| Name | Simon Brunning |
| Job role | Consultant |
| Born | 21 July 1968 |
| simon@brunningonline.net | |
| Web | Small Values of Cool |
| Education | A/O level electronics, A level Physics & Computer science |
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| OS/400 (a.k.a. iSeries, a.k.a I5/OS) | 14 years' development experience |
| Windows | 5 years' development experience |
| Apple Macintosh OS X | 1 year's development exposure |
| Python | 5 years' development experience |
| Java | 5 years' development experience |
| AllFusion 2E (originally known as Synon/2E, also known as Cool 2E and Advantage 2E) | 8 years' development experience |
| OS/400 CL | 14 years' development experience |
| RPG III | 8 years' development experience |
| RPG IV & ILE | 5 years' development experience |
| SQL (on various RDBMSs) | 15 years' development experience |
| February 2000 to present | TriSystems Ltd. Consultant. Java & J2EE development and support, using Hibernate, Spring, Jython, jUnit, Selenuim, Axis, Ant, Eclipse, iBatis, and other 3rd party components, using Agile development practices (specifically Scrum). Python development. RPG III & IV support & development. Standards development. OS/400 systems programming. Insurance and re-insurance software. |
| July 1997 to December 1999 | Diners Club/CitiCorp. Senior Analyst/Programmer. Synon/2E support & development. RPG III support & development. RPG IV development. Systems programming. Marketing incentive scheme administration & Card application processing software. |
| January 1997 to June 1997 | Scandia NIG. Team Leader. Synon/2E Support & development. Team & Project management. Commercial insurance software. |
| January 1996 to December 1996 | Maritz PLC. Senior Analyst/programmer. Synon/2E support & development. Team leading. Performance tuning. Marketing incentive scheme administration software. |
| July 1994 to December 1995 | Lombard NatWest Commercial Services Limited. Senior Analyst/Programmer. Synon/2E development and support. Analysis. Project management. Database administration. Factoring software. |
| November 1992 to June 1993 | Idhammar Management Systems Limited. Analyst/programmer. Synon/2E development, customer support, small team leading, and performance monitoring & tuning. Stock, purchasing and industrial maintenance management software. |
| May 1988 to October 1992 | Hoskyns. Operations, PL/I, RPG III and Synon/2E development and support, operations, on OS/400 and MVS/XA. |
| September 2005 | Presentation skills, 2 days. |
| March 1997 | PMW project management tool, 1 day. |
| September 1995 | Synon/2E release 5 workshop. 2 days. |
| July 1995 | Advanced MS Project course. 1 day. |
| September 1994 | SSADM course. 3 days. |
| April 1994 | AS/400 performance analysis & tuning, and capacity planning. 3 days. |
| January 1993 | Team leaders course. 2 days. |
| June 1991 | Synon/2E. 1 week. |
| December 1990 | Data structured program design. 1 week. |
| February 1990 | AS/400 fundamentals & RPG/400. 2 weeks. |
| February 1990 | Hoskyns professional programming course. 1 week. |
| February 1989 | PL/I & MVS/XA. 1 month. |
| Organiser of the London Python meetup group. |
| Frequent attendance at Java and London 2.0 meetups. |
| Frequent contributor to the comp.lang.python newsgroup. |
| Contributor to the Python cookbook, both in online and book form. |
| Dr Dobbs Python URL compiler, April to July 2000 |
| Other interests include reading (popular science, history, mainstream literature and sci-fi) and music (rather eclectic). |