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Executive
Summary
“Lobbying is a protected activity under the U.S. Constitution that guarantees rights to free speech, assembly, and petition to government. Lobbying is a regulated industry.”
Senator John F. Kennedy, 1956
Photo
by Maria Oswalt on Unsplash
Policy
Needs
XXXX continues to evolve the policy needs of its
clients in their implementation of Federal and State legislation and any
changes to it. Founded in February 2011, XXXX has already received recognition
for PERSONALIZED ATTENTION, INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS AND GUIDED EXPERTISE.
Capitol
Hill Relationships
XXXX assess the client’s level of involvement on
Capitol Hill and identifies how the current and potential actions of the
government will relate to their organization. Applying this analysis, XXXX can
produce solutions that are both innovative and pioneering for the organisation
being represented.
Strategy
Formulation
A two-party system requires the compromises that XXXX’s
bi-partisan position and creativity on the client’s behalf can address with an
entire spectrum of relationships including key influencers. The synergy
generates comprehensive strategies for corporate, municipal and entrepreneurial
entities with coinciding interests.
Precision
Driven Research
Each federal branch works in collaboration to advance
the interests of the citizens of the United States. This same philosophy is
used to advance the interests of our clients. The XXXX precision driven
research is the basis for a truly focused program that aims to fulfil the
client’s hard business objectives.
Innovate
Solutions
XXXX relate the client’s interest with that philosophy
to generate a tailored tactical guide to the legislative/executive process. The
results are predictable in part, and in another part, less predictable.
Recalibrating the tactical guide when necessary maintains the client’s success
level in any subsequent phases.
Clients
Priorities
Each federal branch works in collaboration to advance
the interests of the citizens of the United States. This same philosophy is
used to advance the interests of our clients. We work with government leaders
and our client to advance both sets of goals and objectives. Therefore, we view
ourselves as a synergistic extension of our clients’ staff and attempt to
become fully integrated in their organization. A long-term working relationship
is the basis for a measurable-definable strategy.
Representation and advocacy
at the Federal level on behalf of XXXX County
XXXX will
provide XXXX County with strong representation on Capitol Hill through its team
of Government Affairs Professionals. With decades of experience applied to
ensure this Representation is effective and covers all the required channels.
Will
depict and illustrate through demonstration the right legislation for XXXX
County and exemplification when required. Deliver statements, raise complaints,
make submissions and arguments for and against changes in policy to enable
compliance when applying Governance in the management of XXXX County day-to-day
operations.
Take
account of these policy changes and what they portray to the citizens in XXXX
County, since some policies can be taken two ways through lack of clarity in
drafting. Therefore, the description and interpretation will be checked, and
points raised for changes to ensure plain language and maximum understanding is
the outcome.
XXXX
will apply advocacy by supporting and encouraging through backing and
sponsorship of changes in legislation that make it cost effective to implement
by the administration in XXXX County. This might also require promotion,
activism and opposition to new legislation or changes to current legistration
that would make it difficult to enforce or not cost effective to implement.
Work
with industry bodies (for example, Chamber of commerce) to ensure legislation benefits
business and helps employment prospects for those living in XXXX County. This in turn would hopefully help reduce
travel and road congestion.
Capitol
Hill Players
Members of Congress and their staffs – XXXX track their politics and if they are left, centre or right of their party. What issues they follow and take an interest in and how they respond to changes requested. Who in their staff will be best to contact and get an idea on their response times against current workload or is it better to go through the committee.
Congressional committees – Members and Chairperson are
tracked and their political leaning and outcomes to date that have been
positive and negative for XXXX County. This sets the scene for the approach to
lobbying and the outcomes sought.
Executive departments – They need to be covered and
relationships established to discover who lobbies them and what the outcomes
have been. What is the current head of the department interested in and what
are the relationships with Congressional committees and Members of Congress.
They control their own department budgets and pass regulations that have
undiscovered outcomes until they are implemented and been used.
Private sector parties – Most of these are trade bodies
whose members are affected by new or changes to existing legislation. Their
interested in compliance at the minimum cost to their members. Regulation that
comes from this legislation is State and Federal controlled.
Also, communities in XXXX County will complain to the
administration about how regulation is affecting them, and it might be mostly
negative or positive and caused by the industry participants. (For example,
Waste Water into local rivers causing contamination affecting river beds,
plants and fish). This is easy to see and understand, but other times it might
be mining work with heavy road traffic causing both congestion and noise.
