Ian Francis Email & Phone Number

Lake Mary, Fl, Us

Lake Mary Florida

Twyford

Accesso is the new name for Lo-Q. Earlier in the year I was promoted to Development Manager, responsible for the development of our virtual queuing products (both Hardware and Software).

Responsible for the design of virtual queuing elements for a new installationResponsible for the management of virtual queing installation

Joined as a Technical Manager to restructure and continue the on going development of CASPA (a 32bit Delphi application), that assists schools all over the country to assess the progress of special needs children against national averages.Key Achievements:Restructured the Delphi project, to modularise the source code and remove code duplication.Implemented a range of new features for 2009/2010.Implemented test environment and demonstrated automated testing capabilities.Identified, purchased and set up development hardware.Set up and maintained a configuration control environment.Set up and maintained a defect tracking system.Provided front line support for end users.

Joined as a Project Manager to manage a range of projects with varying budgets, deliverables, internal and external customers. Due to software development experience, also provided team leading and development expertise in the areas of Javascript/XML/GWT/HTML/Java, graphics and web design. Key Achievements:Project Manager responsible for the development, deployment and operation of a web based delivery system for the Ordnance Survey (OS) (~ £3 Million including data related sales). Delivered on time and to budget and due to its successful operation was extended late into 2006, far beyond the original expectation of the project, bringing additional revenue to Infoterra. As Project Manager and Engineer set the foundations for Infoterra's own imagery service 'GeoStore' (> £1 Million investment) by analysing the various customer requirements and planning the implementation. As Engineer developed the web front end for the service, incorporating component based XML, XSLT, GWT, Java and wrapped Javascript techniques. Project managed multiple tailored customer systems and services (~£500K each) all derived from the generic Infoterra service set in place. All benefiting from a framework enabling rapid implementation and roll out of their own tailored services providing a wealth of GIS functionality at competitive pricing with maximum return on investment. Took over project management of a 3D Thin-Band imagery delivery solution incorporating third party browsing software (~£450K). The project was suffering severe problems with the Third Party vendor partnership. After working hard on the relationship, a viable marketing approach and access to the software resulted while retaining Infoterra interests. Took over project management for a consultancy-based project to the Al Ain Town Planning Department in United Arab Emirates (~£600K). After one month and one visit, customer confidence had improved and the project was back on track.

Joined as a Delphi/Oracle software developer in 1996, and was quickly promoted to Team Leader. Promoted in 1997 to project manager.Key Achievements:In mid 1999 became the divisional Y2K project manager, establishing a strategy adopted by other divisions and winning praise from customers.In late 1999 became the project manager for a project to develop a new product for the International Electricity Distribution market. This project represented a completely new approach towards software development within the Company, embracing the latest development processes and tools (through RUP), converting developer skill sets from Delphi to Java, forming development partnerships with other ABB units internationally, and building a Company understanding of new and developing energy markets.In 2000 found ways of improving software testing within the Company, by defining a rigorous test process incorporating RUP concepts, enforcing inherent traceability between requirements and implementation and introducing automated testing techniques.In 2001 worked on the capture and distribution of software development processes throughout the company, by adopting RUP concepts, integrating company procedures and presenting them through a process model.

Joined as a Remote Sensing Analyst/Engineer, to provide software development across a range of geospatial projects.In order to allow the UK-PAF to process data from the ERS-2 satellite launched in April 1995, I was responsible for the software modifications required to update the existing ERS-1 processing system. While working on this project it was necessary to learn new techniques and procedures:. RTM software package (Requirements management). Yourdon methodology and TEAMWORK.. PCMS (Configuration control)I produced all the documentation, wrote implemented and unit tested all the code changes for this project.As part of a large archiving project in conjunction with ESA (European Space Agency) I created an automated archiving demonstration that showed how a UIMX (MOTIF) program on an IBM RS/6000 system could control a robotic tape library data server (IBM 3494). In an Oceanography project using the IDL language and various formats of satellite data I was able to demonstrate various Ocean phenomenon. Among the data used was :ERS-1 ALT OPR - used to show sea surface heights.NOAA AVHRR - Brightness Temperature data.ERS-1 ATSR - Sea Surface Temperature data.I developed programs to visualise the data in the form of surface plots and was able to demonstrate the ability to :. Indicate sea surface height on top of sea surface temperature.. Produce Global/Regional averages of sea surface heights, as well as the sea surface heights relative to the Geoid.. Convert the AVHRR brightness into sea surface temperatures.. Mosaic separate ATSR sea surface temperature products together to form much larger products.As part of a private venture project I created a website with 'c' based cgi-scripts to allow users to select air-photo products, by scrolling through and zooming in and out of an map image. The master data set was in excess of 2 Gb in size, so I developed a method to compress the image making data access quicker.

I joined SERCo Space on the 1st May 1991 as a System Support Engineer and Shift Operations Supervisor, contracted by NRSC (Farnborough). I joined the operations team responsible for processing and archiving data from the ESA satellite ERS-1. Since ERS-1 was a new European project, many procedures had to be written to anticipate how the new facility would operate. In order to improve the success of processing, I created a database that enabled operations to generate reports when required, and to create graphical representations of both processed and unprocessed data. Later I adapted this program/database to create production sheets and to ready-print any labels that would be required to place on media. I also developed software that removed the necessity to save individual products to CCT, and therefore saved archiving space, media costs and improved efficiency of a system that was causing production to fall behind its targets.As a shift supervisor and senior system support engineer I was responsible for 8 operators and all the equipment we used for production ( many SUN’s ,VAX's and PC's). This involved replacing hardware, fault finding and configuring various systems. I was also responsible for training all the operators on operational and system issues.

At Philips my responsibilities were the support and repair of the very large range of Fluke and Philips multimeters. This involved the repair down to component level of over 50 different types of meter and their accessories, such as current probes, temperature probes and high voltage probes. I was also respsonsible for customer communications regarding fault diagnosis, estimated and actual price quotations.

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