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Nottingham, Gb

Nottingham, Gb

Our Venture Builder identifies, builds and launches innovative Products, solving real customer problems and acts as an enabler for change, Current products we are working to launch are InterestedIn, Amalgamate & Rekruit.

Nottingham, Gb

Incrypteon was founded on a simple belief that a company’s most valuable asset is its data, and today, more than ever, we believe this data is not adequately protected, nor is it simple or transparent to implement this protection. We want to change this.Tech Stack:• .NET• Azure DevOps CI/CD• Terraform IaC• Azure Function Apps• PostgreSQL• Cosmos DB• Angular• Kubernetes

Nottingham, England, Gb

Heading the Engineering function of the Professional Services team within Commify, delivering customer focused integrations and bespoke development to enable better digital communication journeys.• Managing multiple agile project streams, delivering technology benefits to both external customers and our internal consultants. • Overseeing the development of software applications and integrations to ensure a 'best practice' approach to software development.• Scaling the offering of Professional Services to our clients worldwide, working with remote resources to provide localised support.• Supporting the development of the team through coaching, training and regular 1-2-1 sessions.• Driving process change to ensure a successful transition to hybrid working.Tech Stack:• .NET Core• Azure DevOps CI/CD• Terraform IaC• Azure Function Apps• Azure Logic Apps• Service Bus• SQL Azure• Cosmos DB• Angular• Azure Container Services• Paragon Integrations• Temporal Workflow• Umbraco• Kubernetes

Nottingham, England, Gb

.NET Core, Azure Functions, Azure Table Storage, Azure Service Bus, SQL Azure, CosmosLeading the Development and QA function of the Professional Services team, delivering customer focused bespoke solutions, integrations and internal tooling.Projects included;Mobile app development using Xamarin for both Android and iOSWeb based debt management platformsInteractive mobile journeysSystem integrations

Nottingham, England, Gb

.NET Core, Azure Functions, Azure Table Storage, Azure Service Bus, SQL Azure, CosmosSenior Developer as part of the Professional Services team within Commify.• .NET Core• Azure DevOps CI/CD• Azure Functions• Azure Service Bus• Terraform IaC• SQL Azure

Gedling, Nottinghamshire, Gb

Building Blox IT was formed in September 2007 by two directors with 40+ years of computing experience in the following fields;Software Development, Platform Integration, Project Management, Business Analysis, Database development and administration, Web Server Administration, Systems and Storage Virtualization, Business Continuity, Specialised Consultancy..................Clients & Projects »• RiskSTOP Group Ltd. - Onsite survey system, tablet application (UWP - Win10), desktop management system, web integration.• RiskSTOP Group Ltd. - Server builds and disaster recovery consultancy, both on and offsite. • RiskSTOP Group Ltd. - ISO Auditing.• MyAlloys - Provision of storage and disaster recovery solutions. On and Offsite servers. Development of Workflow management systems.• Slimming World - Providing development consultancy for the SonAmar Website (Umbraco)• Slimming World/Royal College Of Midwives - Development consultancy for this joint venture site (Umbraco)• Happy Face Flip Cards - Development and hosting support for this children's Gift Card company.• Ann Apartments - Umbraco based holiday rental website for an apartment in the heart of scenic York.• Absolute Design Ltd. - Umbraco/C# development and bespoke integration with client back-end systems.• Management Performance Ltd. - Data migration and systems integration with LeanDriver product on behalf of Kellogs.• Wealthtime Ltd. - Infrastructure and disaster recovery analysis/development.• Daisy Green Media & Events - Development of bespoke events management site.• BBC Worldwide - Doctor Who - Digital Asset Management System• BBC Worldwide - Making Earth - Marketing and syndication site for BBC Planet Earth.• Microsoft Corporation - HTML Email Campaigns for Windows Live Mail• The Big Issue - Content Managed Website development

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Gb

.NET Core, Azure Functions, Azure Table Storage, Azure Service BusImplementation of a customer collections platform, handling over 1.5million debt accounts. • .NET core, Azure Functions• Integration with Commify's sms sending and receiving API• Azure DevOps Build/Release Piplelines• Terraform templating for managing infrastructure as part of the CI/CD pipeline

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Gb

.NET Core, Azure Functions, Azure Table Storage, Azure Service BusSecondary API emulation layer to allow legacy integrations for acquired companies to move forward to consume Commify API endpoints.• .NET core, Azure Functions• Integration with Commify's sms sending and receiving API• Azure DevOps Build/Release Piplelines• ElasticSearch/Kibana Integration for Production Support• Terraform templating for managing infrastructure as part of the CI/CD pipeline

