Curriculum Vitae

 

NAME:                                                  David Robert Newby              ADDRESS:                           5 Cornfield Close

Deeping St Nicholas

                                                                                                                                                                Nr Spalding

                                                                                                                                                                Lincs      PE11 3DB

 

TELEPHONE NO.                               Home: (01775)  630760          WEB SITE:                           http://www.evadan.co.uk

Mobile: (07767) 416174

               

 

EMAIL:                                                 David@evadan.co.uk              D.O.B.                                    19th June 1974

 

 

PERSONAL PROFILE:

 

As a widely experienced and technically qualified professional senior systems analyst/developer, I am very enthusiastic, highly motivated and quite capable of dealing with any challenge presented to me. My career to date has given me a range of expertise in systems management, application development, network design & implementation, internet/intranet web development and troubleshooting.  I have proven ability of working well as an individual or as part of a team to accomplish tasks, with excellent interpersonal and communications skills.

 

 

 

KEY COMPUTING SKILLS:

VB.NET                                            [8 yrs]               Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista                              [11 yrs]

SQL Server (All Versions)                [11 yrs]             COM & Object Orientated Programming (OOP)        [7 yrs]

ASP.Net & classic ASP                     [9 yrs]              ADO, Active X                                                            [7 yrs]

Oracle (v7,8i,9i)                                 [8 yrs]               Javascript + VBScript, AJAX                                     [4 yrs]

Internet Information Server (IIS)       [9 yrs]               Sybase, Firebird                                                           [1 yr]

HTML                                                [10 yrs]             Novell (v3.12 and 4)                                                    [3 yrs]

Unix (HP-UX, Solaris, Linux)          [8 yrs]               N-Tier architecture                                                       [8 yrs]

C#                                                      [3 yrs]               XML & XSLT                                                             [6 yrs]

Business Fusion + yourSelf               [2 yrs]               PS Enterprise (PSe) – (HR, Payroll, AMS etc…)       [2 yrs]

Crystal Reports                                  [2yrs]                .NET & Visual Studio 2003/2005/2008                       [8 yrs]

MTS/COM+/SOAP/Web Services    [3 yrs]               WCF, WPF, WF, LINQ                                              [1 yr]

Subversion & TFS, VSS                   [2 yrs]               Design Patterns, Messaging Systems (ESB)               [2yrs]

MapPoint and mapping solutions      [2 yrs]               DevExpress & Telerik Component Suites                    [3yrs]

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

 

(November 2008 – March 2009)         

(1 month contract + 1 extension)

Woodland

Anglia Cargo Terminal

Priors Way

Coggeshall

Essex CO6 1TL

 

·         Senior .NET consultant  reporting directly to the IT Director working on an EDI import application to interface to an existing logistics system.

·         Greenfield project to write a complex EDI import mechanism with various layers of business logic to interface into the existing Cargowise logistics system.

·         Also refactoring of a lot of their original codebase and database structure on a different system and fixing of various issues they had encountered.

·         Key Skills Used:-, VS 2008, VB.NET, LINQ,  C#, Design Patterns, SQL Server 2005, XML, DevExpress controls, TDD, Subversion, Cargowise

 

(October 2006 – November 2008)

(6 month contract + 3 extensions)

Ampy Metering Ltd/ Landis & Gyr

1 Lysander Drive,

Northfields Industrial Estate,

Market Deeping,

Peterborough.

PE6 8FB

 

·         Lead Developer/Technical Architect in a $52million Smart Metering project for SRP, the main utilities provider for Arizona.

·         Ampy (more recently known as Landis & Gyr) are an international manufacturer of smart gas, electricity and water metering solutions.

·         Successfully designed and implemented a large scale multi-tier distributed smart metering/CRM system to communicate with meters via low power radio and SMS gateways.

·         Also responsible for developing a full meter/account/customer management system (AMS)  to interface with the core system.

·         Full project lifecycle working in an agile environment and utilising various SCRUM techniques and TDD.

·         Also responsible for team management and systems support.

·         Key Skills Used:-, Team Foundation Server (TFS), VB.NET, C#, Design Patterns, LINQ, Messaging Systems, Enterprise Service Bus, dependency injection with Castle Windsor, CAB, WCF, SOAP Web Services, DDD,  SQL Server 2005, XML, Linux, Firebird, DevExpress controls, SQL Reporting services, nUnit and MS Test, Subversion, nAnt & Cruise Control, TDD, core Frameworks, .NET 3.5, SOA, ReSharper.

