Curriculum Vitae as of 13^th February 2006

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Summary

I am an experienced (30 years) Application Developer of relational database based applications.

In most of my involvements I take project and development responsibility through Project Lifetime stages – Business Analysis,  Specification of Requirements,  Database Tables Design, User Interface Design, Software (Program) Development (employing NTier techniques- Presentation, Business Logic, Data Carrier, Data Access & Stored Procedure levels), Application Deployment and Interfacing with End Users during System Acceptance Testing; followed by ongoing support.

Since late in 2003 I have concentrated on VS.NET 2003 / C# / ASP.NET & WINDOWS FORMS / SQL SERVER 2000 / SQL / T-SQL / SQL REPORTING SERVICES / DTS / IIS development and have so far been involved in  .Net projects which have been conversion developments from

legacy code in Clipper/FiveWin/dBase.

I have personally take responsibility for and delivery of all the following :-

Business Analysis of Application and User Requirements

Systems Design and Specification, Processes Diagramming (multi-project solutions)

Design & Specification of Database Tables, Indexes and Relationships

Development of T-SQL stored procedures & user-defined functions for all data sources

Web page [GUI] design and development (using Visual Studio Webpage designer, HTML code, Javascript, Stylesheets etc)

SQL Reporting Services reports development using stored procedures and parameters

Programmatic rendering of Reports, consuming SQL Reporting Services Web Service

Development of Web Page C# “Code behind” (avoiding embedding any Business Logic)

Design & development of Business Logic C# classes and methods, interfacing to SQL via Microsoft Applications Blocks

Authentication & Authorisation configuration in IIS Web Server and Web.Config

Configuring Impersonation setting in Web.Config

Configuring application Sessionstate to deploy SQLServer mode in Web.Config and SQL Server instance

Creation of deployment projects, generating msi installation files

Development of SQL DTS packages for legacy data conversion & migration

Further, I have recently installed MS VS.Net 2005 Express & SQL Server 2005 Express and have been experimenting on existing applications to improve my knowledge and skills with this latest platform.

Work Experience

[snip] in Swindon and Northampton - June 1989 to February 2006 (not full-time, in parallel with other clients’ work, but largely exclusive since January 2004)

Employed on a freelance (per project) basis to develop several database applications :-

Print Job Costing and Reporting, shop floor data collection using barcode techniques – now redeveloped by me in VS.Net / C# / SQL / ASP / SQL REPORTING SERVICES / DTS.
Warehouse pallet movement control using barcodes and mobile R.F. terminals – now redeveloped by me in VS.Net / C# / SQL / ASP / SQL REPORTING SERVICES / DTS.

Purchase Orders Tracking and Reporting System.

Archived documents tracking system using barcodes and batch terminals, installed in 2 locations.

Branch address and assets database.

[snip] - August  2005 to September 2005 (in parallel with other clients’ work)

Employed on a freelance basis to assist in completion to initial release of  Windows Forms Product,  TalkingText which is for use by the deaf in communicating with either another TalkingText user or a standard TextPhone. The product uses TAPI for modem communications.

On this project I worked as an assistant VS.Net / C# coder (a team player) rather than having complete responsibility as with the Nationwide work and the product was being converted from the legacy C++ code.

[snip] - June 2000 to July 2003 (in parallel with other clients’ work)

Employed on freelance basis to develop branch displays management system using MS Access '97 / VBA. This was a very complex application calculating the different mix of posters and information leaflets required by branches all with different display stands.

Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society in Cheltenham - June 1989 to December 2000 (in parallel with other clients’ work)

 

Employed on freelance basis to develop Print Job Costing and Reporting, deploying shop floor data collection using barcode techniques.

Other Freelance Projects - January 1985 to July 2005 (in parallel with other clients’ work)

Development of Print Estimating application for Easyforms Ltd in Radstock, Somerset using DBASE / CLIPPER / FIVEWIN.

Development of Print Planning and Progressing application for Dorset Press in Dorchester using UNIX / INFORMIX / SQL.

Development of Oil exploration data management application for Clyde Petroleum near Malvern, Worcestershire using proprietary Perkin-Elmer database and Fortran.

Prior to being self-employed :-

Comshare Ltd - July 1976 to January 1985

Positions: (several) Customer Support Executive (3 years) - financial planning (FCS/EPS, Planmaster & Dataform III), database management systems (Composit 77, Questor), Language support (Basic, Fortran, Cobol). Supporting and developing systems in applications such as budgetting, project appraisal, management reporting, sales analysis, progress tracking, parts explosion, standard costing, stock recording & control, personnel & career development, estimating.  Product Development Programmer (Pascal) (5 years). I was also part of the development team for System W.

Education

Qualification / Grade / Subject

Birmingham University in Birmingham

October 1965 to June 1968

BSc Electronic Engineering

2.2

Westcliff High School for Boys in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex

September 1958 to July 1964

A-level Pure Maths

A-level Applied Maths

A-level Physics

A-level Engineering Drawing

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B

C

D

O-levels

Additional Pure Maths, English, Physics, Chemistry, French, History, Geography