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 A creative, disciplined Information Technology Consultant with

Strong Business, Analytical and Technical experience.

 

Key Skills:

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Planning and organising specific design projects.

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Designing, coding, testing and implementing solutions.

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Managing, training, motivating and control of technical teams.

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Performing feasibility studies and performance analysis on various system configurations.

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Making considered decisions on development issues.

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Communicating complex technical data to all levels.

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Identifying, solving and mitigating user problems.

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Writing documentation in clear concise language.

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Adaptable to change: responsive to training.

 

 

Technical Skills:

Exp(yr)

 

Development Tools & Technologies

 

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E-Commerce: Java/JSP/Servlets/ EJB/ Websphere

7

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Macromedia UltraDev/Fireworks/Flash/MX/Front Page

7

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Server Side Development JSP/ J2EE/ Perl/ ASP/ .NET/ XML/ XSL/ XSLT

6

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IIS/Tomcat/Jserve/Resin

5

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Cocoon, SOAP, OOD

3

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DHTML, HTML, Java/VB Script/ CSS, Coldfusion

5

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Documentum 4,Installer Packages(InstallShield 7, MS Setup)

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.NET, VB, VBA, COM, DCOM, MTS, COM+

6

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C#, C++, XMLSpy

5

 

Databases

 

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Oracle 8i/ 9i, PL-SQL

7

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MySQL

7

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SQL Server 6.5/ 7.0/ 2000, Transact-SQL

7

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MS Access

7

 

Training

 

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HTML

4

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Dreamweaver/Fireworks

5

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Java/ASP/JSP

5

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Dynamic Web Design Theory

3

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 Wireless Web systems/applications

3

 

Operating Systems

 

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 Win XP, Win 2000, Win NT, Win 9.* , Win 3.*

12

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Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, SuSE

 

 CAREER HISTORY 

Consultant

XXXX

Nov 04

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Current

 

Project: Web Site Maintenance

1.      Investigate performance issues with transactional web sites that caused them to go down

2.      Support existing travel websites in particular content and booking, FSS and JFA

3.      Develop, maintain and monitor

4.      Develop, maintain and monitor

Key Responsibilities

Ensure availability of websites.

Implement site redesign and functionality changes

Technologies

ASP, JavaScript, JSP, Java,  HTML, DHTML, SQL Server 2000, MS IIS

 

 

Management

Team member.

 

 

Vacation

 Jun 04

-

Sep 04

 

Consultant

XXXX

 Feb 04

-

May 04

 

Project: eIT Commercerialsation

1.      Migrate existing website from one hosting vendor to another

2.      Evaluate the impact of migration from questionnaires and site code

3.      Develop processes to manage the migration of 200 sites

4.      Convert java/JSP site to J2EE format and migrate to a WebSphere environment

 

Key Responsibilities

Migrate all (10) Java/JSP application to WebSphere & Websphere Portal. Provide an interface between site owners and vendor

Present solutions to migration issues

Evaluate use of new technologies

 

Technologies

Oracle 9i, PL/SQL, MS IIS, MS SMTP, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, ASP, JSP, Java, WebSphere. Websphere portal,  Excel Excel VBA

 

 

Management

Team member.

 

Consultant

XXXX

Jan 03

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Oct 03

 

Project: ET v1.0

ET is a multi-user time-sheet application with 11,000 users. This application consisted of two components: -

1.      A web based user interface.

2.      VB maintenance application.

 

Key Responsibilities

Provide 3rd line support to 2nd line team.

Investigate, prioritise and resolve bugs.

Monitor replication and perform conflict resolution.

Design code and implement utilities for 2nd line support.

Produce ad-hoc reports for Operations team.

Evaluate requests for enhancements and develop where appropriate.

Liaise with other service groups, Application Server, Database Administers both in UK and US.

 

Technologies

MS VB, COM & DCOM, Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, MS IIS, MS SMTP, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript and ASP, Perl, .NET XML, XSLT

Project: ET v2.0

Re-engineer application to improve performance for both users and Operations group.

Recommend and implement modification to improve manageability and reduce points of failure.

 

Key Responsibilities

Investigate alternative technologies.

Develop and implement data import process using UNIX/Java/XML and SQLLoader.

Implement an automated data load monitor process that would email status to support teams.

 

Technologies

Java, C#, Oracle 8i,  PL/SQL, OO4O, MS IIS, MS SMTP, HTML, DHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript and ASP.

 

 

Project: Web logs

Produce an ET usage monitor application

 

Key Responsibilities

Investigate the use of SGV for displaying data

Develop and implement FTP process to copy files and import into Oracle database.

Develop a user interface to view the data via SVG web page and have the ability to change time scale or data being viewed.

 

Technologies

Java, Oracle 8i,  PL/SQL, HTML, DHTML, XML, JavaScript and ASP. Perl

 

 

Management

Lead developer for the team.

 

Web Developer

XXXX

Sep 02

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Dec 02

 

Project: Motor Insurance Database

 

The Motor Insurance Database, MID, is used by all insurance companies to log vehicle on cover and is used by various law enforcement authorities. There were tight deadlines that required the application to be delivered in Q1 2003.