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Gb

.NET Core, Azure Functions, Azure Table Storage, Azure Service BusImplementation of an API emulation layer to allow legacy intergrations to move forward to consume Esendex API endpoints.• .NET core, Azure Functions• Integration with Esendex' sms sending and receiving API• Azure DevOps Build/Release Piplelines• Kusto analytics dashboards for intermediate monitoring• Terraform templating for managing infrastructure as part of the CI/CD pipeline

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Gb

.NET Core, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Azure Service BusWorking on a financial collections client project, producing a secure portal to allow payment plans to be made to clear monies owing before entering into a debt collection phase. Using a SoA with SOLID principals to produce a scalable solution hosted on Microsoft Azure. Implementation and developement of the professional service team's DevOps strategy.• .NET core, Azure Functions• Integration with Esendex' email and sms sending API• Azure Service Bus, Azure Key Vault• Azure DevOps Build/Release Piplelines• Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templating for infrastructure

.NET Core 3, C++/CLI, Signal RCreation of a C# .NET core SDK for this cryptographic start up.

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Gb

.NET 4.6, C#, MVC, Git, Umbraco 7, AWSPerformance tuning Hillarys advisor extranet application, used by over 1,000 advisors across the country. Extensive rework of data tier to reduce database access and improve user responsiveness.Migrating existing user interface to Bootstrap, to provide a simpler upgrade path for planned UI redesign.• TeamCity - Octopus Deploy - build/release pipelines• AWS Lambda functions• SSDT for Database Migrations

.NET Core, EF Core, MVC, Azure, Azure Elastic DBDevelopment of this start-up's multi-tenant SaaS platform, providing business intelligence to companies worldwide. Implementation of SOLID architectural principles within the system framework.• .NET core/EF core• Azure Elastic DB• Docker/Azure Container Services• Azure DevOps Build/Release Piplelines• Automapper, SaaSkit

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Gb

.NET 4.6/.NET Core 2, C#, MVC, Git, Umbraco 7, AWSWorking on a new converged architecture for Hillarys platforms for trade customers. Producing technical guidelines for future development strategy as well as leading the development.• .Net core• Microservice based architecture• Elastic Beanstalk• IdentityServer 4 as SAML SSO Identity Provider• GDPR compliance

Nottingham, Gb

.NET 4.5, C#, SQL ServerDevelopment as part of the 'Triangle' project, enhancing the performance and scalability of the PLATO platform, used to service 8 of 10 largest banks­/credit cards and 5 of 10 largest energy companies in the UK.• Ninject• RabbitMQ, Biztalk, Hyper-V• GDPR compliance• System Profiling and performance analysis

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Gb

.NET 4.5, C#, MVC 4, Git, Umbraco 7, SQL Server 2014, AutofacSenior developer, working as part of the Web Development team at Hillarys Blinds, initially working on the CustomWest trade platform, a bespoke Umbraco site feeding into a SAP workflow. Development on the Advisor Hub site, an Umbraco based site handling direct comms with the Hillarys advisor network.• JIRA for managing project structure and ticketing• Integrating existing Angular.JS single page application with new .NET back end• Excel data exports using OpenXML• PDF generation using PDFSharp + WkHtmlToPdf• Continuous Integration and Deployment with TeamCity and Octopus Deploy• SQL Server database deployed to Amazon RDS• Umbraco deployed to Amazon EC2 with bespoke storage on S3

Nottingham, Gb

.NET 4.5, C#, MVC 5, Entity Framework, SQL Azure, SQL Server 2014Senior developer working on the company's SAAS B2C offering as well as developing the Azure architecture being used within the organisation.• SQL Azure databases with Geo-Replication for disaster recovery• Responsive UI development with Knockout.js, LESS, jQuery, Bootstrap• Entity Framework Code First (POCO) Database development• Azure Data Factory for automated import of 3rd Party supplier data• Visual Studio Online continuous integration and deployment

.NET 4, C#, MVC 4, Entity Framework, SQL Server 2012, Umbraco 7Development and support of the Son Amar website prior to a re-platforming exercise to move the site to Umbraco. Development on the main Slimming World platform, bug fixing and feature development.• SASS and Foundation framework for responsive mobile-first UI development• Integration of Redsys payment components for Banco Sabadell• Creation of automated build process and environments for new Umbraco based Son Amar site• Migration of legacy ASP.NET Webforms based Son Amar site to Umbraco based CMS

Nottingham, Gb

.NET 4.5, C#, MVC 5, Entity Framework, SQL Azure, SQL Server 2014Senior developer working on the company's SAAS B2C offering as well as developing the Azure architecture being used within the organisation.• SQL Azure databases with Geo-Replication for disaster recovery• Responsive UI development with Knockout.js, LESS, jQuery, Bootstrap• Entity Framework Code First (POCO) Database development• Azure Data Factory for automated import of 3rd Party supplier data• Visual Studio Online continuous integration and deployment• Cloud Services deployment of web sites with New Relic integration• SQL High Availabilty Always-On Cluster for added resiliance• Implementation of the 'brochureware' CMS in Umbraco 7 on Azure

Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Gb

.NET 4, C#, Git, Umbraco, SQL ServerSenior developer, working alongside the marketing team at Hillarys, dealing with feature requests, design changes and incident fixes on the various web platforms run by the company, including Arena Blinds, Premier Shutters and Next Shutters. • Lightweight requirements/incident management through Jira/Confluence• Responsive UI development with SASS/JQuery• Umbraco HTML templating with both Razor and Web Forms• Integrating Umbraco with SAP for backend order management and bespoke SQL databases for extended business functionality.

