Soroban Systems

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Soroban Systems is located in Chalfont St Peter, South East Buckinghamshire, England with easy access to central London and to the M25.

We are able to offer advice to local businesses however our Principal Consultant, John Steele, has been tempted back into full time permanent employment and so is unable to undertake any larger projects.

John Steele is an active member of the local "Self Help" group Gerrards Cross Computer club (click here to visit club site) and maintains the club Support Pages, intended mainly for club members. Most of these pages are stored in XML format. John is a regular presenter at their monthly meetings.

A short format resume has been left here for reference. This does not currently include John's present position.

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Briefly John has exp ertise in the following areas:

• Computer Hardware
• Computer Network Design including:
• Copper and fibre network cabling
• Small Local Networks
• Wireless Networks (See here for a utility to generate pre-shared keys)
• Large Multiple Segment Networks
• Wide Area Networks
• Microsoft Windows Operating Systems including:
• Windows XP,
• Windows 2000,
• Windows NT,
• Windows ME,
• Windows 98
• Windows 95
• Application development
• Use of XML imported/exported to/from applications
• Application integration
• Use of XML as an integration tool between applications
• Web page development
• Use of HTML
• Use of Cascading Stylesheets
• Use of XML and XSLT to generate web pages (see this page for an example).
• Use of XML in data islands
• System security measures including:
• Access controls within systems and on system boundaries
• Operating System and network vulnerabilities
• TEMPEST, EMC and related issues

John Steele is a member of Shout99.com - the largest freelancer network in the UK.