Information about the founder and the company...
Linn Barringer incorporated his company with the imaginative name of Linn Barringer Limited in 1997. Previously he had been employed at the European Headquarters of Ford Motor Company, from 1968 to 1996.
From the mid 1980s, he worked as part of a team responsible for Planning and Implementing Electronic Mail and Email Gateways, including...
Strategic Planning
Project Management
IT Architecture Planning
Product Review and Selection
Email Gateways to External Services
Project Planning for Email Implementation
Inter-connection of Disparate Email Systems
Launch of website and Department WWW Pages
Training & Documentation in collaboration with BW Associates
Specific Responsibilities and Achievements
- Represented Ford of Europe for six years, developing Ford's continually evolving Global Email Strategy
- Planned, implemented and supported a Wang Office network for over 23,000 people in 19 countries on 3 continents
- Planned and supported a Lotus cc:Mail network for 6,000 people across Europe
- Planned and supported MacSoft Lightspeed Mail Gateways between Wang Office and cc:Mail
- Managed the development of, and supported a Wang Office Gateway to IBM OfficeVision (PROFS)
- Managed the development of, and supported a Fax and Telex Gateway from Wang Office, written by Inforalgo Systems Limited, connecting to service providers Wiltek (UK) Ltd of Swindon
- Planned, managed the implementation of, and supported a Wang X.400 Gateway from Wang Office
- Planned and managed the migration of 20,000+ people from Wang Office to IBM OfficeVision (18,000+ migrated in 18 months)
- Launched a departmental Web Server with Help Desk and information pages - the first supported production intranet website in Ford's European operations
- In association with BW Associates, developed the training and documentation for the Wang Office to IBM OfficeVision migration
- Continued the planning and evaluation of the next generation of global corporate email
- Launched personal Web Pages on the public Internet, including the Woodbridge Pages, successfully aiding tourism, with its History, Tour Guide, Accommodation, and other local information
- Launched Linn Barringer Limited to promote the use of Electronic Mail, the World Wide Web and connection to the Internet for business benefit and to provide associated Consultancy Services
- 1995 - Launched debenweb to provide a Woodbridge information resource, later re-named as WoodbridgeSuffolk.info.