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Name: Stuart Eastland Date of Birth: 30/07/1959

e:mail *********@*********.*** Nationality: British / Australian

Qualifications

1970-1977: 10 'O' levels, 4 'A' levels, Haywards Heath Grammar, Sussex, UK.

1977-1980: B.Sc. Physics (hons.), Nottingham University, UK.

1995-2003:

VB3, Access2, WOSSA I & II, SQL 6.5, Architecture I & II,

VB6 Desktop & Distributed,

Analysing Requirements & Defining Solution Architectures,

Windows-based Applications with VB.NET and VS.NET Distributed,

Analysing Requirements & Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures

Technical Summary

Entered Information Technology: June 1982

Positions Held: Team Leader / Project Manager

System Architect / Designer

Database Administrator

Analyst / Programmer

Hardware/Operating Systems: PCs with Windows 95/98 / NT / Windows 2000 / XP

Handhelds running Windows CE

IBM mainframe

Languages/Software:

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (all versions)

inc. C#, ASP.NET and ADO.NET 10 years

HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, VB Script 12 years

InterDev, IIS, ASP, ASP.NET 12 years

XML, SOAP and WebServices 7 years

SQL Server / Sybase / Oracle 16 years

ADO.NET, ADO, DAO, ODBC 12 years

eVB & Compact Framework (Pocket PC / Windows Mobile) 8 years

Visual Basic (all versions) 16 years

Crystal Reports (to version 7) 4 years

COM, DCOM, MTS 7 years

COBOL & mainframe products 10 years

Productivity Packages: Microsoft Office, including VBA

Microsoft Project & Visio

Lotus Notes

Microsoft Visual Studio

Merant PVCS

Development Methodologies: DMR Productivity +

RAD development & prototyping

Recent Technical Training Courses: XML and Web Services

Building e-Commerce Solutions (Business to Consumer)

Building n-Tier Applications with VB

Sybase SQL Server Admin System 11

Overview

I am an experienced team leader / senior developer with over 20 years in the IT industry.

I have considerable experience with Microsoft development technologies, especially .NET

(including C# and web services).

I am skilled in the use of HTML (including dynamic HTML and behaviours), JavaScript,

remote scripting and AJAX, and have considerable experience in the design of n-tier system

architecture.

I have developed several handheld (PDA) applications using the .NET framework and the

embedded toolkit, including integration with server databases via SQL replication and/or

webservices.

I am also experienced in all aspects of the design and implementation of SQL databases.

I have experience of the entire project life-cycle including project management, team

leadership, quality assurance, system testing and developing implementation strategies. I

have also conducted training sessions and provided user support for applications.

I have good communication and management skills and I am self-motivated and a fast

learner.Work Experience

September 2007 - presentMay 2007 - June 2007 C# ASP.NET and WinForms (fixed-price project delivery)

VQ Communications

Chippenham, Wiltshire

Migration of an existing WinForms application with embedded browser and associated

classic ASP application to C# and ASP.NET. The application is a client component in a VOIP

communications suite for high quality video conferencing.

February 2008 - presentJuly 2007 - September 2007C# ASP.NET (fixed-price project delivery)

Head-Light Communications

Wokingham, Berkshire

Design and construction of Talent 360 (a staff appraisal system) and Talent Navigator (a

career planning system) using C# ASP.NET and SQL Server.

September 2006 - April 2007October 2005 - May 2006November 2003 - May 2004January 2003February 2003Business Analyst / .NET / PDA developer (contract & fixed-

price project delivery)

Atkins (formerly Advantage)

Farnham, Surrey

Several periods of work with Advantage, working on a variety of project and roles.

Report development for a web based case management system for the Independant Review

Service. Predominantly SQL 2000 and SQL Reporting Services.

Business analyst on Metafor, an application for tracking forensic evidence for the

Metropolitan Police. Tools and techniques used included IBM Rational and DSDM.

Team leading and system architect a fire safety system for the London Fire and Emergency

Planning Authority using ASP.NET (C#) technology and SQL Server

Development using a variety of skills including VB.NET, Embedded VB, SQL Server

replication and a GPS interface for an event security application for the police service.

These positions required government security clearance.

May 2006 - September 2006March 2002 - June 2002April 2001July 2001Web / PDA Developer (contract)

Veterinary Laboratories Agency

New Haw, Surrey

Primary software supplier for TarSIS, a veterinary study of Johnes disease in cattle.

