Reception for Trevor Toms
You have been invited to Trevor Toms leaving reception as Trevor slowly takes steps towards retirement.
If you could please RSVP below, that would be much appreciated.
Thank You
If you could please RSVP below, that would be much appreciated.
Thank You
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Time & Place
The reception is from 5pm to 8pm on Thursday 27th March at Charlotte Street Hotel 15 - 17 Charlotte Street, London W1T 1RJ. Nearest tubes Tottenham Court Road or Goodge Street |
Trevor began his IT career in 1970, at a time when mainframes filled air-conditioned rooms, using paper tape, punched cards, mag tape and huge 240Mb disk drives. In 1977 he joined Jon Bareford and two others to form a team that created a full multi-user hotel system running on Intel 8080 systems, built into filing cabinets in Jon’s garage.
The 1980s saw him providing development tools for popular home computers – Sinclair, Amstrad and Commodore – to enable game authors the ability to create games without low-level programming knowledge.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he switched into developing a Just-In-Time manufacturing system which was one of the first of its kind for many well-known brands.
And then the Radio Industry beckoned in 1993, when he developed RBP, the first Windows-based planning system for airtime buyers. This was adopted by Telmarhelixa and is still in use today (although with a slightly different look).
GES was formed in 1997, with three months to achieve the first release of PlanIt, followed by installation at three major sales points (Emap, now Bauer; Capital and GWR, now Global) within 1998. PlanIt was followed by PlanItTraffic in 2003, and UTV (now News) came on board in 2005.
As an industry, Radio has never stood still – it is constantly changing, and has ensured that the products are always in need of adapting those requirements.
Outside work, he has been member of a comedy group, a barn dance band and jug band, along with friends from schooldays.
Trevor was the designer of the ubiquitous RICT file and XML file formats used throughout the Radio Industry for brokering campaigns and transmission times. He also created the first Radio airtime scheduling system which ensured that customer audience guarantees were integral to the scheduling process. He retires to spend time with his wife, Liz, and grandchildren, George and Emilia.
The 1980s saw him providing development tools for popular home computers – Sinclair, Amstrad and Commodore – to enable game authors the ability to create games without low-level programming knowledge.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he switched into developing a Just-In-Time manufacturing system which was one of the first of its kind for many well-known brands.
And then the Radio Industry beckoned in 1993, when he developed RBP, the first Windows-based planning system for airtime buyers. This was adopted by Telmarhelixa and is still in use today (although with a slightly different look).
GES was formed in 1997, with three months to achieve the first release of PlanIt, followed by installation at three major sales points (Emap, now Bauer; Capital and GWR, now Global) within 1998. PlanIt was followed by PlanItTraffic in 2003, and UTV (now News) came on board in 2005.
As an industry, Radio has never stood still – it is constantly changing, and has ensured that the products are always in need of adapting those requirements.
Outside work, he has been member of a comedy group, a barn dance band and jug band, along with friends from schooldays.
Trevor was the designer of the ubiquitous RICT file and XML file formats used throughout the Radio Industry for brokering campaigns and transmission times. He also created the first Radio airtime scheduling system which ensured that customer audience guarantees were integral to the scheduling process. He retires to spend time with his wife, Liz, and grandchildren, George and Emilia.
R.S.V.P.
