Nando’s

September 2010 – February 2010

Technical Architecture and Developer

Market Place – CMS – Lead Developer

Building the companies Expenses application using MVC, ensuring integration to external financial and workflow systems by means of IoC (Separation of Concerns).

Ensuring that the companies work flow and authorization process was followed and giving the ability for the business to change the workflow and authorization when they needed to.

Ensuring that a simple, yet full, design could be implemented to follow the companies standards.

Leading a team of 4 developers and managing the business through means of meetings and open sessions to ensure that continuous development in the right direction could be achieved.

The expenses application was rolled out to all members of full time staff and then later to part the internet.

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BCS (British Computer Society)

September 2008 - 2009 Senior Developer and Mentor

Writing an automated application to process exam results and mentoring permanent members of staff on new techniques with meetings and lectures. Supporting ongoing environments and systems. This includes writing and setting up unit testing which in turn was processed in a continuous integration server with many build paths.

Using .Net 3.5, WPF, XAML, Windows Applications, Composite Application Library (CAL/ Prism), Linq to Sql, SQL Server 2008, Test Driven Development, Unit Testing, Gallio, MBUnit, Continuous Integration, TeamCity

C#.NET
MVC 3
jQuery
ASP.NET
SQL Server 2010 Reporting Services Web Services XHTML

Test Driven Development
Sub Version
User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Nant
NUnit
K2 workflow
Agile - SCRUM

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Wessex Water

April 2008 – September 2008

Technical Architecture and Senior Developer

Senior Developer

Working on Green field development project, in Microsoft .Net, to produce a Water Protection Plan application that complies with the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI).

Developing the application using C# .Net 2.0, ASP.NET, to provide the business with a fresh delivery every four weeks, this enabled the business to check the application for fit for purpose.

Introducing Agile / Scrum into Wessex Water, this not only excited the people in the business but also gained the trust of the business steering group at a very early stage.

The application was developed, tested and rolled out in five months, providing the business what they need in the timescales they required, and within budget.

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English Heritage

Dec 2007 – March 2008
Technical Architecture and Senior Developer

GIS / Senior Developer

Production of a GIS based application, with access to over 20 million aerial photographs, both Obliques and Verticals for the whole of England. I provided an application to gain access to the photographs, and the production of reports via Reporting Services.

The main application was written using C#, which used SQL Server Reporting Services Web Services to gain access to all the Reports.

Using 'Scrum' as a method of deployment has worked very well along side Prince 2 and the waterfall approach, and provided a fast and effective development for the project.

C#.NET
Team Foundation Server SQL 2010
Agile / Scrum
Test Driven Development

C#.NET
ASP.NET
AJAX
Team Foundation Server SQL 2005

Agile / Scrum nDepend

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Arval

August 2007 – November 2007 Technical Architecture and Lead Developer

Finance / Lead Developer

The fleet vehicle department within Arval required a Re-contracting Calculator which provided the business a simple to use workflow managed web application. The web application supported several business roles, dealing with re-quoting of contracts, which included complex calculations, which were fed through a formula and calculation engine to give the ability for the business to be able to change the formulas when needed.

The project comprised of ten people, two .NET developers, business users, testers, network support and application support. The application was designed, developed, tested and delivered in the three months contract; this was mainly with the help of the use of Scrum.

The application was multi-tiered and used the .NET Framework Version 2.0 to its fullest, using Object Oriented designs and methods.

Comments from the IT Director at Arval:
“I was genuinely impressed by what I saw; I think that it is one of the best

developments that I have seen since I arrived at ARVAL.”

Praise also came from the senior Director for a speedy and complete development process.

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Clarity Commerce

February 2007 – August 2007 Technical Architecture and Lead Developer Market Place – Leisure / Lead Developer

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C#.NET
ASP.NET
AJAX
SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 Visual SourceSafe 2005

Oracle 9i Toad
Agile / Scrum

C#.NET
AJAX
ASP.NET
Sybase (SQL Real) Web Services Agile / Scrum SubVersion Resharper

NUnit - User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Working using ASP.NET V2.0, C#, and AJAX. The project is based using Object Oriented programming, with a team of 9 developers; As the Lead developer I produced the Architecture and developed the majority of the application, which included several layers, from Business user interface logic, Proxy layers, TCP/IP services, Web Services and Data Access layers. The structure was complex due to the legacy systems and integration of new up and coming systems.