Tracking and responding to Legislation
Drafting legislative language – XXXX will respond when changes to proposed legislation are required by drafting the changes in the right language. This will account for the interests of people, businesses and XXXX County council staff when implementing the legislation.
Arranging and attending relevant hearings and meetings – By
doing this XXXX gets to known, the interests of those in Congress and from
their research put their points across that will be accepted at the hearings
and meetings.
Also, which staffers are open to changes and how to put the
case over and gain their acceptance for the change in the legislation and this
will enable them to present and propose the change to their member of Congress
to gain their support for the change in legislation. Interpretation along the
chain can make it easy or make it hard and may require clarification to obtain
agreement.
Collecting and analysing relevant documents – The experience
XXXX has gained over decades of doing this comes out in their understanding and
what the Legislation outcomes will cause and the messages it gives to its
readers. It gives the opportunity to raise questions before the Legislation is
passed into Law and refer to other legislation that might be affected or made
irrelevant.
Devising
a legislative strategy best suited to the needs of XXXX County
XXXX prepare for this by checking the demographics and types of businesses in XXXX County and the occupations of those living there. This is then mapped to the Acts and pending Legislation known about.
Then an analysis is performed on the effects of the Legislation
and given a weighting from 1 to 10. Any in 8 to 10 are examined to see if any
changes might reduce costs (for example, getting farmers to buy together or not
use pesticides that cause problems to the environment or waterways).
Other steps might be to encourage all households to use rain
water tanks and farmers to look at Biomass, since the Chinese Government is
encouraging all Farmers to do it. Another
approach might be to change Local Legislation which follows the Federal
Legislation but allows wider scope in how it can be implemented.
This is another part
of the XXXX service that will benefit XXXX County be welcome by the businesses
and people. Nearly everybody is affected by legislation during their life and
businesses generally feel it every year. Trade Agreements being of concern to
manufacturers and how their waste is handled and some of it recycled to be used
again in new products and/or services.
Again, implementation
of the legislation is the key and the transforming it from the Federal level to
the Local level to reach a bottom line improvement for businesses and the
community supported by the XXXX County Council. This might need changes in
legislation to be requested and supported by the language in the drafting by XXXX.
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The UK Democracy vs US Lobbyists and Campaign Contributors
Create or sign a petition
Introduction
Start with the UK Parliament Petition information page:
https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/sign-a-petition/
First select “Start an e-petition or sign an existing one”
Displays https://petition.parliament.uk/
Titled: Petitions
UK Government and Parliament
Covid-19 Banner with links to information
205 petitions got a response from the Government
24 petitions were debated in the House of Commons
“Search petitions box” and a link to “View all open petitions”.
Popular petitions (Top three)
End child food poverty - This is to do with children not getting a free school lunch when schools are
closed due to virus restrictions and the parent or parents are at work.
1,183 signatures in the last hour
Hold a public inquiry into Government contracts granted during Covid-19 - Consultants being paid
£700+ per day.
280 signatures in the last hour
Establish free movement & trade agreements with Canada, Australia & New Zealand - Driven by Brexit.
Note the majority in the UK are against US GM food, etc.
236 signatures in the last hour
Banner: If a petition gets 10,000 signatures, the Government will respond
Short responses with links to the full response. A link to 205 full responses from Government and
another link for those debated in the House of Commons.
Banner: If a petition gets 100,000 signatures, it will be considered for debate in Parliament
Topics debated (Top three)
Take action to stop illegal immigration and rapidly remove illegal immigrants - This is to do with bombers
killing people on British soil and most are Muslims.
Make pet theft crime a specific offense with custodial sentences - Women buy them as fashion items, so
they are expensive to buy and have become criminal targets.
Impose sanctions on China over its treatment of Uyghur Muslims - China can easily find other markets
and the UK market is small compared to the US.
Under each of these are links to watch each debate on parliamentlive.tv, read the transcript at
parliament.uk and read the research at parliament.uk (journalist/writer info).
Links to petitions debated in parliament (XX), petitions waiting for a debate (XX), and petitions not
debated in parliament (XX).
Next “Local to you” - Find petitions being signed by people near you, enter your postcode in the Search
box.
