PERSONAL DETAILS
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Nationality: |
British |
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Status: |
Married with two children |
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Miscellaneous: |
Car owner, Clean driving licence,
Non smoker |
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Primary skills:
Alphabetical order |
.NET Web Developer
.NET Web Application Developer
.Net 2
Ajax,
ASP.NET,
C#,
CSS,
Javascript
Nunit
NunitAsp
Photoshop,
SourceSafe,
SQL
Server,
VB.NET,
Visual Studio 2005,
W3C
WAI,
Web
services,
XHTML,
XML,
XSL
XSLT |
CAREER HISTORY
November 2007
–
[snip], Peterborough
Worked as a .NET
developer working on a payment card project. Responsible for the
design and development of the Extranet website User Interface. I
used ASP.NET Themes, Skins and CSS to provide multi-branding and
AJAX to provide an improved user experience. The site was
implemented in VB.NET and SQL Server.
Skills used: .NET 2, AJAX, ASP.NET, CSS,
DDA, DHTML, HTML, IIS, Javascript, MS SQL Server 2005, Nunit,
NUnitAsp, Photoshop, VB.NET, Visual SourceSafe, Tableless
design, Visual Studio 2005, XHTML, XML, XSLT
September 2007 – October
2007 [snip] Colworth, Sharnbrook
Worked on a complex C#,
ASP.NET project for the Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre
(SEAC). Bug fixing and documenting before major release.
Skills used: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET 2, C#,
CSS, DHTML, HTML, IIS, Javascript, Nunit, ORACLE, TestDriven.NET,
Visual SoureSafe 2005, Visual Studio 2005, W3C WAI, XML, XHTML
August 2006 – August 2007 (1
year) [snip] Peterborough
Worked in the Internet team as the lead
senior .NET web developer.
Designed and developed multi-branded
(themed) car insurance pages on [snip]. The pages use .NET
AJAX to query the IBM iSeries Quote Engine using web
services.
Developed 'screen-scraping' .NET
httphandler to allow Budget to implement .NET solutions but
still use part of their 'legacy' Apache systems.
Designed and developed the .NET
architecture for an ASP.NET/VB.NET Online Servicing web
application to allow Budget customers to login and review
their policy details, add new vehicles, add new drivers
etc.
Designed and developed a VB.NET Winforms
application to test new web services deployed by Budget to
be used by Car Insurance Quotation Aggregators such as
confused.com etc. The program made asynchronous calls to the
web services to simulate peak demands etc.
Designed and developed a Motor Insurance
Quotation site to be used in Post Offices. The system was
developed in a very short timescale using Visual Studio 2005
(i.e. .NET 2.0) and Web Services to provide access to the
RPG/iSeries quotation engine.
Developed ASP.NET AJAX web controls to
allow rapid development of different brands of the Budget
Insurance website to allow complete flexibility on
ordering/inclusion of questions to be asked during the
quotation process etc.
Developed AJAX controls to improve the
responsiveness of various parts of the site.
Used VB.NET and C# to develop Custom
Controls to hide the business logic from junior developers
and designers who will be using the controls to build sites
for the Budget Insurance affiliates and brands.
Used VB.NET and C# to develop a Quote
business object to hide the web service layer from all the
Custom Controls and junior developers etc.
Skills used: AJAX, ASP.NET, .NET 2,
ATLAS, C#, CSS, DHTML, HTML, IIS, Javascript, TortoiseSVN/Subversion,
VB.NET, Visual Studio 2005, W3C WAI, Web Services, XML, XHTML
June 2006 – July 2006 (1
month) [snip] Milton Keynes
I worked in the Learning and Teaching
Solutions Media department of the Faculty of Education and
Language Studies creating a German language teaching course
for distribution on DVD and online.
The course was rendered in XHTML using
complex XSL/XSLT from a source XML document originally
created in Word by the department editors.
Skills used: Cocoon, CSS, DHTML, HTML,
Internet, Intranet, Javascript, W3C WAI, XHTML, XML, XSL, XSLT
May 2005 – April 2006 (12
months) [snip]
Milton Keynes
[snip] is an
IT consultancy company owned by Santander, the owners of
Abbey.
