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Version: m1008. CV/Resume: ANDREW ROBERT FRY Date: Oct 2008.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Andrew Robert Fry Address: 8 Whitfield Avenue, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs, England. ST5 2JH Contact details: (Home) Tel: 01782 638672 ▪ Email: [email protected] (Mobile/cell) Tel: 07944 747407 (Work) Tel: - ▪ Email: - Date of birth / Nationality: British

SUMMARY & PROFILE

Senior, very experienced IT professional with extensive experience in software design, development and engineering, technical architecture and web development. Considerable team leading and mentoring experience. Some experience as an IT consultant. High level of professional and technical competence. Broad range of IT skills.

Work record includes a number of large well-known companies/organisations and a number of major prestigious IT projects (commercial, defence, governmental, international, R&D). All projects completed successfully, within time and budget and to appropriate professional standards. Proven technical expertise. High level of motivation. Professional, positive and proactive (“can do”) attitude. Strong work ethic. Good communications skills (esp technical writing). Always ready to take ownership, contribute ideas, ask questions, tackle new and unfamiliar problems, learn new skills and share knowledge. Quote: “Andy was an extremely hard-working and effective member of the team … I would unreservedly recommend Andy to any future employer as a highly competent, committed member of staff” – C.P.Wannell, Workstation Group Manager, UKAIR CCIS Project, DESC Ltd. (Defence project for RAF/MOD/NATO)

KEY SKILLS AND ABILITIES

 Extensive IT experience. Broad range of advanced IT skills. Strong technical ability and understanding.  Project leading, team leading, mentoring.  Excellent interpersonal & communications (esp writing) skills.  Excellent business awareness/skills

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Academic record In progress: MSc Computer Science In progress Staffordshire University Postgrad: PgD, PgC Computer Science (2008, 2006) Staffordshire University Degree: BSc Computer Science (1973) University of Wolverhampton A Levels: Maths, Economics, French (1969) Sir John Talbot Grammar School, Whitchurch, Shropshire

Courses/seminars IT development: (Software) OOSE (Java,UML), Perl, Ada, C, COBOL; Software Design; Improving Programmer Productivity. (Web) PHP and MySQL (2005). Dreamweaver MX 2004 (2008) Network protocols: TCP/IP, SNMP; OSI, X.400, X.500; X.25 Other IT: Operating Systems Design. Management: Project Leadership. Other (non-IT): Safer Recruitment (Oct 2007), First Aid

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

Member, British Computer Society (MBCS) … Full/professional member.

JOB HISTORY (See Addendum for full job details)

Dates Company / Org Job title/role (s/w=software) Notes 04/06- Manchester Metropolitan Systems Support Officer Data analysis, VLE (WebCT),

1 11/08 University software and web development, etc 11/03- Potteries Antique Centre (+2) IT Manager / Web manager/developer Responsible for all IT matters, inc … web and software development 09/02- (Own company) Software designer/developer. (Own product development) 10/03 09/01- Sutherland Fine China Database / software developer Database application 09/02 07/00- Netspan Solutions Senior web designer/developer Large intranet application 09/01 (for Computer People) 02/00- Catalyst Electronic Senior software & web developer Data mining, web application 10/00 Publishing 10/98- SBE Inc. (USA) Senior software engineer Tools to configure protocol stacks 02/00 05/96- Spider Software Senior software engineer Network protocol stacks, intranet 10/98 development 07/96 Integrated Systems Inc IT Trainer / Course presenter Networking / Internet / web (USA,UK) 06/93- Instem Computer Systems Technical architect / network designer/ Large distributed information system 06/96 senior s/w engineer / team leader (for NWW/UU) 10/88- DESC Technical architect / network designer / Large defence system (CCIS) 06/93 senior s/w engineer / team leader (for RAF/MOD/NATO) 05/88- DESC Network designer / senior software Defence system 10/88 engineer (for RAF/MOD) 03/88- NCC Project Leader (temp) Test harness (protocol stacks) 05/88 02/84- ICL Technical architect / senior software EC ESPRIT IT R&D / technology 02/88 [sec: AT&T USA, X/Open] engineer / team leader projects 06/82- Synchro Systems Senior software designer/developer Various networking projects 02/84 [sec: Inland Revenue] 08/74- ICL Software designer / developer, team Various networking projects (inc 06/82 leader X.25) 07/73- ICL Dataskil Programmer. Large MIS (for RHM) 08/74 07-12/ Civil Service Department Programmer (student) Large pilot database system 70-72

ICL now Fujitsu Services ▪ NCC = National Computing Centre ▪ DESC = former ICL Defence Systems ▪ Instem now Capula ▪ ISI now owned by Wind River Systems ▪ Spider now owned by Artesyn Technologies ▪ CEP now Catalysts.

REFERENCES

Viv Sherriffs Managing Director, Tel: 0845 130 4712 Worked with Viv twice (ICL,Netspan) Netspan Solutions Ltd. Email: [email protected] Andy Winton Software Engineer, Tel: 01785 241104 Worked with Andy twice (Instem,Spider) Barron McCann Email: [email protected]

FURTHER INFORMATION

This CV is accompanied by a variety of documents, all of which complement or expand on the CV in some way (eg Addendum containing full job details, summary of skills, major achievements, written references, etc). See: http://tinyurl.com/bb3j8o ... or contact me.

ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

 IT & Technology, new and emerging technologies; software development practices, extreme and agile programming; algorithms, design patterns, regular expressions.  Other: Keen interest in arts (inc music, theatre, cinema); photography; reading; DIY; fractals.  Voluntary work: Have occasionally given talks (on computers or Internet) in local schools and/or helped in computer classes.