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Alec graduated in Physics from
the University of Sussex in 1967.
He spent a year in what is now the UK Intellectual Property
Office, without using his BSc.
He then went on to take an MSc in Electro-Optics at Queen's
University Belfast, and used this knowledge in commercial R&D for a
number of years. Here, a
project for on-line, real-time quality control of printed documents led
him to an interest in programming.
Most of his working life has
been spent in computing, using a range of technologies and in a variety
of roles. Much of this was
in BT. His last job there
was in IT training, teaching C, C++, and systems analysis and security
courses.
Alec has an MBA from Kingston,
where his project work was on the potential for the use of
telecommunications in training.
(This was before the development of the first graphical Web
browser, Mosaic.)
He has worked as a freelance
consultant and trainer since 1998.
(www.a-train.co.uk)
This has mainly involved training in C, C++, OO, and UML; but he
has been moving towards using and teaching other web-oriented
technologies as well. He is
currently developing a software tool to support the specification and
manipulation of sets of rules (e.g. business and logic rules).
The tool is aimed as an aid to production and
manipulation of specifications at a purely logical level, and can
be used for this alone. It
will also support generation of code from the specifications.
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