I guess that I don't need to say much about my world-famous movie Harvey (and Johnny Darko). But for those that may have been artistically challenged in their youth, you could take a peek here

However, what movie buffs around the world don't realise, is that I'm also a formally trained Fully Indentured Time-Served Computer Engineer, and MCP.

60's

In the sixties, apart from the sex, drugs and rock&roll, and the sex (always worth mentioning twice) I was working with pneumatic computers, thermionic valve computers and analogue computers. By the late sixties I had my hands on semiconductor-based digital computers, using DTL and TTL technologies.

70's

In the early seventies I was leading a design team in military airborne computer systems with Marconi Avionics, leading test teams in Software Development Houses and electronics manufacturers with Sperry-Univac and Racal, and got early into computerised traffic control systems with GEC.  By the middle of the decade I spent a while developing methods of alternative technology and living with the hippies.

By '76, I had my suit on again and was working for a Digital Equipment Corporation in New England, tasting the delights of Samuel Adams ale in Boston, and hot pastrami sandwiches in New York. Also worked in UK and Switzerland doing  mainframe crash analysis for projects such as La Grande Dixence. I became a specialist on the KL10, the third computer on the internet.

High spots of the seventies :

80's

Had a farm in Scotland whilst taking a lead role in the installation of all the computer systems for a large Petroleum Gas Plant. Worked in France, Texas and Oklahoma specifying, designing and acceptance testing systems.

Became an independent contractor and served most the major companies in the North Sea.

With the recent availability of Personal Computers and desktop databases, I found many ways to hook-up to large computer and electronic systems and perform in-depth analysis.

As the price of oil moved south, so did I, and served the industrial North West on England. I performed private presentations of methods that I had developed, in the UK, France and Germany.

The decade ended with me writing major database programs for manufacturers and utilities.

High spots of the eighties :

90's

Test Team Leader for Nuclear Electric installing about £200m of computer equipment for Sizewell "B", the UK's largest nuclear power station. Was using Foxpro 2.0 to analyse the huge amount of diverse data.

Then it happened : Microsoft Access Version 1.0. I thought it would be like all the other DBase-type languages, but it wasn't. It was much better. I immediately left and started as an independent developer using just this language.

I've never looked back.

During that decade I put systems all around the world, and worked in UK, USA, France, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Hungary and Italy.

I have interfaced to Oracle, SQL Server, Sysbase, B-Trieve etc, and written international and multi-lingual systems.

I presented talks at Microsoft and Access User Group seminars. I worked for Lloyds of London providing major audits on Y2K compliance, especially for Microsoft Access systems.

High spots for the nineties :

00's

With the Y2K gravy-train dried up, it was back to honest Access Development for me.

I have been mainly working in Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical and Car Manufacturing industries.

BP were rolling out half a billion dollars worth of computer hardware/software throughout the world. Both the database and web developers let them down and produced a pile of donkey doo-doos. I came in and wrote a complete ASP and Access suite which did the job throughout the world.

I have large complex Access applications, with thousands of users, in use in most of the developed world, with backends such as SQL Server and Oracle.

I have ASP applications running throughout Europe, with Oracle and SQL Server back-ends.

High-spots for the naughties