, Hampshire - ContractI worked on some of the system control software for the Control Room Operating System (CROS) of the Eastern Electricity Board. This software was mostly written in VAX Pascal. Following the implementation of this part of the project I designed part of a graphics-based database management utility.

Portsmouth - ContractIGG manufactured large matrix display signs. Acting software team leader. Involved in two major contracts one in the UK (an advertising application with datatext broadcast) another with a company in the US (large racetrack tote-board application). Involved in direct customer contact in both UK and US. Represented IGG in the US on 4 occasions; unaccompanied on two visits. Some programming in the C language but mostly in IGG's proprietary multitasking, graphics-oriented Elite BASIC. Large quantity of documentation completed.

Winnersh Triangle, Berkshire - PermanentDevelopment Consultant. Developed an image processing application using Lattice C for an IBM PC with a PC-Vision framestore. Programmed the DAP array processor's Fast I/O interface to a video display board. Prepared 'Technology Survey' report and Talisman surface-ship anti-torpedo defence system feasibility study report. Risk assessment and project planning during proposal phase of SIPS MkII (for the RN Hydrographic dept). Project planning for the proposal and study phases of PINDAR.

Bracknell - PermanentTechnical Support Analyst in both pre- and post-sales support roles. FPS manufactured array processors for compute-intensive applications. Application experience includes Seismic/Signal/Image Processing, Simulation, Real-time analysis, Oil Reservoir simulation, Structure analysis, Graphics etc. VAX 11/780 system manager for over 8 months.

Cardiff - PermanentResearch Associate in the Machine Vision lab. Investigated industrial applications of image processing. Involved in a project with AERE Harwell. Taught image processing and Pascal at MSc level.

Garching (near Munich), Germany - Postdoctoral StudentPost-doctoral research writing image processing software for the X-ray astronomy satellites EXOSAT and ROSAT.