MediaCityUK Photographic Time-lapse Movie – 2007 thru 2010

MediaCity UK Photographic Time-lapse Video – 2007 thru 2010

During my time working in Salford Quays as an IT Project Manager, I took a good number of photos and movies of the MediaCity build (literally from the ground up). The pictures were taken from 2007 when the dockland was flat and unused, through to 2010. MediaCity UK is now home to the BBC (BBC North), ITV in the North West and the University of Salford.

The 200 or so pictures in this movie represent an abridged timeline of the build selected from a few thousand photos starting from 2007.

Music soundtrack accompanying movie timeline is by John Barry and from the film –

Somewhere in Time (1980 – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081534/) –

Soundtrack link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paU0yFZ-l3E

My MediaCityUK photo gallery and website : https://mark-whitfield.com/gallery/mediacityuk/

What is Microsoft Power Platform and what are Power Apps?

Microsoft Power Platform is a line of business intelligence, app development, and app connectivity software applications. Microsoft developed the Power Fx low-code programming language for expressing logic across the Power Platform. It also provides integrations with GitHub and Teams.

Products:

The Power Platform family of products includes:

1) Power BI, a software for visualizing data with different kinds of charts. It competes with tools like Tableau

2) Power Apps, graphical software for writing low-code custom business applications

3) Power Automate, formerly Microsoft Flow, a toolkit similar to IFTTT for implementing business workflow products

4) Power Automate Desktop, a Robotic process automation software for automating graphical user interfaces (acquired in May 2020)

5) Power Virtual Agents, software for writing chatbots

6 Common Cloud Migration Strategies… the 6 R’s explained… Azure and AWS…

PRINCE2 2017 Foundation and Practitioner Tutorial Video…

PRINCE2 2017 Microsoft Project Plan MPP template file walk through

John Cleese, “How to Conduct Meetings”

Successfully re-certified as an Engagement Manager at Capgemini…

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The Digital Career story so far…

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The ITL company website from 2009 to 2013…

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Last week at MuleSoft (A Salesforce Company)…

MuleSoft (a Salesforce company) – from October 2018 – June 2019, assigned as a Delivery Manager at MuleSoft to deliver the Anypoint Platform.

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Insider Technologies Limited (ITL), Salford Quays, Chandlers Point, Spinnaker Court – 1995

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Project Management: Some FREE Agile Scrum online videos for those looking for good insight… https://mark-whitfield.com/

Project Management: Some FREE Agile Scrum online videos for those looking for good insight… https://mark-whitfield.com/

http://scrumtrainingseries.com/

http://www.scrumstudy.com/scrum-free-videos.asp?course=sdc#

LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/163300/

Project Plan and Project Tracker templates:
https://mark-whitfield.com/about/project-tracking-templates-including-raids-log-risk-action-issue-dependency-log-plan-on-a-page-and-detailed-ms-or-excel-project-plan/

 

 

Back down to London on Wednesday and the SF tower at the front…

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Delivery Manager for MuleSoft

Since October 2018, augmented into MuleSoft (a Salesforce company) as a Delivery Manager managing a number of accounts across the UK, for the delivery of the Anypoint Platform.

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The Anypoint Platform includes various components such as Anypoint Design Center, which allows API developers to design and build APIs; Anypoint Exchange, a library for API providers to share APIs, templates, and assets; and Anypoint Management Center, a centralized web interface to analyze, manage, and monitor APIs and integrations.

The Delivery Manager role is much like a Programme Manager role and typically links with the client’s Project /Programme Manager role to ensure that any project plans align to the MuleSoft Outcome Based Delivery (OBD) framework to achieve the agreed business outcomes.

The OBD framework provides a structured set of work streams, tasks and sub-tasks for the client to become fully enabled in an API-led project delivery as part of the business operating model. It also provides best practice guidance on the required business and IT culture modifications and governance to support the correct API ownership approach. The 3 OBD streams are; 1) Business Outcomes, 2) Technology Delivery and 3) Org Enablement.