 

 

(August 2006 – October 2006)

(2 month contract)

Johnston Press plc,

Oundle Road,

Woodston,

Peterborough.

PE2 9QR

 

·         Senior ASP.NET Developer working on Jobs and CV Matching website for a large media company.

·         Working alongside three other developers to produce the new http://www.jobstoday.co.uk website (combining functionality from both the existing jobs site and the http://www.cvmatch.net site).

·         Functionality included a “Job Posting” section, CV matching to jobs and recruiter and candidate administration and accounts.

·         Also developed a lot of complex custom templated server controls in ASP.NET for use within the site and a great deal of AJAX pages too.

·         Provided integration with Daxtra’s CV parser for extracting meaningful data from uploaded CVs.

·         Key Skills Used:-, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Templated, server and custom controls, AJAX,  SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Visual Studio 2003, Javascript, XML, Dreamweaver

 

(June  2006 – August 2006)

Unison,

1 Mabledon Place,

London,

WC1H 9AJ

 

·         .NET Consultant working on a Pay and Grading Project for Unison

·         Coding of web pages in ASP.NET, VB.NET and C# to perform new calculations and modelling on the re-organisation of all of Unison’s new pay scales.

·         Various other change controls/fixes to their systems.

·         Key Skills Used:-, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, PS Enterprise, SQL Server 2000, Visual Studio 2003, Javascript, XML

 

 

(February 2006 – June 2006)

(3 month contract)

Johnston Press plc,

Oundle Road,

Woodston,

Peterborough.

PE2 9QR

 

·         Senior ASP.NET Developer working on an Entertainments Platform Project for a large media company.

·         Solely developed an entire “Entertainments” platform for use within over 250 web portals for all the local and national newspaper sites that Johnston Press own.

·         Functionality included a What’s On section, Cinema and Restaurant Guides, Photo galleries (with uploading of photos via MMS and the web sites), full searching of all items/events etc…

·         Use of complex custom templated server controls in ASP.NET for ease of implementation for the site designers.

·         Content feeds and editorial taken from a number of different sources.

·         Key Skills Used:-, ASP.NET, VB.NET, Templated, server and custom controls, AJAX, .NET Web Services, SQL Server 2000 and 2005, Visual Studio 2003, Javascript, XML

 

(October 2005 – Present)

Various Projects

Evadan Systems Ltd

Office 5

King Street Ind. Estate

Langtoft

Peterborough

PE6 9NF

·         Various Projects

·         Setup “yourSelf” system with Business Fusion and PSe for the Church of England and training for several users.

·         Ongoing enhancements and development of new functionality to the “Donations” .NET system for the Garfield Weston Foundation.

·         Enhancements to London Furnishing’s Stock control system.

·         Working on ABF Property Management System (VB based) for Associated British Foods and also developing a web based solution in .NET.

·         Implemented a web based mapping solution for a fleet management tracking system utilising both Microsoft Virtual Earth and also Google APIs.

·         Key Skills Used:-, yourSelf, Business Fusion, PSe, VB.NET, VB6, ASP  ADO.NET, SQL Server 2000/2005, Crystal Reports, MS Access, C#, Visual Studio 2005/2008, Virtual Earth, Google APIs, Javascript.

 

(July 2005 – October 2005)

3 month contract

ContainerLift Ltd

Haslers Lane

Dunmow

Essex

·         CF.NET development on PDAs and barcode stock control system

·         GPS monitoring application over GPRS

·         Developed a PDA application in .NET for tracking the movement of pallets onto lorries and between depots (Full development life cycle)

·         Also developed a .NET system for monitoring the GPS locations of lorries around the country and using web services and MapPoint to plot locations and calculate routes.

·         Designed and wrote a low level .NET installer program for the PDA application to automatically install from an SD Card.

·         Key Skills Used:-, VB.NET, CF.NET, SQL Server 2000, MS MapPoint, Web Services, HTTP Requests, Windows Mobile Edition, Barcode Scanners,C#

 

(April 2005 – Present)

Ongoing Projects

Evadan Systems Ltd

5 Cornfield Close

Deeping St Nicholas

Spalding

Lincs PE11 3DB

·         Various Projects

·         Developed an entire Stock Control System using PiccoLink barcode scanners with a VB front end and a web interface for a plastics company.

