About Les Stow.

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Summary

I am an experienced IT Technical Trainer developing and running Training Courses since 1981. With developer Trainer skills including C# VB, XML, SQL Server, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, ASP, ASP.NET and MVC.

See my Company website for a full list of courses I can present: www.aspecttraining.co.uk.

Highlights

• Exceptional Presentation Skills
• Can present using a number of different virtual tools
• Can Travel Anywhere in the UK
• Vast experience of commercial IT Training
• C#, VB.Net, ASP.NET, MVC, Java, Python
• XML, XSLT
• SQL Server
• HTML, CSS, ASP, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, PHP
• Visual Basic (1-6)

Employment History

1st June 2009 – Present

Freelance Trainer as Aspect Training

Woking for myself as a freelance trainer/consultant. I currently present courses for my own company as well as several well-established training companies in the UK. I also have provided consultancy for a number of IT projects, both Desktop and Web.

July 2006 to 1st June 2009

Acuity Training Limited Systems and Training

Manager /Technical Trainer

• Quickly moved to Virtual Training to reduce impact of Covid-19 on my business. Have now presented a number of courses for clients.
• Developed and Presented many of the Technical Training courses.
• Developed and Presented several Management Skills Training Courses. including ‘Train the Trainer’
• Responsible for the day to day running of the training team of 4 trainers and 1 administrator.
• Responsibility for Training scheduling and allocation of both in-house and external trainers.
• Developed an in-house booking system (developed using VB.NET, SQL Server, XML and XSLT).
• Responsible for writing detailed technical specifications from high-level business specifications for customer software requirements.
• Also, responsible for the development of software solutions for Surrey Police, The College of Law and John Guest.

December 1993 to July 2006

EPC Computer Services Limited

MD/Software Developer /Trainer

EPC Computer Services Limited was my company based in West Molesey, Surrey. The organisation specialised in providing Technical Software Training and Software Solutions.

With A team of 3 developers I project managed and helped develop applications for companies including Marley Extrusions, Inmarsat and Richmond Events.

• Presented Training Courses for many training Companies including Silicon Beach Training, Systematix Ltd, BroadSkill Ltd, D S Datatraining Ltd, Eureka Software Training Services and Interquad Learning Ltd.
• Presented all EPC Computer services Training Courses on customer sites.
• Developed Training Material for WM Kellogg’s Gas Plant Systems in Egypt
• Developed all Course Material for CompuTeach VB.Net Courses
• Involved in all aspects of the software lifecycle from analysis, design, and development and testing of software prior to installation.
• Worked to strict deadlines to ensure that projects were delivered on time and to budget.
• Working within a Microsoft development environment, specialised in .NET, VB, ASP and SQL Server technologies.
• Worked on site at leading institutions throughout the UK.
• Software developed included drainage design system, on ship management system, conference booking system, insurance sales system and satellite tracking system.

November 1985 - November 1993

GDS Limited

Was EDS-Scicon (GDS Solutions) (- June 1993)

Was McDonnell Douglas Information Systems (- October 1991)

Was Applied Research of Cambridge ( - January 1986)

• Post sales consultant for the CAD product GDS.
• Developed training courses for customers of the CAD system.
• Became Training Manager with a team of 4 trainers working for me.
• The department grew to a high point of over £2 million turnover

September 1981 - November 1985

Plessey Airports

• Joined Plessey Airports in September 1981 as a design draftsman.
• Became a CAD operator in February 1982 when Plessey Airports acquired GDS running on a VAX mainframe.
• Became the CAD 'leader' and in October 1984 the CAD Manager.
• Responsibe for Training new CAD Users
• Developed In-House Applications to Enhance the CAD Product

June 1979 - September 1981

Campbell Reith and Partners.

Joined Campbell Reith and Partners in June 1979 as a reinforced concrete detailer.

July 1975 - June 1979

Harris and Sutherland.

Joined Harris and Sutherland in July 1975 from school, as a trainee draftsman.

In 1977 became a reinforced concrete detailer.

Education:

1975 - 1979	Westminster Technical College (Day release)
Qualifications:	HNC Civil Engineering

1968-1975:	Carshalton High School For Boys
Qualifications:	6 - 'O' Levels Mathematics Additional Mathematics English Language English Literature Science Technical drawing 2 - 'A' Levels Pure Mathematics Applied Mathematics

Hobbies

Photography and listening to Music

References

Available on request

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