'Hands-on' senior .NET
web developer working on multi-branding issues for some of the
James Hay financial Intranet and Internet websites developed in
a previous contract with Abbey. Further development of a
multi-tier ASP.NET pensions illustration system including work
to comply with pension simplification legislation working from
business and technical requirements documents. I was responsible
for the following:
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Designing developing and
maintaining the wizard-based application form/process.
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Designing, developing and
maintaining a set of multi-branded, C#, DDA compliant .NET web
controls used by 3 large-scale web development projects.
·
Ensuring websites met Abbey DDA
requirements
·
Ensuring cross browser issues
resolved.
Enhanced a .NET
Framework which had been written in a mix of VB.NET and C# to
provide a common application framework to the development team.
Also a set of 'middle tier' business objects were developed in
C# to represent a Pension Illustration hiding the data access
layer from front-end developers.
Skills used: ASP.NET, C#, CSS, DHTML,
HTML, IIS, Internet, Intranet, Javascript, Photoshop, VB.NET
Visual Studio .Net, Visual SourceSafe, W3C WAI, XHTML, XML, XSL
October 2004 – March 2005 (6
months) [snip],
Milton Keynes
Worked as a 'hands-on'
lead web developer on a fraud prevention enhancement to an
existing [snip] extranet for fuel payment cards. The system was
implemented using a wizard-based interface. I was responsible
for the following:
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Requirements gathering at
meetings with business customer.
·
Writing technical
specification.
·
Meeting/Liaising with graphics
designer to produce page designs in accordance with BP
standards.
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Implementing designs delivered
by graphics designer.
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Designing/writing ASP code.
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Designing/creating database.
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Writing stored procedures.
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Designing unit test plans and
unit testing.
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Managing test cycles (includes
ownership of simple bug reporting/tracking procedure)
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Responsible for negotiating
priority of bug fixes with the business customer.
Skills used: Ajax, ASP, CSS, DHTML,
Extranet, HTML, IIS, JavaScript, MS SQL Server, Photoshop,
Visual Interdev, VB, XHTML, XML, XSL, XSLT
June 2002 – September 2004 (28
months) [snip] Milton Keynes
Worked as a 'hands-on' senior .NET lead
developer for James Hay Solutions, part of the Wealth
Management division of [snip] in the web development team
designing and developing ASP.NET/VB.NET/C# Internet B2B and
B2C applications. I was responsible for the following:
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Meetings with business
customers to discuss initial requirements.
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Presentation of prototypes and
high-level discussion of project with the business customers.
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System architecture design,
analysis, writing specifications and design documentation.
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Produced technical specs from
business requirements
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Prototyped designs for
inclusion in business requirements and assisted the business in
producing their requirements.
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Designing, developing and
supporting interactive web applications front ending relational
databases and legacy applications. Worked on a variety of web
application projects involving wealth management products and
administration systems.
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Designing/writing ASP and
ASP.NET code.
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Convert/Rewrite a Pensions
Illustration system from ASP to ASP.NET producing pension
illustration reports (PDF) using Crystal Reports.
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Responsible for building and
supporting development/demonstration servers. Managed release of
code and rollout of changes to Test and Production servers.
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Worked as part of a team.
Involved in full s/w development life cycle including analysis,
accessibility, design, configuration, testing, rollout and
support. Web server configuration (server certificates etc).
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Writing & execution of unit
testing scripts with the development team.
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Contact point for system test
team.
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Preparation of system for
successfully concluded Qinetiq penetration test.
Skills used: ADO, ASP, ASP.NET, C#,
Crystal Reports, CSS, DHTML, Dreamweaver, E-commerce, Extranet,
Fireworks, HTML, IIS, Internet, Intranet, Javascript, Photoshop,
SQL, SSL, TestDirector, VB, VB.NET Visual Interdev, Visual
Studio .Net, Visual SourceSafe, W3C WAI, XHTML, XML, XSL, XSLT
May 2002 (1
month)
[snip] London
Worked with the development team on final
stages of an Intranet based Invoice Authorisation Tool as a
senior analyst/developer optimising performance, advising
team on how to improve performance, testing, fixing problems
etc.
