NAME:		Ian Turnbull	
Nationality:	British
Sex:		Male
Marital status:	Single
Date of Birth:	10th March 1950
Education:	Various British Army children’s schools World-wide
Contact Telephone:	 (07944) 009716     Home base.
Base Address:  32 Westway
                Lancing
              	 West Sussex
                 BN15 8LX
      
Current Availability:	 /immed/

Since my last contract but 1 at the Royal Bank of Scotland [yes, a long time ago
I’m afraid] I have been learning about the newer technology ie. PC's.
Approximately 6 months prior to the RBS mainframe  contract ending [the writing
was on the wall] I felt I needed to start learning about PC’s with a vengeance.

The Royal Bank of Scotland have an excellent Employee training facility and were
foresighted enough to allow contractors to avail themselves. I did a number of
the self-paced CD programmes including VB6 & C languages, Networking basics and
one on the insides of a PC aimed at a hardware support engineer.
Since then I have further kept myself busy whilst seeking employment. I have
written a number of SOCKET programs, built this appalling web site etc. I have
written a few basic CGI programs in C simply to understand their mechanics for
both the METHODs=POST and GET .In order to accomplish this I have Googled through
a mountain of mostly interesting information. Not sure how many forums I’ve had
to register on to get help with the more difficult questions.
I invested in a £2500 Dell Insiron 8100 laptop during my last contract and have
since
raided the local tips for old broken computers and learnt how to put them
together hardware wise ie. building them up into a fewer working machines.
Once I had managed to put together 4 working machines I then learnt how to
network them together using Win-XP Win2K and Linux-Mandrake 1 [Send email to request phone number] . I used Linux as
a router and had 2 subnets, one for my machines and 1 for the rest of the
household. I also configured a simple DNS server and hosted this web site using
Apache2…I’ve lost count of the number of machines I have installed both Windows
and Mandrake Linux on. Usually dual bootable,
with 2 or 3 later kernels for testing. My low level coding started with machine
language and then assembler. I have reverse engineered much interrupt code to
find out how various drivers work. I have built and host my own web pages using
Apache 2.2 at
http://ian21.homeip.net and
http://ianst.homeip.net under windows. I know how to install Linux Mandrake and
rebuild a Linux kernel after changing kernel configuration options.
Part-time work or job sharing would definitely be considered as would working
either at a location or from home.

Scottish Widows – Edinburgh (Team Leader:Kenneth MacKinnon 0131 655 3121)
	(Project Manager: Bruce Anderson.    “       “      “   )
My contract began on August 12th 200***- I was hired on a 3 month contract to join
a team of 5 people to put in a new Sales Credit system. This was mainly to keep
track of and enable the clawing back of commission payments  to the Sales teams
on policies that they sold. This was a COBOL based system comprising both batch
and on-line TELON / IMS screens. I participated in both areas modifying the Telon
screens in the Early-life support of the system once it went live. I also worked
on another EP10 project which was also IMS & DB2 and COBOL and built the 2
Telon/IMS screens that comprised this project.
My contract has been extended for a further 6 months.

Previous contract:		Royal Bank of Scotland > 2 Yrs

Previous contract:	International Factors (Lloyds Bank sold to Bank of New York)
5 Yrs


PERIOD		POSITION			COMPANY

12/08/2000 - ??/??/????      Analyst Prog			Scottish Widows
			DB2/Cobol/Some Telon
			Devel New Sales Credit System

??/03/1998 - ??/03/2000	Analyst Programmer		Royal Bank of Scotland
			Assembler Legacy System maintenance
			Some DB2 and Cobol / Cobol  II

??/03/1993 - ??/03/1998	Analyst Programmer		International Factors Ltd
			All manner of CICS DB2+SQL DL/1-E maintenance / development

03/01/1989 - ??/03/1993	Analyst/Programmer	Bradford & Bingley building
Society
Derek hannam (01274)-555618 
Contract renewed 6 times    IBM 3090  MVS/XA
                          Assembler/Cobol/Cobol II/Telon/DB2-sql
                          CEDF,XPED, Cobtest

??/06/1987 - ??/09/88      Analyst/Programmer       Maynelaw pty ltd - Sydney
Contract renewed 3 times   VAX 11/750  Cobol / Assembler

??/02/1987 - ??/06/1987     Analyst/Programmer    Concurrent computers - Sydney
concurrent 3250 0S/32-MT    David Kelly

??/09/1986 - ??/02/1987     Analyst/Programmer/testing   State Bank of  N.S.W.
Olivetti/Phillips/Nixdorf    Jenny Slatter - Sydney

This was a second contract performed for ms J. Slatter in this role

??/06/1986 - ??/08/1986    Analyst/Programmer         Elcom (electricity comm)
VAX 11/750, 3x VAX 11/780

??/07/1985 - ??/06/1986    System Manager            A.R.C. Cadcentre
VAX 11/750 , microvax , prime 2250

??/05/1985 - ??/06/1985   Analyst/Programmer/tester   State bank of  N.S.W.
Olivetti/Nixdorf/Phillips  ms J. Slatter
This 9 week contract was to do some of the early 'front office' testing on
software and equipment provided by the above suppliers in response to a tender.

