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CURRICULUM VITAE 

TECHNICAL SKILLS 

Programming Languages:  .Net (C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net) 2yrs, VB6/5 8yrs, SQL Server (T-SQL) 8yrs, VC++ 1yr, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Fortran77. 

Operating Systems:  Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003, Microsoft Windows NT Server/Workstation, Microsoft Windows 3.x and 95/98.  

Other:  IIS, BizTalk 2002/2004, Web Services, Sound knowledge of Database theory, Networking and Hardware support. 8 years of experience in telecoms Billing and switch provisioning as well as MSc. 

Contract History 

- [snip], Hook (March 2002 – March 2004) 

-          Harmony Project 

I have been responsible for the design and coding of the Telecoms Switch connection of the Harmony Project. This takes all the telephony provisioning requests and passing them to the correct switch via a telnet interface. The messages are passed into the component via XML and passed back as a reply XML message. Message are queued using BizTalk (2002 now upgrading to 2004). The original code was VB6 and I have since upgraded to C#. The component comprises of a Web Service and a C# dll. I have also assisted on many other parts of the project with my telecoms experience. 

- [snip], Basingstoke (Jan 2000 – Dec 2001) 

-          Enet Project 

I was responsible for the rewrite of the Enet extranet, which allowed [snip] resellers to log onto the web page and provision there new customers. The system had an interface to the telecoms switch as well as to the billing system. Telnet was used to communicate with the switch and any errors passed back to the customer. Also wrote the LCR upload system which calculated Least Cost Routing information and passed it to the switch. 

- [snip] (Aug 1999 – Dec 2000) 

-          Billing Consultant 

Consulted on a number of areas of Billing and fraud management. Involved in coding a new bespoke billing system and the migration of the data. Also debugged a number of small billing systems the company was using at the time.  

Employment History  

- [snip] (March 1998 – Aug 1999) 

-          European Head of MIS 

Duties coved IT infrastructure across Europe and Billing. I was responsible for commissioning and implementation of a billing system (EHPT), setting up a WAN between all of the offices and the IT technology used in each office. All local IT managers reported to me. 

-[snip] (Aug 1997 – March 1998) 

-          IT, [snip] 

I was responsible for IT in the pre-paid card division, [snip]. This included management of Desk top machines and design of new customer services database. 

- [snip], Fort Halstead (Aug 1993 – Aug 1996) 

-          Composite Materials Department 

Involved in a wide variety of composite material testing and firing trials. Carried out all my own instrumentation and testing as well as reporting on findings. Carried out the first ever conductivity tests on Metal Matrix Composites materials, both steady state and transient (0 – destruction in 5 milliseconds). Comisioned and managed firing trials involving a number of military and outside contractors 

Freelance Projects 

These are small projects I have carried out for a number of companies, mostly web design.

Been designer and webmaster for interim connect for 4 years now. ASP.Net, C# and SQL database used. The owner of the site can update the text using an admin page as all text is stored in the Database. 

ASP.Net, C# and JavaScript. The shop added by the company who runs the online shop.

[snip]

Not yet launched but can be viewed by special request. This site is for the [snip], USA. It is for the Asthma patients to log on, play games, chat to their doctors and talk in an open forum. There are a range of security features built in and an object model behind the site that took nearly as long as the site has to develop. This as resulted in a very easy to use, easy to customise site that BMC will sell on. 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 

- Surrey University (September 1996 – Aug 1997) 

MSc Mobile and Satellite communications.   

- John Moores University, Liverpool (September 1989 – July 1993) 

BSc Applied Physics.

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