Mark Whitfield 54 connections

From LinkedIn :

Currently employed as an IT Manager at Insider Technologies Limited in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester (UK).

My main area of expertise is HP NonStop (formerly Tandem Computers & COMPAQ Himalaya). This current role involves me with BASE24, BASE24-eps (formerly BASE24-es) and the certified integration of ITL's primary product set with leading Electronic Payment/Transaction applications and Enterprise Managers such as BMC Patrol (COMMAND/POST), TIVOLI and HP OpenView Operations (HP OVO) (for Windows).

Previously employed at Deluxe Data International Operations, Runcorn, Merseyside (see NOTE below) in Electronic Banking and developing the sp/ARCHITECT (sp-architect) product and host interfaces. I also supported the Periphonics Voice Processing systems (VOS) (bought by NORTEL in 1999) and interfaces developed for GiroBank in Denmark.

NOTE : The Software Partnership (TSP) was bought out by Deluxe Data to become Deluxe Data International Operations in 1994 (based in Runcorn in the UK). This in turn then became eFUNDS (EFD) in 2000 which recently became Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) in 2007. The UK based wing of FIS is based in Daresbury in Warrington (UK) - see link below.

- http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/tsp.html

A LinkedIn GROUP has been set-up for original employees of The Software Partnership & Deluxe Data International Operations in Runcorn :

- http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/47011/03E866465790

For a more detailed account of my Professional IT Experience, goto link (1) below and also the supporting links.

Useful Career Profile Links :
[1] www.mawhitfield.net/resume.aspx
[2] www.mawhitfield.com/html/overview.html
[3] www.mawhitfield.com/html/certificatesgallery.html
[4] www.mawhitfield.com/html/overview.html#ResumeITSkills
[5] www.mawhitfield.com/html/overview.html#ResumeTechnical

Contact me through 'My Website' (link at bottom of page).

MediaCity:UK (BBC Peel Bovis) Photo Timeline :
www.mawhitfield.com/mcuk.htm

Specialties:
IT Skills :

Programming :
(HP NonStop formerly Tandem Computers & COMPAQ NonStop Himalaya):
ASP.NET, .NET, C#, Visual Basic, TAL, C, C++, COBOL85, SCOBOL (Screen COBOL), COBOL74, TACL, NonStop & Microsoft SQL
NSK Utilities – SCF, ENSCRIBE, TMFCOM, SPOOLCOM, PATHCOM, PERUSE, PUP, INSPECT, EMS etc. also XPNET, BASE24, BASE24-eps

Operating Systems :
HP NonStop Server (formerly TANDEM & COMPAQ Himalaya) GUARDIAN with PATHWAY on K & S series
(C, D & G GUARDIAN Operating Systems)
WINDOWS

Experience
IT Technical Initiatives Manager
Insider Technologies Limited

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2000 – Present (7 years 10 months)

Employed as a Project Manager & Pre-sales Technical Consultant. This role enables me to remain technically ‘hands-on’ for any issues or software initiatives that may arise for the company’s primary product set;

Project management of complete software development life-cycle for new product initiatives
Providing technical assistance in support situations
Production of functional design documents, installation scripts & program specifications for any new or proposed NSK developments
A key part in major NSK sales bids in UK & abroad which also includes presenting to ITL's IT Partners like Insession (now re-joined with ACI)
On-Site at Crestco (now Euroclear) developing benchmarking software
Providing 24x7 support (team) for Thales e-SECURITY products; Security Resource Manager (SRM) which runs on NSK platform & both SafeSign Authentication & SafeSign Management Server which run on Windows & Unix platforms. These products provide for request & response of Cryptographic functions.

ITL Operations Products Manager
Insider Technologies Limited

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1998 – May 2000 (2 years)

Product Manager assigned to project manage the complete development life-cycle for 4 software products, 2 HP NonStop based and 2 Windows based. This software has its main focus in the system management, automation and SLA monitoring of critical path applications running on hp NonStop systems at major financial and telecommunications institutions around the world.

These products are developed by ITL and their ongoing research, design and delivery make up the primary day-to-day role of a Product Manager at ITL, with any issues being reported directly to the Operations Director. This role involves the project management of each development phase of the products and t 2000 he use of Microsoft Project (in conjunction with Outlook) for tracking progress and reporting status. It is also the responsibility of the Product Manager to provide technical guidance and leadership to assigned team members.

Senior Development Engineer
Insider Technologies Limited

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 1995 – June 1998 (2 years 11 months)

Recruited as a senior hp NonStop developer to aid in the team leading of a number of staff responsible for adding new functionality to an existing ITL software product.

In 1997 placed at CRESTCo (now Euroclear) in London for 3-months (contracted out as a consultant by Insider Technologies Limited) producing volume testing and benchmark 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). The results were compared against the live K series systems running the same application.

http://www.insidertech.co.uk

Lead Analyst
The Software Partnership / Deluxe Data International Operations (2007 - now FIS via EFD eFUNDS)

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1990 – August 1995 (5 years)

The Runcorn office started as The Software Partnership (Norton House, Crowngate & then Wingate House in 1992, Northway) in the mid-80's (co-founded by Nigel Walsh) but purchased in 1994 by American company Deluxe Electronic Payment Systems. This in turn is part of Deluxe Corporation which is one of the largest cheque printers & debit transaction processors in the US, & a major supplier of secure card management systems (now FIS (2007) but was also eFunds International EFD - based in Daresbury, Warrington). TSP started out developing on-line banking systems for Tandem & UNIX.

