WILLIE MEIKLE CURRICULUM VITAE

April 2001 - Present FICTION WRITING

I took time out from my technical career to write 2 novels, both of which have sold to Barclay books in the US

• Defined and delivered a set of management procedures providing a standard approach to delivering projects across a geographically diverse organisation.
• Delivered these procedures across the corporate Intranet using the VISIO toolkit and HTML.
• Trained staff in the use of these procedures.
• Maintained the procedures, ensuring their continual accuracy.

• Planned and managed the implementation of Phase 1 of a Computerised Maintenance and Materials Management System (MAXIMO) covering inventory management, equipment/materials maintenance, work scheduling, stock and non-stock purchasing and invoicing.
• Managed the rollout out the system to over 150 users in SSE power generation sites across the UK.
• Managed data migration from 3 separate legacy systems (1 Mainframe, 2 PC-Based).
• Managed the third party suppliers (PSDI).
• Managed SSE's internal support team for the project (3-5 staff).
• Set up issue management, change control and quality control procedures.
• Planned and managed User Acceptance testing.
• Analysed SSE's reporting needs from the system and coded and delivered 30 report programs written in SQR
• Planned activities for Phase 2 of the implementation.

• Wrote a data design specification for the conversion/migration of 10 source databases on 3 different platforms (1 IBM mainframe CICS COBOL system, 1 Tandem based ORACLE system, one BULL Mini COBOL based) to an ORACLE based data warehouse on a single SUN platform.
• Wrote and collated Program Specifications for the routines to carry out the above conversions.

• Analysed the quality procedure requirements for the operational control of a new Data Centre.
• Wrote quality procedures and work instructions for the operation of the Data Centre to ISO9002 standards for Quality Management using the VISIO toolkit.
• Designed and implemented an Intranet presence for the Data Centre consisting of 30 HTML pages with some JAVASCRIPT.
• Implemented the Quality Management procedures on the Hydro-Electric Intranet.
• Maintained the quality management procedures, ensuring their accuracy.

• Negotiated Service Level Agreement (SLA) with a third party supplier for hardware and software support for desktop services.
• Managed service delivery of support for desktop services by managing the relationship with the third party supplier.
• Introduced PRINCE project management standards and procedures.
• Negotiated SLA with a third party supplier for the system administration of Windows NT servers.
• Prepared proposal, terms of reference, and invitation to tender for a project to standardise network protocols in the business.
• Analysed user requirements for a stock control system, produced User Requirements specification, performed a market survey of providers and prepared an Invitation to Tender.
• Designed and authored a suite of over 50 HTML pages for the corporate Intranet detailing Project Management procedures, Risk Assessment procedures and procedures for purchasing IT systems.

• In charge of all applications within the water authority, covering Financial Systems (Billing, Payroll and Ledger), Operational Systems (Stores, Fleet Management, Property Register) and Management Systems (E-mail, Personnel).
• In charge of 5 - 7 analyst programmers for support and development of new and existing systems.
• Set up procedures for change control and problem handling.
• Heavily involved in formulation of IT strategy.
• Planned activities for the whole IT department for 1996-1997 using PMW.

• Manager of the Patient Records System, a Scotland-wide clinical management system for the follow up of high-risk patients.
• Managed the roll out of the system to four other sites in Scotland.
• Ran a development team of up to 7 staff.
• From Feb 1995 managed the re-write of the system to a Client-Server environment, using RAD techniques with ORACLE as the RDBMS , the Top*Case Case tool with X-Windows (UNIX) and MS-Windows (PC) as the front end and SQR as the reporting tool..
• Heavily involved in project planning and estimating.
• Proficient in Function Point estimating and MS-Project.

• I worked in London/SE England for SEMA, a large European Software House/Services Company, for more than 8 years, starting as a programmer.
• Detailed here are some of the major tasks undertaken.

• Manager of the Patient Administration System for East Anglia Health Authority.
• Introduced SEMA technical standards and working practices to the staff at the computing centre.
• Support service provided for 200 users across a wide area network.
• Managed 3 -5 support staff.

• Managed SEMA's Financial Customer Support Services Group.
• Contract manager of 8 application support contracts.
• Managed three teams of programmers, ranging from 8 to 12 staff. The teams' work involved help desk support, problem management, bug fixing, upgrades, training and enhancements for financial applications including portfolio management and foreign exchange dealing.

• Resource manager for 25 - 30 IT staff, placing staff in appropriate roles in IT projects across the UK and Europe.
• Responsibility for performance assessment, salary review, promotions, redundancies and disciplinary procedures.
• Responsible for graduate recruitment and arranging milk round visits.
• Responsible for organising staff training.

• Ran and organised a training course for analyst programmers on good practice in system design.
• Ran three four-day courses per year.

• Responsible for application development and system test for a 200+ user Foreign Exchange dealing room for National Westminster bank.
• Ran 3 teams of programmers, ranging from 9 - 12 staff.
• Delivered the project on budget and on time.

• From November 1985 to June 1987 I was team leader in the Customer Services Group, supporting foreign exchange dealing room systems, with a team of 4-6 staff.
• From September 1982 to November 1985 I worked on a number of projects as a programmer for SEMA, working on Mini and Micro based systems for financial services companies covering applications in Credit Card Management, Automated Teller Machines, FOREX Dealing Rooms and BACS diskette production.
• I have programming experience in COBOL, PL/1, BASIC and 8 and 16 bit assemblers