Name

Clive Laurence Darracott

BSc

MCSE

         

Email

cld @ csi.com

      
         

Homepage

http://www.visitweb.com/cld

      
         

Last updated

10 Feb 1999

      

Personal Overview

Over 10 years of experience in IT and currently placed as a System Architect

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with strong Visual Basic and relational database skills.

Seeking to continue working with multi-tier business object based systems that maximise the potential of DCOM objects using MS Internet Information Server and MS Active Server Pages where appropriate.

Strong team working skills, keen to share and develop ideas together to build the best solution.

Full project life-cycle experience from Requirements, Analysis, Design, Prototyping, Implementation, Testing, Deployment and Marketing.

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Please take note of the following extract from Section 7a of the Microsoft Certified Professional Program and Logo Agreement:

During the term of this Agreement , you shall insert the following language in each contract pursuant to which you will provide services involving Microsoft Products:

"Microsoft is not a party to this agreement, and shall have no liability whatsoever with respect to the services that are the subject of this contract. The Microsoft Certified Professional title of Microsoft Certified Product Specialist or Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer designates that I have successfully completed Microsoft's requirements reflecting the skills required to implement, support, and maintain solutions with Microsoft products. The services I provide under this contract are not provided, licensed or sponsored by Microsoft."

 

Skills

Overview

Languages

      
 

MS Visual Basic 3 & 4 & 5 & 6

6 years

1993 - to date
 

MS Office VBA (Word, Excel, Project)

6 years

1993 - to date
       

Databases

      
 

MS SQL Server 4.2 & 6.5

4 years

1995 - to date
 

MS Access 2.0 & 95 & 97

5 years

1994 - to date
 

Sybase 4.9 & 10

6 months

1996 - 1997
 

Oracle 7

9 months

1997 - to date
       

SQL

      
 

Transact-SQL, Stored Procedures, PL/SQL

4 years

1995 - to date
       

Internet

      
 

MS Internet Information Server 4.0 (Active Server Pages)

2 years

1997 - to date
 

MS Transaction Server 1.0 & 2.0

1 year

1998 - to date
 

MS Visual Interdev 1.0

2 years

1997 - to date
 

MS Internet Explorer 3.0 & 4.0

3 years

1996 - to date
       

Operating Systems

      
 

MS Windows NT Workstation 3.51 & 4.0

4 years

1995 - to date
 

MS Windows NT Server 3.51 & 4.0

4 years

1995 - to date
 

MS Windows 3.1 & 3.11 & 95

7 years

1992 - to date
       

Technologies

      
 

Active X Dlls, Win32 API, COM, DCOM, MAPI

ADO, RDS, OLE DB, RDO, ODBC, Db-LIB

4 years

1995 - to date
       

Scripts

      
 

VB Script, HTML, shell, csh, DCL, BAT, CMD

6 years

1993 - to date
       

Networking

      
 

TCP/IP, DHCP, Netbeui, Novell Netware, DECnet, X25

4 years

1995 - to date
       

Methodologies

      
 

MSF, UML, OOD, OOP, SSADM, JSP, Dataflow, ER

7 years

1992 - to date
       

Tools

      
 

MS Visual Modeler, VSS, RCS, PVCS,

MS Developers Network, MS Tech Net

6 years

1993 - to date
       

Previous experience

has included:
       
 

C (Microsoft & Digital VAX)

4 years

pre 1994
 

Unix, VAX/VMS, OS9, OS/2

4 years

pre 1994
 

68000, 8086, Z80

2 years

pre 1994
       
 

Pascal, COBOL

2 years

pre 1990

 

 

Qualifications

Degree

      
       

1983-1988

University of Brighton

Brighton

Sussex
       
 

BSc Computer Studies

    
       
 

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams
       

1997

Drake Prometric Ltd

Twickenham

London
   
 

System Administration of Microsoft SQL Server 6.5
       

1995

Drake Prometric Ltd

Twickenham

London
       
 

Implementing and Supporting Windows NT Workstation 3.51
 

Implementing and Supporting Windows NT Server 3.51
 

Implementing and Supporting Systems Management Server 1.0
 

Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11
 

Networking with Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11
 
 

Training
 

1995

Barefoot MCU

Southwark

London
       
 

Windows NT Workstation and Server

 

Implementing a SQL Server database for Windows NT

       

1993

Professional Development Associates

Chiswick

London
       
 

Integrating Netware with Windows

 

1991

Microware Systems Ltd

Winchester

Hampshire
   
 

OS9 Intermediate Course
 

OS9 Advanced Course

 

 

Contract Roles

Consultant

Norsk Hydro (UK) Limited

Twickenham

London

Oct 1998 to date

6 month contract

    
       
 

Norsk Hydro is the largest industrial company in Norway with "Energy" as the key commodity that underpins its agricultural, oil, gas and metals business interests.
 