·         Built a survey creation add on module for the SalesLogix eCRM system that enabled users to create online web based surveys for their email campaigns.

·         Developed another stock control system for the London Furnishing Company using Unitech barcode scanners for checking in/out goods.

·         Various other support and development contracts with other companies.

·         Key Skills Used:-, Visual Basic 6, SQL Server 2000, ASP, HTML, Barcode Scanners, Active X

 

(Oct 2004 – 2007)

Ongoing .NET Project Work

British Sugar

& Associated British Foods

and also the Garfield Weston Foundation

·         .NET Projects

·         Working for British Sugar, ABF and the Garfield Weston Foundation doing various fixed price .NET projects including a Donations System, Contact Management system and a Property Management database.

·         Implemented their current live Charity Donations system in their head office in Grosvenor St and currently provide ongoing support to their users and any further development enhancements

·         Various other enhancements to Donations System and coding of approx 30 reports using SQL Server and Crystal Reports in .NET

·         Key Skills Used:-, VB.NET, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports,C#

 

(Aug 2003 – March  2005)

[Initial 1 month contract +4 extensions]

Northgate Rebus HR

Thorpe Park

Peterborough

PE3 6JY

·         Senior Developer/Consultant

·         Working in Professional Services department doing customisation for PS Enterprise and Business Fusion/yourself for a number of major clients (including Debenhams, EasyJet, Diamond Trading, EMI Records, Mitie, PowerGen(E.ON), Scottish Water, BASF to name but a few) .

·         Implemented “Time & Attendance” and “Mileage Expense” systems for several clients.

·         Project managed a U3 database, web and Business Fusion upgrade from start to finish for a large chemical company (BASF).

·         Developed the NSPCC’s current pension system.

·         Implemented all the Law Society’s web based Payroll & HR systems including their Training and Recruitment modules.

·         Also, worked in the Business Services Hosting department solving payroll related problems for a large hosted customer base.

·         Key Skills Used:-,  SQL Server, PS Enterprise, Business Fusion, ASP, VB, Impromptu,  MTS/COM+, VBScript, VBA, PS Scheduler, Oracle, DTS, COM, Windows 2000 Server, Citrix, Terminal Services, XML

 

(June 2003)

[1 month contract]

Spicers Ltd

Sawston

Cambridge

CB2 4JG

·         E-Commerce Consultant

·         Short term contract tuning IIS performance and troubleshooting various network and application problems.

·         Involved IIS log analysis and web farm monitoring and tweaking various IIS components.

·         Key Skills Used:-,  IIS, perfMon, Cisco LocalDirector, SQL Server, ASP, Windows 2000, XP, Web Farms, COM, Web Services.

 

(Feb 2003 – May 2003)

Evadan Systems Ltd

The Old Chapel

Manuden

Nr Bishops Stortford

Herts

CM23 1DT

·         Freelance Development Work

·         Working for my own company I secured a number of development contracts with large companies (writing systems using Visual Studio,VB, Interdev, ASP, COM and .NET). 

·         The systems I developed included a school Canteen system, a Stock Control system using barcode scanners, a Sales and Marketing email and web  module for one of the leading E-Business packages on the market that tracks customer interest for various marketing campaigns and a holiday home rental web site.

·         Improved my company network infrastructure to handle the demands of today’s business requirements and to cater for multiple support and  development environments.

·         Key Skills Used:- VB, Visual Interdev, ASP, XML, Oracle, MS Access, .NET, ADO, IIS, SQL Server, HTML, SOAP, n-Tier Application & Web UI Design,  COM & COM+, Visual Studio,  RF Technology and PicoLink Barcode scanners, CRM Software.

 

(June 2001 – Feb 2003)

[6 month contract + extensions]

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Building 6, Park Road,

Ware

Herts

·         Senior Business Analyst/Developer

·         Working for the Small Projects and Rapid Application Development Group (SPARG) group in Pre-Clinical IT (PC-IT) at GSK.

·         Responsible for developing GXP compliant systems for the various business areas within GSK to iQMS standards

·         Successfully wrote and delivered four major applications to the business through the full project life cycle (ie. From first analysis through to final project delivery and full documentation for the systems).

