Resume March 2007
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trevor_clark22@hotmail.com
Northamptonshire
England
Skills
| Visual Basic.Net 2005 – 4 months | C# – 4 months |
| Visual Basic.Net 2003 – 18 months | ADO.NET –1yr |
| Visual Basic to version 6 – 7 yrs | ASP /Visual Interdev – 2.5 yrs |
| ASP.Net 2.0 beta – 2 months | XML – 2yr |
| SQL Server 2005 – 4 months | COM/COM+ – 3 yrs |
| SQL Server 2000,7, 6.5 – 5 yrs | HTML/DHTML – 2 yrs |
| ADO – 4 yrs | MS Excel VBA - 4 yrs |
| JavaScript – 2.5 yrs | Crystal Reports 7 – 1yr |
| UML – 5 yrs | Microsoft Visual Modeller – 2 yrs |
| MS Access VB - 4 yrs | Visual Source Safe – 5yrs |
Recent Experience
April 2006 – Current bss Ltd. www.bss.org
Technical Team Leader (Contract 10 mth renewed twice)
bss provides outsourced contact centre and fulfilment services. Their clients include: BBC, LearnDirect and the Home Office. Trevor led a team of 3 developers and a DBA creating web based solutions for bss’s CRM system. Projects included:
- Scheduling of outbound calls using ASP.Net and C#
- Automated creation and deployment of campaign scripts in Onyx CRM using T-SQL.
- Modification of campaign script page behavior in JavaScript using Microsoft Visual Studio Web Developer.
- Creation of new Change Request Process.
- Planning and communicating the development team’s work schedule using Microsoft Project.
- Development of advisor scripts using Onyx Enterprise Studio.
- Creation of SQL Server DTS packages for data analysis.
Nov 2005 – March 2006 DVRX Ltd. www.dvrx.tv
Technical Consultant (Contract 4 mth renewed once)
DVRX is a European based manufacturer specialising in digital video recording solutions for public transport applications like buses, trams, trains and police vehicles. Trevor was a technical consultant responsible for the design and implementation of the video viewing and downloading software for use over Wireless Network. The following technologies were used:
- Multi-channel video viewing application implemented in Visual Basic 2005 using a multithreaded finite state machine to provide maximum user responsiveness while maintaining the fastest video download speed.
- Local SQL Server 2005 database to hold, vehicle, DVR and download tables. These where accessed from the application using Typed Datasets, ADO.Net and stored procedures.
- Interpretation and implementation of video recorder protocols at binary level.
- Interfacing with JPEG2000 and JPEG image and video encoders from Morgan Multimedia, Aware and Lead Technologies using DLL calls.
- Manipulation of images using GDI+.
Sep 2005 – Nov 2005 IMAGE360 Ltd. www.image360.eu.com
Technical Consultant (Contract. 2 mth)
IMAGE360 creates panoramic virtual tours for estate agents and tourist agencies all over Europe. Trevor was a technical consultant tasked with design and development of a web based automated image processing and web site creation system. The project included the following features and technologies:
- Workflow web site created to upload client photos along with text descriptions. Web pages created in ASP.Net 2.0 and C# 2005. Communication to the database written in ADO.Net.
- Design of database using normalisation techniques and implemented using MySQL.
- Thumbnail versions of jpegs where created using .Net GDI classes.
- Separate application to process images, create property web site from template and then zip ready for client download. Realised as a multi-threaded C# Windows forms application, so that it responds to asynchronous calls from the web site while maintaining maximum throughput of processing requests. A façade class for Photoshop CS2 so that images could be translated from an annulus to a flat strip and a decent parser to create finished web sites from templates and custom XML tags.
Education
- MCP Visual Basic 6 Distributed Exam 70-175
- MCP Visual Basic 6 Desktop Exam 70-176
- BSC (HONS) Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- P.G.C.E. In Mathematics
- BTEC HNC – Introduction to C
- BTEC HNC – Software Design using C++
- British Computer Society Part 1 Examination