??/08/1984 - ??/03/1985   Analyst/Programmer      H.F. Gerdts - Bremen-Germany
         IBM PC-XT,DEC Rainbow, Kienzle Z-80,Seiko 8600 a head crash had caused
the loss of the only copies of a major data-base program developed by this
company. All the assembler (8 + 16 bit versions) were lost. Luckily the
executable versions were available at clients sites and thus the job was to
re-create the assembler source code. Once the Z-80 based system had been created
a cross-assembler was used to help in  the 16 bit versions.

??/03/1983 - ??/03/1984     Analyst/Programmer      Centre-file ltd.  London
IBM 3033 MVS TSO/ISPF Cobol/Assembler this was an initial 6 month contract to
provide various report type Cobol programs. The second half was to incorporate
the Australian securities into the present assembler suite. 

??/03/1982 - ??/02/1983    Analyst/Programmer      Cincom systems - Sydney
IBM 370's, VAX's, P-E 32nn's,  Ian was recruited into the technical support area
to answer customers queries, debug user problems, supply patches etc. This was on
the 'total' database system written and marketed by Cincom. He installed the
upgrades on user sites. He looked after the  product on the above machines. The
icing on the cake was when Inscom approached Cincom on a data storage problem on
behalf of one of their clients. Ian was assigned to this job and saved the cost
of 2 extra disc subsystems. This was by making use of the shared-memory
capabilities. He had to work back at Inscoms Sydney offices - next to the
'deaf-ears'.

??/02/1982 - ??/03/1982    Analyst/Programmer     Inscom systems pty ltd.
P-E 8/32, 32nn's.  This was a short stay where Ian was employed on a permanent
basis. He was expected to install the product  Polisy  at client sites with next
to no training - thus wasting the clients time and money. His protests fell on
deaf ears but was eventually assigned to low level programming tasks in between
installations of  Polisy. He resigned shortly thereafter.

??/08/1981 - ??/11/81     Analyst/Programmer      Metascybe systems
Z-80 systems.      Ian was contracted to adapt the ICL C01 communication
protocol for controlling ICL's expensive terminals so that the less expensive
terminals such as  heathcote  and the more versatile Hewlett-Packard and
Lear-Siegler terminals could be used. Once completed he was offered a permanent
position but decided to return to Australia instead.

??/06/1981 - ??/08/1981   Analyst/Programmer      Leasco software
P-E 8/32
contracted due to the previous jobs experience. Perkin-Elmer recommended Ian to
Leasco who were to produce a turnkey system for the ordering of all aspects of
hospital equipment from the building to furnishing of an operating theatre etc.
He was involved with the early design phase from a technical point of view on
this hardware. However, this hardware was decided against in respect of IBM.

??/03/1981 - ??/06/1981    Analyst/Programmer     Perkin-Elmer - Slough.
PE-32nn's
Ian was contracted to provide the high level - low level , Cobol/Fortran to
assembler interface calls to the DMS/32 database system P-E had built to edge
their way into the business areas from the more scientific slant they were well
known for. The routines were written in Assembler and the Fortran / Cobol
programmer actually called these routines which checked for correctness of the
passed parameters. Calls such as  read, next, attach, more, approx and others.
Over 50 of these calls were written and extensively tested.

??/12/80 - ??/02/1981    Analyst/Programmer    M.O.D.A. Hospital- Saudi Arabia
Hewlett-Packard.
This was a Cobol contract to include new programs to complement a patient
registration system. The new features were to schedule patients with follow up
letters for doctors appointments etc. Several new screens were called for.

??/07/1980 - ??/07/1981    Analyst/Programmer     Trekward ltd.
  Nascom Z-80      this was Ian’s company that he contracted through. He built a
kit form single board micro cpu which he built to gain an insight into this
rapidly increasing area of computing. He built a quasi multi-tasking system and
sold 2 copies. 1 to the atomic weapons research establishment near reading and
another to a research agency in Manchester. He also wrote a book but October
press went into liquidation after the first run of 10000 copies. Ian received 6
of these.

??/02/1980 - ??/06/80      Analyst/Programmer    CII-Honeywell Bull - France
    Honeywell level 6 minis.   Ian was hired because of his knowledge of 3270
terminal emulation and IBM's bi-sync comms protocol. This was for a system being
built for the Italian customs dept. Here he gained an insight to the layered X-25
CCITT standards together with the network architecture.

??/06/79 - ??/09/79         CDC 6600         I.C.C.C. - College - London
    using Fortran he provided a suite of programs to handle the details of over
1000 students. Billing information etc was kept and the scheduling of teachers to
classes & classrooms were built.

??/01/79 - ??/04/79         Univac 90/30       Jermyn industries - Kent
    Ian was hired as a systems programmer type person to increase the throughput
of their on-line customer order system. Using I.C.A.M. he tuned the system and
re-sysgenned various parameters. He built backup routines to backup their
variable length ISAM files not yet available from Univac. This meant accessing
fields in the FCB's.

