CURRICULUM VITAE
Introduction
I know that employers generally prefer to look at a concise CV printed in black and white, without any first-person references. When applying for jobs, I send them just such a CV that occupies two pages, but with web links in blue. I thought about forcing the web links to be black, but decided that blue would probably be acceptable, since it is a widely recognized convention and photocopies reasonably well. A separate blog contains pictures of my Certificates.
The CV embedded in this blog doesn't follow that convention, but it is mainly designed for screen display.
Please note that as this blog is publicly accessible to anybody who finds it, some information has been withheld to protect privacy. Such information (postal and email addresses, telephone numbers, my national insurance number, names of references) will be made available to any prospective employer who requires it, assuming that I feel that I am capable of performing the prospective job to an acceptable standard.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Profile: Currently unemployed but keen to start working again in any capacity that I am able to fulfil, whether this utilizes my old skills or not.
| At work | 25 years commercial computer programming experience using COBOL etc., detailed on next page. |
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| While training | I revised the WORDPERFECT course training guide |
| At home | Website as blogs including how I set up those blogs |
| On Amazon | My contributions on Amazon UK and Amazon USA |
| On radio | I was interviewed on BBC Radio Leicester about my Amazon activities |
| In the news | Five newspaper articles about Amazon and myself including two in The Times, one of them in February 2012. The other four articles appeared in November 2011. Those in the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian and the Leicester Mercury were full of lies and half-truths. The Times articles are only available online to subscribers. I have a print version of the 2012 article. |
| Part-time work | In the summer of 2004, I sold raffle tickets and programmes at Leicestershire County Cricket Club on match days. |
| At home | I practised Visual Basic extensively for several months. |
| Presentation | In 2011, I attended a workshop at the Which? head office in London, discussing internet feedback issues. While there, I gave a presentation using MS Powerpoint. |
| 2010 | Sweep floors, etc, while others assemble flat pack furniture |
| 2007-8 | Preparing waste for recycling |
| 2004-5 | Assembling flat pack furniture |
| Selective list | |
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| 2010-11 | SAGE computerised accounts |
| 2006 | CLAIT database |
| 2005-6 | Web design using HTML and CSS |
| 1997 |
Business Administration using EXCEL,
WORDPERFECT, DBASE, LOTUS 1-2-3 |
| 1996 |
C programming
achieved City and Guilds certificate |
| 1988 | Outplacement (following redundancy) |
| 1978 | ICL 2900 IDMS |
| 1978 | ICL 2900 VME SCL |
| 1978 | ICL 2900 COBOL for 1900 programmers |
| 1975 | ICL 1900 DRIVER |
| 1972 | ICL 1900 GEORGE 3 |
| 1971 | ICL 1900 PLAN for COBOL programmers |
| 1970 | ICL 1900 COBOL direct access (disk) handling |
| 1969 | ICL 1900 COBOL for beginners |
| Main skills |
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COBOL, RM-PANELS, UNIX/AIX, VME, IDMS, SCL, DDS,
FILETAB, DME, GEORGE 2, GEORGE 3, PLAN, DRIVER |
Limited exposure |
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VISUAL BASIC, MVS, TSO, ISPF, DOS/VSE, VM/CMS, JCL,
VSAM, DRS, TME-TP, VAX/VMS, DBMS, ADRAM, ITS, TPL |
Programming and related tasks |
| Conversion to a different computer environment |
| Maintenance and enhancement |
| New development |
| Rewrite programs |
| System testing and parallel running |
| Security, restart and recovery |
| Preparation of specifications and test data |
| Error detection and correction |
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Performance improvements to batch run times,
online response times and resource utilisation. |
| Keep documentation up to date |
| General office administration duties | Main application areas |
| Local authority, Life assurance, Financial, Manufacturing, Engineering. |
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Computer programming and related tasks
including general office administration duties |
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| 06/98 - 12/02 | XKO (formerly CP) | Narborough |
| 12/89 - 02/90 | Yellow Pages | Reading |
| 11/88 - 11/89 | Somerset County Council | Taunton |
| 04/88 - 10/88 | Crown Life | Woking |
| 02/88 - 04/88 | London Life | Bristol |
| 06/87 - 12/87 | ICL | Reading |
| 07/86 - 12/86 | Ford | Daventry |
| 01/86 - 06/86 | Black and Decker | Spennymoor |
| 05/85 - 12/85 | Rothmans | Aylesbury |
| 06/84 - 03/85 | Pirelli | Southampton |
| 02/84 - 05/84 | Woolworth | Rochdale |
| 05/83 - 01/84 | UK Provident Life | Salisbury |
| 02/83 - 05/83 | Listmart |
Caernarfon,Bracknell
Waterlooville,Newbury |
| 06/82 - 12/82 | Powell Duffryn | Basingstoke |
| 02/82 - 06/82 | ICL | Bristol |
| 06/81 - 12/81 | The AA | Basingstoke |
| 06/80 - 05/81 | Bath and Portland Group | Bath |
| 08/77 - 06/80 | ICL | Leeds |
| 06/75 - 08/77 | Gateshead Council | Gateshead |
| 03/73 - 06/75 | ACS |
Feltham,Cricklewood
Watford,Maidenhead |
| 08/69 - 03/73 | Plessey | Swindon | Bakery production line work |
| 07/69 - 08/69 | R and K Wise | Swindon |
School examinations
The College of Preceptors exams came a year before the first round of GCE and CSE exams. They were primarily intended as a trial run for those more important exams.
