Senior Systems Developer with 15 years well-rounded development experience, 2 years of technical/project management. Expertise includes: broad platform and language experience (.NET 2/3 workflow/communication foundation, C#, COM+, SQL, VB, MSMQ), database administration with SQL Server (2000/2005), and IIS. 

Key Abilities

·       Software Design and Architecture (OOA/D, OOP)

·       .NET Platform Expertise

·       Database Design and Architecture

·       Web Development

·       Project Management

Key Technical Skills                                                                                                                                                                            Experience

• .NET 1.1/ 2. C#                                                                             3.5 Years
• SQL Server 2000/2005 (including T-SQL, DTS)                                 7 years
• .NET 3 (Workflow/Communication Foundation)                                 6 Months
• COM+/ Enterprise Services/MSMQ/.NET Remoting                             2 Year
• UML/Design Patterns (Enterprise Architect)                                        1 Year
• Web Services                                                                                  1 Year
• ASP/HTML/DHTML/JavaScript                                                          4 years
• VB/COM/MS Office/VBA                                                                   8 years
• NUnit / Sandcastle / Subversion                                                       8 Months
• BizTalk 2004 (limited/evaluation)                                                    3 Months
 
 

Application Areas

·       Private Equity

·       Insurance/Reinsurance

·       Local Government

·       Manufacturing 

·       MCSD – Microsoft.NET (2004)

·       ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing (2004)  

Systems Engineer                                                                                                                  Oct 2006 - June 2007

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Performed requirements gathering, scoping, analysis, design and (partial) development of a Web Based Work Orders system for one of [snip] clients.

This was a workflow system that would enable IT Infrastructure managers to define, monitor and control the flow of work through their departments initiated by various, in-house, server/cabling installation requests.

The following functional prototypes were built:

·          Workflow Designer. Desktop application used to define the steps necessary to fulfil installation requests (i.e. define the workflows/business rules)

·          Workflow Control Panel. Desktop application used to monitor and control workflows/business rules at run time.

·          Work Orders. Intranet application used to host and run the workflows.

The project was cancelled, along with all such projects, when [snip] (another cabling/comms company) bought [snip] in March and moved the focus onto their core business – cabling.

Technology used:         .NET 3, C#, SQL Server 2005, Winforms, UML, WMI

Methodology:                 Unified Process / Agile
 

Systems Developer                                                                                                               Feb 2005 - April 2006

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[snip] needed a Contact Management System with extensive Private Equity/Investor capabilities, beyond what could be provided by any MS Outlook Add-Ins or extensions.

I ported their Exchange contact folder details into a normalised SQL Server database and built a system that: 

·          Records and tracks investor details (private equity finance, total funds under management, existing competitor commitments, their involvement in [snip] funds, potential investment range).

·          Assesses the value of contacts and relationships.

·          Integrates with Outlook.

Technology used:         C#, Winforms, MSMQ, SQL Server 2000/2005, UML, MS Office/VBA, Exchange 2000,  NUnit, BizTalk 2004, VS 2003/2005

Senior Analyst / Consultant                                                                                              March 1998 – Jan 2005

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Provided analysis, design and consultancy to a variety of [snip] customers. Major assignments and clients included: 

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Responsible for technical consultancy and development of Intranet/internet systems. Managed two developers on the FileTracker system and one on the Customer Tracking system.

Notable projects included:

·       Customer Tracking system: Enables [snip] staff to track, monitor and report on enquires for new / renewal business and budget brokerage. Achieved major improvement in the control and monitoring of work in progress and reduced the administrative overhead inherent in the previous manual systems.

·       Industry Analysis & Research (IAR) system: Enables the IAR team to perform risk, income statement, balance sheet and ratio analyses on over 300 insurers and provide a “[snip] rating” for each one in the same manner as Standard&Poors and Moodys.

·       FileTracker: A document requesting/tracking system used to track/order physical documents throughout all [snip] offices, with bar code printing/scanning for speedy library administration.

·       .NET Framework Presentation: Presentation to the IS team covering .NET Framework, Common language runtime, System Class Library, CTS, Web Forms, Server Controls and Web Services.

·       XML Message board system: Prototyped an XML/XSL system to demonstrate XML’s abilities to structure data and XSL’s ability to render it.

Technology used: C#, webforms, SQL Server 2000 (T-SQL, DTS), XML, Web Services, ASP, IIS, UML, VB 6, MS Office/VBA

Methodology:           Unified Process / Agile

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·       Investigated ways to link a French taxation/rating module, used by [snip] Paris office, into [snip] UK Commercial Lines system in order to implement the UK system in France.  Produced a report highlighting the design limitations of the UK system and proposing a new 3-tier French Commercial Lines system based on the French taxation/rating module.

·       Designed and developed the French Commercial Lines system alongside the Paris office IS team.

·       Provided consultancy on VB, COM+ and ODBC.

Technology used: VB 5/6, SQL Server 6.5 (T-SQL), COM, COM+, MS Office/VBA

Methodology:           DSDM / Agile 

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Created data validating/cleaning procedures for their “syndicates and ledger manager” data warehouse; and Visual Basic front ends to enable data reporting/fixing routines to be run at ledger managers’ sites.

Technology used: VB 5, SQL Server 6.5 (T-SQL), MS Office/VBA

Database Developer                                                                                                             Sept. 1997 – Feb. 1998

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Designed and prototyped a sales / opportunities management system for [snip] sales force.

Technology used: VB 5, SQL Server 6.5, COM
 

Database Developer / Consultant                                                                                  1994 – 1997

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Provided analysis, development and support to a variety of [snip] customers

·       [snip]:  Developed an inventory / Configuration Management system for their IT Support team and a portable data capture front end for their Scheduled Monuments system.

·       [snip]: Devised a ‘robot operator’ for their Informix Pension Fund system that drastically speeded up the processing of pension fund inquiries for all BA Staff.

·       [snip]l: Worked on a Community Service database, creating the data design and an end-user reporting subsystem enabling users to generate their own reports from the database.

Technology used: VB 4/5, SQL Server 6.5, COM, MS Office/VBA 

Rock climbing/hill walking/trekking. Took an extended tour of Tibet and Nepal last year - Annapurna Circuit, Gokyo valley, Kala Patar and the Kangshung face of Everest.