This study will involve taking 500,000 samples from herds throughout the UK. The system

uses a handheld (Windows Mobile) on-farm sampling application which synchronised with an

ASP.NET project management and analysis application.

The applications were written using C#, ASP.NET, .NET Compact Framework and SQL Server.

This was preceded by two periods with VLA (the principal veterinary organisation within

DEFRA) developing an ASP intranet based solution for supporting research into tuberculosis

in cattle.

I worked directly with the veterinary officer leading this three year, 3 million study

and was responsible for the design and build of the system which provides project

management, workflow, data capture, data analysis and ad-hoc reporting capabilities. A

feature of the site is tight integration with MS Excel to provide graphs and charts.

The application uses ASP pages with JavaScript and DHTML, and a SQL Server 7.0 database,

and is hosted on Windows NT4 Server (SP6). It is targeted at Internet Explorer version 4.0

(or higher) browsers.

I was also responsible for training a new graduate employee in the administration of the

system and basic programming techniques.

May 2005 - August 2005

C# (Windows and Web) development (fixed-price project delivery)

Pennine Vibropiling

Bacup, Lancashire

Design and construction of a suite of application to gather instrumentation data in real

time and return it to a SQL database for analysis via a web site.

The system is written in C# and uses ASP.NET and SQL Server.

September 2004 - April 2005

.NET Web developer (contract)

EDS

Fleet, Hampshire

Design and development using C#, of an ASP.NET intranet to manage software inventory and

licensing with integration to Windows Active Directory, Radia and Citrix.

June 2004 - July 2004December 2002January 2003 .NET Extranet (fixed-price project delivery)

Paccar Financial Ltd. (a subsidiary of DAF Trucks)

Thame, Oxfordshire

Design and construction of two extranet applications to handle the sale of ex-lease

vehicles, and to provide dealers with maintenance history for commercial vehicles.

The systems use Visual Studio .NET including ASP.NET and C# business classes. The SQL

Server database access is via stored procedures.

March 2003January 2004 .NETWeb developer (contract)

DEFRA

Guildford, Surrey

.NET development using VB, XML and web-services for a Seed Certification System which is

available to UK farmers via the Government Gateway.

August 2002 - December 2002 .NET Developer (contract)

Logica

Leatherhead, Surrey

ASP and business object development on COMPASS, a case management system developed for

the Crown Prosecution Service under the Private Finance Initiative.

The system uses Visual Studio .NET including ASP.NET and VB.NET business classes running

under COM. The Oracle 9 database access is via PL-SQL stored procedures.

This position required government security clearance.

July 2002August 2002ASP Intranet (fixed-price project delivery)

Scionics

Design and construction of an intranet application to handle human resource issues

including staff appraisal and support for Investors In People and similar accreditations.

The application was designed to be sold as a customisable package by Scionics who provide

HR and other consultancy services.

The system uses ASP, JavaScript and DHTML (including behaviours), and SQL stored

procedures.

September 2001 - March 2002January 2001April 2001Web Developer (contract)

Future Mortgages (mortgage division of CitiBank)

Reading, Berkshire

I spent two periods at Future Mortgages developing an Internet based solution for

processing mortgage applications from Independent Financial Advisors and the general

public.

I was responsible for taking a prototype site design and enhancing it for use by the

general public. This involved adding strict validation for data captured (using

JavaScript) and adding help facilities to guide users through the process of applying for

a mortgage online.

The site uses ASP pages with JavaScript and DHTML, and SQL Server 2000 stored procedures,

and is hosted on Windows 2000 Server. It is targeted at version 4.0 (or better) browsers.

I later returned to enhance the site and to provide tighter integration with the internal

Windows based mortgage processing systems. The web site was re-engineered to use the

Microsoft .NET platform. This work included application design, construction of .NET

server controls, writing ASPX pages and a Visual Basic.NET class library for business

components which were shared with other internal systems

August 2000 - December 2000Senior Developer (contract)

ICL Local Government

Reading, Berkshire

Support and development of an intranet based solution for administration of Business

Rates, Council Tax and Housing Benefit by local authorities. Implemented using ASP and

HTML/DHTML (behaviours), Visual Basic 6 ActiveX/COM components running under MTS with a

SQL Server 7.0 database. The application is hosted on Windows NT4 Server (SP6) and

targeted at Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher.

