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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.

Rating:Unrated (New)
Hourly Rate / Cost:£66.67 per hour
Daily Rate / Cost:£500.00 per day
Available From:Now
Seller ID:294979

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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.

London

Client/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.

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