Working on Energy trading, operating, delivery and balancing systems for the UK and interconnected European markets using a VB and Oracle client server environment.
 

Re-engineering the applications to the the next generation to use multi-tier business objects written in VB6, ADO, MTS together with IIS ASP interfaces.
 

Created data mining solutions using VBA to collate data from servers located across Norway and Europe.
       

Consultant

Cendant inc (formerly HFS and CUC)

New Jersey

USA

Jun 1997 to Jul 1998

12 month contract
 
 

Worked in the Real Estate franchising division providing solutions for the Century21, Coldwell Banker and ERA estate agency brands.
 

Key role as System Architect and Technical Team Lead to develop a report management sub-system for the enterprise wide revenue collection system. Primarily providing reporting criteria and delivery requirements for the operational management reports of 10,000 branch offices as well as corporate HQ summary use.
 

Involved from requirements stage through Analysis, Design, Implementation to Alpha testing including providing proof of concept solutions for an Active X DLL SQL Server interface with ADO or RDO using stored procedure based business rules.
 

Designed using object techniques, written in Visual Basic and implemented using a partitioned client server solution consisting of DCOM business objects that also interfaced to third party DLLs which could be called from either a Visual Basic client front end or via Active Server Pages running under IIS server.
 
 

Consultant

Commercial Union plc

Shoreditch

London

Mar 1997 - Jun 1997

3 month contract
 

Worked on VB OLE server components for a object orientated client server Insurance risks/quotes system that used Oracle via ODBC.
 

Designed data driven code table maintenance systems to support system.
 

Developed PL/SQL scripts to support a variety of reporting requirements.
 

Also developed an experimental VB add-in to help automatic code documentation.

 

Permanent roles

 

Software Project Manager

K F Group plc

New Malden

London

Oct 1996 - Mar 1997
 

Worked on central support systems for full client server EPOS application that runs across over 30 remote stores. Central site running Sybase under UNIX and MS SQL Server under NT. Remote sites running Sybase under Novell.
 

Extensive use of stored procedures (over 500) to define business rules and to control access to and security of tables together with triggers, defaults and rules.

 

Used Db-LIB via VBSQL VBX to connect to SQL Server and use of DDE to communicate between applications.
   

Project Manager

Sunrise Software Limited

Kingston

London

Feb 1995 - Sep 1996
 

Developed commercial Helpdesk packages sold to over 500 UK corporates written under Windows NT in Visual Basic with MS Access and evolution to client server based SQL Server via ODBC API. Connection to mail systems via MAPI(B).DLL.

 

Prototyping and demonstration of an in-house Intranet using MS Windows NT Server and MS Internet Information Server.
 

Created O2VB3 design and implementation methods allowing calls to forms.
 

Full error trapping at any calling level. Arrays of control arrays. Virtual RDO like ODBC SQL interface library for any target database. Virtual Dynaset simulation using multidimensional arrays of variants. Extensive set of API wrapper functions using aliases. Dynamic menu and control creation for all MDI children.
   

Software Specialist

Taylor Nelson AGB plc

Epsom

Surrey

Dec 1993 - Jan 1995

      
 

MS Office MIS applications development making full use of MS Access and MS Excel including forms, queries, reports and modules together with VBA macros.
 

Visual Basic application to support an ongoing weekly research project using DAO to connect to a Access JET database. 4GL employee payroll systems developed for UNIX and Novell.
   

Programmer

BT International Aeradio Limited

Southall

London

Apr 1991 - Nov 1993

      
 

Airline Departure Control Systems written in C under VAX/VMS to allow check-in and load control of aircraft to IATA standards.
 

Airport Information System written in C under OS9.
   

Software Support Engineer

Microtec Research Ltd

Basingstoke

Hampshire

Aug 1988 - Apr 1991

      
 

Technical support and training for cross compilers and other tools.
 

Customer tracking systems written in Smartsuite and Novell. System management of VAX, SUN and PC networks.