Company information - About phdcc

phdcc consultancy and e-media publishing tools and services

• Based in Cumbria, England UK, phdcc runs professional web sites and sells e-media publishing software.
• We have years of experience of supporting and running volume web sites, particularly DNN-based solutions.
• We sell e-media publishing tools and services for CD, DVD, USB-device and web developers.
• The company has a strong consultancy and custom programming background in software, hardware and system design for PCs and other hardware.
• phdcc's tools support a range of platforms using Windows and Java technology.
• Our skills cover ASP.NET, ASP, Java, JavaScript, Ajax, VBscript, C, C++, C#, MS SQL server, PHP, MySQL, Drupal, Google Maps, etc.

phdcc history and ethos

• phdcc was formed as a partnership of consultants in the late 1980s and was established as a limited company in 1994, bringing together expertise from the software, telecommunications and medical fields.
• We specialise in support and web application design for the open source system DotNetNuke (DNN).
• In addition to custom project services, phdcc has developed a range of e-media publishing products for CD/DVD authoring and web navigation.  Corporate clients have funded enhancements to these tools and typically find that phdcc solutions are more cost-effective than in-house development.  phdcc's close liaison with international clients has also ensured strong support for many Western and Asian languages.
• phdcc's products have a broad market appeal across all industry sectors, and have been used effectively by a wide range of utility, government, banking, advertising and new technology companies.
• phdcc is particularly proud of its quick response times for support requests, and have often produced new versions of software in a matter of hours.
• phdcc has an ethical preference to actively encourage those with social and environmental benefits by offering price discounts, and to avoid harmful organisations such as the military.

Clients

• phdcc clients for its software and services include:
  • Accenture, South Korea
  • Accufix SA, France
  • ANSYS, Inc., USA
  • Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd
  • BBC Technology, UK
  • British Academy of Management, UK
  • Capgemini Financial Services Hong Kong Limited
  • Central Manchester Healthcare NHS Trust, a UK hospital
  • Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer,France
  • Cisco Systems, USA
  • Continental Airlines, USA
  • Cybernet Systems Co.,Ltd., Japan
  • Daimler Chrysler, Germany
  • Ecological Society of America, USA
  • Education Queensland, Australia
  • Elsevier Inc, USA
  • Employment Security Department, State of Washington, USA
  • E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., USA
  • European Patent Office, Austria
  • European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
  • Hestia Managed Services Ltd, UK
  • Hewlett Packard, USA
  • Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicación Educativa, Mexico
  • Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
  • International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury, Switzerland
  • Interpol, France
  • Kongsberg AS, Norway
  • Lucent Technologies, USA
  • Merten Gibbon Associates Ltd, a UK advertising agency
  • Ministry of Transportation, Canada
  • Motorola, USA
  • Network Services Agency, a subsidiary of British Telecom, UK
  • Omega Engineering, Inc, USA
  • Organization of American States, USA
  • Oxfam, UK
  • Penrith Co-operative Society Ltd, UK
  • regs4ships Limited, UK
  • Saab Aerotech, Sweden
  • Schlumberger, UK
  • Software AG, Germany
  • STMicroelectronics S.A., France
  • Telectronics Pacing Systems, Australia, USA, France and UK
  • The Patent Office, UK
  • United Nations, Office of Legal Affairs, USA
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico
  • Universität Hamburg, Germany
  • Western Gas Resources, Inc., USA
  • World Bank, USA

Directors

phdcc directors Chris Cant and John Cant hail from Edinburgh, Scotland.

Chris Cant

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Chris studied Electronic Engineering at Cambridge University and has worked in the UK software industry since 1982.  He is currently expert in DNN programming, ASP.NET C#, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Google APIs and SQL Server, along with Java and PHP, with a strong background in Windows desktop applications. He provides sound project technical leadership and excellent product support and documentation skills.

Here what Chris has to say on his developer blog and on twitter, and connect with him on LinkedIn. Chris wrote the book Writing Windows WDM Device Drivers in 1999 - a best-seller for the publisher, translated into 3 languages.

• Chris' photos can be seen at flickr.
• Chris volunteers for conservation work with the RSPB, and writes a local nature blog.
• Chris helps moderate the Penrith and Eden District Freegle group and helps with Freegle-Tech nationally.
• Chris is Treasurer of Penrith Action for Community Transition (PACT) transition town.
• Chris runs the Bampton and District Local History Society web site.

John Cant

John studied theoretical physics at St. Andrews University and UCLA. John claims to have written the first mouse driver for Unix, has worked as a consultant for Telectronics Pacing Systems in Australia, Europe and the USA and was instrumental in implementing British Telecom's electronic mail and conferencing system for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

Contact us

• Contact us by email with any sales or support question at sales@phdcc.com
• Or fill in our contact form
• We will get back to you

Please put a product name in your email subject if appropriate.

• Ask about our web site and software development services
• Ask for a Temporary evaluation licence for dynamic-cd or findinsite
• If something's not right or could be improved, please tell us - many of the best ideas come from customer suggestions
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If something's not right or could be improved, let us know. Many of the best ideas come from customer suggestions.