This returns the heading:
Popular open petitions in the constituency of Edinburgh South
Link to all popular petitions in Edinburgh South
Your member of parliament is Ian Murray MP (Link to website)
Get this data in JSON or CSV format
Start a petition
Anyone can start a petition as long as they are a British citizen or UK Resident
Start a petition (Soft link button)
US Position
Because government policy in the US has been purchased by lobbyists and campaign contributors. Banks and
the government has been rubbing elbows to the detriment of the citizenry since the inception of the country.
And it is the same today. Most politicians in the US are ex-Goldman Sachs Bankers.
Now allow every US Citizen and Resident access to Petition the US Government has never been stronger.
UK Position
Any British Citizen or UK Resident is free to look at the Petition information above and make their views
known by supporting or commenting on any Petition listed. Far more open and Democratic than the US.
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Good camera
Office 365 apps
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Hoover: Goblin ECV002B-19 Bagless Cylinder 800W Lightweight Vacuum Cleaner Black
£28.99 including P&P
Easy to use and take apart to clean.
Pandemic Planning
Driving Hewlett Packard Chromebook Sales
10 different models sold out within weeks of the pandemic lockdown and pleased to see one model with the Intel Modem card electronics (my most viewed article, 1GBps, 2.4GHz/5GHz Intel PCI card up/down WiFi 130MBps, installed in it.
In August 2014 bought my HP Pavilion 14-c002sa Chromebook. Product Specifications listed:
HP Pavilion 14-c002sa Chromebook Product Specifications | HP® Customer Support
The HDMI port allows connecting it up to the HP 32” monitor and then plug in the Wireless adapter for the HP Keyboard and Mouse pair.
Record Videos with the inbuilt webcam and microphone allows people to communicate in different time zones or shifts and do online meetings using Google Meet with 150 persons/windows capacity.
Using the HDMI cable connects it to the Samsung 65” UHD TV, this gives you the close up real-life feeling when watching videos and makes reading epubs and watching YouTube Videos easy.
G-Workplace Apps
Download DOCs files in different formats:
MS Word (.docx)
Open Document format (.odt)
Rich Text format (.rtf)
PDF format (.pdf)
Plain text (.txt)
Web page (.html, zipped)
EPUB publication (.epub)
DOCS has been developed to produce large business documents and books. Sheets and Slides list common ranges. Forms and Diagrams are useful apps.
Women Home-based business setup that levers Workspace Apps
Sites updated and an alternative to SharePoint. Blogspot for Blogs. In edit mode, both allow views in Desktop, Tablet, Smartphone, Full Screen, Rotate Screen, and Reload.
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The word “United” is used in the UK and US to indicate that countries and states are “United”
with one national Government in London, UK, and Washington, US that decides on laws and
taxes that cover all the businesses and people in these countries or states.
With local country or state taxes and laws applied by these Government bodies. A good
example would be car or auto tax.
The Question on Quora is asking if the Scottish First Minister will close the border to English
Tourists. This happened before when Westminster stated travel for non-work reasons be limited
to 5 miles from home. It was enforced and English Tourists were turned away.
But it produced no medical benefits against the spread of Covid-19. It appears that people can
carry it and not show signs, just like Flu and the common Cold.
This might be different if enough Test Kits are produced and distributed to Emergency Staff and
residents in each village, town, city, or remote locations.
Hopefully, the vaccine will be produced and given to the whole population of the US and the UK.
This should then lower and clear the populations of getting Covid-19 again or at least for a year
or longer.
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© 2020 - 2022 by Eric Sutherland
T / A Biz & Techie
Writing Services Ltd
Published by Eric Sutherland T / A Biz & Techie Writing Services Ltd
The intent of the Author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you gain the knowledge about
making choices on your career.
“My Story – From Hobby
to Engineer to Writer”
In the event you use
any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right,
the Author and Publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.
Contents
Returned to the South of
West Germany. 13
Capita Insurance &
Investor Services. 16
Upwork and PeoplePerHour Biz docs. 18
Upwork and PeoplePerHour Tech docs. 18
PeoplePerHour Dev Projects. 19
Fiverr and Upwork ITTs
RFPs. 20
Met and married in Stromness,
Orkney and later produced me and my brother Ron. After about 4 years my father
changed jobs from a Lighthouse Keeper to Seamanship Instructor on the Dolphin
Training Ship based in the Lieth Docks, Edinburgh, UK. Most of the students gained
roles in BP and Shell Tankers.
For some unknown reason I picked
up Gaelic and the Island dialect from my Granny, but my younger brother escaped.
On arrival in Edinburgh, I had to attend classes to learn English as a foreign language.
