Freelance Managing Director London, Greater London, UK
A Microsoft certified senior developer with over 5 years commercial experience skilled in the latest versions of ASP .NET, C# & SQL Server. Good communication skills,solid full lifecycle experience.
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| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £66.67 per hour |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £500.00 per day |
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| Seller ID: | 294979 |
CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé
Employment History
(Sep 2008 & ongoing)
Managing Director
London• Set up own company with the ethos of technical excellence and transparent delivery.
• Clients include Cancer Research UK, a large insurance company and several SMEs across a variety of industries.
(Dec 2007 to Sep 2008)
Senior Web Developer.
London• Project lead on the biggest project in the company’s history. Gained further full lifecycle experience. Excellent feedback from client.
• Developed a sophisticated, flexible and configurable decision engine. This product was used in the insurance industry to rate insurance risks and allows actuaries to rate risks on a configurable set of factors in a multi-dimensional fashion.
• Real-time rules engine utilising code generation enables insurers to change their business rules in realtime.
• Worked on company’s rapid application development platform which uses code generation to create and manage ASP .NET 2.0 applications.
(Aug 2004 to Nov 2007)
Senior Software Engineer.
LondonClient/Project: Assureweb Role: Team Leader
• Re-architecting of a financial products comparison engine.
• .NET 2.0/3.0 Architecture utilising AJAX, WCF, WF & SQL 2005.
• Led a team of developers within the architecture team.
Client/Project: Lloyds TSB Registrars Role: Senior Developer
• Largest bespoke .NET project undertaken in the UK at the time.
• Initially worked on a correspondence package that generated over 8,000 ad-hoc letters each day.
• After success of the correspondence package, I was given the lead of a new functional package reporting direct to senior management/partners.
• After delivering that package, I was moved up into the Architecture team to work on performance enhancements system-wide.
Client/Project: Barclays Role: Senior Developer
• Short project porting a mission critical application written in MS Access to Winforms and SQL Server
(Jan 2003 to Jul 2004)
Developer.
Energise-IT (E-IT), Newcastle Upon Tyne• Full lifecycle experience.
• Gained client facing and project management skills.
• Migrated classic ASP/COM sites to .NET 1.1
(Apr 2002 to Dec 2002)
6-month round the world trip.
(Sep 2001 to Mar 2002)
Systems Analyst (Contract role).
CIS Insurance, Manchester• MS Access database work within CIS to automate the generation of MI.
(Jun 1999 to Jul 2000)
Applications Analyst.
CSC/IT Services, Springfields(Degree Placement Year)
• MS Access database development and support.
• Included one that automatically etched unique codes on cans before they were placed into the nuclear reactors.
(Feb 1997 to Mar 1997)
Project Researcher.
McGuffie Brunton, Manchester(A-Level Work Experience)
• Project researcher at this software company.
Professional Qualifications
Currently studying for MCPD Web Developer / MCPD: ASP.NET 3.5 Developer
MCSD .NET since June 2006.
MCAD .NET since May 2006.
MCP .NET since 2004.
Education
( 1997 to 2001)
Sheffield Hallam University
I achieved a 2.1-degree in BSc (Hons) Business Information Systems, just 3% off a first.
( 1995 to 1997)
Bury Grammar School 6th Form
A-Levels: Business Studies(C) Computing (D) Mathematics (D) General Studies (D)
( 1990 to 1995)
Bury Grammar School
9 GCSE passes including Maths and English (1 – A*), (2 – B’s), (4 – C’s), (2 – D’s)
Technical Skills
ASP.Net –
Versions: 1.1 (4+ yrs), 2.0 (1+ yrs), 3.5 (6+ months)
All the projects I worked on at Accenture and Comrange have used ASP .Net.
C#
Versions: 1.0 (4+ yrs), 2.0 (1+ yrs)
Primary programming language at Comrange, Accenture & E-IT.
SQL Server
Versions: 2000 (4+ yrs), 2005 (1+ yrs)
SQL 2005 used on last Accenture project and all Comrange projects. SQL Server 2000 used as the backend to all E-IT websites and for the LTSBR solution.
Microsoft .Net
Versions: 1.1 (4+ years), 2.0 / 3.0 / 3.5 (1+ yrs)
.NET 2.0 (including AJAX) and .NET 3.0 (WCF, WF components) used on Assureweb project. .Net 2.0/3.0 used on all Comrange projects. .Net 1.1 used on LTSBR project.
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Versions: 6.0+ (5+ yrs)
Used varying versions at Comrange, Accenture and E-IT.
Visual Studio
Versions: 2003 / 2005 (4+ yrs), 2008 (1+ yrs)
The IDE used at Comrange (2008), Accenture (2005) & E-IT (2003). On the Assureweb project, the team I led worked on the creation of Visual studio project templates and custom policy files.
Visual Studio Team – Foundation Server
Versions: 1.0 (1+ yrs)
Team development environment used on the Assureweb project. My team were in charge of implementing our defect management process by customising TFS work item types.
MS Project
2003/2007 (3+ yrs)
Used to plan projects at Comrange, Accenture and E-IT.
Visual Basic
6.0 / .Net (2+ yrs)
Used to extend some Winforms tools on the Assureweb project. Also used when coding COM components at E-IT.
Misc: XML, SQL, XSL, XPath, Sourcesafe, Clearcase, Rational XDE, MS Office, etc
Versions: Various (5+ yrs)
Used throughout my career.
Categories & Freelance Skills
IT & Internet
Categories
- Application Development
- Business Software
- Database Development & Admin
- IT Management
- IT Tools/Middleware
- Programming
- Project Management
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Web Design & Usability
- Web Development/Prog
- Web E-commerce
Skills
- .NET (Programming)
- .NET (Project Management - Microsoft)
- ADO
- Ajax (Web Development/Prog)
- Application Architecture (Application Development)
- Application Integration (Application Development)
- ASP (Programming)
- ASP.NET (Programming)
- C# (Programming)
- Consultancy (IT Management)
- Content Management
- Coordination (IT Management - Project)
- CSS (Web Development/Prog)
- Data Architecture (Database Development & Admin)
- Databases (Project Management)
- Design (Project Management)
- Dreamweaver (Web Design & Usability - Macromedia)
- E-commerce (Project Management)
- Excel (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Exchange (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Management)
- HTML
- IIS (Web Development/Prog)
- Implementation (IT Management - Project)
- JavaScript (Project Management)
- JavaScript (Web Development/Prog)
- Macromedia (Web Design & Usability)
- Management (IT Management - Project)
- Microsoft (Project Management)
- Microsoft (Web Design & Usability)
- Microsoft (Web Development/Prog)
- MS Access
- Pascal (Programming)
- PowerPoint (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Project (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Project (IT Management)
- Server Deployment (Project Management)
- Silverlight (Web Development/Prog - Microsoft)
- SOAP (IT Tools/Middleware)
- SQL (Programming)
- SQL Server (Programming - SQL)
- Technical Documentation (Project Management)
- Transact-SQL (Programming - SQL)
- Visio (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Visual C# (Programming - Visual Studio)
- Visual Studio (Programming)
- Web Design (Web Design & Usability)
- Web Development (Web Development/Prog)
- Web Services (Project Management)
- Website Strategy
- Word (Project Management - Microsoft)
- XML