??/10/92 - ??/12/92         IBM 370/158 OS / VS   Shell - the Hague.
  this was a mistake by the agency. Shell wanted geologists to help program the
siting of oil rigs using seismic data collected in the field. Ian was given some
librarian duties whilst a candidate was found. 

??/08/1978 - ??/10/1978     Perkin-Elmer 8/32,7/32 OS/32-MT  E.R.N.O. Bremen
    this was where the space-lab was designed to fit into the back of the space
shuttle. The job was to tailor the  RTEX  operating system to take advantage of
shared memory between the FEP (front-end-cpu) and to modify certain lengthy
instructions to prevent interrupt lockout during their execution. Naturally host
synchronization had to be catered for. The purpose here was to enable scientific
projects to be monitor and controlled from an earth station.

??/08/1977 - ??/04/1978  Perkin-Elmer 8/32 OS/32-MT   Thyssengas gmbh Duisburg
    this contract was renewed 3 times. The initial work was to provide a suite
of programs to bill each dept by extension for the phone calls made. The data was
collected on paper tape which for the most part was reliable. The next project
was to provide invoices for the customers who were supplied with gas. This
involved data from some 30 files containing data collected in the field, again on
paper tape. The last phase of the work did not materialise for budget reasons.

??/05/1977 - ??/06/1977    Univac 90/30  OS/9         Ruberoid ltd - Croydon
   this 1 month contract was to make some Cobol prog changes outlined by a
member of staff who had gone on holiday. Once done they were compiled and tested
against test data he had left in various files.

??/03/1976 - ??/04/1977    Perkin-Elmer 2 x 8/32's OS/32-MT   Megadata  pty ltd
  perhaps one of the most rewarding permanent positions that Ian had held. A
great deal of satisfaction and knowledge was gained from this job. It was a
turnkey system for the MMBW. to monitor and control the water, drainage and
sewerage system of the Melbourne metro. area. He was in charge of the operating
system side of this telemetry system building a copy of the o/system for the
on-line and the standby machines. He added hooks into the o/s to trap any writes
to disk such that they were written to both drives which at any given point in
time could be controlled by any machine or indeed any one disk may be connected
to either machine. This was necessary for the historical data and to keep the
coloured AYDIN monitors displaying the correct information. Various input/output
drivers were  written by him such as the watchdog timer so the standby machine
could ensure that the on-line was operating properly. a wall-clock driver was
written with the provisio that it was always the correct time when enabled to the
cpu. A cpu-cpu link was also written which transferred across a 'selch' and
managed 96 4k transfers per second. This wall clock was constructed by the
megadata engineers and subsequently sold world-wide. Another area he was involved
with was the saving of historical information. The requirement was to keep 4
weeks of data on-line at all times plus a 400 day condensed version. This was
naturally automatically hived off to tape medium together with the ability to
recall any of this info even down to the details of one wells level at a
particular time on a particular day whether or not it was off or on-line. The
last part of his duties was to provide a public faults appreciation system. This
was where the public phoned in to report any problems which were subsequently
logged together with any action taken to rectify them. For example which unit and
employees had been assigned to that problem. Ian found this an immensely
satisfying position with a true challenge not to be missed.

??/10/75 - ??/03/1976     IBM 370/135 DOS VS  DL1/E     C.A.G.A. - Sydney
   Ian was hired to finish the design of a dl1/e
database system. He took over from a Californian lady 'Fanny Chiu' who had
outlined most of the heirarchical modifications that needed implementing. This
done he was heavily involved in the C.I.C.S. system that was to be used by the
various branches to hook up to the head office. This included designing the
terminal layouts and the writing of the most common modules used by the
applications programmers to interrogate the database.

??/03/74 - ??/10/1975     Univac 418-III, 90/nn      Univac Australia pty ltd
    Univac telegramed Ian in N.Z. inviting him to
Sydney for a trainee programmers position on their 418-III machines working on a
message switching project for the Australian post office. This was known as the
common user data network system. In each major city were dual cpu's which allowed
connectivity by any company to transport data across the country. The airlines
were a large customer. Here he obtained a sound education in various
communication protocols, both synchronous and asynchronous transmissions.
Although when he joined much was the system was in place he did end up both
writing new programs for the telex Tx/Rx and made numerous changes to modules in
existence. Naturally there were more than one fast link such that re-routing and
queuing of messages were transparent to the users. At the end of this project Ian
was invited to relocate to Sydney and take up the role of looking after the
communications package I.C.A.M. built for the new range of computers about to hit
the market place - the 90/nn series running OS/9 operating system. He leapt at
the chance and spent many happy days in this position.

??/01/1974 - ??/03/1974     IBM 370/128          AFFCo. - Auckland

??/03/1974 - ??/11/1974      IBM 370/128          L.D. Nathan & co. - Auckland

??/??/19?? - ??/11/1973       Univac 418-III       the London hospital
    He joined initially as an operator and was later promoted to shift leader.
Due to his inquisitiveness in assembler programming he was later promoted again
to trainee assembler programmer. The main reason for this was that the recent
recruitment drive for university degree holders had failed to come forward as the
pay structure was well below the market rates at the time - in the right place at
the right time!.