 

Key Responsibilities

Separate the various web components: Presentation, Data, Validation, Action and State.

Design, code and implement XSL sheets to manipulate the XML  produced from DB2 mainframe.

To design, code XSL functions.

Implemented a release procedure for web application promotion from development to UAT.

Fix outstanding issues raised by the UAT process.

 

Technologies

XML, XSLT, JavaScript and ASP.

 

 

Management

Lead developer managing a web developer and designer.

 

Consultant

SME's Various Companies 

May 02

-

Aug 02

 

Project: Various

 

Consultancy to provide solutions to issues raised by growth of businesses

 

Key Responsibilities

Assist in the preparation of business plans required for additional funding.

Provide prototype applications as proof of concept of ideas to be used in conjunction with the business plans.

Make recommendation of architecture.

Develop a deployment plan of new architecture and infrastructure and build teams as necessary for the deployment.

 

Technologies used

XML, XSLT, Java, JSP, .NET

 

 

Management

Consultant

 

Consultant

PFIZER

Jun 01

-

May 02

 

Project: Helpdesk

Re-write the help-desk application to enhance the service provided by the helpdesk group: allowing them to quickly and efficiently solve or answer user questions.

 

Key Responsibilities

Gather requirements from users of the help desk

Design, code and implement the solution

Liaise with the infrastructure team to ensure all technologies were available. Remote deployment  of applications

 

Technologies

Java, EJB, JSP. Oracle and MS SQL Server, Install Shield

 

 

Project: Org Chart

Create organisational chart with a web interface and make modifications that are released by the release manager.

 

Key Responsibilities

Design database structure to hold hierarchical information

 

Technologies

Java, EJB, JSP. Oracle Applets

 

 

Project: Standardise Web-sites

Create a template structure to standardise the websites of various internal groups

 

Key Responsibilities

Gather data from each department

Design, code and implement dynamic template structure

 

Technologies

Java, EJB, JSP. Oracle Applets

 

 

Project: Support

Support the communications team in their requirements for technical solutions.

 

Key Responsibilities

Evaluate requests for developments

Make recommendation

Design and code solutions

 

Technologies

Java, EJB, JSP. Oracle Applets

 

 

Management

Manage a web developer and content management engineer.

 

Consultant

CP Ships        

May 00

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Jun 01

 

Project:Procurement System

CP Ships’ initial requirement was to create a local purchase order application. This application was developed using a Visual Basic front end and a Microsoft Access back end database. This basic application proved very successful. The next evolution was to make it web enabled with a number of additional enhancements which included user logging, email, work-flow authorisation and electronic signatures. An additional web module was developed to allow third party vendors to interface with the procurement system.

 

Key Responsibilities

Gather and collate user requirements.

Design database and user interface.

Code the user interface and ancillary procedures.

Create system / integration test plans

Deploy application on US servers

Write user guide

Training users, front line and second line support.

 

Technologies

MS VC++, MS VB, COM & DCOM, MS SQL Server 7.0 MS IIS, MS SMTP, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript and ASP.

 

Project: Code Migration

The platform base for CP Ships change from Microsoft NT/SQL Server to Unix/Oracle. This meant that there were a number applications that needed to be converted to work in the new environment.

 

Key Responsibilities

Design database and user interface.

Code the user interface and ancillary procedures.

Create system / integration test plans

Deploy application on Unix environment

 

Technologies

Java, JSP, Oracle, LDAP/JNDI, JDBC, HTML, DHTML and JavaScript.

 

Management

Consultant

 CAREER HISTORY (2) 

Role

Company

From

 

To

Web Consultant

XXXX

Nov 04

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current

 

Vacation

Jun 04

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Sep 04

Consultant

XXXX

Jan 03

-

Oct 03

Consultant

XXXX

Sep 02

-

Dec 02

Web Consultant

XXXX

May 02

-

Aug 02

Developer

XXXX

Jun 01

-

May 02

Consultant

XXXX

May 00

-

Jun 01

Consultant

XXXX

Jan 00

-

May 00

Web Trainer

XXXX

Nov 99

-

Jan 00

Web Trainer

XXXX

Jul 99

-

Aug 99

VB Trainer

XXXX

Sep 99

-

Oct 99

Web Trainer

XXXX

Jun 99

-

Jun 99

Web Trainer

XXXX

Jun 99

-

Jun 99

Web Consultant

XXXX

May 99

-

Jun 99

Web Designer

XXXX

Mar 99

-

May 99

Web Designer

XXXX

Jan 99

-

Mar 99

Web Consultant

XXXX

Dec 98

-

Jan 99

Consultant

XXXX

Apr 98

-

Nov 98

Consultant

XXXX

Feb 98

-

Feb 98

Consultant

Parity Solutions

Nov 97

-

Jan 98

Consultant

J.P. Morgan

Apr 97

-

Nov 97

Consultant

Packages Express

Sep 96

-

Apr 97

Consultant

BBC

Jul 96

-

Sep 96

Consultant

Goldman Sachs

Jan 96

-

Jul 96

Analyst Programmer

BMC-LH

Oct 95

-

Jan 96

Analyst Programmer