Alchemise helps clients change and adapt through strategic investment in IT and the latest technologies. With innovative technical solutions, Alchemise delivers greater business value to organisations by providing assistance in addressing technological challenges.Alchemise specialise in all areas of commercial software development and have experience of the latest Microsoft technologies including Microsoft BizTalk, Visual Studio, Team System, TFS, C#, Visual Basic.NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, MS SQL Server and the Microsoft Office Suite.

Established a software delivery infrastructure using Microsoft Team Foundation Server and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System, as a common platform for software development, source control, reporting, continuous integration, and project tracking.Developed software to allow assesssment associates the ability report on quality standards at learning centres.Helped transform Edexcel’s IT Department with the adoption of Agile practices including Scrum, and streamlined and accelerated the software delivery process.

Technical consulting at the UK's largest awarding body offering academic and vocational qualifications and testing to schools, colleges, employers in the UK and internationally.

Architected and designed a high performance, scalable and fault-tolerant messaging infrastructure solution, for a leading international law firm, to integrate the firm’s practice management software with multiple systems, including their human resources system. The platform uses BizTalk 2006, clustered SQL Servers, load-balanced IIS Servers the latest 64-bit technology.Provided project lifecycle planning, cost estimates, overall team leadership and technical guidance for a new strategic Enterprise Service Bus infrastructure, employing industry best practices.Designed, architected and delivered a high performance, scalable and fault-tolerant messaging infrastructure for a major office supply distributor. The infrastructure provides a high volume, secure, B2B messaging framework allowing request/response transactions for over 1500 customers. The platform uses BizTalk 2006, clustered SQL Servers, load-balanced IIS Servers, and a Storage Area Network (SAN), and uses the latest 64-bit technology.Employed best practices to manage the project lifecycle from inception to transition into production, in a rapid timescale, including full requirements analysis/capture, technical design and risk management.Provided business analysis and technical support for the deployment of Dell’s Premier procurement platform, across 20 EMEA countries, providing a web-based automated e-commerce capability for large commercial and governmental customers, and enhancing Dell’s automated online capability.Enhanced and deployed an ecommerce application to charge environmental fees, allowing Dell to successfully comply legally with the EU’s WEEE Directive in various European countries.At a major private healthcare provider, lead a team of developers extending and enhancing a common architectural framework for workflow event handling, security and reporting within a large-scale enterprise application, using Microsoft .NET and “smart client” technologies.

Architected a high performance, scalable airline search engine that is currently used worldwide within the travel industry. Created an extensible, tiered architecture, and a stateless, scalable application development framework. Implemented the system using the Microsoft .Net Framework (C# and Visual Basic.Net), and Sybase and SQL Server databases. Development included the provision of complex web-browser interfaces and XML web services.Provided recommendations for architectural changes to existing software to provide significant improvements performance and scalability.Created and delivered formal training sessions in web development technologies and techniques, and UML-based development methodologies. Taught and encouraged adherence to industry best practices, and the usage of established development patterns.

Developed a secure and extensible web-based translation portal, on behalf of a major automobile manufacturer. The system allows users to maintain application data translations in 20 different European countries. The architecture had a service-based design, and encompassed presentation, process, entity, interface and data tiers. Application development was carried out using Microsoft VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML and SQL Server 2000. The project was performed using a Rational-based methodology, including the construction of Use Cases and UML modelling.

As a senior consultant at a company specializing in Microsoft-based e-commerce application development, developed a B2B message processing and rebate calculation system for a large wholesale food distributor in Richmond, Virginia.Primary responsibilities included the architecting and development of a BizTalk messaging solution using VB, ADO, SQL Server 2000, Visual Interdev, COM+, and XML, providing integration with a general ledger accounting system, and the implementation of a complex rebate calculation subsystem. This high profile application was part of a Microsoft case study.Provided recommendations for the Company’s strategic and technical focus with respect to the latest wireless technologies.

Project management and technical supervision for a team of consultants developing credit card processing software on behalf of a leading credit card company. The software allows accounting departments to electronically reconcile and categorize corporate expenditure. Developed using VB, Microsoft Access and ADO components.

Designed and developed a graphical user interface, client/server patient monitoring application for a major health care company. Participated in onsite consultations with the customer to gather requirements, negotiate acceptance criteria, coordinate the technical aspects of the implementation, create technical and user documentation, provide technical and user support during acceptance testing. Development was in Visual Basic 4.0 under Windows NT 3.5.1, in combination with SQL Server 6.0, Microsoft Access 7.0, and Crystal Reports.Analysis and evaluation of web development technologies including: Java, Java workshop, HTML, CGI, IDC, IIS and ASP.

Developed an image data processing system, and performed the subsequent installation and support of the software at academic and governmental institutions within Europe. Software development was performed using the 'C' language.Designed and developed scientific image analysis tools using the IDL programming language, and developed a web server to deliver image data and distribute software (HTML development).

Provided technical support to system administrators for Unix hardware platforms and software, under contract from NCR (UK) Limited. This involved trouble-shooting, kernel reconfiguration, system administration, network support, compiler support and software development.

Developed a Client-Server human resources system using the Progress 4GL. The system allowed tracking of employee information and integrated with corporate accounting systems.Performed the systems analysis of several corporate legacy systems in the United Kingdom, and the development of standardised European systems.