Nottingham, Gb

.NET 4.5, C# MVC 4, Entity Framework, SQL AzureYour Concierge Buying Service - think price comparison 2.0; more personal, relevant and with expert guidance.Senior developer on the platform, providing a B2C experience, initially for car buyers. • User interface developed using Knockout JS + Bootstrap with CSS/LESS. • Automapper/Entity Framework 5 (code first)/LINQ • Deployed to Azure with New Relic/Sendgrid/AppFail integration

Nottingham, Gb

.NET 4, C# ASP.NET, SQL Server 2008 R2PLATO (Debt Management Platform), responsible for pre-production system analysis and development of user stories. A major redesign to TDX’s PLATO system used to service 8 of 10 largest banks­/credit cards and 5 of 10 largest energy companies in the UK.Development of user stories for client take-ons and customer enhancements in an Agile environment. Clients include Vodafone Spain, BSkyB, British Gas, Anglian Water.'Business As Usual' development, supporting the Operations team handling incidents and feature changes.Performance and security analysis of live systems as part of the move to deploy existing systems for use by external clients.Analysis and development of interfaces to IBM JRules (WODM) server for business rules management within the PLATO product.Development of a generic client data mapping solution using Biztalk, providing a vastly improved client on-boarding process.

Minstead, Hampshire, Gb

.NET 2, C#, SQL Server 2005, ASP.NET WebFormsLeading the development for Next’s marketing database as well as the rebranding of Comet’s live systems.Integration of Next’s marketing database within the Retail Manager product suite.Re-branding of Comet’s ‘The Word’ site, based around initial client designs and requirements.

Tring, Herts, Gb

MVC for ASP.NET, C#, LINQ to SQL, Castle Windsor containers, FusionCharts, jQuery. Developing the new System 3 solution for Delegate Registration and Management for Microsoft's Convergance conferences.Development of administration and reporting suite using MVC and the FusionCharts Flash reporting suite.Integration of the Bouncy Castle cryptographic libraries to enable asymmetric encryption of credit card details using PGP.Implementation of encrypted query strings and encrypted route value dictionaries within the MVC application to assist with PCI compliance.Barcode generation for confirmation emails using GDI+ Development of PCI compliant payment gateway and hotel booking interface using VB.NET and CSLA in a Web Forms environment.

Minstead, Hampshire, Gb

Working as part of the Retail Manager .NET team, developing and deploying a web based retail solution in C# ASP.NET for managing content, tasks and other administration functions across multi-national retail chains such as Carpetright, Hobbycraft, Comet and Wilkinsons.Re-architecting and developing the RM-Lite product, implementing standard design patterns within the existing architecture to provide future extensibility and transparency of code.Team leading the Carpetright development project. On taking over this project the bug list was reduced from 500 category 1~3 errors to 0 within 2 months. Completion of timesheet tracking module which integrated with external payroll systems.Senior developer on the Wilkinsons Trading Manager development project, producing a web based management tool for project deployments/critical paths for the customer. Analysis of customer business requirements within technical and functional meetings. Usage of LINQ and the Entity Framework in producing a standardised data access layer (DAL).

Drive Sys Design provided storage and backup solutions to SME's in the south of England. With technologies based around open source products and a consultancy focused approach, DSD provided their customers with simple and effective solutions..................Clients & Projects »• The Duchy of Cornwall - Backup and Disaster recovery consultancy, network attached storage deployment solutions

Working as part of the Retail Manager .NET team, developing and deploying a web based retail solution for managing content, tasks and other administration functions across multi-national retail chains such as Carpetright, Hobbycraft, Comet and Wilkinsons.Re-architecting and developing the RM-Lite product, implementing standard design patterns within the existing architecture to provide future extensibility and transparency of code.Team leading the Carpetright development project. On taking over this project the bug list was reduced from 500 category 1~3 errors to 0 within 2 months. Completion of timesheet tracking module which integrated with external payroll systems.Senior developer on the Wilkinsons Trading Manager development project, producing a web based management tool for project deployments/critical paths for the customer. Analysis of customer business requirements within technical and functional meetings. Usage of LINQ and the Entity Framework in producing a standardised data access layer (DAL).

