Joint Partnership between Catalyst and i-Access to provide drug & alcohol support services across Surrey,.Catalyst also provide mental wellbeing support services. Change in role due to re-commissioning of services.

Short term contract providing administrative backup to the support groups run by SAdAS across all 11 boroughs of Surrey (part-time). Maintaining client records, Maintaining support groups diaries and registeres; booking of venues; production of documentation for groups and training of facilitators; assisting in interviewing potential new group facilitators; producing posters to publicise the various groups.Guest speaker and assistant facilitator for a support group for users in… Show more Short term contract providing administrative backup to the support groups run by SAdAS across all 11 boroughs of Surrey (part-time). Maintaining client records, Maintaining support groups diaries and registeres; booking of venues; production of documentation for groups and training of facilitators; assisting in interviewing potential new group facilitators; producing posters to publicise the various groups.Guest speaker and assistant facilitator for a support group for users in recovery.Co-ordinator for a county-wide training programme in mental health & substance abuse issues. Arranging speakers, dates & venues. Collation of information for advertising flyers & booking forms.Administration assistant in the front office (1 month temporary cover) - input of client records into the database & general office duties (phone, letters, meeting clients etc,)Administration assistant on the Welcome Project - the mental wellbeing side of SAdAS work, based in Godalming office.Service User Representative on interview board for the team leader positions at the four new hub offices. Show less

Compiling, editing and producing a regular newletter for the SAdAS charity highlighting their work and range of activities in Surrey.Using Microsoft Publisher, wordprocessing, inclusion of pictures. Conducting research and interviews for the content of article.Assisting in the design and content of the organisations website, both for the addiction support and for the new mental wellbeing issues project. Guest speaker and assistant facilitator for a support group for users in… Show more Compiling, editing and producing a regular newletter for the SAdAS charity highlighting their work and range of activities in Surrey.Using Microsoft Publisher, wordprocessing, inclusion of pictures. Conducting research and interviews for the content of article.Assisting in the design and content of the organisations website, both for the addiction support and for the new mental wellbeing issues project. Guest speaker and assistant facilitator for a support group for users in recovery. Member of the Steering Group monitoring progress against National Lottery funding targets.SAdAS representative on the Surrey CC DAAT Team (Drug and Alcohol Action Team) steering board for the design and production of a county-wide website for users in recovery. Show less

Joint Partnership between Catalyst and i-Access to provide drug & alcohol support services across Surrey,.Catalyst also provide mental wellbeing support services. Change in role due to re-commissioning of services.

Doing voluntary work in the local community, particularly with some conservation groups and the local OAP support day centre. Researching into the history of Godalming Town Band in order to write a booklet for their 75th anniversary.

Support of Oracle & SQL*Server RDMS database base software on Windows systems (sole responsibility). Support of integration of same will all other software. Testing of new releases. Mentoring of new staff. Technical consultant on all related issues to all DBA, development and programming staff

* Installation, evaluation, certification and implementation of RDBMS systems and utility products on mainframe and midrange hardware platforms. (Project Leader for many of the relevant projects)* Production of documentation to support this process* Consultancy and support to developers, database administrators and support personnel.* Upgrading Oracle RDBMS software and related databases on the mainframe and midrange (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP & Unix)… Show more * Installation, evaluation, certification and implementation of RDBMS systems and utility products on mainframe and midrange hardware platforms. (Project Leader for many of the relevant projects)* Production of documentation to support this process* Consultancy and support to developers, database administrators and support personnel.* Upgrading Oracle RDBMS software and related databases on the mainframe and midrange (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP & Unix) environments.* Performance of the evaluation, regression testing and implementation of Oracle RDBMS and Microsoft SQL Server software on the midrange environments to ensure compatibilitywith existing British Airways systems.* Advising and assisting with moving the products into development and production use.* Performance of benchmark testing to determine specific characteristics of databases or applications.* Provide supervisory role for Industrial Placement students and new members of staff joining the team (shared responsibility). * Promoted to the Database Specialist grade in November 2000 in recognition of technical expertise and experience, giving greater levels of responsibility & decision making. Introduction of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 database products for appropriate applications on Windows at British Airways.Implementation of Oracle's RMAN feature for backup & recovery on Windows and integration with the existing backup systems.'Year 2000 compliance’ project for Oracle RDBMS software on all mainframe and midrange environments.De-commissioning of Oracle database on the IBM VM mainframe environmentConsultant for the Oracle RDBMS software aspects of British Airways' disaster recovery project.Upgrade of major business critical Oracle databases to the most currently supported Oracle software.Technical and client support of 10,000 users of Oracle client tools across all areas of the airline. Show less

