ICI

Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company. I worked for ICI Chemicals and Polymers at the Billingham site as part of my third year work experience during my degree.


  • Computer Applications Engineer
  • Chemical
  • N/A
  • September 1991 to August 1992
  • VMS DEC Design
  • VAX Fortran

My principal role was as a member of the software production team designing and implementing a Laboratory Information System (The purpose being the storage of experimental methodologies and results to allow future reference/interpretation). The project that I worked on was to enhance the features offered by the methods database. This involved:

  • Producing a detailed and unambiguous requirements specification from meetings with the client.
  • Producing a detailed design using the Yourdon methodology and DECDesign Case tool running under VMS on a VAX network.
  • Implementing the new features using VAX FORTRAN and the VAXSET development tools