John N Sutherland

 

 

 

Commercial history

 

The entrance hall at The Royal Society of Edinburgh in George Street.

 

 

  Commercial Work

 

2002 - 2005

 

Member of the Creative Industries Panel for the Royal Society of Edinburgh / Scottish Enterprise Fellowships.

Encouraging current Scots-based academics to take their ideas out and commercialise them, with a GBP25,000 sweetener.

 

 

2002 -

Director, Sirach Ltd., Edinburgh

A low-cost IT training company.

 

 

2000 - 2003

Director, Akademos’ Garden.

An association formed to encourage creative thoughts and processes.  Now continued by Ms Alison Waugh as 2nd Order Thinking.

 

 

1990 - 1995

Member of the Editorial Board of Software Development Monitor.

Writing on CASE tools.

 

 

1982-1986

Senior Analyst / Programmer at the University of St Andrews

Financial, COBOL, VISTA 4GL, CTL and DEC VAX.

 

 

1980-1981

Programming Team Leader, Fraser Williams Computing Consultancy, Glasgow and London.

Financial, Stock Control, COBOL, BASIC, RPG, Data General Eclipse and Nove, IBM System 3.

 

 

1979-1980

Programmer, Allan D’Morias Computer Consultancy, Glasgow and London.

Financial, COBOL, BASIC, IBM System 360, Data General Nova and Eclipse.

 

 

1978-1979

Trainee Programmer, DAKS-Simpson Ltd., Larkhall, Glasgow.

Process Control, COBOL, ICL 1903.