Goldkeep (1995) Ltd.

Goldkeep is the trading name of freelance computer consultant Steve Burns.


Steve's career - a brief summary...

  • Twenty years experience, the majority of which has been spent on ICL hardware using the VME skill set: COBOL, IDMS, TPMS, SCL, etc.

  • More recent development experience of Unix (including MicroFocus COBOL and embedded SQL), IBM mainframe, JCL, COBOL II and COBOL/OS390, also MS Office products and Visual Basic.

  • Also non-commercial internet experience: HTML, Dynamic HTML, web site development (see below).

  • Recent training including Java, HTML.

  • Roles undertaken include programmer, analyst/programmer, analyst, tester, team leader, implementor and systems manager.

  • Various application areas, including many years in Local Government and Utilities.

  • Up to February 2006, worked for three-and-a-half years as part of integrated system test team at Npower, currently working for HBOS on financial services systems. All these positions as Test Analyst.

  • Available October 2008.

  Preferred locations - within commuting distance of Leeds: essentially Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.

  A detailed CV is available on request - please contact me by e-mail at: goldkeep@easynet.co.uk.



And in my spare time ...  These are the web sites which I administer:

Holland 1974 and
Holland 1978 		Flagship sites devoted to the Dutch World Cup teams of the 1970s.
Bards of a Feather The work of Otley poets Baz Cooper and Kevin Collier.
Site uses JavaScript to change selection of poems daily.
Horsforth Fairweather F.C. The Sunday football club of which I am Secretary.
One of the longest-lasting independent teams in the Leeds area.
A comprehensive site, regularly updated,
"Highly Recommended" by Lycos.
Britains Swoppet Knights. Devoted to the memorable toys of the 1960s
and prized collector's items of today.
Box Hill F.C. 1974-75 My old team in the Scarborough Sunday League.
A nostalgic and inevitably rather wordy site.
Mia's pictures My niece.
Just pictures really but she's a star.


This page was last updated February 2008.