ROBERT J MORTON
email: robmorton@clara.net
Web Site: http://home.clara.net/robmorton/ 

I am a systems analyst, a software developer and a programmer. I am also a technical writer. From the end of my formal education my career spanned 25 years: 10 as a corporate employee followed by 15 as proprietor of my own business through which I completed a variety of bespoke software and technical writing projects for clients. I also produced and supplied a software package of my own for which I did everything myself from design and development - through marketing and sales - all the way to 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
	Won an 'Award for Academic Excellence' for part of my own web site
	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 Microsystems' Java Developers' Kit (JDK) 1.1.6 for both applets & server side apps 
	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 
	Experienced user of: DOS, Windows 3.x/95, OS/2 Warp 4, Linux 2.0.35 incl. KDE
	Familiar with Bash (through Linux), learning Perl for writing Web-server scripts
	Familiar with UNIX and the Internet + in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP and Ethernet
	Heavy user of Netscape Navigator, Microsoft 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, Institute of Data Processing Management	(MIDPM)
	1991-95	Member, Royal Institute of Navigation (MRIN)
	1983-93	Fellow, Institute of 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, at Home in Bishops Stortford (Software Developer)
	1991-00	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