NonStopMark

Born in 1968 (Firs Maternity Home) in Leigh (Lancashire, UK), I attended a couple of local schools in Hindley before studying Computer Science ‘A’ Level at Leigh College (Marshall Street) in the mid-eighties. In 1988, I started a 2-year Higher National Diploma (HND) in Computer Studies at Bolton Institute of Higher Education (BIHE), now the University of Bolton (Lancashire).

After graduating with a Distinction, my professional IT career started soon after in late 1990 after accepting a position as a HP NonStop (formally Tandem Computers) programmer (GUARDIAN, PATHWAY, COBOL85, NonStop SQL) at The Software Partnership in Runcorn (Cheshire). This software development role involved me with the sp/ARCHITECT-BANKâ„¢ electronic banking application and IBM host interfaces.

Progressing to Lead Analyst by 1994, (The Software Partnership was taken over in this same year by American company Deluxe Data to become Deluxe Data International Operations (now FIS via eFUNDS). At this point, I had returned from Poole in Dorset (UK) after a 3-month secondment to Barclays Bank to develop a billing extension for the Barclays Business Master II application (BBMII). From mid-1994 onwards, I provided technical support for a number of sp/ARCHITECTâ„¢ accounts in the UK and abroad including the Periphonics (bought by NORTEL in 1999) Voice Processing systems (VOS) and account interfaces developed for GiroBank in Denmark.

In late 1995, I was offered a key role as a senior programmer (GUARDIAN, PATHWAY, TAL, C/C++, COBOL85, NonStop SQL) at Insider Technologies Limited in Salford Quays (Greater Manchester). Still continuing as a specialist in the HP NonStop arena, I developed COBOL85 (SQL embedded), TAL and C/C++ PATHWAY servers for the Reflex 80:20 application. I became the Reflex Product Manager in 1998 shortly after 3-month secondment to CrestCo (now Euroclear) in London developing volume testing and benchmarking software. This software was used to test the performance of the CRESTCo Stock Settlement application on newly installed S7000 G Series HP NonStop systems (first delivered in the UK).

In 2001, I developed code (both in-house and at ACI in Watford, UK) to integrate the ITL Reflex HP NonStop product with the XPNET layer of the BASE24â„¢ application (developed by ACI) to provide complete Windows-based graphical monitoring for the ATM and POS estate supported by this layer. This ITL product then became known as Reflex ONE24. In the following years, I also managed the certified integration of the Reflex product with the primary Enterprise Managers HP OpenView Operationsâ„¢ (HP OVO), BMC Patrolâ„¢ (formally COMMAND/POSTâ„¢) and TIVOLIâ„¢.

Today still working for ITL, my main role involves overseeing technical initiatives and aiding in pre-sales situations as well as representing the company at HP NonStop IT conferences such as ITUG, EBUG and SATUG.

Since 2005, I have worked very closely with the RTLXâ„¢ product (Real-Time Log Extraction) for BASE24â„¢ (TLF and PTLF) log file monitoring and continue to look at other opportunities to integrate this product with other primary payment and trading applications such as BASE24-epsâ„¢.

I have developed some ASP.NET code for the RTLXâ„¢ product and work in this area has also given me an interest in .NET technology and more specifically DotNetNuke, an open source web application framework hence this website. Along with this, I also maintain a photographic timeline for the MediaCity:UK (MC:UK) Peel development in Salford Quays which will be home to the BBC in 2010/11. The MC:UK development was started in June 2007.

I live in Bolton (Lancashire) with Sarah and daughter Freya. My pastimes include golf (member at Worsley Park in Manchester), tennis, badminton, cinema, photography, learning French and of course, maintaining this website.

For more information, access my professional profile at LinkedIn or feel free to contact me.