Ian Walker Email & Phone Number

Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Having been a musician all through the 80s I have recently returned to songwriting and generally "playing around with music". one of the things I found a little frustrating when dealing with today's plugins was /is the hundreds of parameters that these plugins expose - for sure this is great for really being able to tweak as sound to perfection but a lot.

Wrote and published the Chat GPT Book "Let's Talk Chat GPT"

Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Enjoying writing code to manage the glue between DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) and Control Surfaces - being paid in peanuts (albeit quite large ones).[Also invented the "Dude with a cool haircut" Smiley Face \\:-)]

Gloucester

Development of scripted interfaces for various bits of hardware and DAW systems (primarily FL Studio).Previously did work on a number of early Windows hardware prototype devices - I was one of the first developers in the UK to have an App available on Microsoft's' fledgling Windows Phone system. I subsequently followed the device through its' improvements.

Gloucestershire

Taken some time out to Study for the ISTQB Foundation System Tester Qualification

Swindon, United Kingdom

Initially working as a business analyst authoring a number of technical responses to business requirements documents relating to various financial services related applications, subsequently acting as Technical Architect and Lead Developer, bringing projects to fruition in an ASP.Net and SQL Server environment (using SSIS for ETL based work).

Cheltenham

Initial work involved writing a paper and subsequently implementing the virtualisation of a number of key servers for development use within CSC and to facilitate off site presentations for Zurich Financial Services. I then worked as an analyst authoring a number of responses to Zurich business requirements documents which were later implemented offshore.

Cheltenham

Work involved supporting Zurich’s new ‘SOA Competency Centre’ in providing expertise on the strategic toolsets and initiatives projected for take up within Zurich on a global basis at the time. These include the use of UML, Rational Software Modeller and IBM’s IAA standard. (Insurance Application Architecture). Initial project related work has involved the.

Cheltenham

On returning to Zurich I was asked to carry out a number of technical evaluations of key component services to be used as a part of Zurich’s move towards a more ‘service oriented’ architecture. These included an evaluation of strategic “GIS”, “Business Rules”, and “Ratings Engines” as well as making recommendations for other key ‘utility’ services..

Cheltenham

“Motor Insurance”Specification and documentation of a large on line (web) branded Motor Insurance site. My role involved working alongside another technical architect in the preparation and documentation of an XML Web Service based system (and corresponding client test harness) prior to handover to CSC development teams based in India. The Application was.

Cheltenham

Zurich Intranets.Initially taken on to facilitate skills transfer I was subsequently involved in the development of the IT Departments internal intranet system 'ISD Net' covering its 400 IT staff. The success of this system led me to being asked to architect and develop a system for the 4000 staff of its' UK General Business 'Network Z', which ran.

Cheltenham

Project work was based around MSG’s on-going “Omiga” Mortgage management system, on which I worked on all three tiers of a web based GUI, XML middle tier, and Oracle/SQL Server back end.

Bristol, United Kingdom

I worked on the front and back ends (VB/ Oracle) of a number of systems supporting the day to day operational requirements of the Company.

Cardiff

During my time at Hyder I worked on a number of Utility oriented systems as both a front (VB) and back end (SQL Server) developer. During my time there I also studied and gained MCPs in Visual Basic Desktop and Distributed Computing.

St Mellons

Initially taken on by the Utilities' Marketing Department to facilitate refactoring o their FoxPro based Customer Contact Management system I subsequently moved to the I.T. arm (Hyder) to assist in migration of the App into a VB / SQL Server environment.

Mitcheldean

As a part of their internal software house I worked on and supported a number of systems and was involved in the design and development of their 'Farm Business Management' Accounting Package developed using Visual FoxPro.

Gloucester

Working my way up from a temporary junior programming position I worked primarily as a part of the Environments' Information Division developing award winning systems for the County. Subsequent work involved liaison with the Chief Executive developing a revolutionary (for the time) touch based kiosk information system using Visual FoxPro. During my time.

Diploma In Management Studies, Information Technology

Education record