Working with a team of 3 developers locally, and 6 remotely, to maintain and develop a back office ASP.NET holiday reservation application called Tr@veller.The core Tr@veller application was actually written by a third party software house. The local development team at Hoseasons are responsible for developing and supporting additional functionality not provided by the third party application.Worked on the following:• Setup up TFS 2010 source control for all projects and ancillary applications part way through a major project cycle• Created version control strategy for database solution including merging of developments of thirdparty software-house achieved using branches in TFS• Created price feed system to retrieve pricing data from third party suppliers, using ftp, http• Created a messaging system to be used by price imports and future solutions• Built a 'desktop build' which retrieved latest version of all applications (incl. database) from TFS and compiled all solutions to provide automated deployment for continuous integration• Created web front end to allow ad hoc pricing data import• Web service integration and support• ASP.NET development primarily VB.NET• Supporting classic ASP• Writing SQL, stored procs, functions, views, tables, indexes etc...• Optimising existing SQL stored procedures, functions etc...• Bug fixes• Maintaining Crystal reportsResponsible for:• Inherited ownership of finance payment system which processed millions of pounds worth of payments to accommodation owners monthly• Creating deployment packages including testing and roll back plans• C# .NET mentoring• Coding best practice mentoring

The development and maintenance of an award winning in-house Windows Forms application, with an MS SQL back end, in a team of three developers. Local users served via a fat client and remote users via a single instance of the application over terminal servers.Worked on a number of developments including the following:• Integrations with external suppliers via Web Services, FTP accounts, emails, SSIS, and web site scraping, for stock feeds and claim handling.• A solution to allow concurrent access to a non thread safe third party dll by implementing a queued messaging using MS Service Broker.• A small web portal in ASP.NET to allow suppliers access to downloadable export files, generated in real-time.• Integrated third party ‘unmanaged code’ command line utilities into our .NET application to convert various file formats to support pdf and other file exports.• Specification and creation of a development application to audit changes made by the development team when supporting business issues and provide a more developer-centric view of claims.• Implementation of third party .NET UI components.• MS SQL db design and implementation.Responsible for:• Recruitment in authoring and giving technical telephone interviews.• Setting up UAT environments, involving several systems, for testing.• Releasing new versions of the enterprise application out of hours and authoring release notes.• Monitoring the state of several system critical components such as IIS servers, productions databases and supplier stock feeds. • Ongoing bug fixes.• Providing stats on db files to identify log growth and drive capacity issues.• Ensuring good database performance.• Source control house-keeping: branching and merging pre and post UAT and production releases.

As a software developer in a team of twenty developers for a nationwide company developing a bespoke Windows Application, with a MS SQL backend, serving over two hundred users.Worked in a six man team responsible for the ECommerce systems. During this time I have worked on the following:-• A synchronous interface between a major insurer and our in-house application, achieved via WCF components including an ASP.NET WCF Web Service hosted in IIS and local Windows Services.• Created a VB.NET application, to be run by multiple developers, to monitor the state of various event logs, Windows Services, Web Services, directories and other system critical components. • Implementation of an insurer facing RESTService to enable autonomous job deployment.• Optimising SQL code.• Maintaining systems for propagating database server changes to an army of tablet computers out in the field via SCF.• General VB.NET Windows Forms development and support.• MS SQL Stored Procedures for the fat client’s back end.• MS SQL db design and implementation.During this time I have been responsible for • Technical documentation, including design and technology decisions.• Documentation reviews.• Bug fixing and support for existing systems.• Maintenance of ancillary ASP.NET application.• Code reviews.

As a Database Developer I worked in a small team responsible for creating and maintaining a suite of MI reports.Worked on the following:-• Writing optimised stored procedures for report back ends.• Developing ETL processes in T-SQL to populate data warehouse.• Small scale ASP.NET & classic ASP pages to present reports.• OLAP technologies for providing data cubes/ pivot tables. • Created variety of reports using BO: Crystal Reports.And was responsible for:-• Liaising with senior management and directors to obtain report specifications and agree delivery dates.• Delivering reports to agreed timescales.• Educating users in the report specification process.• DTS of legacy system databases into SQL 2005 databases.• Providing monthly statistics.