The family then moved to Oxgangs,
when my father joined the 50 Housing Association, and everybody applied their
skills to building houses. At 5 attended Oxgangs Primary School a short walk
down the road. Then later my brother joined me at the School.
Nothing much happened until 11
my father bought us a small mongrel dog. Which got named Lulu. Then with
friends and other dogs, we started playing in the woods and the Pentland Hills
to the South. We started helping injured animals and gathered pets to occupy
our time.
One of the classics being when a
bit of fluff jumped towards our mother while cleaning her bedroom floor. On
looking under the bed found the fishbowl with tadpoles in it. Another when we
all had colds and my mother gave less than an eye drop, of whiskey to our White
mouse, Green budgie, and Lulu the dog. We all laughed at the dog trying to catch
the budgie and the budgie trying to catch the mouse.
At 12 started High School (Secondary
School) and doing a Sunday Paper Round. Used the pocket money to buy a two-man
tent and rucksack. This led us to camp in a valley in the Pentland Hills with
4 of us and 4 dogs. The fresh air and nightlife made the dogs excited and they
licked our breakfast out of the frying pans regardless of the heat. This made
us give up camp and go home.
Then discovered the Ham Shop in
town opposite the Central Library. Started buying and assembling Crystal Radio
kits. Connected one end across the water pipes in the bedroom cupboard and the
Headphones across the other end and picked up a range of long and medium wave
radio stations. The BBC World Service has the strongest signal and US,
German, French and Russian stations.
In my second year at High School started veg round after school on Tuesday and Thursday and all-day Saturday. Able to
borrow the Mullard Transistor Circuit Red Book and use the extra funds to build
the transistor circuits and learn to draw the circuit and test the theory.
Youth Hostelling around the North
and South of Ireland and running away from the Marches in the North and the
colleens in the South. Visited Paris for a weekend and remember unisex toilets
and being lifted by the police for sleeping on the grass that faced the Eiffel
Tower. Then put on the train back to London in the morning.
The Crystal Radio and Transistor
Circuit experience helped me pass the Electronic Apprenticeship Tests and
become 1 of 10 people out of 600+ applicants to be offered a position.
Throughout my 5 years, the Team Leader or Manager asked for a weekly report on
what I did and what I had learned. This helped me throughout my working life
and to write this book.
Learned how to assemble and test
Radar and Auto-Pilot Systems in-flight up and down the Highlands of Scotland
and the Atlantic and the North Sea. Smaller projects covered a Star Identification computer for the Observatory and Laser Cutting. Installed an Autopilot and flew
in Concorde.
Nobody in the company told us about
doing the third year City & Guilds Technician course that would have put us
in the Electronics second-year degree course at Heriot-Watt or Edinburgh
Universities. Since we all felt let down we found other roles.
My first role as Special Products
Team Leader, they produced a full range
of semiconductors. Enjoyed a week in Paris learning about Automated Test
Systems. My products protected electronic circuits if the power supply voltage
increased or a short circuit occurred and the current increased. They worked
with both DC and AC supplies. When the industry took a downturn left to find
another role.
In my next role working on
Microwave Link Analysers this lasted about 18 months. They sold over a million at
£250K each. Paid a profit-sharing bonus twice a year. Then moved to London with
digs in Brixton. The software course then helped gain a role testing ATMs (Hole
in the wall cash machines) at Burroughs Machines. After 5 months, all workers
given a days-notice and then obtained a contract agency's details.
Started contracting in the South
East with digs in Croydon. Worked on Radar and Medical Systems for a range of
different companies that all got taken over and changed locations. Responded to
an advert to work in Paris for UCC looking after Satellite Terminals running oil and
gas well simulation applications, motorway construction simulation
applications, and global news for Le Figaro Newspaper journalists.
My flat overlooked the Longchamp
racecourse on the other side of the Seine and a short walk to Le Defence
business district and based there for 9 months. Nearly every weekend acted as a guide for daughters, nieces, and their friends of the other Engineers. They
enjoyed seeing the sites and entertainment. My neighbors had listened to
the crumbles from the Concierge. But her son helped me out. This kept them entertained
and they lent pull-out beds. Collected and delivered visitors to Gare de Nord
station for the train back to London. Swapped roles for a month with the Dutch
Engineer based in the Hague. My terminal went on fire while I was flying there.
Returned to the UK and
contracting and within a week on my way to Frankfurt for a role with GE.
