Robert J Morton I am a programmer and a technical writer. My career has spanned 25 years: 10 as a corporate employee and 15 as proprietor of my own business through which I completed a variety of software and technical writing projects for clients. I also produced and supplied a software package for which I did the design, development, marketing, sales, installation, training, documentation and support. The Last 10 Years Completely authored a website in raw HTML comprising 604 document files containing well over half a million words of text, 486 personally created diagrams, 27 photographs, 16 Java applets [built from 52 self-authored Java class files which process and present various kinds of mathematical, scientific, engineering and financial data], 11 self-authored JavaScript interactive forms, plus a version of this CV in XML. I won the Study Web 'Award for Academic Excellence' for a particular section of this Web site. Areas of Experience Web site development including applets and server side applications Structuring and writing Ebooks in HTML and PDF Business and accounting systems software development Contact & communications management software development Data communications and network management software development Public Telephone Switching (including ISDN) systems Aircraft navigation, flight simulation and flight plan processing Programming Skills Sun Microsystems' Java Developers' Kit (JDK) 1.1.6 Fluent in HTML and XHTML with a knowledge of JavaScript Increasingly adept with XML and XSL eg: wrote this resume is in XML Microsoft QuickBasic, C600 Programmer's Workbench, Windows 3.1 SDK Odd bits and pieces in 80x86 Assembler Ancient: FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/I, CHILL, Psion, Honeywell DAP General IT Skills Experienced: DOS, Windows 3.x/95, OS/2 Warp 4, Linux 2.0.35 incl. KDE Familiar: Bash (through Linux), learning Perl for writing Web-server scripts Familiar: UNIX and the Internet + in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP and Ethernet Heavy user of Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Sun Hotjava Heavy user of Microsoft Office 95 and the Web-enabled Office 2000 Beta 3 Heavy user of Adobe Acrobat 4.05, especially for web site grabbing Education & Institutes 1954-56Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn 1957-61Colchester Royal Grammar School(6 O-levels, 2 A-levels) 1963-66The Polytechnic, 309 Regent Street London(BSc Maths Physics) 1984-94Institute of Data Processing ManagementMIDPM 1991-95Royal Institute of NavigationMRIN 1983-93Institute of Sales and Marketing ManagementFInstSMM Employment History 1966-67Electrical Research Association, LeatherheadResearch Assistant 1967-70Redifon Flight Simulator Division, CrawleyProgrammer 1970-71Scicon, Berners Street, LondonAnalyst/Programmer 1971-76ITT Europe Technical Publications CentreTechnical Writer 1976-91Self-Employed, at Home in Bishops StortfordSoftware Developer 1991-00Home-basedCarer and Writer/Web Developer/Java Programmer Projects Summary As a Corporate Employee 1966-76 1963-66: Gas Lasers Interferometry: college research project using IBM 1620 1966-67: Electrical Research: contacts, aerial performance, radio interference 1967-70: Flight Simulators: Douglas DC9 and Phantom F4M 1970-71: Flight Plan Processing System: for air traffic control 1971-76: Telephone Switching and Text Processing As a Self-Employed Software Developer 1976-91 Ledgers & Payroll System for a commercial vehicle dealer Payroll System: for a toy manufacturer Sales Order Analysis System Equipment Register Program [Sept88+] News Wholesalers Retail Stock Monitoring System [May-Sep 1988] X25 Network Management Suite [1989-90] As a Self-Employed Technical Writer 1976-91 Packet Switched Data Network: technical documentation project COBOL Soft Machine: a technical sales brochure Tendering & Ordering System: a documentation project Accounting Package for The ITT2020: a documentation project User Manual for The ITT3030: a documentation project ITT System 1240 Software: wrote the System Description Two Commissioned Magazine Articles Generic Link Editor: software documentation project Third World Telecommunications: a marketing brochure My Own Software Products 1976-91 EBS Marketeer: a sales and marketing contacts management package Author's Delight: an early word processing package 1980

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