Martin Taylor B.Sc. (Eng), FIDM, MBCS, MCIM, PGCE
MTC is Martin Taylor Consultancy. I set up the IT consultancy after I left Xerox Engineering Systems in May 2002. This continued until November 2002, when I started a new career in education. I continue to service existing customers but the consultancy has, for the time being, become dormant. I am now Director of IT for Heathfield St Mary's School in Ascot.
History
After gaining a B.Sc. (Eng) in Electronic Engineering, I started my working life as a service engineer for Kode Services, repairing equipment on-site to component level. I was fully trained to service a wide variety of machines from card punches and Teletype terminals, through the early S100 bus computers, to Research Machines and BBC Micro school computers, Pertec mini systems and IBM PCs and their clones. I eventually became a national support engineer, providing second-level support and troubleshooting to engineers in the field.
I worked on early ethernet key-to-disk systems such as the Pertec XL40, Research Machines 380Z and 480Z school networks, and popular early commercial networks such as OS/2 LAN Manager, Novell NetWare, LANtastic and Windows for Workgroups.
I have since been a technical manager for computer peripheral products and then various flavours of product manager, marketing manager, marketing director and sales operations director.
From 2001 I was Director of IT for Xerox Engineering Systems, overseeing the infrastructure, Oracle and bespoke applications systems supporting all European business.
Pursuing my personal interests, I have constructed at one time or another all the components of a hi-fi system including amplifiers, tuners, a cassette deck, speakers and a turntable. During my student years I built a Z-80 based microcomputer and wrote a disassembler for my thesis.
I am a Fellow of the Institute of Direct Marketing (FIDM), a Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (MCIM). I recently gained a PGCE at the University of Greenwich while teaching at Heathfield St Mary's.
I married Aidi in 1990 while working with her at NEC. We had a son, Simon, in1992 but she developed cancer soon afterwards and died in 1999. During this dark time I held down my job, travelled constantly and looked after my son as best I could, until XES made me redundant and forced a career change - see above.
I now live in Hampshire with Simon.
