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Joined Salford University Business Services Ltd in April 1986 to run the North West Microelectronics Awareness Programme on behalf of the DTI and local authorities. The NWMAP project and other similar technology transfer programmes involved contact with 1000 small and medium size companies and a variety of industrial and commercial problems and their solutions. Responsibilities included developing a project management role in technology based contracts, mainly in collaboration with the University's IT Institute and Department of Surveying, and generally IT related. Appointed the company's IT manager, responsible for a network of 45 PC's expanding to a 70 user LAN / WAN and bespoke data-base development on SUBS contracts. Seconded to the DTI’s Regional Office in Manchester to assist with their data-base systems. |