·         Business analysis for projects and iQMS deliverables in various areas of GSK on a consultancy basis.

·         Successful completion of SOPs for the business.

·         Also responsible for IIS administration of all the web servers, and served as a key player in future network design and implementation strategies.

·         Key Skills Used:- Visual Studio, iQMS, VB, ASP, Oracle, .NET, iPASD,  NT4, ADO, IIS, COM, XML/XSL,  VBA, SQL Server,  Visual Interdev, HTML,  Lotus Notes, Documentum, n-Tier Design, UML, VBScript & Javascript, Perl and UNIX (Solaris)

 

(Sept 2000 – April 2001)

[6 month contract]

British Telecommunications Ltd

FastTrack Solutions, Cambridge Trunks,

109-117 Long Road

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

CB2 2HG

·         Analyst Programmer

·         RAD developer in a 4000 user environment

·         OO design/analysis including modeling a multitude of COM projects

·         Key Skills Used:- Visual Studio, VB6, ASP, SQL, Oracle, NT4, ADO, IIS, XML, COM,  VBA, HTML,  XML,  Dreamweaver, n-Tier Application Design,  Javascript & Attachmate 6.5

 

(Jan 2000 – Sept 2000)

[6 month contract + extenstions]

Auto-OnLine Ltd,

Auto Online House,

Dunhams Lane, Letchworth,

Herts, SG6 1BE

·         Hands-on IT Director

·         B2B dot com company (currently valued at £15million) providing remarketing solutions for the Internet car market.

·         Design to implementation of entire IT infrastructure and systems  for both in-house and Globix.

·         Developed various full life cycle applications and  modules for interface with all RAC customers (using VB and XML).

·         Implemented a high tech training room using Sun NetRays with smart cards and Terminal Server.

·         Fully responsible for all IT purchasing, outsourcing and  hiring plus presenting progress reports to the board of directors every month.

·         Key Skills Used:- VB6, Visual Studio, SQL, ASP, IIS, NT4, ADO, Oracle 8i, Solaris 7, Apache, COM, VBA, HTML, Hyperflow load balancing/failover clustering, Javascript, XML, Windows 2000, Citrix and Terminal Server.

 

(Feb 1999 – Jan 2000)

[6 month contract + extensions]

SmithKline Beecham

New Frontiers Science Park (North)

Third Avenue, Harlow

Essex, CM19 5AW

·         Developer/Support analyst 

·         Headed a small team on a large budget project, developing a replacement LIMS system (CIMTRACK) start to finish for entire n-tiered infrastructure within project budget, including all Y2K testing and web based reporting functions with ASP.

·         Achieved competent understanding of LIMS systems, Genotyping methods and QMS procedures.

·         Key Skills Used:- Sybase, IIS, VB6, Visual Studio, ASP, COM, HTML,  NT4,  ADO, Solaris, Y2K Testing, SQL, Lotus Notes,  Javascript, Oracle, Apple Macs, DEC Alphas

 

 

(July 1998  - Feb 1999)

[3 month contract + extensions]

Simoco International Ltd

P.O. Box 24

St Andrews Road

Cambridge, CB4 1DP

·         3rd line support/development

·         Contract with large telecom company.

·         One of Three MCSEs responsible for 21 NT Servers, all BackOffice issues and 3rd line support to the helpdesk.

·         Developed company web site (on Apache and IIS) and web mail system using ASP and MS Exchange Serer.

·         Key Skills Used:- NT4, VB6, Visual Studio, MS Exchange, SQL, SMS, HEAT, Proxy Server, IIS, Citrix Winframe, Windows Terminal Server, RAS, ASP, Apache, Solaris,  HTML

 

(Feb 1998  - July 1998)

[3 month contract + extension]

Wickford Test and Repair Centre

Ford Motor Company Ltd

Wickford

Essex

·         Senior Systems Support Analyst contract for Ford Motor Company

·         Fully responsible for 3rd line desktop support and management for site plus development of replacement Shipping and Receiving system for interface with Ford’s main Oracle based supplier database.

