Developer .Net Engineer Management Oracle Project

Simon Scoffins

Technical Architect

CDS Solutions Group

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Diverse cross-industry background (healthcare, banking, manufacturing process control) with an excellent ability to communicate with clients and end users at all levels.

Over 15 years of development and systems management experience of varying complexity from small-scale single user products to the administration of enterprise databases meeting target timelines and budget requirements.

Responsible for the architectural design and development of CDS’s software projects, the development of CDS’s internal best practices and standards including but not limited to architecture, design, naming, libraries, testing and compliance.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTSIntegrated Oracle’s Business Intelligence Presentation Services into a custom ASP.Net Ajax web application, utilizing JQuery and the JQuery UI library.Developed an in house web based invoicing application using ASP.Net Ajax and Ajax Toolkit technologies.Worked closely with a designer to develop a charity organization’s website utilizing an ASP.Net based Content Management System.Identified Microsoft’s .Net Ajax technology to replace an existing unsupported Web architecture used by Ford’s energy management system originally developed by Benham. Within a team environment, developed an intranet Asp.Net Web, SQL Server application for Benham’s constructors group to track Wal-Mart building contracts, submittals and project changes.Worked within a team to develop a .Net Windows Forms Video Network Operations Centre (VNOC) system to schedule, control and monitor site wide classroom media device usage for the US Army’s Command and General Staff College.Developed a .Net Windows Forms application to control vision camera systems as part of Benham’s Assembly Management System for the manufacturing quality control process for Eaton’s assembly plants. Designed and developed an alarm banner .Net client/server application using Windows Forms, Windows Services and Remoting asynchronous callbacks as the communication infrastructure. Designed and developed a SQL Server based Part Tracking System using .Net windows services to interact with a robotic production system enabling CBS Boring Machine Company to cut defects by 72% and increasing revenue by 25%Plant wide Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) application developed using VB, SQL Server 2000 allowing operators to monitor and control the operation of The City of Wyandotte’s Water Treatment facility.Oracle RDBMS, Visual Basic client/server financial tracking application for the GM North American Marketing and Research Group tracking over $50 million worth of research and development projects.Collaborated with developers to design, develop and implement the underlying Oracle database schema, SQL queries and management scripts supporting an application to streamline Northern Rock’s plc. mortgage turn around process from weeks to days.Led a project to meet The Bank of England’s requirements for system resilience of Northern Rock’s plc. Oracle Asset Management System contributing to qualifying for full banking status of Northern Rock.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Architect Lancaster, PA

CDS Solutions Group April 2009– Present

Responsible for the architectural design and development of CDS’s software projects, the development of CDS’s internal best practices and standards including but not limited to architecture, design, naming, libraries, testing and compliance.

Web Developer Lancaster, PA

Weidenhammer Systems Corporation Oct 2008– Feb 2009

Architect, develop, and implement Windows and web-based applications using the Microsoft.Net Visual Studio 2008 and SqlServer2005. Collaborate with graphic designers and integrate HTML/CSS/JavaScript to create interactive web interfaces for WSC’s client web sites.

Software Project Engineer Walled Lake, MI

The Benham Companies, LLC 2005–2008

Worked with clients both internal and external to design and develop technical solutions to their business problems, primarily focused on the Microsoft .Net framework and associated architecture. Assisted with sales to create and direct proposals for government and private contracts. In conjunction with upper management established strategic partnerships to help broaden Benham’s market as a solution provider to government and general business.

Project Engineer Novi, MI

Commerce Controls Incorporated 2000–2005

Liaised closely with clients to deliver Microsoft based solutions to their business problems within time and budget constraints. Support and provide software development expertise to Commerce Control, Incorporated other engineering groups in their need for underlying software architecture and expertise. Participated with sales engineers and managers to develop proposals and increase growth of Commerce Controls technology services.

Application Developer Novi, MI

Commerce Controls Incorporated 1997–2000

Developed software solutions and provided technical consultancy to client’s manufacturing production and controls needs within a team environment. Worked closely with Project Engineers to ensure that projects were developed to specification and adhere to tight project time lines.

Database Analyst Newcastle, UK

Northern Rock Bank plc 1995–1997

As part of a team of DBA’s ensured the stability, reliability and performance of Northern Rock’s plc. business critical Oracle databases such that no major loss of financial transactions were incurred due to unforeseen down time. Other DBA operations were performing database re-organizations, upgrading Oracle software, implementing backup strategies, developing PL/SQL scripts to monitor daily activity and record resource usage etc.

SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Certified Professional Web Developer (MCPD) .Net 2.0 C#

Microsoft Certified Professional Windows Developer (MCPD) .Net 2.0 C#

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer .Net (MCSD) .Net 1.1 C#

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) - Database Administrator.

Languages: C#, ASP.Net, VB.Net, T-SQL, JavaScript, HTML, XML, PL/SQL, VB 6.0, VBA

Databases: SQL Server 2005/2000, SQL Server 7.0/6.5, Oracle 8i/7.5, MS Access

Platforms: Windows 2003/2000/XP/NT, IIS

Tools: Visual Studio 2008/2005/2003, Visio, Visual Source Safe, Visual Studio 6.0

Technologies: .Net3.5/2.0/1.1, ADO.Net, Remoting, Web Services, XML, OO Programming/Design

EDUCATION

Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield, UK

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science 1995

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