I worked as a senior developer in a team of eight, working in a support/maintenance role.

This involved reproducing, fixing and testing issues raised by customers and the internal

test team and implementing product enhancements requested by customers. Mercury

TestDirector was used for issue tracking.

(This project has subsequently been transferred from ICL to Anite).

October 1999 - July 2000Senior Developer (contract)

Norwich Union Healthcare

Eastleigh, Hampshire

Development of an intranet based quotation system for healthcare and income protection

products. Implemented using HTML, JavaScript, VB web-classes and Visual Basic 6

ActiveX/COM components running under MTS with an Oracle database and making extensive use

of PL/SQL stored procedures. The application is hosted on Windows NT4 Server (SP4) and

targeted at Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher.

I joined the project as the healthcare element went live and supported this for three

months before being involved in the full life-cycle (design/development/testing) of the

income protection element. In addition to development, I was responsible for training and

mentoring a number of ex-mainframe programmers in Visual Basic and browser development

techniques.

October 1994 - October 1999Team Leader/Senior Developer (contract)

Nexus Technology

Camberley, Surrey

During my stay at Nexus the headcount grew from 8 to 35 and the company gained Microsoft

Solution Provider status. I was the senior client-server developer with a team of 6 other

developers reporting to me.

Responsibilities included:

Staff mentoring and coaching

Development of standards and procedures

Investigation into technical strategies

Project management, including estimating

Pre-sales support, user requirements analysis

System analysis, prototyping, design, construction and testing

Client-server applications developed included:

Claims and Risk management

Project control and time/expense recording with interface to MS project

Advertisement effectiveness analysis

Marketing campaign management system with interface to MS Office

Hospital laboratory epidemiology analysis system

Smaller applications were developed or prototyped in MS Access using VBA and Access

forms. Larger applications were developed with Visual Basic and SQL or Sybase back ends. A

modular architecture was used containing reusable COM components and ActiveX controls

which were also written in Visual Basic.

Web applications developed included:

Management information tool to select and display reports served from Crystal Web Server

Project control and time/expense recording

These were developed using Interdev and IIS/ASP. A DNA architecture was adopted utilising

DCOM business objects running under Microsoft Transaction Server, which managed database

connection pools and database transactions across multiple objects. ASP scripts were

written as a "glue" to control the initiation of business objects and to return the HTML

user-interface to the browser. Database access was performed using Transact-SQL stored

procedures via ActiveX Data Objects.

November 1990 - July 1994ConsultantDMR Group

Sydney, Australia

The DMR Group is an international Information Technology Consultancy (now part of

Fujitsu).

While with the DMR Group, I completed the following assignments:

Tyndall Life Assurance - Visual Basic development

Quantas Airlines - Functional analysis of aircraft engineering and maintenance system

Railways of Australia - Microfocus COBOL fare and ticketing system

March 1990 - September 1990Lead programmer/Designer (contract)

University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate

Assisted in the development and implementation of an ADS/Online system which captured and

collated exam results for GCSE and 'A' level candidates.

April 1989 - February 1990Database Administrator (contract)

British Telecom, Surrey

IDMS/R DBA supporting their Customer Service System. Responsible for installing and

maintaining IDMS/R system software, application software and database sizing and

performance tuning.

April 1987 - January 1989System Designer (contract)

Hill Samuel Life Assurance, Surrey

Assisted in the development of an ADS/Online Contract Administration system.

Responsibilities included programmer support and coaching, program design and coding, co-

ordination of system testing.

October 1985 - October 1986ConsultantSoftware Design Associates, New York, USA

A one year assignment with Goldman Sachs investment bank working on the conversion of a

floor brokerage system from a Burroughs based environment to IBM/IDMS.

April 1985 - September 1985ConsultantGeneral Electric Consulting Company, New Jersey, USA

A six month assignment with AT&T Information Systems working within a newly created

information centre providing adhoc FOCUS reports for sales and marketing use.

June 1982 - March 1985Analyst Programmer / Database Administrator

Air Products, Surrey

Joined as a graduate entrant and followed in-house training course in COBOL programming

and general information technology concepts. Initially worked as a programmer on the first

major online database system developed by Air Products written in COBOL, ADS/Online and

FOCUS.

Transferred to a position as an IDMS/R database analyst/programmer within the DBA team in

1984.

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