·         Key Skills Used:- HP-UX, VB, SMS, NT4, MS Office, TCP/IP, Oracle, HTML, SQL Server, Visual Studio

 

(March 1997 - Feb 1998)

[Permanent position]

KCS Information Management Ltd

Kenburgh Court

131-137 South Street

Bishops Stortford

Herts. CM23 3HX

·         Technical Support Manager

·         Fully responsible for start to finish large IT support contracts while managing a team of system analysts.

·         Network design and installation work for clients.

·         Web master and VB development consultant.

·         Key Skills Used:- NT4, VB6, MS Office, Unix, Novell, MS Exchange Server, TCP/IP, Oracle, SQL Server,HTML, IIS, Visual Studio, Groupwise

 

(Oct 1996 - March 1997)

[Permanent position, sub-contracted by KCS]

Wickford Test and Repair Centre

Ford Motor Company Ltd

Wickford, Essex.

·         Plant IT Manager.

·         Fully responsible for start up and administration of plant's Unix network (HP-UX),  standardization of PC client loads, developing site’s web pages.

·         Wrote an MS Access based barcode system to replace the site’s production system.

·         Key Skills Used:- HP-UX, VB, HTML, MS Frontpage, MS Access, Oracle, SMS, SQL Server, NT4

 

(Nov 1995 - Oct 1996)

[Permanent position, sub-contracted by KCS]

Research and Engineering Centre

Ford Motor Company Ltd

Laindon, Basildon

Essex  SS15 6EE

·         Senior Systems Analyst and Client/Server Co-Ordinator for Ford of Europe.

·         Fully responsible for development/maintainenance of 17 Client/Server and web based applications for multiple Ford plants through Europe.

·         Key Skills Used:- Oracle, VB6, OfficeVision, HTML, Javascript, MS Office, HP-UX, NT4

 

 (Sept 1994 – Nov 1995)

[Permanent position]

KCS Information Management Ltd

Kenburgh Court

131-137 South Street

Bishops Stortford

Herts  CM23 3HX

·         Helpdesk Support Analyst

·         Sub-Contracted to Ford Motor Company.

·         Responsible for providing network and 2nd line PC support to over 4000 users.

·         Key Skills Used:- Novell Netware, MS Office, Outlook, NT4, HTML, PC Support skills

 

(May 1994 - Sept 1994)

[Permanent position]

South Woodford Electronics

Southmill Trading Centre

Bishops Stortford, Herts

·         Electronics PCB Designer

·         Finished university and took a job in the electronics field, designing and producing PCB modules.

·         Studied Novell CNE course in spare time

 


 

 

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:      

 

Ampy Metering Ltd                                - Dependency Injection / Inversion of Control using Castle Windsor

-Messaging Systems / Enterprise Service Bus / CAB

- LINQ to XML

 

Northgate Rebus HR                               - PS Enterprise Training (HR, Payroll, Recruitment and AMS modules)

- Business Fusion + yourSelf training   

 

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)                         - All required GSOPs completed for IT development work and business

- Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Training

- Lotus Notes development training

- Portal Training

- Sybase Admin

- Transact SQL (T-SQL) and SQL Server

- Active Server Pages (ASP)

 

BT FastTrack                                          - OO Analysis & Design with Business Objects

 

BareFoot                                                 -  MS Exchange Server (v5.5)

 

InterQuad                                                -  Microsoft Certified Professional (Windows 95 MCP Product Specialist)

                                                                -  Novell CNE qualifications (Novell 3.12 CNE)

 

Hewlett Packard                                      -  HP UX (9&10)

                                  

Ford Motor Company                             -  PC Configuration (3rd line support level)

                                                                -  X.400 Silas Administration & X Windows (Exceed)

                                                                -  Oracle & SQL Server Admin

                                                                -  Visual Basic

                                                                -  ISO9000 and QS9000 qualifications

 

KCS Information                                     -  Microsoft Windows NT Server

Management Ltd (KiM)                          -  Systems Management Server (SMS)

-  HTML, VBScript and JavaScript

 

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University of  East Anglia (U.E.A)         - HND in Electronics. (2 years of a B.Sc.(Hons) degree course).

 

Newport Free Grammar School              - 3 A Levels in Maths, Physics and Chemistry

- 9 G.C.S.E.s in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Technology,

  English (Lang), English (Lit.), Geography, French and German.

 

 

REFERENCES CAN BE SUPPLIED ON REQUEST