My main career for over thirty years has been as a computer programmer and software engineer. I am currently available to work part time on small projects, so please get in touch to discuss any programming or website design jobs you may have.

I worked with Oracle databases at Parallax and Keane and have developed a good working knowledge of database programming and relational database design.

I worked at Parallax Solutions Ltd. in Coventry from 1998 to 2001 working mainly in Centura Team Developer (Gupta SQL Windows) and Oracle.

I was working at Parallax Solutions Ltd. when the company was taken over by the UK division of Keane Inc., a large American software company.

I worked for Triton Technology Ltd. as software and IT manager for many years and continued to work for Lacerta Technology Ltd. which was formed from what remained after the company was sold to Mettler Toledo.

Lacerta Technology Ltd. design and manufacturer scientific instruments, in particular devices to aid in the measurement and characterisation of polymers using thermal analysis and related techniques. The company was formed out of what remained when the previous company Triton Technology Ltd. was sold to Mettler Toledo.

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I worked programming for an Access/Jet database at Consort Securities Systems which used a database to store data imported from the stock exchange's Crest system. Here I developed a good working knowledge of SQL and relational database concepts.

MySQL is the database system commonly used to store data used by website servers. It is a free to use system and is easily interfaced with the common Apache web server system. It is therefore much more common for use in general purpose website design and development, but still has the power and complexity if necessary that larger database system such as SQL Server and Oracle can provide.