When the important exams came round, my summer examinations papers were submitted to both the GCE and CSE examination boards for marking. Winter papers were only submitted to the GCE board. Hence I was deprived of a CSE grade 1 in General English, their equivalent of English Language. As it took me three attempts to pass Physics at GCE, I have two CSE grades for that subject. I also have two grades for English literature although I never came close to a GCE pass in that subject as you can see from my final CSE grade of 3. Grade 1 was considered equivalent to a GCE pass. Meanwhile, I only took technical drawing once; despite obtaining a pass in the College of Preceptors exam, it really wasn't something I excelled at.
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Kingsdown High School
Stratton St. Margaret, Swindon |
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| College of Preceptors |
English Language
Mathematics (passed with distinction) Technical drawing | |
| CSE (with grades) |
Mathematics
Chemistry Geography Physics General English Technical drawing English literature |
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1 1 2, 1 2 3 4, 3 |
| GCE 'O' Level |
English Language
Mathematics Chemistry Geography Physics | |
| GCE Additional 'O' Level | Mathematics | |
| Kingsdown School is now a technology college | ||
| Other schools | ||
| Chippenham | Sheldon School formerly Boys' High School | |
| Chippenham | Ivy Lane Primary School | |
| Chippenham | St Paul's Primary School | |
| Marshfield | Church of England Primary School | |
| Montrose | Southesk Primary School | |
| Mablethorpe | Community Primary School and Nursery | |
| Name | Peter Durward Harris |
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| Location | Leicester, England |
| via Blogger profile page | |
| Born | September 8, 1951 |
| Transport |
Rail, bus and taxi; I never took a driving test, although I did take lessons.
However, as this page shows, I am willing to relocate for a quality job. |
| Interests | Horse racing, music, non-fiction books, football, chess, BBC radio 5 live |
| References |
Two references from my XKO days can be supplied, plus
one reference from the internet feedback research project. |
2 comments:
Peter
I'm not sure what the opposite of 'serendipity' is and don't know if you'll pick this up. However, unserendipitously (because I should be doing something else) I've just enjoyed reading peterdurwardharris16 and peterdurwardharris12.
I was reading a book review of Plundering the Public Sector by David Craig (the author, not the reviewer) as he is standing as an MEP candidate for Libertas as I am (if they got the application in in time).
I eventually clicked on Amazon's Top Reviewers (congratulations?) which ironically brought me to you.
We once almost passed within 14 years of each other - I worked for Ford in South Ockenden upto 1972 and declined the move to Daventry! - choosing to do A levels and eventually to go to University instead - so now I'm unemployed instead of a wealthy Ford pensioner. Well that's another long tale.
I've just had the bizarre experience of waiting 8 weeks for a 'CRB' check - and need another one to work elsewhere. (Meanwhile, illegal immigrants work a couple of miles away at Heathrow on forged documents running rings round our buffoons in charge).
Wish you all the best with your reviewing - perhaps you might in future get paid for it?
Trevor Bending
I don't get paid for reviewing but I do get offers of free books and music. Uusually I turn them down because they don't interest me, but I accept when I'm offered something interesting.
But I don't go actively looking for freebies. Too many would make them taxable and that would cause a whole other set of problems.
As for Daventry, I'd go back if there were work for me, but there's absolutely nothing else for me there. While I remain unemployed, Leicester beats a lot of the places I've been.
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