Graham Steel CV
GPC Computer Software, 2007-
Cheadle, Cheshire. The business provides "Autocab" systems to taxi businesses, facilitating taxi job dispatch, route management, and accounting.
Platforms: Windows, PC and mobile.
Technologies: Visual Studio: C++ & C#, MySQL, MS SQL Server, navigation algorithms, VOIP and speech codecs.
Responsibilities: developing software to pre-process large quantities of geo-data, along with alorithms to calculate routes and display vehicle progress on mobile devices.
Capital One Homeowner Loans, 2004-2007
Macclesfield. This site provides the UK secured loans business for the multinational bank.
Platforms: Linux
Technologies: Thoroughbred Basic and IDOL-IV, Perl, Microsoft Office, SQL, Visual SourceSafe, Test Director.
Responsibilities: Software development, release and configuration management, testing, user support. The loan-brokering business is underpinned with the bespoke development of a commercially available base package.
Critical Path Technologies (UK) Limited, 2000-2004
Macclesfield. Provider of Internet, messaging and directory software.
Platforms: Windows NT, Sun Solaris, HP-UX
Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl.
Technologies: UNIX, X.500 directory and Meta-directory, LDAP, ASN.1, BER, sockets, SSL.
Syseca Limited, 1998-2000
Manchester. Software House.
Platforms: Windows NT, UNIX
Languages: C, SQL
Technologies: SCADA, Sockets
ABB Metering Systems, 1992 - 1998
Staffordshire. Provider of metering equipment and technology to the utilities.
Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 9.X, Windows 3.1
Languages: C, MS SQL Server, dBase IV, Visual Basic
Technologies: Metering systems, smart cards, payment terminals.
Customer and subcontractor support, systems testing
Unisys, 1983 - 1992
Livingston. Design and manufacture of document processors for the financial industry.
Platforms: Intel
Languages: C, Pascal, 8086 assembler
Technologies: real-time, multi-processing, device drivers, embedded systems, CASE tools.
Education
I was brought up and went to school in Leicester, where I gained nine O-Levels and three A-Levels. I then studied at Brunel University, from where I graduated in 1983 with a 2:1 honours degree in Computer Science. This was a four year thin sandwich course, during which I spent three periods of six months industrial training with three different government establishments.
Further education and other activities
Took evening classes to learn Delphi (1995) and C++ (1999).
Took Learning Tree courses to learn MS SQL Server (1996) and Java (2007).
Learned Perl and MySQL "on the job", and have implemented home applications with MySQL back end.
