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Personal Profile:
An accomplished software engineer, with strong team working, communication, and problem solving skills, has a natural ability to work to a high standard and tight timescales, as well as producing innovative solutions for customers through clear thinking. Also showed to be able to lead and take charge of people or projects.

Key Skills and Attributes

 Full lifecycle development experience - requirements analysis, design, implementation and testing through to delivery and support. – UML/OOD, Agile Development.

Technologies
 Proficient in: VB COM+/ MTS model, J2EE, Client/Server Technologies
 Familiar with: .NET Framework, Open Source Technologies

Tools
• Visual Studio/. NET IDE, Enterprise Architect, Eclipse IDE, JBuilder, XML Editors
Source Control Tools: Visual Source Safe, ClearCase, and CVS
Languages
 Proficient in: VB6 (inc ActiveX), VBA, Java (J2EE), XML/XSLT, ADO, HTML, CORBA/JDBC
 Familiar with: VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, C, Perl, Python, JavaScript
Databases (RDBMS)
 Proficient in: MSSQL Server 2000 (inc Stored Procedures and T-SQL)
 Familiar with: Oracle, MySQL, LDAP
Platforms
 Linux. Unix, Windows 9x/2000/XP and Server editions
 Web-servers: Apache (Familiar), IIS (Familiar)

Networking
 Setup and maintain a small network topology – TCP/IP, Firewall, DNS, NIS, and Samba etc.

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experience

 
Job Title Company Name Date From Date To Description
Software Consultant & Developer (contractor) Airbus Sep 2005 May 2007

 Consulting and development work for Airbus M&T/ R&T and In-Service Weights Team.
 Worked on the cutting edge A380/A350/A400M aircraft programs, leading to significant (£K) cost savings from work carried out by contractor, e.g. 2 day task reduced to 10 minutes.
 Trans-national Project Development (travel to France/Germany) work.
 Full lifecycle development using Agile and traditional methods.
 Technologies: Mixture of technologies (VB6/VBA/VB.NET, Java, C#, XML/XSLT).
 Activities involve producing small and large applications for Airbus, like ‘weights estimation’, ‘opportunities and risk’ software.
Software Engineer Data Systems and Solutions (permanent) Rolls Royce company Sep 2003 Jun 2005

 Key employee in the successful development of several projects involving close co-operation with the company’s customers, done to a high standard and tight timescales.
 Collaborated with team members, to architect a bespoke software/hardware solution to allow our customer (Rolls Royce/RAF) to monitor the health of their military aircraft and improve costing for such intensive monitoring. This was based on VB6 and MSSQL Server 2000(T-SQL), using C, ActiveX, COM+/MTS and XML/ADO to drive a client/sever based system.
 Acting DBA experience, responsible for setup, administration, backup and maintenance of MSSQL 2000 Databases.
 Other projects included ASP.NET and Java based projects.

Placement Software Engineer Lucent Technologies Sep 2000 Aug 2001

 Key person in the development of bespoke 3G phone software to allow customers to subscribe to services provided by the telephone companies (OSA/Parlay). This created new opportunities for profit for these customers. This was based on J2EE (Java), Oracle (PL/SQL) and CORBA in a distributed client/server environment.
 Implemented the setup and maintenance of Linux based development server(s) and toolsets to allow successful development of key software for the team. This involved networking expertise.
 

education, training and professional qualifications

 
Date From Date To Estab Qualification
Sep 1998 Jun 2002 University of West of England BSc (Hons) Computer Real-Time Systems