The user interface was built using pure CSS and .NET Themes, giving the ability to produce new look and feel application without the need of any development.

Deployment and testing using Nant, Microsoft FXCop, NUnit and CruiseControl.NET to ensure that any check-in to Visual SourceSafe would build and not affect any of the developer’s progress.

High level of documentation was produced, including all the Methods and Procedures calls, to the Business Product Release Documentation. All documentation was produced for use within government projects and leading blue chip companies.

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Nando’s

January 2007 – February 2007 Technical Architecture and Developer Market Place – CMS – Lead Developer

Produced an Architecture for Nando’s IT department to migrate existing application from Classic ASP to .NET V2.0. Providing a detailed Architecture document for the business to follow, both working examples and references to solutions.

Developing the End of Day process for over 150 restaurants thought the country, producing the detailed design document, writing the application using ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server 2005 and SQL BI. The application ran at 2am every night, and control over the End of Day process had to be handled to ensure that the data was not duplicated and resolve any locked records. The Application was a click once system for the end users. Followed by a series of reports and screens to assist in providing data to the restaurants for the following day.

Skills

C#.NET
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C#.NET
AJAX
ASP.NET
SQL Server 2005 (Store Procedures, Triggers, Views, BI, Schedule Tasks, Security etc)

Agile / Scrum
Reporting Services
Web Services
XHTML
Resharper
NUnit - User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Nant
FXCop
CruiseControl.NET

AJAX
ASP.NET
SQL Server 2005 (Store Procedures, Triggers, Views, BI, Schedule Tasks, Security etc)
Reporting Services
Web Services
XHTML
Team Foundation Server
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Nant
NUnit

Digits

February 2006 – December 2006 Technical Architecture and Lead Developer

Market Place – CMS (Content Management Systems)

Produced an Architecture for their CMS system to be written in .NET version 2.0, this was a comprehensive document to assist both management and developers in producing the companies CMS system. Upon completing the CMS Architecture document they then requested my services to produce a e-mail Campaign Manager written in C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET V2.0, using both Forms based .NET and web based application, using Ajax. All development control was using Team Foundation Server, both locally and remotely. The e- mail Campaign Manager handled all e-mails and supported sending over 1 million e-mails to different campaigns, and allowed for multiple server configurations to enable scalability and is used by RBS for external e-mail campaigns.

Connect 360

January 2006 – December 2006 Technical Team Leader and Developer Market Place – Financial Services

Re-employed to continue the project, see below, to provide development of resource in C# / VB.NET, ASP.NET V2.0, SQL Server 2005, Visual SourceSafe, and systems setup and configuration Windows 2003.

During the period with Connect 360 my contract was 100 hours per month and working from home, this gave me the option to work for Digits, as detailed above.

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C#.NET / VB.NET
AJAX
ASP.NET
SQL Server 2000/5 (Store Procedures, Triggers, Views, DTS packages, Schedule Tasks, Security etc)

Reporting Services
Web Services
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

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ASP.NET
SQL Server 2000/5 (Store Procedures, Triggers, Views, DTS packages, Schedule Tasks, Security etc)
Reporting Services
Web Services
User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and NUnit
telerik r.a.d.controls (ASP.NET)
Visual SourceSafe

Connect 360

January 2003 – December 2004 Technical Team Leader and Developer

Market Place – Financial Services

http://www.connect360.co.uk

Working with Defaqto Ltd (http://www.defaqto.com) in the production of Defaqto Document Library (DDL) using a Patent Pending technology called CoviewTM.

Responsible for building and deploying the applications from building the servers, configuration, and maintenance. Working on Windows 2003, NT, SQL 2000 and the .NET Framework. With hands on skill in all areas of deployment and development.

Delivery of document management system for Defaqto rolled out to 3,000 end users. Providing support and infrastructure services to manage the implementation of Coview©.

Completion of an internal document management system for Norwich Union, rolled out to 20,000 staff, insuring that they do not fail FSA inspection.

