David has over 30 years experience in the computer industry. In the late 70s and early 80s he worked as a designer/developer on search engines for software packages originally termed as "text retrieval" systems. These systems created libraries of documents. The search engine retrieved those documents from the libraries that contained the words or phrases specified in a question to the system. An early precursor of the service carried out by the internet search engines, Google , Yahoo etc.
Text retrieval systems were thirsty for electronically created text and a ready source was the newly emerging word-processor technology. These systems were stand-alone and so needed to be integrated. As a developer, David was heavily involved in the data storage and display of text and wrote code to handle mark-up languages similar to the html used by todayÃ’¢??s web pages.
In the late 80s he moved on to Image Processing systems, where he used early PCs to capture scanned images and store them on optical discs. Development work included using image compression technology and the setting up and the tuning of local area networks. The size of image files far exceeded the size of other data transmitted over networks at that time. Developing these image systems required considerable collaboration work with the network communications development engineers.
He subsequently worked with a number of Blue Chip companies in project manager roles, including a 5 year contract with Sony Playstation working as the Change and Release Manager for their websites. During his time there he was responsible for the release of ecommerce and editorial style websites; SonyÃ’¢??s corporate intranet site, various mini sites and Flash developments; software download facilities and network gaming management. The London office was responsible for Europe and Australasia and sites were made available to 20 locations in 13 different languages.
This wealth of experience in software design, development and project management is now available to give your website the advantage you need to stand out from the crowd.

Jun 2010

University of Reading

The materials contained on this website were designed for delivery to second-year undergraduate students in the Business School of the University of Reading. The materials are also available for use by other teaching establishments for non-profit purposes.
The full set of materials is available to only registered users with a subset “taster” set of materials available for general viewing. The site contains around 80 separate pages containing the extracted content of a 4Mb Word document. The full materials are protected by a secure area with login, registration and forgotten password facilities. Other features include 3 form mail pages; file downloads; pop-up footnotes; multi-level horizontal pop-out menus and page browsing.

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Maria Gee

Dave Gregory made the process of designing a website painless for me. He communicated very well and was very responsive to changes that I wanted to make. Overall, I have no hesitation in recommending him for jobs of this kind.