Consultant:    Michael Charles Davison

Summary of Skills

Contract History

 

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    PC Platform: (Professionally used)

Application/Tool/OS	Versions	Since...
MS Visual Basic	2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Enterprise & .NET 2003	1992
MS SQL Server	6.5, 2000	1998
MS Access	1.0 thru 2000	1992
MS Excel VBA	95 thru 2000	1997
Clipper	5.2 (DOS)	1992
Visual Test	4 & 5	1997
Rational Rose (UML)	4	1998
Method/1	-	1995
SourceSafe	4, 5 & 6	1996
Crystal Reports	3, 4, 5, 6 & 8	1993
Windows	3.1, 95, NT4 & XP	1992
DOS	4 & 5	1992

    PC Platform: (Personally used)

Application/Tool/OS	Versions	Since...
MS Visual Basic	6 Prof & .NET 2005	1992
MS Access	2000 & 2007	2000
Crystal Reports	7	2000
Windows	2.0, 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000  & XP Prof.	1988
MS-DOS	2 onwards	1986
Basic	-	1974

    Component Skills:

RDO, DAO, ADO, ODBC, OLE Automation, COM, ActiveX, DDE, MAPI, Windows API, hllapi (Attachmate & Netsoft), encryption (Sophos DES), ASP, XML, HTTP 

    Mainframe Platform: 

Application/Tool/OS	Versions	Since...
COBOL	-	1986
DB2 (QMF & embedded SQL)	-	1989
Selcopy	-	1989
Office Vision (IPDT)	-	1991
CLists / TSO Panels	-	1990
JCL	JES2 & JES3	1986

    Additional Skills:

Lotus Notes API, FoxPro, dBase, 'C'

    Methodologies: 

Description	Versions	Since...
Anderson's Method/1 project path (planning, analysis, design, build, test, rollout and follow-up)	-	1995
Rational Rose OO Analysis & Design using UML, with generation of Visual Basic classes	-	1998
RAD	-	1998

    General: 

	Project Leadership, Management and Planning
	Supervision of junior programmers
	Business and Systems Analysis, Data Analysis, System Design, Construction/Build, System Testing and Documentation
	Business contact: workshops, presentations, demonstrations and requirement gathering
	Project durations from 1 month to 1 year
	Solo and Team worker

Contract History                                    Top

Client	Role / Skills	Projects	Period
Merrill Lynch	Developer: NT4 & WinXP, Visual Basic 5 & 6 Ent., SQLServer 6.5 & 2000, Crystal Reports 6.5, Oracle, UNIX, AutoSys, Powermart	Analysis, design & build of enhancements to existing global mid-office tracking system for monitoring P&L, Funding & Budgets within Equity and Debt Finance. Working within the business area to provide front-line support.	Apr 1999 - Apr 2007
Monis Software	Tester: NT4, Excel VBA (95 & 97), Visual Test, Win32 APIs	Testing of Excel based products for the Bonds, Futures and Options markets. Visual Test and VBA used to automate testing of worksheets, functions and business DLLs.	Aug 1998 - Mar 1999