IT Department. Support of IBM VM/ESA and VSE/ESA mainframes. Support of Oracle datanases on same. Support of IT network. Support, installation and maintenance of all related software* Installing, maintaining, upgrading and supporting a wide range of hardware andsoftware.* System management and administration of IBM mainframe, IBM, Amdahl and EMC DASD. * Technical support of 13 VM system images and 3 hypervisors.* Technical and client support of 10,000 mainframe system… Show more IT Department. Support of IBM VM/ESA and VSE/ESA mainframes. Support of Oracle datanases on same. Support of IT network. Support, installation and maintenance of all related software* Installing, maintaining, upgrading and supporting a wide range of hardware andsoftware.* System management and administration of IBM mainframe, IBM, Amdahl and EMC DASD. * Technical support of 13 VM system images and 3 hypervisors.* Technical and client support of 10,000 mainframe system users across all areas of theairline.* Planning, scheduling, leading and actioning projects so as to effect minimal disruptionto the company’s business.* Diagnosing and resolving system, network or application software faults, liaising withboth the in-house client community and external vendors.* Creating and running supporting documentation.Major Projects* Organised the hosting of the UK & Ireland VM User Group meeting (1998).* Project leader for the upgrade of VM operating system to VM/ESA Version 2 (1996).* Upgrade of the full suite of Sterling Software products on all VM system images andhypervisors. (1996).* Project leader for the ‘Year 2000 compliance’ project for VM system software (1996). Show less

IT Department. Support of IBM VM/ESA and VSE/ESA mainframes. Support of Digital OpenVMS. Support of IT network. Support, installation and maintenance of all related software* System management and administration of IBM mainframe, Digital 4000-100A VAX and HP-UX UNIX systems. * Technical and client support of 450 mainframe, 40 UNIX and 40 VAX system users. * Planning, scheduling, leading and actioning projects so as to effect minimal disruption to the company’s… Show more IT Department. Support of IBM VM/ESA and VSE/ESA mainframes. Support of Digital OpenVMS. Support of IT network. Support, installation and maintenance of all related software* System management and administration of IBM mainframe, Digital 4000-100A VAX and HP-UX UNIX systems. * Technical and client support of 450 mainframe, 40 UNIX and 40 VAX system users. * Planning, scheduling, leading and actioning projects so as to effect minimal disruption to the company’s business. * Educating IT and non-IT staff in the use of new or upgraded software and hardware. * Providing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week support for the live environment. Major Projects * Installation of UPS hardware and software for al platforms (1995). * Relocation of VAX systems and associated hardware and software from Manchester office (1994). * Migration of IBM hardware from a 4381 to an ES/9000 9221 mainframe (1994). * Migration from IBM 3380 DASD to IBM 9345 DASD (1994). * Planning and implementation of a major DASD tuning exercise (1993). * Upgrade of VM/SP HPO Release 5 mainframe operating system to VM/ESA Version 1.1 (1994). * Upgrade of VSE/SP 3.2 operating system, to VSE/ESA 1.3 (1993). * Planning, installing and testing of the migration of VSE/ESA from a VM supervisor to an ESA supervisor (1995). * Upgrade of SQL/DS software, and 5 associated databases, from version 1.3.5 to version 2.2 (1992). * Planning, installing and testing of the migration of SQL/DS software, and associated databases, from version 2.2 to version 3.4 (1995). Show less

Initial training in several programming languages.

US PO Release Programme AdministratorA fifteen month work placement during my degree course involving the release of IBM ownedsoftware from the USA into the European-wide market.