Residing: 23 Hawkswell Close, Woking, SURREY, GU21 3RS, United Kingdom

Telephone: 01483 730766 ( 07771 523278 mobile )

E-mail: noel@noelyates.co.uk

Web: www.noelyates.co.uk

Personal

British citizen, EU passport. Home owner, married with two teenage children. Full and clean car/motorcycle licence. Non-smoker, fit and healthy (completed London Marathon 2000). Date of birth 14 October 1948. Personal interests are photography, cycling/motorcycling and music. French speaker.

Career summary

As consultant and application developer (for 15 years) I have experience of the full development cycle from design (including database design) through development to user training and support. My current core skill set is Visual Basic .NET, SQL Server 2000, ADO.NET, web technologies and various report writers. Other technologies I know include CA-Visual Objects, CA-Clipper and Advantage Database Server.

Strengths are willingness to engage fully with a project, ability to learn quickly and be open to change and an understanding of how to be effective. Experienced in team leadership and recruitment, particularly strong in client- and user-facing roles.

Career started with engineering training followed by technical authorship then technical sales until taking up IT in the mid-1980s. Freelance since 1986, working either as sole developer or part of a client’s team.

Contributor to a major photography stock library.

Technical knowledge and tools used

Analysis/database design, object-oriented design and development.

Visual Basic 5/6 .NET; MS SQLServer 7/2000 and Access; ADO.NET; OLEDB; MS SQL Server; MS Access; ASP/ASP.NET; HTML/XML/VBScript/Javascript; CA-Visual Objects (32-bit Windows OO language); CA-Clipper

Crystal and R&R Report Writers

Technical writing and editing; Digital imaging techniques, scanning, image manipulation and output.

Windows NT/2000/XP and Netware 3.x-5.x ; network protocols.

Workstation, network and firewall installation, configuration and support.

Recent systems development experience

• Web-based job application form, with database back end, for a major low cost airline. The form collected responses from applicants and stored them in a linked database.

• Vehicle inspection and workshop automation systems with AS/400 link. Versions of this system ran on nine sites in the UK and it was developed to run in any language with a Roman character set.

• Central logistics management system with handheld remote units receiving job notification and uploading delivery times.

• Patient managemeet system for a major health care equipment manufacturer. This system was used by more than thirty specialist nurses in the UK.

• Ship repair agency enquiry and sales management system.