About Us
Duncan Moody is both an Information Technology professional and a photographer. This site presents a portfolio of both of these disciplines, and also demonstrates how modern technology allows these diverse interests to overlap.
IT Consulting
Duncan was born and educated in South Africa and lived there until 1994. Since then he has made his home in North Carolina . He has spent the past ten years as a consultant/contractor, and prior to that he held management and technical positions.
He has extensive experience in ERP systems. This includes work with a variety of clients on GEAC System 21 (formerly JBA), consumer products on JD Edwards World, auto components on MAPICS, and apparel on Apparel Business Systems ABS. He has also worked with 3rd party modules such as Capital Projects (GBA PAMS), Fixed Assets (GBA FAMS), and interfaces to Manhattan Associates PkMs.
His technical skills were acquired mostly on the IBM AS/400 and iSeries platforms. This includes RPG IV and ILE, SQL, DB2 UDB for iSeries, Query for iSeries, DBU, Turnover, Implementer and Showcase.
He has a strong project management record with many successful implementations. His investigative nature and determination make him particularly successful at Root Cause Analysis and Data Cleansing.
Photography
Duncan enjoyed drawing and painting from an early age. But without any real training he became frustrated with the work he produced, never able to put on paper or canvas what he visualized. He started taking photographs in high school and continued through college. These were just snapshots of family and friends with never a thought of photography as a creative outlet. Then in his first year out of college while working in Johannesburg, South Africa, he saw an newspaper leading him to a demonstration on black & white darkroom work. The world of darkroom magic was revealed and he was hooked! Here was the creative outlet he had been searching for.
Soon afterwards he joined the Camera Club of Johannesburg. Under the wonderful mentoring of some of the more experienced members his interest and skills in b&w photography blossomed. After relocating to East London, South Africa he joined the East London Photographic Society and started working in the medium of color slides. He also developed a special interest in telling stories with a set of pictures, both in print and as slide shows set to music. Some of these have been re-engineered as digital videos.
He learned a great deal about photography and design over many years of reading books, magazines and articles, photographic club lectures and workshops, art classes, and events like PSSA Conventions and Great American Photography Workshops. In turn, he has written numerous papers, articles and columns on photography and other technical subjects.
He is grateful to his mentors from the early days, the many friends met along the way, and the mentoree’s he’s been able to guide in the right direction. But photography is a rapidly changing field, and so the reading, talking, listening, experimenting and practicing continues.
Web Design
Creating this web site was a very satisfying project, allowing the rare opportunity to combine skills from photography, visual design, writing and program analysis, design and development.
