Curriculum Vitae Maggie Chalmers

Personal Information	Marital status: Married Nationality: British Place of Birth: Cape Town, South Africa Contact: Mobile 0777-5504477 eMail : maggie@thechalmers.com
Key Skills	Visual Basic 6 - (3½ years) (COM, ActiveX, Add ins, ADO) VB.NET (3 months) SQL Server 7,2000 (3½ years) (Transact SQL, DMO, DTS, Stored Procedures, Triggers) Microsoft Access 97, 2000, XP (5 years) Microsoft Certification (Visual Basic 6, SQL Server 7) Microsoft Office 97,2000, XP VBA
Professional experience
Office 2000 VBA Template Developer	Current Hampshire Constabulary, Winchester I am currently redeveloping several online forms templates, converting an existing messaging system to work using Word 2000 and Outlook 2000 to validate the data input and automatically send emails to the required global distribution lists and group mailboxes.
VB6/SQL Server Developer	September 1999 - December 2001 Support and Development of a Pension and Life Policy Administration System including Redesign and upgrade of the security sub-system Interface to BACS to process Direct Debits Modules to process DSS contributions Error logging and reporting sub-system SQL back-end Stored Procedures for internet interface Performance tuning and administration of the database Visual Basic addins System code and interface utilities SQL DMO modeling of the system to produce a demo subset of data Creation of a ‘server’application to process long running queries Skills employed Visual Basic 6 (ADO 2.6, DMO, ActiveX) SQL Server 7, SQL Server 2000 (DMO, DTS) Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Access/VB Developer	June 1998 – April 99 Hampshire County Council Education Department The statistical analysis of pupil results using Access, Excel and Visual Basic and the production of reports and graphs for publication. MS Office 97, Access, Excel and Visual Basic, Windows 3.11, Windows 95/98, Windows NT
Senior Analyst/Programmer	1997 – 1999 Datak Technology Winchester, United Kingdom The development of various Access, Excel and Visual Basic solutions for Datak Technology and their clients. In particular, I converted a publishing company’s administration system from Turbo Pascal to Visual Basic and Access. Windows 95/98, MS Office 97 especially Access, Excel and Visual Basic, MS Office 2000
Senior Analyst/ Programmer	1993 – 1994 The Foschini Group Cape Town, South Africa Various projects, including the writing of a Stock Counting System and a real time Product Tracking System. IBM mainframe, REXX, JCL, COBOL, MVS, IDMS, CICS, DOS, MS Word, MS Excel, Windows 3.11
Project Leader	1991 – 1993 Silverline Contracting Partners Cape Town, South Africa Produced REXX execs for a VM to TSO conversion. REXX, VM/CMS, MVS (7 Months) Maintenance and support functions on batch systems. IBM JCL, IDMS, COBOL, Easitrieve, VM/CMS, MVS (14 Months Rewrite of a Cheque Administration System. Turbo Pascal, B-Tree Filer, Novell (2 Months) 1982 – 1991 Shell South Africa Cape Town, South Africa Responsible for the maintenance and support of a Depot Administration System, which included invoicing, stock control customer maintenance, product pricing, and debt collection. I managed 5 staff, including contractors. I started at Shell in 1982 as a graduate trainee after graduating from university. COBOL, ORACLE, System36, VM/CMS, MVS, AS400, JCL, ROSCOE, Profs, Lotus, PC Write, DOS, TSO
Education	1977 – 1981 Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa BSc (Hons) Majors:Computer Science, Physics Minors: Maths, Applied Maths, Chemistry 1997 – 1998 Eastleigh College Eastleigh LCCI PESD London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Private and Executive Secretary’s Diploma.
Microsoft Certification	Exam 070 – 176 Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. Exam 070 – 029 Implementing a Database Design on for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0

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