This page last updated 12 September 1998
Curriculum Vitae of John Bishop B.Sc.
Contact
| Full name: | John Ward Bishop |
| Address: | 21 Avalon Road, Orpington, Kent, BR6 9AX |
| Telephone: | 01689 817808 (Evenings) |
| 01293 886060 Ext. 145 (Days) | |
| Email: | tappers@compuserve.com (Personal) |
| john.bishop@macro4.com (Business) | |
| Websites: | The DooM RooM |
| Tappers | |
| Current Post: | Senior Support Engineer (Midrange Products), Macro 4 plc, The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, West Sussex. RH10 4SS. |
Personal
| Date of birth: | 2 December 1951 |
| Qualifications: | A level English, French and General Studies |
| B.Sc. in Computing with commendation (London University 1979) | |
| Driving licence: | Full, clean |
| Status: | Married |
| Children: | 1 son, 1 daughter |
| Interests: | Music composition, literature, website maintenance |
| Sports: | Swimming, hill walking |
Summary
A highly competent, hard working and loyal individual with more than twenty seven years in the industry. Experience covers many areas from operations through systems design to consultancy and technical authorship and technical product support. With multi-platform and multi-discipline knowledge, excellent communications skills both written and verbal at any level, and accustomed to working alone or in a team whether as leader or member.
Responsibilities of current position
Almost seven years in current position having built the midrange support section from its inception and responsible for its day-to-day running involving:
Employment History
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Jan 1993 – present |
Macro 4 plc. Senior midrange support engineer (see above). |
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July 1992 – Jan 1993 |
Revival Systems Ltd Marketing a disk space compression product for VM. |
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July 1983 – July 1992 |
Macro 4 plc Technical Author and Manager of Authors Department. Responsible for all the company’s written and online documentation and the introduction of desktop publishing. Also wrote many of the company’s technical reference manuals and user guides and created product reference cards. |
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Jan 1981 – July 1983 |
Synapse Computer Services Systems Engineer for VM and VSE mainframe systems. Responsibilities included system upgrades, hardware planning and installation, problem resolution and general technical support consultancy. |
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June 1979 – Jan 1981 |
Alexander Duckham & Co. Ltd Technical Support Manager. Responsible for the day-to-day running of the VSE based mainframe system. Planning and implementation of new hardware, operating system upgrades and online user systems. |
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Jan 1978 – June 1979 |
Price Waterhouse DP Consultant performing a variety of clients tasks both in the UK and abroad. Major projects included the design of a new accounts system for a news gathering service, design of an invoicing system for an overseas airline, and the selection of the in-house word processing system for Price Waterhouse’s head office. Also performed a number of technical site audits and a variety of statistical analyses. |
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April 1971 – Jan 1978 |
Alexander Duckham & Co. Ltd Many positions starting from operator, through shift leader, programmer and project leader with all the responsibilities and duties those positions imply. Instrumental in the relocation of the computer installation from London to Kent, along with the implementation of a new machine. Designed and implemented the company’s real-time customer update system and was also responsible for coding much of the online order entry system. |
Hardware Summary
IBM mainframe, AS/400 and PCs. Exposure to a variety of other micros and Unix systems.
Software Summary
OS/400, VM, VSE, MVS, CMS, XEDIT, VTAM, TSO, REXX, BAL, RPGII, COBOL. MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, NT. Many PC based products such as communications and connectivity software, spreadsheets, presentation software, word processing, HTML editors, FTP etc.
This page last updated 12 September 1998