Installing Process Computer Systems around Europe and working in 3 to 5
countries each week. Once signed-up off to Kentucky, the USA for a one-week Process
Computer Course. Returned to Europe and based at Exxon Euro-port, near
Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Worked with the European Instructor. With trips to
Luxembourg, Belgium, and France.
Then down to Italy with a Power
Station in the North. Which had to be rebuilt! The Earth Grid was Open Circuit
on all floors, so the instruments and computers would have no earth reference.
The last project involved a
Nuclear Power Station in Switzerland on Red Alert! Both the Live and Hot
Standby Process Computers faulty, due to an Italian Engineer taking the good
spares and replacing them with faulty boards. After a week of no progress, resigned
and returned to the UK.
Obtained a contract with Varian
TM interviewed all the staff and Managers and drafted the 400-page Service
Manual for an X-Ray Simulator. The manual covered the setup, calibration,
maintenance, and servicing.
Next applied for a Support
Engineer role working on the mobile computing and communications systems for the Army
based in different locations in the South East and then the Northern part of
West Germany. Enjoyed two holidays
during this time crossing the USA and Canada for 3.5 weeks in each country.
Robbed in New York, but it’s a
lot better now. Visited each state in New England as they had a good mix of
things to do from History to the countryside. Boston and Chicago the main Irish
Cities of the USA. Enjoyed New Orleans for Jazz and Texas for Country &
Western music. California a welcoming state with lots of people making
conversation. Great views on the coasts and beaches in the North and South. Orange
County had the easygoing feel with dancing in the bars and cheap food.
Visited Lake Tahoe and enjoyed
the entertainment in the Casinos with the Three Degrees and good food. Made
friends with a local and visited them for breakfast. The wife screamed when a
bear started banging its head on the doorway! Attracted by the smell of good
food cooking. At their suggestion took a two-week Horse Back holiday from
California into Oregon with about a week in each. During this holiday the two
guides always asked for our food to be placed in a sack and pulled up a tree to
prevent Bears from eating it. One of our party was eating chocolate biscuits in the
corner of her tent and a bear nearly took her head off. Her screaming and the
guides firing their rifles into the air caused it to run-off. Everybody had
signed a letter confirming the terms of the holiday and the need to place all
food in the sacks. Mexico for the day through Greyhound Buses and experienced
food and brown beer instead of larger in the US.
Started the Canada holiday by flying
into Toronto and asked the New Stand person for directions to a pub that did
food and he responded in a Glasgow accent. Then took the train to Halifax and found
a gravestone with my name on it. Life seemed quiet here, but that changed when
a man appeared who looked like he fell out of a Rob Roy movie. Slapped me on
the back and offered me a dram and stated the Highland games would start soon
and be followed by Scottish dancing with a cèilidh
Band. After this took the train to Quebec and after seeing the sites, on
another train to Montreal. The New York of Canada with lots to do and see.
French Canadians speak slowly so it was easy for me to speak French.
The plane to Ottawa very quiet, so
took the train to Calgary and watched the Stampede as the guest of the star
with the same name as me. His family trying to work out how if we were related!
During the Highland Clearances, lots of Scots went to Canada and my Grandad and
my fathers’ cousins worked for the Hudson Bay Trading Company. Back on the
train through the Canadian Rockies and in the late evening sent downstairs by
the guard with my female friend. Then in the morning arrived in Vancouver and
after walking around took the ferry to Victoria Island. Spent the last three
days here and then flew back from Vancouver to London, UK via New York.
After 2.5 years moved to the US
AFE in the middle of West Germany and then transferred to the US for 8.5 months
and worked in every state except Hawaii. Discovered a huge difference in
cultures and dialects with people from Canada, East and West Europe, China, India, the Caribbean and South America. The Great Lakes attracted me with lots of Scandinavians,
fishing, and the sound of waves like Orkney and around the coast of Scotland.
Spent Xmas and New Year in
Kentucky and enjoyed the company of Hill Billies with their hunting, training
skills, and the Horse racing. Visited National Parks and found Yellow Stone the most
interesting. Hiking trips in Texas, Oregon, and California presented a good
range of challenges, and the need for Guides saved my life more than once. Understanding
the different ways people worked and how to explain different approaches increased
my knowledgebase.
