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2005–2007: Time International Media & Events Services Ltd (Times Group)

  • Development of specialist web portal for an international database of humanitarian aid supplies and suppliers. (IHAPSNET)

Miscellaneous

  • Development of the Identity Management Standards project collaboration portal for EURIM & the Identity and Passport Service
  • Consulting on several online community and portal system developments.
  • Mentor on ICT strategy to a number of online start-up companies.
  • Public sector market development for a specialist IT service company.

2003 – 2004: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg (PACE/APCE).

  • Design and implementation of integrated information system (databases, archive, workflow, document authoring and publishing – web and print) for the secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg to support their plenary sessions.
  • This included rationalising and merging several existing databases, converting them to Unicode and web-enabling them, together with the migration and cleansing of legacy data created over the past fifty years.

2003: House of Commons and House of Lords (UK Parliament)

  • Consultancy for the Information Architecture Strategy Unit (IASU) of the UK Parliament to review the Parliament-wide Information Strategy.

2003: The Icelandic Parliament (Alþingi)

  • Strategic advice and mentoring on XML-based information management for the Icelandic parliament involving both technical staff and managers from government departments.

2002: The Swedish Parliament (Sveriges Riksdag)

  • Strategic advice and team mentoring on technical and information management policy, involving presentations and workshops for technical staff, department managers and MP’s staff.

2000 – 2001: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg

  • Consultancy work on the development of future integrated information systems to support the work of the Parliamentary Assembly and Table Office.
  • Use of XML, internationalisation, Unicode, etc.
  • Involving extensive user consultation and requirements capture.

2000: Northern Ireland Assembly, Belfast

    Strategic consultancy work and mentoring on structured information (XML, etc) and Parliamentary Question handling for the Assembly, involving several departments.

1999 – 2000: Chamber and Committees of the New Assembly in Belfast, Northern Ireland

  • Design and implementation of a web-enabled intranet/extranet workflow system for reporting the Chamber and Committees of Assembly, including staff training.

1998: The Irish Parliament (Dáil Éireann), Dublin

  • Consultancy work for the Houses of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) on public-access website design and implementation, and other citizen engagement opportunities.

1997 – 1999: House of Commons

  • Design and implementation of complex workflow system for the electronic handling of written Parliamentary Questions, which met the goal of saving £300,000 per year in production costs.
  • Follow-on consultancy work on system availability and migration of extensive legacy data.

1996 – 1997: Leicester City Council

  • Design and project management of transitional enterprise email system, in preparation for conversion to unitary status (merging of city and regional councils).
  • Involved liaison with management, user groups and their IT departments, SLAs, etc.

1995 – 1997: Office of the Leader of the Opposition (Labour Party, London)

  • Implementation of networked information systems to support Tony Blair’s private office team in opposition and during the 1997 General Election.

1994 – 1995: House of Commons

    Consultancy work for the Office of the Serjeant at Arms, House of Commons, on database access and network security.

1993 – 1994: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg

  • Design and implementation of a multilingual Debate Reporting System to provide electronic production of the summary and verbatim reports for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, integrating with legacy systems.

1993 – 1994: House of Commons

  • Design and implementation of new web server with fully automatic content management for the publication of Hansard on the UK Parliamentary intranet.
  • This system, which predated the emergence of Apache, Mosaic and Netscape (it used NCSA and Cello), was the first operational web server in the UK Parliament.

1993: Foreign and Commonwealth Office

  • Provision of specialist technical advice on secure automatic communications systems to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

1990 – 1994: Department of Trade & Industry

  • Consultancy and implementation work on financial tracking systems, databases, email gateways, tele-working and international communications to the Department of Trade and Industry Export Data Branch and FCO/DTI Joint Directorate.

1992: The Royal Household (Buckingham Palace)

  • Network audit for the correspondence and press offices of Buckingham Palace and the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, St. James’s Palace.

1992: Department of Health Private Office (Minister's Office)

  • Consultancy work for the Private Office to identify opportunities for electronic data interchange with the UK Parliament to support the legislative process – Government Bill Tracking, Parliamentary Question handling, delegated (secondary) legislation, etc. – and the work of Ministers.

1990 – 1993: House of Commons

  • Design, implementation and project management of a high-availability networked system for the electronic production of Hansard for the House of Commons.
  • This was the first networked computer system in the UK Parliament and achieved the strategic goal of saving £500,000 per annum in print production costs so allowing the price of Hansard to be cut by a third. The system was completed on-time and under-budget and remained in use for almost ten years without a single failure.