My Technical and Commercial Experience
In reverse date order:
- Work as an independent consulting engineer
- Data quality audit of a new 105,000 record database for a medical organisation in London (July & September 2014) by the development of a fault analysis application and results database.
- Data quality analysis and development of a data migration specification at a Medical Organisation in London (Jul - Nov 2011, Feb - Dec 2012, Jan - Feb 2013)
- Reverse engineering a multi-user database application at a Medical Organisation in London (March 2011)
- Development of an Auditing Database at UKCES, a Non Governmental Departmental Body (2010).
- Independant Electronics and Software Consultant (8 yrs)
- Senior Information Manager for Investors in People UK, a Non Governmental Departmental Body, working on data cleansing processes, the design of a new SQL2005 Analysis and Reporting Database and a Sales Force CRM instance (18 months)
- Senior Analyst / Project Manager for a web enabled candidate management system (6 months)
- Project Manager on a successful ECDL eLearning initiative for the Department of Health (18 months)
- European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) Trainer and Invigilator
- Licenced Digital Unite Computer Trainer - click here for more information on this unique method of training
- Independant Electronics & Software Consultant
- Consultant and Senior Consultant in application and database development and support at Cap Gemini UK (8 years)
- Senior Analyst Programmer in application development at Deloitte Haskins & Sells and then Coopers & Lybrand (8 years)
- Systems Engineer and Software Engineer at GP Elliott Ltd working in the petro-chemical industry (8 years)
- Engineering Manager at SoCom Services Ltd (2 years)
- Senior Engineer, Chief Engineer and Group Manager of the Telecommunications division of Rank Pullin Controls (2.5 years)
- Proprietor of own business, Burns Electronics, designing and manufacturing communications and test equipment and distributing electronic components (3 years)
- Senior Design Engineer and then Team Leader in High Reliability Marine Radio Communications Equipment development at IMRC Ltd (5 years)
- Design Engineer in VHF Mobile Radio at STC Mobile Radio Telecommunications Ltd (3 years)
- 1963 completed graduate examinations for IERE
- 1962 Production and Test Engineer in VHF Mobile Radio Manufacture at Hudson Electronics Ltd (2 years)
- 1962 completed examinations for C&G Full Tech Certificate in Telecommunications
R F Burns C Eng, FIET, MSE
Retired Electronics and Software Consultant