Process and Manufacturing Plants control
systems and their sensors require a lot of analysis and testing to ensure the
replacements and solutions improve outputs and quality of the manufactured products
(for example, cars and buses). Building a Hydro Power Station with an
Oil&Gas Drilling Farm taking out the Water Supply. After Legal Action and examination
of Planning Consents, it was discovered that the route of the water supply started
with two sources. One about 10% of the other The source of the larger was
missed, but after surveys identified and prospecting by the Oil&Gas company
halted.
This shows that both large and
small companies make mistakes and until something which represents a Business
Continuity problem is accepted and identified. This means the Security and Risk
Models are re-engineered and checked. Changing normal processes and standard
operating procedures forces both human and system changes that take time to be
installed. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) will aid the monitoring
and regulation of these changes. Confirming expected performance with quality vs
cost.
Stayed with a friend outside Ulm.
Helped him become a contractor with AEG and he only worked 30 hours per week. Then
I started working for AEG on Cabinet Cable Harnesses with automated wiring
machines. Spending Friday afternoon/ evening doing German to English technical
translation and drinking beer. After 9 months laid-off and went to Koln to document
switch-mode power supplies for another part of AEG. This lasted about 6 months with
the Rosenmontag Festival taking out about 1 month in the middle.
Back to my friends’ place in Ulm
and then gained a new contract with Dornier at Oberfaffenhoffen outside Munich.
As a Quality Control Engineer covering the build, ground test, flight trials, and
sale run of complete planes. This was a challenging role with Boeing advising 6
German companies on different tasks. With Boeing Engineers saying when I
smiled it was time to jump out the window. 300 people covering 06:00 to 14:00
and 14:00 to 22:00. The 737 planes arrived with the inner shell needing to be built and the equipment installed and tested during the ground tests. Chairing the
Change Board and resolving 10 to 20 changes per meeting. This kept the 4 German
Project Managers busy. The documentation had to cover the correct installation and servicing
and maintenance requirements.
With the build and ground test
stages signed-off, flight trials started, and fixes documented and approved by
the Change Board. Next, the Sale Run started with a successful flight and a
range of different tests covered take-off and landing and crew tasks listed and
ticked off. These all had to be 100% before sign-off was given for the Sale Run
of each plane. Next training the German Project Managers to do the same over
the next 3 to 6 months.
Rented a flat next to the main
London to Brighton rail line and everything in the kitchen shook when express
trains passed! No alarm clock needed. After a year bought a flat on the other
side of South Croydon on top of a hill. If the River Thames Barrier failed the
water would only be half-way up.
Started doing Medical and Pharma
contracts. Worked on financial analysis of R&D Projects at Biotechnology
and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Documented the IT systems for European Medical Device
Agency (EMDA), Worked on Product Labelling quality for GSK, Pfizer clinical
patient records storage procedures and then the US Food & Drug Agency (FDA)
Technical Files for Transfusion Pumps made by Alaris Medical.
IT Support role - Installed PCs, Laptops,
Network devices and Hubs at different UK sites and rigs in the North Sea. With
Leather and Chain Harness tuned Microwave Dishes with a Strength Meter for maximum
signal. Required for reporting to the UK Treasury oil and gas outputs as they
happened.
Working at the London Stock
Exchange doing IT Support on share and bond reporting systems and ensuring
these worked at all the Stock-Broker’s dealing desks in the UK. It was 1987 and
the London Market crashed and the rest of the team went and disconnected
all the dealing desks. Then we installed 4 times the number of servers, about
250 and performed audits on all the dealing desks to ensure we had enough
processing power.
Then IT Support at First Equity
an Inter-Dealer Broker and then a Technical Writer for UBS, NatWest, Barclays
and FBCS.
Doing different roles in the South
East. In the Home Office on Prison Simulator and Passport Office, Philips analog
and digital processing cards, Phase A and B FEMA on Tornado Stores, Woolwich Arsenal
company on my last day produced work. South West started an 18-month contract
at National Power running the Power Station document team of 14, with 4
technical authors and 10 administrators. The Telecommunications Services Unit
(TSU) had 100+ contracts including Energy Trading and obtained ISO 19001. The
Netherlands documented the Oil and Gas Reporting System for Mobil and documented
a small Commuter Plane for SAAB in Sweden.
Then a lot of 3-month Technical
Writing projects for about 4 years. Followed by working at RBS in Edinburgh supporting
EY on the Datawarehouse project and operations weekly and monthly reporting.