Involved in developing Electronic Banking software subsequently installed at a number of major banks (including Barclays Bank & RBS) allowing corporate customers to obtain information about their various accounts & make payments electronically using a PC. I also worked on-site at Barclays (Radbroke Hall) Knutsford & Wimborne Road, Poole - Dorset.

http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/thesoftwarepartnership1.html

Education
Bolton Institute of Higher Education (BIHE) - The University of Bolton. Deane Road, Bolton. BL3 5AB
BTEC HND Distinction, Computing, 1988 – 1990

The HND course I attended at BIHE was a 2-year, full-time course made up of the following modules :

Computer Systems Architecture
Programming Methodology Theory / Practice (VAX)
Data Processing
Business Studies 2000
Quantitative Techniques
Systems Analysis
Business Information Systems Theory / Practice

My final year project consisted of an ORACLE SQL-forms designed GUI interface running under an MS-DOS operating system. The GUI interface provided traditional insert, update, delete and transaction rollback facilities for recording information about students attending courses at BIHE, along with their module assignment and exam result details. The student data was held in an ORACLE SQL database set-up on a PC local to the application. The tables were designed in accordance with Third Normal Form (TNF) design methodology in order to cancel out repeating student data. Systems analysis work was carried out using SSADM.

http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/bihemain.html (BIT)

Leigh College ( now Wigan & Leigh College )
A Levels, English, Biology & Computing, 1985 – 1988

Marshall Street,
LEIGH,
Lancashire,
UK.
WN7 4HX

My ‘A’ Level Computing Project was developed on a Amstrad PC 1512 and was written in Turbo Pascal. The software provided a means for a local town newspaper to store, track and calculate the money payable to delivery staff based on paper round metrics. These metrics related to size of round, papers delivered and any leaflets attached to a delivery for that week.
http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/alevelcomputingcourse.html

My ‘O’ Level Computing Project was developed on a LINK 480Z Research Machine and was written in Extended BASIC. Three submissions were required with appropriate design and testing. The excerpts below show details of a BASIC program for storing and displaying student exam results.

http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/olevelcomputingcourse.html
http://www.wigan-leigh.ac.uk/

Park High Secondary School
O Levels, 1980 – 1985

Park High Secondary School (Park High School)
(formerly Hindley and Abram Grammar School now PDC)
Park Road,
Hindley,
WIGAN,
Lancashire,
UK.
WN2 3RY

http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/overview.html#ResumeParkHighSchool

Activities and Societies: Chess Club, Art Club

Hindley Green County Primary School
General, 1975 – 1980

Hindley Green County Primary School
(now Hindley Green Community Primary School)
Thomas Street,
Hindley Green,
WIGAN,
Lancashire,
UK.
WN2 4SS

http://www.mawhitfield.com/html/overview.html#ResumeHGCPS
http://www.hindleygreen.wigan.sch.uk/


Colin Baxter

I found Mark to be a dedicated and resourceful person who was always willing and able to help out. His contribution at ITL has been a key to their success. February 08, 2008


Ian Slack

Concise Business and Technical All-Rounder January 25, 2008


David Chance

I worked with Mark during his early days in IT and he showed at that stage an understand of the development role and a clarity of thought. We worked within a challenging area of the company - providing both frontline customer support and background defect resolution, and Mark proved that he was always calm under crisis, diligent in hitting the deadlines and a great member of the team. These foundations appear to have served him well during his later career February 08, 2008


Greg Mathews

I worked with Mark developing electronic banking services for Barclays, where Mark was a solid contributor in the design, programming and testing of Barclays BusinessMaster II and other electronic banking systems. Out of all the team, he was always the most calm under crisis, diligent in hitting the deadlines and a great member of the team. February 07, 2008


John Littlewood

During our time at the Software Partnership Mark proved himself to be an extremely competant software engineer who took great care and pride in his work. February 07, 2008


David Cainer

Mark worked on developing the system for a highly innovative financial network. He was always professional and enthusiastic, inspiring enthusiasm among his colleagues. January 15, 2008

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 at The Software Partnership in Runcorn (Cheshire). This software development role involved me with the sp/ARCHITECT-BANK™ 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/ARCHITECT™ 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 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 BASE24™ 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 Operations™ (HP OVO), BMC Patrol™ (formally COMMAND/POST™) and TIVOLI™.

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 RTLX™ product (Real-Time Log Extraction) for BASE24™ (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-eps™.

I have developed some ASP.NET code for the RTLX™ 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. Goto : http://www.mawhitfield.co.uk/mcuk.htm

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 my website (http://www.mawhitfield.net) and plaxo profile.

For more information feel free to contact me.