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Newbury, Berkshire + Warwick

Designed and developed pay station software as part of a new ANPR parking payment system. The pay station allows customers to pay for the time they have spent in the car park using cash, notes or cards.Designed and developed web back office to manage products and pricing, review sales and monitor pay station status.The software has been very reliable and successful:Oct 2014 - Feb 2024: 900 kiosks, 66,7M sales, £95.4M taken in cash and card payments Ingenico, CreditCall ChipDNA, CCTalk, HikVisionWindows 7 embedded standardC#, WPF, XAML, MVVM, .NET4.5, OWIN, SQLite, VS2013 PHP 5.5, Codeigniter 3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, MySQL

Newbury, Berkshire

FISH Digital Forensics is a leading provider of software and services to the forensic analysis community. I was engaged to prototype a desktop application for case management of credit card fraud investigation. The application was written using C# , .NET and WPF and MVVM structure. The outcome was a customizable, extensible application with drag and drop UI and pluggable data sources.While with FISH, I also distilled a product requirement document to a product backlog in Jira ready for the next phase of development.C#, WPF, XAML, MVVM, .NET4.0, VS2010, Jira

Berkshire, Uk

Arieso is a market leader in mobile phone data analytics and modelling software for optimization, repair and planning of mobile networks.I worked as a developer in an agile team writing software for GEOperformance, a Windows desktop application allowing users to view network data on maps, tables and graphs. I specialized in: overlaying data on Bing maps; exporting data to Google Earth and transforming data using open source GIS libraries. C#, WPF, XAML, .NET4.5, VS2010, VS2012, TFSBDD, SpecFlow, NSubstitute, NUnit, FluentGoogle Earth, kml, kmz, Bing maps, MapServer, OGR, GDAL

United Kingdom

While at HP, my regular duties included:• product and system requirements analysis • end-to-end system architecture and design (UML)• leading technical development teams and directing their technical activities • contributing to product strategy and roadmap definition • technical & technology research • product owner for a remote Scrum team• Windows software development using .NET, C#, WPF, MVVMDuring my time at HP, I lead several initiatives.• Designed a solution that allowed merchandisers to configure the kiosk browse experience to allow for the introduction of new products, product recommendations and seasonal variations. I was product owner for a remote scrum team in Brazil that built the kiosk user experience components . I coordinated with 5 other scrum teams to achieve a cloud delivery system for product metadata to drive the user experience.• Designed and implemented a system that introduced seasonal product promotion and shopping basket price discounting to the kiosk user experience. I lead a small team of developers, coding myself and negotiating with other teams for cloud configuration.• Proposed, built and demonstrated a collaborative, multi touch kiosk for creative photo product creation. This was a personal project that had support and funding at executive level and for which I received an award for “innovation and leadership excellence”. • I made significant contributions to two organization wide reward and recognition schemes to promote employee engagement.I also lead several smaller projects:• Finger-printing and encryption of binary and configuration files to prevent tampering• Role based security system to regulate access to configuration screens• Credit card payment system and user interface• Print scanning system and user interface.NET, WPF, C#, XAML, MVVM, UML, Agile, Scrum, Product Owner, Microsoft Visual Studio, Expression Blend/Design

United Kingdom

Responsible for Foto-Workflow, a distributed digital image RIP, order management and printing system for photographic labs. I performed most aspects of project delivery from requirements capture, through design and code to on-site commissioning. Familiar with the issues facing managers in photofinishing, schools and events labs, I visited many photo labs across Europe, Scandinavia, Japan and the US. I was involved with pre and post sales, making presentations to lab managers and their technical teams. I represented Axiom at trade shows, helping in the preparation of storyboards and slides and demonstrating the system on stand.Windows, MFC, C++, .NET, WPF, C#, XAML, Leadtools SDK

United Kingdom

Axiom Connection LtdHigh speed print negative scanner driving multiple Rimage CD towers.Windows MFC, C++LockplanCRM database applicationWindows, C++, SQLSpreadsheet LinkDesigned and built a modular, extensible foreign exchange and option calculation engine. Integration with 3rd party data feeds (Reuters, Telerate, Dow Jones, trading floor)Windows SDK, CLaurentian Life, GloucesterDesigned and built Integrated help system for laptop insurance sales software.Help system could be written and updated in the context of the sales screens.Windows, VBReuters Computer generated spoken foreign exchange prices over telephone Integration of Reuter Terminal to Reuter Triach live data feed. Integration of Richard Computer Products charting package with Reuter Terminal.Windows SDK, C

United Kingdom

Richard’s Computer ProductsJanuary 1987 – September 1989Project leader and designer for a 5 man team developing a series of charting packages for financial information. The system allowed server applications to plot real-time data on virtual graphics terminals across a network. Responsibilities included liaising with customers, writing functional specifications and producing design documents. BCPL, BBC Micro, C, Microsoft Windows

United Kingdom

Lead engineer in a team within the Human Interface Technology group which developed an automated system for the training of air traffic controllers. The system comprised of speech recognition and speech synthesis hardware together with dialog control software to simulate pilot responses and display the flight of up to twenty aircraft. During the course of this work, I attended several conferences and workshops, at home and abroad. I contributed to several papers and was invited to a NATO workshop on multi-modal dialogues, where I gave a paper and chaired one of the discussion sessions.CORAL, Pascal, MASCOT

United Kingdom

Designed and built an interactive graph-plotting package that allowed data to be taken from disk file and plotted in a variety of ways. A user could adjust data and format the graphs before printing or saving.BASIC, MSDOS

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Acoustics

Master Of Science (Msc), Acoustics

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Physics