Returned to Croydon and started
at Shell in the Strand, London for 15-months. Supported the email team covering
Shells’ global operations. Helped solve the Satellite Tracking System problem
for Shell Trading to track its Super Tankers around the World, delivering and loading
a range of commodities. Due Diligence on the project team ended their lack of
deliverables, high pay, and large offices.
My second longest contract. Researching and writing IT Security
Policies,
Processes and Procedures on: Share Registration System with over 60% of the
FTSE100 companies, this covered the buying and selling of their listed shares and
the settlements between Institutions and Stockbrokers. Fund Management System listed
mutual funds and their trading and IFA Portal System supplied a market for Independent
Financial Advisors (IFAs) to buy a wide range of insurance policies and
interfaces to CRM Reporting Systems. Every month worked on M&A Proposals,
RFPs and ITTs.
Exercising Microsoft Office and
Visio 2010, SharePoint Workspaces, Lync, and InfoPath on Windows 7, 64bit and
32bit Operating Systems. Ubuntu UNIX and OpenOffice on Sun VirtualBox and Windows
7 XP using the MS Windows Virtual PC.
Business Process Analyst/Technical
Writer covering 200+ Sites and resolving the
Outsource Contracts, process, and procedure issues. Using conference calls to communicate
the changes for each document. Remedy Change Templates used for Workflow to
notify the assigned groups:
Perform Group member selects Tasks Template to
install a PC and starts the SLA clock.
Workflow emails Facilities. To check location, desk
and chair and services allocated.
Emails Stock Controller/Procurement for PC and
standard image build licenses. Build a PC, install it, and ensure End User
satisfaction.
Then log on to Remedy to close the Change Ticket. The configuration team stops the SLA clock.
Freelance Writer drafting a B2B set of IT Policies covering:
PC, Laptop and Smart Phone Usage, e-mail, Internet,
Working from Home, IT Security, Backup, and Storage Systems.
UPS, Encryption, VPN, Disposal, IT Product, Data
Protection, GDPR, and ISO9001 / ISO27001.
Freelance Writer doing the writing, proofreading, and editing roles:
Short Story, Mission/Vision Statements, Business
Plan, and Enterprise Security, White Papers on Data Governance Application and
Open Source Search.
Contract Process
Consultant drafting processes and
procedures to enable implementation of SAP One for Immersion Theatre Systems
support functions and applying LEAN PM to Finance,
Mechanical and Optical, Electronic Systems plans.
Freelance Writer doing the writing, proofreading, and editing roles, producing
specs, User Guides, for JSON based APIs. Constructing Help files
for software development and Web site product descriptions.
Freelance Writer working with Business and Technical Analysts,
Developers, and Support Engineers, drafting documentation on Framemaker for
client/server application Testing. Reading business and technical books between
projects.
Contract
Technical Writer producing an ERP software application
specification with Backoffice APIs for Supermarket and its suppliers.
Freelance
Writer working on XML and REST API Test
Specs for payment, loyalty, and telecommunications
projects. Reading business and technical books
and doing MS and MIT courses between projects.
Freelance
Writer testing and correcting
Ship2Anywhere.com content and XML, R&D Plan for
Grant. Reworking Study Guides on Logic, Thinking, and Strategy.
Contract Technical Writer
working on B2B writing, proofreading, and editing Human
Resources, Finance, and P2P / SAP documents with Business, Operations, IT, and Finance
inputs to deliver a Trade Sale document set.
Freelance
Writer proofreading and editing Portal
content and, IBM Cloud/Premise Smart Metering Tender for
Australian Water Board.
Freelance
Writer working with Business and Technical Analysts, Developers, and Support
Engineers, writing short and long-form articles for Blogs and websites.
Contract Technical Writer producing an API document for academic database document searching, creating
test data sets for 100 search parameters, and updated bug lists. Development
teams using Agile and SCRUM delivery process frameworks.
Freelance Writer improving
and maintaining IT Operations and Security Policies, Processes and Procedures for products and services. Using
HTML, XML, and Framemaker for DITA files.
Contract
Technical Writer Interviewing, Stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts in London,
Munich and Koln. Producing Document Set list for FCA regulator certification. Researching
and drafting 40+ Policies for review and approval.
Freelance Writer writing
or responding to ITTs, RFPs, and SOWs. Covering small to large projects using
Confluence, Jira, GitHub, and MS Project. Supporting DHS SAP Identity Mng. and
USAF Mng. Office Workflow Solutions.