Delivery of interface from Documentum to Coview© Catalogue, providing seamless document management between the two systems, saving both money and time, and as a result also improving quality and delivering the right information at the right time.

Delivery of the production of the system, from a White Paper, creation of Patent documentation, through to roll out of the application.

As the Technical Team Leader I was responsible for 8 technical staff, a designer, C++ programmer, SQL Server developer, Installations manager, two testing engineers, VB.Net programmer and Web programmer (ASP.Net & JavaScript). The communication method through the application involved using XML and .NET technology.

In order to carry out this complex task, yet simple, project plans were produced to provide details of forecast, budgets, timescales and resource requirements for the projects, provided a Prince 2 life cycle.

Prototypes where produced and full development in C++ carried out, while the database, on an SQL Server 2000 using SQLXML 3.0 was used for Web Services and data capture.

All work was controlled and managed through Visual SourceSafe.

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Visual Basic 6, including COM+

C#.NET

VB.NET

ASP.NET
SQL Server 2000 SQLXML 3.0 Web Services

MS Project 2000 Prince 2
W3C
Visual SourceSafe

Wavin Plastics Ltd

May 2002 – December 2002

Team Leader

Market Place – Utilities

Production of a single source Electronic Product Catalogue for the business, to enable feeds from the Data Warehouse to external suppliers requesting company product information.

Winning the coveted title of the Best Web site entry for 2002 by the BMF (Builder Merchant Federation). This site held all the E-catalogue product information, news articles, Frequently Asked Questions and many more relative documents to enhance the web site.

The project is the foundation of the company’s future for providing a consistent and reliable Electronic Catalogue that is easy to maintain and update.

The project required a strong set of communication skills to keep the business motivated during all stages of the project.

The major benefit of the project was providing an electronic interface to the corporate web site, and subsidiary sites, giving fully featured and enriched product information.

Fully project managing the project from initial conception, business awareness, departmental involvement and strategic direction. Providing fully detailed reports for the business on a weekly bases, keeping and informing the business of milestones on the project, and how we were progressing at all stages.

Full production of the Project Definition, Project Requirements and Project Technical documentation that was used for the development of the project. Planning resource and budgets for different phases of the project and a release methodology to coincide with the business demands.

Production of Oracle SQL scripts to create the database, and populate the test data. Oracle scripts were used to export data from the Data Warehouse to either HTML, ASP, CSV or an XML interface.

The results of the project can be seen on the Wavin web site

http://www.wavin.co.uk

and also a clients web site:

http://www.bmf-exact.com

Managed resources in:

Oracle 8
Blue Martini
ASP / HTML
XML
PLSQL Developer Uniface Dreamweaver
MS Office
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Nationwide

December 2000 – May 2002 Developer Team Leader
Market Place – Financial online banking

To develop new Account opening process for online bank, to enable it to work in the Internet and for local Nationwide Branches. The process was to fully automate the account opening process, which included online credit scoring, account generation, production of pre-filled application forms using JetForms.

Working closely with the business and analysis team to provide an initial Prototype, this enabled the business and technical specifications to be taken to the developers for completion.

All code was written to allow for simple migration to the .NET platform. This involved detailed Architectural planning and detailed documentation. Producing a common interface to the ASP pages, allowing for easy maintenance by support.

Using UML to produce all technical documentation, which was then coded into COM components which held the business logic.

http://www.nationwide.co.uk

Responsibilities

Supervision and mentoring of developers as required by the Technology Project Manager.

Ensuring that all Technical Specifications are clearly understood before they are accepted for further development.

Construction of prototypes to try/test drive the User Interface and iron out any design issues and usability requirements.

Production of Detailed Design specifications for components.

Ensure that all software deliverables and associated documentation produced are done so to the appropriate standards.

Conduct/take part in code reviews.
Manage development workload to time scales within the development project plan.

Ensure development process yields quality software, designs have been validated, and resulting software has been fully unit tested before handing over to Systems test.

Provide regular process reports for the Technology Project Manager encompassing the activities of the Development team.

Managed resources in:

Visual Basic 6 – leading to .NET platform COM+
UML
ASP / HTML

VB Script
Java Script
DHTML
Oracle Databases Various SQL Server 7

Dream Weaver
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