About Ideas Into Reality

From being in the ever changing IT world all of his working life, Colin Price begin trading as Colin Price IT Solutions Ltd in March 2000.

Based in North Wales, working from IdeasIntoReality.co.uk, a diverse range of products and services provided by Colin Price IT Solutions Ltd have been utilised throughout Wales, the UK and the world - Click here for more.

Awards, Qualifications & Experience

Owner of Colin Price IT Solutions Ltd - Date of incorporation : March 2000
Co-owner / IT Director of Your Tourism Community Ltd - Date of incorporation : March 2010
Finalist for VisitWales National Tourism Awards for Wales 2013 (Technology in Tourism Award)
Winner of "Excellence in e-commerce" - Western Mail Business in Wales 2008 - Click for more
Lead programmer for Info4-u project that won Opportunity Wales E-commerce Award 2005
BSc (Hons) Degree in Computer Science
Higher National Diploma in Computer Studies
Major companies previously worked for : CERN (Geneva), Ericsson Mobile Communications (Basingstoke), Wood Mackenzie & Deutsche Bank (Edinburgh), University of the West of England (Bristol), Robertson Research International (Llandudno)

Key IT Skills

Project Managament

A seemingly under valued aspect by some but a key strength
Based on methodologies such as PRINCE / Scrum and software usage including Teamwork, GanttProject and phpGroupWare has led to me being a decisive Project Manager

Database Administration & Development

Extensive database design, development and management
MySQL (Open Source) V4 -> Current
PostgreSQL (Open Source) V4 -> Current
Oracle V6 -> V9 (SQL*Forms, SQL*Reports, PL/SQL, etc)
Sybase & Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 / 7.0 / 2000

Programming languages

FORTRAN, COBOL, Modula-2 (Pascal)
Visual Basic and VBA (relates to Windows Word, Excel, etc development)
C
C++, Java
Logic/functinoal programming : Prolog - Gofer
Server Administration : UNIX shell languages (awk, grep, sed) and Perl
Web based "Description" languages : SGML -> XML and HTML
Web based "Development" languages : PHP, Perl, Python, Java, Javascript, ASP

Server Administration

Linux / UNIX server administration and support such as (but not limited to) :
named / httpd (Apache) - sendmail / postfix - database management (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Web Technologies & Knowledge

Web based "Description" languages : SGML -> XML and HTML
Web based "Development" languages : PHP, Perl, Python, Java, Javascript, ASP
Hosting : Server Administration : UNIX shell languages (awk, grep, sed) and Perl
Hosting : Web Server : Apache & Microsoft IIS
Web based "Styling/Presentation" language : Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
W3C compliance & accessibility
Social Networking : Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn
Web statistical analysis : Eg, Google Analytics, WebSTAT & bespoke analysis

Concluding Comment (Or 'What does this mean?')

Simply, you could say that I have grown up with the WWW as from 1995 and my time at CERN, my work has focused on website design, development and support; bringing ideas into reality.

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