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Nationality:                            Australian (British passport)

Technical Skills 

·        Programming Technologies

o       Microsoft .NET (Visual Studio.NET, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Windows Forms, .NET CF, XML web services)

4 years

o       T-SQL (MS SQL Server)

6 years

o       PL-SQL (Oracle)

2 years

o       HTML / CSS / JavaScript

6 years

o       XML / XSD / XSL-T / XML Web Services

4 years

o       Visual Basic 6

6 years

o       ASP / VBScript

6 years

o       Crystal Reports, Active Reports

6 years

o       Visual C++

1 year

o       PHP, Java, C, Perl, shell scripting

2 years

·        Development Methodologies and Tools
Extensive experience with:

o       object oriented architectures and life cycle,

o       n-tier design models, particularly the Model-View-Controller pattern,

o       Microsoft Enterprise Library, design patterns, ORM toolkits,

o       team development methodologies extreme and agile programming,

o       requirements gathering, formal requirements and functional specifications,

o       data and process driven methods, structured systems design and life cycle,

o       producing technical and user documentation including UML. 

·        Server Applications

o       Oracle / SQL Server

o       IIS 4 / 5 / 6

o       Microsoft Portal Server / Windows SharePoint Services

o       Visual SourceSafe

o       Microsoft Team Foundation Server

o       Exchange Server

o       Citrix MetaFrame 

·        Operating Systems

o       Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003

o       Linux / FreeBSD 

·        Other technologies

o       TCP / IP, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP, SSH, BGP

o       Microsoft Office, Visio, Project

Employment History 

Aug 2004 to May 2006         [snip] Australia

                                               Analyst/Developer (Contract, 4 renewals)

  • Provided mentoring and guidance to colleagues on application development and design issues using Microsoft.NET
  • Approximately three months in a formal business analyst role, producing requirements and functional specifications
  • Developed extensive application framework containing components for common data access strategy, security and user management, configuration management, reporting and common user interface functions (C#, VB.NET, ADO.NET, Oracle, SQL Server, Enterprise Library)
  • Designed and developed radio frequency assignment software containing complex mathematical algorithms for geodetic calculations (C#, VB.NET, ADO.NET, Oracle, Crystal Reports)
  • Designed and developed workshop voting tool for PocketPCs (VB.NET, .NET CF, Windows Forms, XML web services). The client has recovered the cost of software development within the first two workshops.
  • Other projects included a custom workflow solution (VB.NET, ASP.NET, Oracle 10g), an issues management system (VB.NET, Windows Forms, SQL Server, Outlook and Windows Explorer integration)
  • Microsoft Portal Server and Windows SharePoint deployment and administration
  • Citrix MetaFrame deployment, management and support services

May 2004 to Aug 2004         [snip] / AusAID

                                               Senior Software Developer (Contract, complete)

  • Senior developer on development team of about 20
  • Complex development tasks (C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server)
  • Provided mentoring and advice to colleagues

Nov 2001 to May 2004         [snip]

                                               Software Developer / Architect (permanent)

  • Designed and developed accreditation and finance management application using distributed rich client architecture (C#, Windows Forms, XML web services, ADO.NET, SQL Server, Crystal Reports, Enterprise Library)
  • Security and performance enhancements to enterprise grant application management system (C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server)
  • Designed and developed scheduling and personnel management application (VB6, SQL Server and ActiveReports).
  • Enhancement of web content management system (developed at WebOne Internet)  (ASP, VB6 and XML / XSL-T)
  • Enhancement of radio dispatch and work management system (VB6, SQL Server, MYOB integration, serial communication with radio equipment)
  • Provided mentoring to colleagues on analysis, design, development.

Feb 2001 to Nov 2001           [snip]

                                               Web Application Developer (permanent)

  • Developed comprehensive website content management system  (ASP, VB6, XML / XSL-T and ActiveX)
  • Developed several smaller web application projects including a survey system and searchable product database (VB6, ActiveX, ASP, Access)
  • Migrated customer accounts and services from ActWEB.NET
  • Provided technical and customer support.

Feb 2000 to Feb 2001            [snip]

                                               Technical Manager / Administrator (permanent)

  • Managed monitoring and reporting services and network assets
  • Frequently liaised with service providers
  • Performed network administration (FreeBSD, Linux, Windows NT, WWW, SMTP/POP, BGP, DNS)
  • Maintained and enhanced web based customer account management system (PHP, MySQL)
  • Provided high level technical and customer support

Oct 1999 - Dec 1999            [snip]

                                               Visual Basic Development (project)

  • Designed and developed office costs management application (VB6, Access, Excel)

Education 

·                    Bachelor of Information Technology

University of Canberra

Distinction average
Graduated December 2003
 

·                    Completed Readify  Industrial Strength .NET course in October 2005.
 

·                    Completed comprehensive .NET video training course by AppDev  in February 2003 covering .NET architecture, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, security and other topics 

References will be provided upon request

 
 
 
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