My major current skills are on the technical side of programming, designing, and supporting database systems using Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and their front-end applications with Visual Basic (VB6 & .Net), Delphi and C#. However, during my 30 year career, I have worked for both suppliers and end users in a number of roles, and I have gained a wide experience of development: analysis; software & design; programming in a variety of languages; documentation; support; and training. I also have a wide experience of operating system and utilities development, and in particular an extensive experience of developing word processing software for a major supplier.

I have an extensive experience of user application analysis, most recently of advertising and education applications, and previously of retail, logistics, financial, re-insurance and commercial insurance, and also scientific and engineering applications. In my latest work I personally designed and developed two different database applications, but both using MS SQL Server 2000 and 2005, with extensive use of T-SQL stored procedures and triggers. I also wrote front ends to both of these applications using VB6 and C# 2005. Both of these applications made extensive use of graphics and video, and both had large tracking, analysis and reporting subsystems. This work also required extensive knowledge of ActiveX, Win32 and .Net environments.

I have also developed several web sites, including extensive personal ones (such as www.mooch.org.uk) and I have a good knowledge of HTML and server processes. I know my way around many of the major Microsoft operating systems and application packages including Windows Vista, XP and Server 2003, and also Office. I also have current experience of Apple Mac OSX. For previous work I have developed software using Assembler (Z80 micro and Wang VS mini), FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/I and PL/M, Delphi and several versions of BASIC on a variety of micro-computer, mini-computer and PC systems. Prior to my recent work on MS SQL I developed many applications on a variety of SQL database products including Wang PACE, MS Access, Sybase, PostgreSQL and MySQL.

This is only a short CV, please contact me for a full version.

email: markjones@markjones.co.uk

cv date: 18 April 2009