Skills used: ADO, ASP, COM/COM+, HTML,
IIS, Javascript, SQL, SQL Server 2000, T-SQL, VBScript, Visual
Basic, Visual Interdev
January 2002 - April 2002 (4 months)
[snip] Huntingdon, Cambs
Worked as a 'hands-on' senior
analyst/developer designing and developing a new Internet
portal for Small and Medium sized Enterprises. Also designed
and developed the company Intranet.
Skills used: ASP, Apache, Chilisoft ASP,
DHTML, Dreamweaver, HTML, IIS, Javascript, MySQL, Photoshop,
SQL, SQL Server 2000, T-SQL, VBScript, Visual Basic
July 2001 - December 2001 (6
months) [snip] Milton Keynes,
Bucks
Worked as a senior/lead developer/analyst
in the e-Business development team on a number of Internet
and Intranet projects including:
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Rebranding/redevelopment of
[snip], BP's aviation fuels website.
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Rebranding/redevelopment of
[snip]. A multilingual (7 languages) website with content
management supporting BP's European fuel cards for fleet
managers.
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Development of a web interface
to [snip] remote stock management controlling fuel deliveries.
I was responsible for:
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Writing technical
specifications.
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Providing project
estimates/quotations.
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Designing/implementing the
database and back-end processes.
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Implementing the front-end
design provided by a graphic designer on the team.
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Monitoring the progress of the
project
·
Testing/Rollout
Skills used: ADO, ASP, COM/COM+,
Javascript, SQL, SQL Server 7, T-SQL, VBScript, HTML, DHTML,
Visual Interdev, SourceSafe, Visual Basic, Photoshop
January 2001 - June 2001 (6
months) [snip], Birmingham
Designed and developed a
B2B Internet site for requesting quotations and buying steel.
Skills used: Access, ADO, ASP, DreamWeaver,
Javascript, SQL, SQL Server, T-SQL, VBScript, HTML, DHTML,
Photoshop, SourceSafe, Visual Interdev
June 2000 - December 2000 (7
months) [snip] Milton Keynes,
Bucks
Worked as technical lead
in the e-Business development team designing and developing
Intranet and Internet solutions. Includes integrating XML news
feeds. Projects included
Liquid Petroleum Gas
(LPG) Intranet, and the [snip] website.
Skills used: ASP, ADO, DreamWeaver,
Javascript, SQL, SQL Server, T-SQL, Frontpage 2000, VB6,
VBScript, XML, HTML, Photoshop, Visual Interdev
February 2000 - May 2000 (4
months) [snip] Sawston, Cambs
I was responsible for
enhancing the existing corporate website and designing and
developing two new websites for [snip] to support their
Multimedia CDROM products for veterinarians in clinical
practice.
Skills used: Frontpage, DHTML. HTML, Java,
Javascript, CGI, CSS, Perl, e-Commerce, XML
November 1999 – January 2000 (3
months) [snip] Luton, Beds
I worked in the
Consultants group designing, developing and implementing several
Web Technology prototypes for the company.
Skills used: ASP, SQL, HTML, XML, CGI, CSS,
Perl, Javascript, Visual BASIC 5/6, VBA, ActiveX, Access,
SourceSafe, T-SQL, Windows API, Workflow
May 1998 – October 1999 (18
months) [snip] Peterborough, Cambs.
I worked on a number of projects within the
IT Development Team. Including a Remote Ordering Project,
various Feasablitiy Studies and ATLAS an Interfaces Project. I
was team leader of a team of 5 developers designing and
developing Interfaces to legacy systems for a new order
processing system.
