CURRICULUM VITAE

Justin Wallis
9, Worcester Gardens,
Ilford.
Essex IG1 3NN
U.K.

Tel: +44 (0)20 89240079
+44 (0)20 85546745
Fax: +44 (0)20 84910022
Email: justin@justin-wallis.co.uk

Title: Mr.
Name: Justin Wallis
Date of Birth: 14.09.52
Marital Status: Married
Availability: January 2000
Preferred Location: London
Role sought: Consultant
Role type: Permanent/Contract

Profile:

• Strong presentational, communication, analytical and creative skills.
• Extensive knowledge of communications systems, drawn from hands-on experience at banks and other institutions worldwide.
• Experience includes sales support, team leading, analysis and design, customer education, project management and contract negotiation.

Summary:

• Systems design/analysis in the communications sector.
• Technical background in Tandem and PC's.
• Message-switching systems.
• Device-drivers and firmware.

Educational Qualifications:

B.A. (Hons.) (London) Latin, Greek and Ancient History

P.G.C.E. (London) Post Graduate Certificate of Education

Career Summary:

• 23 years of IT experience, the last 15 in the Tandem Non-Stop environment.
• Vast majority of experience in communications systems for the financial and commercial sectors.
• Successfully delivered systems on time and budget throughout the world for banks and other companies.
• Liaised with all levels of organisations, up to and including senior management.
• Currently working with GCS, providing and supporting the CONVOY message-switching application environment for the current customer base.
• Extensive knowledge of Tandem-NSK, TAL, C, assemblers and PC environments.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

From	To	Employer	Job Title
1974	1976	Raines Foundation School, London E.1.	Latin and Games Master
1976	1978	Thompson's Holidays	Programmer
1978	1978	Olivetti	Analyst/Programmer
1978	1984	ITT Commercial Cable Company	Project Manager
1984	1991	IBT International	Technical Director
1991		GIUK Communications Solutions	Technical Director

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS:

1991 - present

GCS has developed and enhanced its own CONVOY family of message-switching products, mainly based around X.400 access units. It has also developed a public fax delivery system for an Australian-based company for use by the financial community when broadcasting newsletters and other documents created in PostScript.

I have total responsibility for all technical aspects of our work. To illustrate the varied responsibilities that fall to me, the four of the recent projects in which I have been involved are:

Czech Railways, Prague:

• Contract negotiation with the end customer as subcontractor to Tandem Computers, Zurich;
• Specification and design of messaging sub-system for electronic mail, with X.400 fax and telex access units to OSI/MHS;
• Customer training in Zurich;
• Installation, configuration of OSI/MHS and X.25 AM and acceptance testing in Prague.

Flexifax, Sydney:

• Specification and design of public service application, receiving end user uploads, via dial-up, X.25 and TCP/IP, of PostScript files for translation to fax format and broadcast to customer lists;
• Design and implementation of PC-based fax delivery units;
• Installation, configuration of X.25 and TCP/IP sub-system, training and acceptance of system in Sydney;
• Remote support.

BACS, London:

• Extensive modifications to system for transportation of messages between back-end application and OSI/MHS message-store, involving access to the OSI/MHS database using SQL;
• Implementation and customer training on-site.

BBS, Oslo:

• Specification and design of application for transmitting cheque-reconciliation information via fax, using TCP/IP sockets as the mode of communication between the back-end and the application.
• Implementation, installation, acceptance and customer training in Oslo.

All of the above have been coded in TAL or C and are currently running on D- or G- releases of the Guardian operating system.


1984 - 1991

IBT International sold a message-switching product, based on Tandem Non-Stop mainframes called CONVOY. Initially, the main function concerned proprietary electronic mail and telex, but it was developed as a much more sophisticated switching medium, comprising fax, X.400 and other reception and delivery mechanisms. I was responsible for specification, analysis, design, coding, testing, implementation, customer education and sales support. All code was written in TAL and extensive use was made of X.25 AM. I also designed and wrote firmware for a Z-80 based PCB, which drove SCVF telex lines and acted as a modem for the Tandem-based system.


1978 - 1984

ITT Commercial Cable Company employed me initially as an analyst/programmer on a message-switch called ADX900, written in assembler code and based on the Texas Instruments 990/10 processor. This was marketed to various companies, mainly in the financial, legal and shipbroking business areas. It enabled these companies to send and receive large volumes of telex messages. In the five years I worked with this company, I held various positions and carried out many duties, including analysis, design coding and testing as well as providing pre- and post-sales support to the marketing and sales departments. I designed and developed a new, smaller version of the ADX900 called the MINI, of which over 50 were sold. All development work was carried out in assembler. When I left the company I was the senior project manager and second in command of the software department.


1978 - 1978

Analyst/programmer with Olivetti, specifying and writing accounting programs for customers in the proprietary assembler code, running on proprietary machines.



1976 - 1978

Trainee programmer then programmer with Thompson's Holidays, working on the reservations and accounting system called TRACS, which was written in BAL, and based on an IBM 370/158 mainframe, using the OS/VS1 operating system.


1974 - 1976

Worked as a teacher for two years.




TECHNICAL SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE:

• Messaging Systems
• Fax-delivery systems
• Tandem NonStop Computers
• NSK/Guardian 90 operating system
• ENSCRIBE, NonStop SQL, OSI/MHS, X25AM,
• Protocols: X.25, X.400, TCP/IP
• IBM Personal Computers and Compatibles
• DOS Operating system
• Microsoft Windows 2.0, 3.1, 95, 98
• Microsoft NT 4.0
• Languages : BAL, TAL, C, C++, Assembler, TACL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

TANDEM/COMPAQ BASED
Customer	Location	Functionality
Flexifax	Sydney	Global fax broadcast system
BACS	London	X.400 switching messages to and from major clearing system for direct debit payments
Wipro/BT	Bangalore	Country wide network for messaging including printers, fax and telex
BBS	Oslo	Automated fax delivery system for cheque reconciliation for GIRO payments
Swedish Tourist Board	Stockholm	Fax interface for reservation system
Financial Times	London	Public access to financial information database service
Norvans	Oslo	Message-switching system for Norwegian shipping conglomerate
Racal Electronics	Basingstoke	Fax access unit for X.400 messaging service
Croatian PTT	Zagreb	X.400 messaging service
Comtext International	London	Large message switch for email, fax and telex.
Czech Republic Railways	Prague	Country wide X.400 email, telex and fax service with bulletin board system
Federal department of Justice and Police	Bern	X.400 telex and fax access units
Press Association	London	Graphic picture syndication system.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia	Sydney	EDI system
Trust House Forte	Aylesbury	Fax interface to reservation system
British Steel	Corby	Messaging interfaces to pathway applications
TCI	Los Angeles	Public message switch
Griffin	London & New York	Public message switch
Swiss Volksbank	New York & Singapore.	Automated system for tested payments messages
Postbank	Amsterdam	Automated system for tested payments messages
Royal Bank of Canada	Frankfurt	Automated system for tested payments messages
OTHER
Thompson's Holidays	London	Real-time reservations system on IBM 370/158 running OS/VS1
Olivetti	London	Invoicing and stock control systems
ITT Commercial Cable	London	Development of ADX 900 range of message switches