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Wimbledon, London SW19

Support and development of software for the restaurant and takeaway industry.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for migration of legacy multi-client ticketing system from VB6 platform to C#.Net APIs.

London, United Kingdom

Provided consultancy for independent development team managing the migration of legacy tax applications from various legacy systems to.NET.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for ongoing development and maintenance of expatriate tax system for the preparation of client tax returns through accommodation of annual tax legislation changes and extension the scope of the applications.
• Migration of standalone collection of simple VB4 applications to integrated suite of VB5 executables, object-oriented business components and standardised interface controls;
• Ongoing annual development of this suite, including migration to VB6 and support for multi-year operation;
• Prototyped module to interact with HMRC's electronic filing interface, before subsequent development in C#.Net;
• Rapid in-code debugging of support calls and provision of ad-hoc solutions for exceptional cases;
• Implemented solution to publish client documents in PDF format online;

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for delivery of an expatriate tax system to the client - Ernst & Young.Key achievements
• Recovered the contract with the client;
• Managed the relationship with the customer to ensure delivery according to their needs;
• Educated myself in the required tax knowledge to become the subject-matter expert for the development team;
• Combined the role of team coordinator (seven programmers) with that of developer (VB4, VB5, Oracle).

West Byfleet, Surrey, United Kingdom

• Responsible for providing IT solutions for in-house use and for use on client projects for a traditional firm of civil engineers. Technologies used were Infobase, FoxPro, VB and SQLServer.Significant projects
• Government of Hong Kong - providing software for engineers to survey public infrastructure. The software was for use in the field with ruggedised laptops and early portable digital cameras;
• Project Finance System - a project cost tracking system, that required facilitating compromise between the finance department and senior engineers heading various different departments;
• Project and Staff Experience Database - required adding structural tags into unstructured project brochures and staff CVs to enable searchability.

Ba (Hons), Literae Humaniores (Classics, Ancient History And Philosophy), Iii

Conversion Msc, It