Skills used: Access, ActiveX, Com, Crystal
Reports, HTML, Java (applets, servlets), Javascript, JDBC (jConnect),
Microsoft SourceSafe, NT4, ODBC, SourceSafe, SQL, Stored
Procedures, Sybase SQL Server, Sybase, TCP/IP, T-SQL, Visual
BASIC 3/4/5, Windows API
February 1998 – December 1999 (part
time) [snip] London
I designed and maintained an Internet Web
sites for the [snip]
Skills used: Frontpage, HTML, Access,
Excel, Javascript
December 1995 - Present (part time) [snip]
Geneva, Switzerland
I have designed and maintain three Internet
Web sites for the [snip]
Skills used: Frontpage, HTML, Access,
Excel, Javascript
February 1998 - April 1998 (4
months) [snip] Stevenage, Herts
I worked in the UK R&D
Research IS, Automation Group. It was a very busy department of
4 developers providing laboratory automation solutions to the
[snip] research scientists. I was responsible for designing,
developing, testing and maintaining software to manage the LIMS
scheduled workflow of an Automatic Sample Dispensing robot.
Skills used: Visual BASIC 4/5, SourceSafe,
ORACLE, NT4, Crystal Reports
October 1997 - January 1998 (4
months) [snip] Cambs.
I worked as a senior developer in the
software department. I was assigned the task of taking over the
design and implementation of a PC based GUI front end to data
loggers manufactured by Grant Instruments Ltd for an industrial
painting oven application.
Skills used: Visual BASIC 3/4, PCVS Source
Control, Access , Wise Installation System
July 1997 - September 1997 (3
months) [snip] Peterborough, Cambs.
I worked as a
developer in the Financial Information Systems Department
upgrading the Travellers Cheques Refund System I worked on in
1994 in a team of 10. The upgrade allowed the system to handle
VISA travellers cheques in addition to [snip] traveller
cheques.
Skills used: Visual BASIC 3/4, SQA defect
tracking software, Sybase SQL Server 11, SQL, T-SQL, SourceSafe
January 1997 - June 1997 (6
months) [snip] Northants.
I worked in the
Research & Development department specifying and developing a
real-time tracking system to be developed from an existing
prototype (see January 1996 - March 1996).
Skills used: Visual BASIC 4, Access,
Frontpage, Microsoft J++, Aztec C68 (68302 Microprocessor),
SourceSafe
April 1996 - December 1996 (9
months) [snip], Peterborough, Cambs.
Working in the
Three Layer Architecture Development Team implementing a
proprietary three layer architecture for use by all future IT
projects within [snip]. Specifically providing Middleware API’s
for desktop application developers for services such as Credit
Card Authorisation, Electronic Funds Transfer, User
Authorisation etc.
Skills used: Visual BASIC 3/4, SourceSafe,
Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, NT, Frontpage, Access, SQL ,
ODBC, HTML, TCP/IP
January 1996 - March 1996 (3 months)
[snip] Northampton, Northants.
I designed and
implemented a series of Visual Basic applications and to present
real-time tracking/mapping information based on data derived
from the Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system.
Skills used: Visual BASIC 4, Access
March 1994 - December 1995 (22
months) [snip] Peterborough, Cambs.
Worked in the
Financial Information Systems Department as leader of a team of
programmers implementing a complex Client/Server Refunds
Management System for Travellers Cheques.
Skills used: Visual BASIC 3 for Windows,
ODBC, SQL, PVCS for Visual Basic (Version control), Sheridan
Data Widgets, Windows API, Word for Windows, Access, Excel,
Microsoft Mail, FaxNow API, E-Mail API
February
1990 - March 1994
Various
Contract developer working primarily with PCs
and embedded microprocessor based systems, designing and
developing for several companies with different application
areas.
October
1975 – January 1990 [snip] Bedford
Assistant Scientific
Officer for the Civil Service working as a computer programmer
on a Low Visibility Flight Experiments.
HNC: Computer Science
Mander Technical College, Bedford, 1978 -
1980
HNC: Applied Physics
Cambridge College of Art and Technology, 1976
- 1978
ONC: Electrical Engineering
Mander Technical College, Bedford, 1975 -
1976
A'level: Physics
Redborne Upper School, Ampthill,
Bedfordshire, 1970 - 1975
O'level: Chemistry, Physics, Maths,
Geography, English, Music
Redborne Upper School, Ampthill,
Bedfordshire, 1970 - 1975 |
