Curriculum Vitae - Christopher Gordon Jeffries

Contact information

Chris Jeffries
Yunnan Province,
Kunming City,
Jian She Lu

Phone number (UK): +44 208 133 5962
Phone number (China): +86 871 5516629
Mobile (China): +86 130 787 17571
Fax No (UK): +44 208 196 2350
e-mail: chris@candm.org.uk

Languages

English : native
German: fluent but not recently used
Chinese (Mandarin) (written and spoken)
Bahasia Indonesia (learning in progress>

OBJECTIVE

To enrich and expand my knowledge and experience in the fields of web site and order processing applications.
To exploit my teaching and presentation skills.

TARGET JOB

Desired Job Type:	Permanent
Work Load:	Full-time
Salary:	25,000.00 GBP Per Year
Site Location:	No Preference
Description of my perfect job:	Creative Innovative Part of motivated team Interacting with end users and their managers Opportunities to learn more
Career Level:	Mid Career
Date of Availability:	March 2009
Company Size:	Medium (100 - 999)
Category:	Information Technology, Ecological protection
Description of my ideal company:	Forward looking. Prepared to invest in research and development. Having clients that I would be likely to interact with as part of my job. Respected in their field. Having a clear focus as to their market.
Preferred Work Locations	Bali, Indonesia; Kunming, Yunnan, China; Kuching, Malaysia;
Work Status	Would need work permit/visa (UK National)

EXPERIENCE

6/2000 - 2006	Farnborough College of Technology, Farnborough, UK	Web Co-ordinator, responsible for all aspects of web based delivery both for student intranet and public web site. Have used ASP/ADO, Filemaker based DHTML, Javascript and CSS, PHP, MySQL In addition to site management and development, I was responsible for teaching web technology and for liaising with staff at all levels to encourage system integration and use of the web based technology in new and innovative ways.
10/1987 - 6/2000	Solution Designers Ltd, Woking, UK	MD Supplied, configured and installed new file server (Netware 4.2) for hotel in Bayswater and migrated applications and data from existing Netware 3.15 server. Design, programming, implementation, training and support for sales order processing system based on Clipper 5.2, Btrieve, Netware. Design program & implement event triggered Visual Basic custom add-on. Visual basic add-ons, systems design and implementation of systems based on Act! Contact manager. Designed and published web pages for Liberal Democrats Designed and installed networked systems User Manual for Contact Management Software system User Manual for Personal productivity software Training for Personal productivity software
2/1986 - 10/1987	Fletcher Dennys Systems Ltd, Richmond, Surrey UK	Product Manager Product and support manager for PC dealership. I managed a team evaluating new products for sale. I managed a support desk for a while. I was part of and then managed a pre-sales support team, helping sales consultants to formulate solutions to meet clients' needs
970 - 2/1986	Unilever PLC	Unilever PLC including design and implementation of on-line mainframe database systems, Cobol programming, business and systems analysis Implementation and training consultant for the implementation of email systems. Project manager for set up of factory in Hong Kong.
8/1968 - 1/1970	Avdel Ltd, Welwyn Garden City, UK	Trainee programmer, programming in COBOL and ICL PLAN (1900 Assembler code)

EDUCATION

2011	Indonesian Language study	Udayana University, Bali, Indonesia
2007-10	Chinese Language study	Yunnan Normal University, Dong Fang School of Oriental Language and Culture, Kunming.
2008-9	MSc Architecture - Advanced Environmental Engineering Studies	Centre for Alternative Technology, University of East London, UK Distinction grade achieved
9/1997	GCSE French grade C	Woking College, UK-Surrey-Woking
1997	Teaching English as a Foreign Language grade C (TESOL, Trinity College London)	Woking College, UK-Southern-Woking
1993	Unix administration	Hoskyns, UK-London
1987	Certificate in Novell Netware installation and Administration.	UK-Southern-Havant
1973	NCC certificate in Systems Analysis	Middlesex College of Technology, UK-London-Enfield
8/1968	GCE ‘A’ level Maths, Physics ‘O’ level 9 including Maths, English, German	Hatfield Technical school, UK-Hertfordshire-Hatfield

TECHNICAL SKILLS

HTML and web page design	Intermediate	Currently Used	10 years
"C" programming language	Intermediate	7 years ago	2 years
Sales Support	Expert	7 years ago	5 years
VBScript (for ASP)	Intermediate	5 Year ago	1 years
Javascript	Intermediate	Currently Used	4 years
PHP Script	Good	Currently used	4 years
Database Design	Expert	Currently used	20 Years

REFERENCES

Penny Croft	Farnborough College of Technology Computer Service acting Manager	+44 1252 407164 p.croft@farn-ct.ac.uk
Li Jie	Yunnan university	See reference letter
Department of Tourism and Geography Sciences	Yunnan Normal University	See reference letter

ADDITIONAL

I have designed and presented a number of training courses on various pieces of
software including: Ventura Publisher; QED (a networked workgroup/personal assistant system)

I regularly give informal 1 to 1 teaching in various packages including Word and Excel and web page production.

I did most of the design of the first web site which was published by the Liberal Democrats. This site included a large number of pages including directories (for which I wrote the software to generate the HTML code from the raw data) and regularly updated pages such as press releases.

I have written User Manuals for two commercial software clients.

I have written a number of utilities in Visual Basic, often interacting with other applications via dynamic data exchange.

I have written web applications using VBScript with ADO, and PHP with MySQL/ADODB/DBX.