Please find contained herein details about my professional work and involvement. I am a Software Analyst/Programmer specialising in Software Design and Programming.  

EMPLOYMENT AND WORK EXPERIENCE

1999 – 2001: Lead Software Developer, [snip]

[snip] is a network infrastructure company, playing in the Thin Client and Application Service Provider Market. Its competitors included Citrix Systems, Tarantella and Hummingbird.

At the time of my joining, [snip] was a venture capital backed company, working jointly with Price Waterhouse Coopers Consulting as Management Consultants.

My role was initially to work in a support role with the company. I later moved to the development team and by November 2000, was Lead Project Manager and Developer for the [snip] Thin Client-enabling Software technology.

My responsibilities included:

-          Initial Analysis of the Software System the company intended to build. Was in charge of supervising the drafting of the initial User Requirements Document.

-          Was in charge of the exercise of choosing an Overseas Development Partner for [snip]. After a series of visits to India and in-depth inspection and understanding of the three companies that were short listed, including Satyam Computer Services Ltd, Infosys Technologies and Aptech Computer Systems, I made a recommendation to the Pizza Executive team to go with Satyam, as their methodology of work closely related and complemented that at [snip]. They also had the proven experience and skill sets that we needed to ensure the success of the project.

-          Was liaison officer between Pizza Software and Satyam Computer Services. In this role, I was lead Product Manager for the software development effort and brought the development team in London together with the development team in India numbering 30 developers.

-          Technical Skills involved use of the UML for design, ability to draft User Requirements and Functional Requirements Documents, and C++, Visual Basic, HTML/XML and ASP & JSP development skills.

-          Responsible for the drafting of the technological component of the Company’s Business Plan and Strategic go to market strategy. Was also involved in fundraising road shows in conjunction with Price Waterhouse Coopers. This involved making presentations to potential and existing Investors and shareholders who included Lehman Brothers, Atlas Ventures, Domino’s Pizza, Thether and Greenwood, among others. 

2001: Lead Software Architect, [snip].

[snip] .

IT is the UK arm of [snip], Headquartered in India. www.4cplus.com

Was in charge of the technology architecture changes for the UK/European Actify Product line from Ayrius IT. Actify is a Web and Workflow Content Management solution running on the Windows platforms and implemented widely within the Media Market in India, the United Kingdom and Singapore.

Work also involved user training in the product suite. This typically involved training of users at their office premises or through pre-arranged training days at our company headquarters or at a third party training facility. 

2002 – 2003 November: Lead Software Architect and CTO, [snip] London.

[snip] (A subsidiary of the [snip]) is an IT Consultancy offering services and bespoke development to the Leisure and Fitness Industries in the UK and Europe with Customer Relationship Management Solutions.

My responsibilities included managing and implementing the Cannons Group PLC CRM solutions which included:

·          Design of Functional Specifications from Requirements Documents presented by Cannons IT.

·          Cannons Group PLC had a system in house used for Client management. The system existed at each site. The site systems where independent, but Cannons wanted to automatically operate a type of membership known as ‘Connect’ where a member of one site would be allowed entry to a set of sites dependent on their membership type. This involved passing information from one site system to another. Was in charge of the design of Technology architecture including Kiosks within Gyms, Website and Phone and Direct Mail customer touch points and Integration of the various Leisure centre systems around the UK with the Cannons Head Office.

·          Core skills included project management, systems analysis and
Visual basic and Visual C# and SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 management.

2004 – 2005 November: Lead Software Architect and Lead Consultant, [snip].

Was the lead software developer and program manager for The BEST Product. The Business Engineering Support Technology (the BEST) is a new and unique concept for:

·          Identifying, modelling and specifying end-to-end enterprise wide business process engineering, application specific business processing or even smaller scoped business processing.   The scope of the business processing can be at any level of granularity.  All the business processing is modelled and specified in the form of assets.

·          All types of application system - OLTP production systems for day-to-day business operations, OLAP/MIS for management summarised queries and for expert systems that can offer advice.

·          Physically connecting to the material world and changing the configuration of the business in real time. 

Core skills and expertise involved Project Management, Architecture and Design, Development using the Microsoft.NET framework, C#, SQL Server Database 2000/2005.

Xxxx Limited:

I also carry out contract work under this Company of which I am a director, and have done so for a number of companies in the United Kingdom, over the last four years, including designing and implementing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems for Xxxx Solutions Limited and Xxxx Mortgage Brokers.

Have also designed Microsoft .NET based Web applications for the following companies, www.net2roam.com and www.netaway.com .

At the end of February 2004, completed a Visual Basic based Forums development using the .NET framework with Visual Basic.NET for a leading ISP in the City Of London. 

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics, Makerere University - Kampala Uganda, 1997 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPER ACCREDITIONS/MEMBERSHIPS

A member of the following Developer Networks

·          Microsoft – Visual Studio and Windows Server Platform Technologies

I am a Microsoft Certified Developer (MCSD). Qualification enables the training in Microsoft Development systems.

·          Redhat  - Linux Operating Systems and Technologies

·          Sun Developer Network – Java and Solaris Operating System Platform Technologies 

PERSONAL

Date of Birth:              4^th September 1976

Residency:                  United Kingdom 

COMPUTING SKILLS

.NET Technologies

C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET development; including Visual Source Safe, Visual Studio 2005, Visio Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Enterprise Library (Application Blocks), typed datasets, custom user controls. (3+ year)

Database

SQL Server development and maintenance; including, stored procedures, maintenance plans and clustered SQL Servers (3+ years) SQL, schema design and implementation (7 years).

Other Tools & Technologies

IIS, XML, XSL, XPath, XQuery, SOAP, NUnit, UML, Rational Rose, Codesmith, n-Tier development

Analysis and Design

Gathered and documented user requirements and system functionality. Designed and implemented solutions to meet these requirements.

Project Lifecycle

Full end-to-end project lifecycle experience: Analysis, Design, Implementation, Testing, and Support.

Technical/Team Lead

Successfully managed small teams up to ten developers to deliver projects 

Possess good Business Process Development skills and presently pursuing certification under the ITIL.

Other languages

ASP 3.0, J2EE, JavaScript, C++, C, VB 

INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES

·          Musical Instrument Playing. Play the Piano and Acoustic Guitar.

·          Motor Car Enthusiast.

·          Political and General Debate. 

REFERENCES               References available on request.