Frank O'Gorman

6 Eddeys Lane, Headley, Hampshire, GU35 8HU

Tel: 01428 713624 Mobile: 07970 074246

Email: frank@wingpath.co.uk

PROFILE

Highly experienced software developer and entrepreneur with extensive knowledge and skills gained in a variety of industrial and commercial sectors. Quick learner, who enjoys finding innovative solutions to challenging problems.

EXPERIENCE

Director and Software Developer	Wingpath Limited	1981-present

Wingpath is a small business supplying custom software development, consultancy and software products.

Achievements:

Established and managed own software development business.

Negotiated deals with clients and partners.

Marketed software products and services, primarily online.

Provided customer support.

Worked both independently and in close collaboration with clients' development teams.

Administered accounts (including VAT, PAYE and Corporation Tax).

Developed many projects through complete life-cycle (requirements capture, analysis, design, documentation, implementation, testing, delivery, maintenance, enhancement), including:

Developed software products to help engineers test and configure devices used for control and measurement, and sold the products online via own web site.

Designed and implemented web site to advertise software development services. Subsequently extended site to advertise and sell software products, interfacing to the WorldPay secure server to accept credit card payments.

Enhanced a device used for oil & gas flow measurement with a script interpreter, to allow engineers to write their own extensions to the device software.

Augmented and improved a data acquisition, measurement and control system for the oil and gas supply industry.

Developed a document image processing system that allowed paper documents to be scanned, converted to text, stored on CDs as image and text files, and later retrieved by searching for text contained in the document.

Designed and implemented a financial data system that received price data (futures, options, commodities, and exchange rates) from exchanges and banks throughout the world, processed the data, and forwarded it to financial traders.

Research fellow	University of Sussex	1970-1980

Research in the area of Artificial Intelligence, particularly computer vision.

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

M.Sc. Computer Science, Birmingham University, 1970

B.Sc. Electronic and electrical engineering, Birmingham University, 1969

PERSONAL

Nationality:	British

Date of birth:	15 August 1947

Interests:	Mountain biking, walking, reading.

Clean driving licence

CV

Frank O'Gorman

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