Freelance
Writer writing, proofreading, and editing for Financial, Technical and Legal
Clients. Withholding Tax Harmonisation White Paper and Satellite application. Legal
Practice interview, Moscow, and Paris offices Press Releases.
Freelance
Writer interviewed telecommunications
products and services CEOs, VPs, and Subject Matter Experts. Using agreed
questions and then expanded and improved their answers. Restructuring and
reworking long-form articles for on-line Journals / Website.
Freelance Writer researching, writing (MS Office, SharePoint Admin, Photo
Shop) and selling Business and Teacher Resources on a hosted online shop. Focus on Business and IT,
recent sales Micro-Entity Accounts, and GDPR procedures.
Lived and Worked throughout
Western Europe and across the USA. Then Globally over the Internet. Sectors
covered Local and National Government, Defence, Transportation for Land, Sea
and Air, Medical Devices and X-Ray Systems, Pharma, Oil&Gas, Utilities, Manufacturing/Engineering,
Media, Legal and Financial Services.
Spent the 1990s producing
and selling template management systems which saved the clients time and money
to implement and then gain certification to the related ISO standard: Quality,
Environmental, Health&Safety, Service Management, Corporate Communications,
Service Management and IT Security.
Cover different functions that a company performs. First Example
RFP and Checklist An RFP is written and checked against the checklist to
ensure it covers all the requirements like terms, specification modes of response
with email and hard copy or electronic copy, with an electronic signature. The
Request for Proposal (RFP) is then sent to suppliers or partners to obtain their
price for supplying the product or service as stated in the specification part
of the RFP. Companies and government departments might have a list of approved
companies and send them an email containing the Notice describing what the RFP
covers and a link to download the RFP.
Second How
to do Requirements for your Project Product or Service Requirements cover:
Business Requirements – the cost of producing and maintaining it.
Technical Requirements – how to build, test, and install it.
Functional Requirements – what functions does it need to perform.
Non-functional Requirements – disaster recovery, business
continuity processes to recover the product or service back to normal operating
condition for the company providing the product or service. A bus is a product,
but when it transports passengers it is supplying service.
User Requirements – cover how the product or service interfaces
with users. The bus company and drivers operate the service and the passengers
are end-users.
Third Product
and Service Design Procedures cover corporate governance needs and
the service management catalog. Governance relates to how products or
services are designed with the maximum recycled parts and tracked as assets for
accounting needs. With Service Management one or more approved suppliers are
listed and specification states the applications for the product or service. A
unique organization's number is allocated. With a software application showing the
complete product or service and where this product or service is used. On a bus, there are multiple seat grips/handles with the same number.
Fourth Learn
to implement LEAN Project Management like Agile Product Development the
Project Management Methodology should not use too much of the developers' and
engineers' time with processes, procedures, forms, and records.
Fifth Cloud
Computing for Small, Medium, and Home-Based Businesses with an increase in
virtual teams around the World. This is the route they should be taking, and
Microsoft and Google apps enable it.
Sixth How
to do Micro-Entity Accounts covers the format of the accounts and shows how
the figures relate. This is how I do my company annual accounts and present
them online to HMRC and CompaniesHouse.
Seventh Single Person Meal Planner covers 30 days Explains how to cook simple meals using a
Microwave and Halogen Oven. With Meat or Fish, mixed vegetables, pasta or
potatoes. Small Chicken, Fishcake, Pork Sausage, Haddock or Cod, Hamburger,
Pork Shoulder Chop, Duck Leg, Meals Planner covering 30 days.
Eighth How you can manage your Event covers a pragmatic approach to Event Analysis,
Planning and Tracking Costs of your Event.
Now researching and writing Lifestyle
books with three others as Work in Progress.
New Technology applications using AI, ML, Blockchain, VR/AR
and BOTS look possible towards the end of the year or next year.
In 1980 my friend started the Ulm Hash House Harriers since
he was running with Surrey H3. This got me started and I have nearly run in every
European Group. Visited the East and West of Australia, Malaysia were, it
started back in 1938, Singapore and St Petersburg, Russia on a day trip from
Helsinki, Finland. Run 20+ Marathons, Red Dress Runs and 20+ Ball Breakers 3 to
4-hour cross-country runs. Nash Hashes around Europe, Inter-hashes in Malaysia,
Cyprus and Cardiff, UK, and Euro Hashes.
Open to considering Joint Venture Book writing covering business,
technology, engineering, and lifestyle subjects.
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