I work for a company called Rebus Group, a software group based mainly in the UK. The group has about 1300 staff, and primarily produces software packages for insurance companies, local government, personel, company payrolls and the like.
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I work for a company called Rebus Group, a software group based mainly in the UK. The group has about 1300 staff, and primarily produces software packages for insurance companies, local government, personel, company payrolls and the like. |
I used to run a team of 8 staff that develops bespoke solutions for anyone that asks. The team was based within our Technical Services Division, and we mainly used tools such as Microsoft's SQL Server, Access and Visual Basic, together with IBM's Lotus Notes and MQ Series messaging product to link up applications. The main focus was on client-server applications using a variety of back-end servers, such as AS/400's.
In 2Q2001 we were reorganised, and I was moved into our Medical Systems team. There are 4 of us in the team, and we are focussed on developing solutions in medical sector:
MediRisk and ALMS, which are software packages to help hospitals and NHS Trusts to track "untoward incidents" such as treatment errors or injuries to staff
Solutions where text is captured from per-printed forms and fed into MediRisk and ALMS. We use the TeleForm package from Cardiff Software.
The administration software for UKCTOCS. This is a trial of screening methods for ovarian cancer, based at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London. It is one of the largest trials of its kind ever attempted in Europe, and the UKCTOCS team under Prof. Ian Jacobs of Queen Mary and Westfield College, Univ of London. aim to recruit 200,000 women between 50 and 74 years of age and to screen them annually for 6 years each.
Rebus continues to support a number of projects from the Desktop days, including:
The Ultimate Guide to Ships: a CD-ROM application covering shipping information for Lloyds Register of London. Users are be able to download weekly updates of information via the Internet
a claims system for a subsidiary of the Allianz-Cornhill Group
Lotus Notes applications for Save the Children Fund
An on-line call billing system for Swiftcall , one of the leading UK telecoms companies offering cheap international phone calls
After leaving school at 18, I did a degree in Geography at Oxford, then spent 4 years working on a Ph.D in Historical Geography at Cambridge. What do you do after that? So I became a teacher, spending 5 years at Dr. Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham, Bucks, then a year as Head of Geography a at Tiffin Girls School in Kingston-upon-Thames. A radical career change then took me from teaching to computing in one easy bound!
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