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Paul N Brown

CURRICULUM

	Personal Details
	Computing Skills
	Contracts
	Employment
	The BT Years
	Education
	Hobbies and Interests

VITAE

NAME:                   PAUL NICHOLAS BROWN

ADDRESS:                Please contact by email

EMAIL:                  pbrown@walnuts.co.uk

WWW URL:                http://www.walnuts.co.uk/

STATUS:                 Married

MAIN SKILLS SUMMARY:

Roles:- VV&T Engineer, VAX DCL Developer, VAX System Manager, Network Management, Technical Author, Network Requirements Documentation, Systems Security Compliance Documentation
Platforms:- DEC VMS, UNIX
Languages:- DEC DCL, BASIC, UNIX SHELL SCRIPT, ORACLE SQL
Database:- ORACLE
Applications:- MS-OFFICE

ADDITIONAL SKILLS and EXPERIENCE:

Roles:- Requirements Capture, Install & Upgrade Engineer
Platforms:- MS-DOS, WIN31, WIN95, WINNT, PSION 3a
Languages:- C HTML PDL OPL
Database:- INFORMIX SYBASE
Applications:- VTEST, Vantive Customer Contact Software, Genesys (Computer - Telephony Interface), Kenan Billing Software, Internet WWW publishing.

CONTRACTS

NOVEMBER 2000 - MAY 2002

Systems Consultant & Technical Author - HIS Consulting

Production and maintenance of Network Requirements and Security Compliance documentation providing essential continuity between Customers, Designers and Implementers. The work required a good overall understanding of systems at the forefront of Digital Network Management Technology in the UK.

APRIL 1998 - MARCH 2000

Systems Consultant - High Integrity Systems (HIS Consulting)

Two years Y2K compliance testing and proving of the UK's largest PDH Network Platform. Work that included the provision and maintenance of a comprehensive Test Reference Model enabling full end-to-end PDH and inter-platform testing with SDH and PSTN. A wide range of technologies and hardware platforms were involved.

NOVEMBER 1997 - JANUARY 1998

Test Analyst Contractor - Price Waterhouse Consulting - Barcelona, Spain

My main responsibility was to devise a test strategy and plans for the Integration and System testing of a national telephone Customer Care and Billing System. A challenging and exciting role in one of the world’s biggest and most up to date "green field" telecommunications projects. The system is designed to provide an integrated solution incorporating "best of breed" components.

SEPTEMBER 1996 - NOVEMBER 1997 Test Analyst Contractor at GPT, Poole

Test analysis, documentation, automation and execution of GPT’s telephone Billing System which processes local and inter-administration call records generated by the company’s System X exchanges. Recent work included Millennium Compliance testing. It is a UNIX and PC working environment. My suggestions have won two awards from the company Innovation Award Scheme.

APRIL 1996 - JULY 1996

Full time charity volunteer - MANPOWER plc (Funded by BT Release Package)

Organised and computerised a sizeable archaeological archive ready for specialist analysis. The artifacts, site notebooks, plans, drawings and photographs were the result of a rescue archaeological project directed by myself between 1978 and 1985. I also won a BT staff Gold Community Award (£5000) for Maldon Archaeological Group in recognition of the archaeological work I have done over the years.

EMPLOYMENT

1964 - MARCH 1996 - BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS plc

1992-96 Manager and Professional - BT's OMC2 PROJECT

VV&T Engineer and manager in a team responsible for Integration and System Testing of BT's Exchange and Network Switch management application - the OMC2. This large important development project provided a good range of opportunities for experience across the whole software life cycle. For three years I was responsible for the development and integration of the Product's Install and Upgrade procedures which carried the OMC2 successfully through at least six major build levels.

1988-91 Technical Officer (TO) - OMC2 PROJECT

These first years as an OMC Software Test Engineer provided experience of working with DEC VAX computers. I became responsible for the maintenance and development of the Install/Upgrade sub-system which was mostly written in DCL. I was trained in VAX System and Cluster Management, using DECnet and basic 'C' programming.

THE BT YEARS

	Manager and Professional Grade 2 (1992-1996) BT Systems
	Integration Department - OMC Project
	Technical Officer (1988-1992) - BT Research and Development
	Technical Officer (1984-1988) - BT National Networks
	Technical Officer (1970-1983) - BT Exchange and Transmission Construction - Southend Telephone Area
	Technician IIA (1967-1970) - BT Exchange and Transmission Construction - Southend Telephone Area
	Telecom. Engineering Apprenticeship (1964-1967) G.P.O

1984-88 Technical Officer - Nation Networks Transmission Construction
I installed Chelmsford Packet Switching Exchange and supervised installation of the digital switch. Implemented WORKSAID transmission equipment database in the Regional HQ. Installed Multistream, VASCOM, Megastream, Kilostream, Hypergroup Codecs, NICAM digital and '1037' HF program equipment, TDM & SCVF telegraph equipment. Supervised as Clerk of Works the installation of a Radio Television Link, Higher Order Digital Multiplex Equipment, 140 Mbits Line Systems, Optical Fibre Terminal and Line Equipment, CELNET Base Station.

1970-82 TO & TOA - Exchange and Transmission Construction
Organised work for a construction group of 15 based at Maldon Telephone Exchange (Group Swiching Centre) and was responsible for a variety of Exchange equipment types. Directed staff and was Clerk of Works for a new Repeater Station, important Strowger exchange extensions (including BT's Transit Network and International implementation), new large TXE2 involving a change over from an extended and overloaded UAX13. My broad experience was particularly useful on circuit provision duties (mostly involved with Exchange Junction and Private circuits but also included the now 'not so secret' Nuclear Defense circuits and systems).

1967-70 Tech. IIa - Exchange & Transmission Construction
Planned and set up procedures for eliminating backlog of circuit provision work in Chelmsford Telephone Exchange in the wake of STD conversion. The work involved training and leading a small team for three years.

1964-67 G.P.O. Telecom. Engineering Apprenticeship

EDUCATION

	Basildon College (1985) - Micro-electronics II credit
	Southend and then Chelmsford Technical College(64-66)-C & G Certificates. in Telecommunications
	Moulsham Secondary School, Chelmsford (58-64)- 'O' level Mathematics English Physics & Geography

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

Archaeology - Personal Computing - Finger Style Guitar - Photography - Driving Vintage Car - DIY Home Improvements (Included renovating previous Grade II listed family home, adding a garage and rebuilding an old barn)

pbrown@walnuts.demon.co.uk

	Northern Clock and Watch Fairs
	Maldon Archaeological Reports
	Shropshire Bed and Breakfast
	Pitcalc Archaeological Planning