3 year anniversary since joining Capgemini…

Campus – Serge Kampf Les Fontaines, Chantilly, France – Advanced EM Course – November 2017 Class – 2nd from left…2017_11_10_bpw03_img_3455

Just over a year ago, Campus – Serge Kampf Les Fontaines, Chantilly, France – Advanced EM Course – November 2017 Class – 2nd from left… https://mark-whitfield.com/about/

Campus – Serge Kampf Les Fontaines, Chantilly, France – Advanced EM Course – November 2017 Class – 2nd from left

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London, new place of work (HQ) from the Ground and from 33rd Floor… Liverpool Street Tube…

33rd Floor (St. Paul’s in distance)…
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From the Ground (middle tower)…
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Some HPE NonStop (Tandem) related groups on LinkedIn…

HPE NonStop Tandem | Guardian OSS Performance Monitoring Management Integrity Blade Itanium ServerNet
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/165816/
332 members currently

BASE24 BASE24-eps – HP NonStop Tandem IBM SUN – Open System Services OSS RealTime – Experts Users
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/150095/
1,514 members currently

PCI DSS Compliant Payments Transactions Compliance Monitoring Alerting Querying Archiving Reporting
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/146595/
472 members currently

SATUG Southern African HP NonStop Tandem NSK Server User Group – SATUG
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/81881/
57 members currently

Payment Engine Applications Forum | Retail and Wholesale | HP NonStop NSK Tandem SUN IBM Windows
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/80773/
343 members currently

HPE NonStop Tandem NSK OSS Open System Services Monitoring – Users, Experts and Technical Authorities 
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/80740/
840 members currently

Job Batch Scheduling | HP NonStop Tandem Guardian Open System Services OSS Servernet Integrity Blade  
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/78111/
371 members currently

BASE24 BASE24-eps User Group Forum | HP NonStop Tandem NSK IBM SUN Windows – News Events Discussion
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/51296/
910 members currently

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On Monday, will have been in Professional IT for 28 years…

Deluxe Data International Operations (formally The Software Partnership)

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I started work at 12pm, September 3rd 1990. The Runcorn office started life as The Software Partnership (first at Wingate Drive in Timperley and then Norton House in Crowngate and subsequently Wingate House in 1992 on Northway) in the mid-eighties (co-founded by Nigel Walsh) but was purchased in 1994 by the American company Deluxe Electronic Payment Systems. This in turn is part of Deluxe Corporation which is one of the largest cheque printers and debit transaction processors in the US, and a major supplier of secure card management systems. The company changed to EFD eFunds in 2000 and is now Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) (at 2007) based in Daresbury, Warrington. The Software Partnership started out developing on-line banking systems for Tandem and UNIX systems.

 

August 14th 1995 – 12pm, Arriving at Insider Technologies Limited (ITL)

Exactly 23 years ago, I left Deluxe Data International Operations in August 1995 and then as a Senior Programmer joined a software house in Salford Quays, Manchester called Insider Technologies Limited (ITL). The company was founded in 1989 by Steve Tanham and Jim Chapman. Insider specialised in HPE NonStop software for both monitoring (Reflex) and batch scheduling (MultiBatch) on this this mainframe platform. Insider also provided software (RTLX, Sentra) to enable the monitoring, querying and reporting on the ACI BASE24 Classic ATM / POS application using the transaction log files.

1995 – 2004:

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Insider Technologies, Spinnaker Court, Chandlers Point, Salford Quays

As a Senior Programmer, I co-developed a number of platform health, diagnostic plug-in modules for Reflex (also known as Reflex 80:20). These included ‘Console’ for HPE NonStop EMS event viewing and filtering, ‘Status Monitor’ for monitoring HPE NonStop platform components (CPU, Disk, Process, File, MQ, XPNET, TCP/IP to name but a few) and ‘Service Monitor’ for building multi-line, rule based analysis of grouped HPE NonStop components to ascertain overall application / service health. Read more…

Project Management Forum | PRINCE2 Agile SCRUM Kanban ITIL Lean | Manchester Liverpool Lancashire UK

A few years ago I set-up a Project Management group on LinkedIn for the North West area of the UK. We now have nearly 2,500 members and growing. Here is the link.