Richard Parker's CV - Perihelion
Taken on as a contractor in June 1990, I initially worked on a project
to read gas/electricity/water meters by radio. I designed and built
the data-link layer of a system to do this, which was prototyped in
Leicester in the summer of 1992. This involved specification work,
and assembler programming a COP (NS Microcontroller) in the meter, and
a Z80, in Assembler (and the latter also in "C").
In October 1992 I moved within
Perihelion to be the 1-man QA team for the port of Helios to the TI C40
chip. This I did from Oct 1992 -> Oct 1993, and involved a fair
amount of programming in C40 assembler, as well as using all
the features in Helios and reporting all the faults I found.
In October 1993, I was moved again within Perihelion to take charge of
the HMS project - managing a 20 person team developing software to handle
the patient administration for Hospitals - notably St Thomas' in London
and several Scottish hospitals (for outpatients only). At my request,
another manager was recruited
(called Andy Marshall) and I relinquished responsiblity at Easter 1994,
but continued to work in the HMS group. I then continued as St Thomas'
account manager, as well as doing considerable Oracle work, requirements
and design documents etc.
In October 1995, I took
a contract with UK Online