Ian Aberdeen Email & Phone Number

Reading, United Kingdom

Development and day to day support of Infor System 21 application.Email Ian.Aberdeen@Westcoast.co.uk

Cwmbran, South Wales

• Technicolor – the largest manufacturer and distributor of DVD-Video
• Provide project leadership for Technicolor business applications, whilst maintain a hands on approach.
• Designed and project lead Technicolor JBA centralisation application, the largest investment to change order processing in Technicolor in 30 years. The application received orders and BOM’s from multiple client sources.
• JBA Centralisation application featureso 12,000 Orders processed and assigned to a factory per month.o 20,000 Despatches processed and invoiced per montho 2,500 BOM processed and automatically priced per montho 2,457.
• Provide solutions for business application problems, providing system support in 6 different counties, implementation support and staff mentoring.
• Technical approver off all system changes to the system 21 ERP software, coordination of development with USA parent company ensuring SOX compliance.

Durham, United Kingdom

• JBA North East – IBM Software house closely affiliated with GEAC, now Infor, the provider of the System 21 ERP software. In addition JBA North East supplied their own warehouse management system, utilizing hand held.
• Analysis of customer requirements resulting in system change definitions and bespoke test plans.
• Timely delivery of bespoke modifications from coding, testing, implementation and generating support documentation of customer developments.
• Installation, configuration and daily support of all System 21 modules, encompassing application manager, financials, distribution, manufacturing and customer level bespoke solutions.
• Designed and coded interfaces from System 21 to a screen mapping utility.

Livingston Scotland

• Quorum Systems is a software house, again closely affiliated with GEAC the provider of the System 21 ERP software. Throughout the build up to the millennium bug Quorum provided GEAC corporate headquarters with.
• Seconded to GEAC on a wide verity of projects ranging from 6 months as a project manager in Croatia to an analysis programmer resource. On site coding and testing of bespoke programs, System21 application uplifts and.
• Bespoke interface from distribution system coded in PICK to the JBA financial modules.
• Modification of System 32 drinks module for 2 multination drinks companies.
• Data conversion a chart of accounts set up for a leisure ware manufacture
• Year 2000 compliance off the DATA3 software application.

Newton Aycliff, Co Durham

• Whessoe was a collection of 5 engineering companies spread across Europe and the USA, with its headquarters in Newton Aycliff. Co Durham. The group utilized a central IT function running GEAC System 21 manufacturing.
• All aspects of IT affecting the group, administration of the company’s AS400 GEAC System 21 application WAN, LAN PC infrastructure an IT staff.
• Planning and the installation of both OS400 and System 21 PTF’s conversion upgrades with data migration.
• Negotiating with IT suppliers of services and consumables.
• Designing and implementing a companywide backup and disaster recover plan.
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Sunderland, UK

• Amco was a small privately owned software house based in Sunderland. The company was primarily an IBM midrange solution provide which did diverse into the Unix/Window NT arena supplying the Impact Award ERP system.
• A 9 month placement at the Samsung Electronics manufacturing sites in Billingham Cleveland UK, responsible for all as aspects of their AS400 Oasis application and 6 analysis programmers and 4 operational staff..
• Technical consultant for the Impact award application, analyzing and responding to customers IT requirements. Installation, system configuration and end user training of the software.
• Analysis of customer bespoke development request through to the eventual software delivery, installation and end user training of the solution.
• Organisation and running of RPG, CL programming and application training courses.
• Implemented a time and attendance and attendance system at Goldstar Electronic, including the development of the interface to the AS400 payroll system.

Billingham UK

• Formally a privately owned software house call Quinn Systems, International business system (IBS) is a software house based in Sweden. IBS provide financial, distribution and manufacturing application software to a.
• MAAPICS manufacturing consultant, providing technical support for all aspects of the MAAPICS application.
• Bespoke interfaces with JBA System 21 distribution and financial applications.
• Conversion and enhancement of a system 36 distribution application to run natively on an AS400 for a local government Organisation.
• System acceptance testing of IBS manufacturing modules DIS_PROD including the MRP/MPS modules.
• Helpdesk technical and application support covering assorted problems concerning IT.

Gateshead, Tyne And Wear, UK

Ingersoll Rand is an American multinational manufacturing company, the Gateshead division designed and manufactured a wide range of pumps for industry. The company’s IT strategy based on the IBM MAAPICS application running initially on the System 36 then the AS400 midrange computers. The companies worldwide service department was also based and supported.

Chemical Engineering & Fuel Technology

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A Level, Maths Physics & Chemistry

Activities and Societies: School basketball captainIn my final year I had the privilege of being appointed the position of head boy School.