Brian's Achievements
    
    
        - Speaker at nearly forty international developer conferences
 
        - Announced as Best Speaker at Borland's 
            BorCon 2002 conference in Anaheim, California 
 
        - Presenter of regular talks and seminars for The Developers Group, 1995 - present 
 
        - Nominated for the Spirit of Delphi 2000 award 
 
        - Borland Advanced Delphi 6 Product Certified
 
        - Borland Delphi 6 Product Certified
 
        - Borland C++Builder 5 Product Certified
 
        - Borland Certified Borland Delphi 4 Client/Server Consultant
 
        - Borland Certified Borland Delphi 2 Client/Server Developer
 
        - BrainBench
            Delphi 6.0 Master level, December 13th, 2002 
 
        - BrainBench
            Delphi 5.0 Master level, December 7th, 2000 
 
        - BrainBench
            Delphi 3.0 Master level, December 13th, 2002 
 
        - BrainBench
            .NET Framework, December 13th, 2002 
 
        - BrainBench
            C# Programmer Master level, April 24th, 2002 
 
        - BrainBench
            C Programmer, January 5th, 2000 
 
        - BrainBench
            HTML 4.0 Programmer, February 12th, 2000 
 
        - BrainBench
            Programmer/Analyst Aptitude Master level, January 12th, 2000 
 
        - BrainBench
            General Linux Administration, January 29th, 2000 
 
        - BrainBench
            Red hat Linux Administration, December 16th, 2000 
 
        - BrainBench
            SuSE Linux Administration, December 23rd, 2000 
 
        - BrainBench
            Linux Programmer, January 29th, 2000 
 
        - BrainBench
            MS Windows 95 Administration, January 12th, 2000 
 
        - BrainBench
            MS Windows 95 Navigation Master level, January 11th, 2000 
 
        - BrainBench
            MS Windows 98 Administration, January 13th, 2000 
 
        - BrainBench
            MS Windows 98 Navigation Master level, January 11th, 2000 
 
        - BrainBench
            Brainbench 'Most Valuable Professional' for Win98 
 
        - Borland Connections Partner 
 
        - Contributor of a chapter on .NET Interoperabilty to Mastering Borland Delphi 2005 by Marco Cantù, published
            by Sybex, 2005
 
        - Technical reviewer of Mastering Borland Delphi 2005 by Marco Cantù , 2005.
        
 
        - Contributor of a chapter on .NET Interoperabilty to Delphi for .NET Developers
            Guide by Xavier Pacheco, published by Sams, 2004 
 
        - Co-ordinator of meetings of The
            Developers Group (DG), from January 2005 onwards
 
        - Co-ordinator of meetings of The
            .NET Developer Group (DDG), from April 2003-January 2004 
 
        - Technical reviewer of Mastering Delphi 7 by Marco Cantù , 2003, winner of Delphi Informant's 2003 Reader's Choice Award in the
            Best Book category. 
 
        - 15 part Kylix tutorial series published in Linux Format between 2001 and 2002 
 
        - Co-ordinator of meetings of The Borland C++ Builder Developer Group, an historic
            division of The UK Borland User Group,
            from March-October 1997 
 
        - Co-author of 
            The Revolutionary Guide to Delphi 2, 736 pages, published by Wrox Press,
            1996 
 
        - Editor of the problem-solving column The Delphi Clinic in The Delphi Magazine from 1995 to 2006 
 
        - Author of dozens of articles and other contributions published in The Delphi Magazine, between 1995 and 2006
 
        - Author of The Borland
            Pascal Problem Solver , 464 pages, published by Addison-Wesley, 1994
 
        - Initiating and authoring comprehensive, on-line hypertext product information and
            support help system for Borland product lines, 1994
 
        - Presenter of part of a country-wide seminar series on object oriented programming,
            1993
 
        - Moderator and chief contributor of the Borland forum on the CIX European electronic
            conferencing system, 1992-1995
 
        - Planning and implementation of in-house language product training program at Borland
            UK, 1992 
 
    
    
    
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