Originally from the United Kingdom, I am currently working as an IT Consultant in Västerås, Sweden. I specialise in the areas of Document Management (Documentum) and Java web applications using Struts on Weblogic, Tomcat and other web application servers. But after almost 20 years in the IT business I can turn my hand to most things and have no problems learning new technologies. I was born in the town of Sheffield in England, but grew up from the age of 12 in Canterbury, England. I went to university at The Hatfield Polytechnic, now known as The University of Hertfordshire. After graduating with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, I worked as an engineer at ABB in Stevenage, England. During my time at ABB I had the opportunity to work, for three years, on an internal project at one of their head offices in Västerås, Sweden. At the end of the assignment I decided that I liked it so much in Västerås that I would move there and take a job with ABB in Sweden. That was in 2001 and things have moved on a bit since then, and I now work for Capgemini, an IT Consulting company who have their headquarters in Paris, France. As an IT Consultant at Capgemini I have worked on assignments for a variety of clients such as ABB (engineering), E.ON (power generation), AstraZeneca (pharmaceuticals), SLU (the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) and my current assignment is at Skatteverket (the Swedish Tax Office). I am now pretty fluent in Swedish, although it took a few years.
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