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Hello. I am based in the United Kingdom in the county of Hertfordshire and have been involved in software development since 1983. I first started programming in the days of the BBC Microcomputer with 32K of Ram. In those days programs were loaded from a cassette tape although subsequently 5.25 inch floppy disks became available if enough funds were available. Over the years I have had experience of a large number of different software development environments including :- Commodore Basic Microsoft Macro assembler DBase II, DBase Plus v2.x Borland Pascal, Delphi and C++ Microsoft VB versions 4,5 and 6 Microsoft VB.NET/ASP.NET and C#.NET languages v1.x and v2.x  TASPro6 an application programming language for creating mini programs to access data stored in Btrieve and Codebase file formats.   Over a number of years I have been involved with projects that include :- CNC machine tool control MIDI sequencers Measurement systems and statistical process control Reverse polish expression compiler with full syntax checking and unlimited nesting of brackets Business systems using n tier client server architecture Source code generation and IDE Addins Microsoft Office automation SQL7/2000, MSDE and Jet database applications applications using MTS and COM+ technology   70-176 Designing and implementing Desktop applications with VB6 70-175 Designing and implementing Distributed applications with VB6 70-029 Designing and implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL7   City and Guilds Coding and Programming in C++ Levels 2 and 3 BTEC Higher certificate in Computer Aided Engineering  City and Guilds Full technological certificate in engineering production  City and Guilds Mechanical engineering technician parts 1, 2 and 3

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