Expertise
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IT Consulting
Planning, Project Governance, Development Methodologies, Feasibility Studies, Standards Implementation, Technical Due Dilligence, Procurement, Recruitment ....
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Cloud
AWS & Azure - Hands On. Experience with hosting service providers such as Rackspace & Savvis. IaaS, PaaS & SaaS Know-how. High Availability and Disaster Recovery Strategies.
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Applications
Web Application Development, Agile Methodologies, Complete Lifecycle - Design, Specification, Build, QA, Deployment, Maintenance. Source Control
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Data
SQL Server, Oracle, MySql, Reporting, Data Modelling, ETL, Security, Performance
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Recent work?
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Development of a Conference Registration Feature
A project to add conference registration features to an academic group’s existing web site. In addition to developing the necessary registration pages/forms within the customer’s existing php based platform, I also developed a .Net Core (C#) web api which accepted and recorded registration details from the web client. The api was deployed as an Azure App Service with an Azure DB providing data storage. Integration to Paypal for the payment of registration fees was also a feature.
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Application Re-Platforming
This project involved a hardware refresh for a suite of consumer facing 24x7 system. The system consisted of multiple components including web sites, web services, legacy interfaces, databases etc. It was critical that downtime be minimised. I participated in all stages of the planning and implementation from the initial meetings with the data centre and hardware providers through the series of successful out of hours cut-overs 9 months later
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Application Design
Functional and technical architecture design of a business to business order processing web application. Following acceptance of the design I provided technical guidance to and oversight of the development team in Sofia, Bulgaria. I also contributed to the development of several BE modules. The development technologies were Angular 2.0, .Net Core (C#), .Net 4.5 (C#) and Sql Server 2014
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Cloud Migration
Performed a "lift and shift" of a web application from a tradition data centre to AWS.