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Managing a team of developers producing desktop and web based application solutions as well as interacting with the customer through all phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC)..................Clients & Projects »• Barkers Norman Broadbent - Development and implementation of an n-tiered client/server CRM solution produced in C#.NET for Barkers Norman-Broadbent recruitment advertising. Currently the software is in use by over 600 members of staff throughout the UK. Design of the system architecture and management of the development team as well as technical prototyping.• ODPM – Application development in conjunction with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister producing a .NET/MS-SQL Server 2005 based client management solution for the Governments Supporting People initiative.• Lloyds/TSB - Team leading development of the document management solution, primarily developed using C++ on a Windows platform and integrating with Documentum and Staffware Process Definer.• Bank of Ireland – Staffware consultancy on behalf of Berkeley Software for the Bank of Ireland, solving existing issues within the Visual Basic components associated with their process management solution.• ASP .NET web site development for both intranets and extranets for various clients including the Highways Agency (.NET 1.1/C#), Learning Skills Council (.NET 1.1/C#), HBOS group (.NET 1/C#), Royal Bank of Scotland and the Central Office of Information (COI).• Integration of Microsoft Server systems into client IT infrastructure including Exchange 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server (AD) and SQL Server 2000/2005.

Southampton, Hampshire, Gb

Working as part of the MIAB (M-in-a-Box) Team developing and supporting an integrated mobile phone Top-up and Reward system developed on a .NET 3.0 C# platform.Development of connector code between Telcos and MIAB, utilising WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) endpoints within an asynchronous http handler under IIS 6.Technical development on multi threaded high performance distributed web services.Optimisation of large scale SQL 2005 databases, performance tuning stored procedures and implementation of replication strategies for disaster recovery.Enhancement of the systems Management Studio Smart Client application.Employment of an Agile based development methodology.Working as part of the MMT team developing and supporting domestic and international money transfer systems.Team leader for the Italian Gift Cards project, developing a solution for the Auchan retail group, using a WCF Service along with an AJAX enabled customer support website.Integration of the existing MMT interface into Standard Chartered Bank (SCB)’s IBM MQ Series systems.Development on Windows Workflow based solution for SCB's international monetary transfer system.Employment of an Agile based development methodology.

Consultant developer brought in to assist with the conversion of altaVENTE's industry leading document security system from a windows forms application into an online web service.

Developing an internal component written in C# (.NET 2.0) for calculating radio spectrum interference on behalf of the MoD.UML 2.0 design and analysis for documentation leading to NUnit test modules. Integration of existing Tatuk GIS components for manipulating geo-spatial data.Managed/Unmanaged C++ (CLI) development to incorporate existing algorithmic libraries with minimal performance degradation including integration of legacy Fortran modules.Software profiling using the NProf toolset to improve the ability to optimise code.Test Driven Development (TDD) through Extreme Programming (XP) principles.

Antwerp, Antwerp, Be

Team Leader for the cross platform Common Services team on behalf of ETS/ACAS. Developing Java applications as part of the web based eFirst Process Management solution as well as .NET desktop and web applications for the client desktop systems.Development of a C# SMTP server for Zetafax system integration, handling communications failures through the Fax gateway as well as manipulation of fax images.Development of a web based batch printing system, incorporating web application, web service and windows service to handle the production of print packages as PDF documents.Analysis and documentation of existing Java packages prior to bug fixing work.Maintenance and integration of Perl based Context Sensitive Help system into the eFirst application.Database backend development with Oracle 10g/Oracle RAC.

Analysis and development for Filmnight, a DVD Rental and Retail company, integrating legacy systems and UNIX services with .NET. Leading the internal IT team through the launch of the company as well as continued support.Maintenance of Java based rental website. Migration of the existing Java Servlet/JSP based website to ASP.NET 1.1 (C#).Development of mobile web site, targetted at palm and windows mobile based devices.Development of e-PoS systems in C# for use within shops across the UK. Maintenance of PHP based availability displays within the shops.Design and development of the synchronisation software for data transmission between the various shop sites and head office.

Developing international multi-tiered systems for the railway industry using Visual Basic/Visual C++ with an Oracle 7/8i back-end.Team Leader developing on behalf of Norwegian State Railways (NSB) for their ultra short-term planning systems, integrating C++ visual displays of real-time train data.Team Leader for the technical solutions team, investigating new approaches to development, specifically with Visual Basic 6 and XML.Deputy Team Leader on Railtrack’s Timetabling and Simulations projects, working alongside Railtrack Business Information Systems.Lead developer for the company's component based development project. Involved with the joint development of a Visual Basic/Java based platforming/communications system.Technical coding using COM/DCOM and XML within multi-tiered projects. Structured design using Select Perspective for Use Case analysis, leading to technical specifications and unit test plans.

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