Robert J Morton

The Curriculum Vitae of 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.

Main 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, simulation and flight plan processing

Programming Skills

Sun Java Developers' Kit (JDK) 1.1.6 for both applets & server side apps
Growing familiarity with XML - see my resume in XML (use XML browser).
Fluent in HTML with a knowledge of JavaScript for client-side forms validation
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

Experience: DOS, Windows 3.x/95, OS/2 Warp 4, Linux 2.0.35, KDE
Familiar with Bash (through Linux), learning Perl for writing Web-server scripts
Familiar with UNIX and the Internet + knowledge of TCP/IP and Ethernet
Heavy user of Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, Sun Hotjava browsers
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

1954-56 Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn
1957-61 Colchester Royal Grammar School (6 O-levels, 2 A-levels)
1963-66 The Polytechnic, 309 Regent Street London (BSc Maths Physics)
1984-94 Member, Inst. Data Processing Management (MIDPM)
1991-95 Member, Royal Institute of Navigation (MRIN)
1983-93 Fellow, Inst. Sales and Marketing Management (FInstSMM)

Work History

1966-67 Electrical Research Association, Leatherhead (Research Assistant)
1967-70 Redifon Flight Simulator Division, Crawley (Programmer)
1970-71 Scicon, Berners Street, London (Analyst/Programmer)
1971-76 ITT Europe Technical Publications Centre (Technical Writer)
1976-91 Self-Employed, home-based (Software Developer)
1991-01 Home-based Carer 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

Email:		robmorton@clara.net
Website:		http://home.clara.net/robmorton/