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Peter Bailey
Plymouth, Devon, UK.
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I am a skilled web developer, specialising in ASP.NET development in C# with SQL Server, and use HTML, CSS, JavaScript and XML extensively. I have worked on e-commerce websites, and also on commercial software projects. I am fanatical about code quality whilst working to strict schedules. I seek to ensure all my projects are standards compliant, quick and well structured, to ensure scalability and maintainability.

Programming Languages

  • .NET (C#, ASP.NET)
  • SQL, T-SQL
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • XML, XSLT, XPath and XQuery
  • HTML / XHTML
  • ASP (VBScript)

Software & OS Experience

  • Visual Studio / VS.NET
  • CVS (with WinCVS front-end)
  • Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
  • IIS on Windows Server 2000/2003
  • Mantis / Test Director
  • Microsoft Office Applications
  • All major Windows platforms
  • Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro

Employment

February 2008 — Present day: Twofour Digital Ltd — Web Developer
I currently work for a new media company, producing websites for their various clients. I code in ASP.NET, C# and SQL Server, and often deal with web services as well.
My work at Twofour Digital is varied, due to the array of different clients the company deals with. As a result I have to be very flexible, able to quickly pick up existing projects to make changes as needed and able to deal with requirements at various levels of detail.
January 2007 — February 2008: Centennial Software Ltd — Web Developer
Centennial Software Ltd are an international software company, whose main product deals with the management of hardware and software assets within companies. My job was to code in ASP.NET, using C# and SQL Server to enhance the web reporting aspect of the product, which allows administrators to easily access the information they require.
The projects were usually based on single line requirements, and through meetings with the Project Manager and other key business users I helped establish exact specifications and committed to strict deadlines. The projects generally lasted 6 months from initial requirements through to RTM. I produced use cases and the Functional Specification for the work required, and then coded against them once the Product Manager had committed to the final draft. Once in the development phase of a project, I produced weekly builds which were given to the Test Team who raised any bugs found through Mantis (their bug tracking product), which I subsequently fixed. I also liaised with support to fix any issues that were raised by customers using previous versions of the product, and either rolled the fix into the next release or helped create a patch for the customer, depending on the severity of the problem.
September 2004 — December 2006: Direct Wines Ltd. — Web Developer.
My position as a web developer involved working in a team of two main developers, with a team of six content providers below us. My job was to maintain and enhance the code base behind the 21 websites, administer the SQL Server 2000 and 2005 databases, and also to ensure the smooth running of the development environments.
Day to day work involved coding in C#, ASP.NET and SQL, as well as some VBScript for ASP. I was responsible for adding pages, maintaining the current XML/XSLT and HTML front-end code and the code behind the Content Management Systems that the content team used to update the website.
All the websites ran on IIS, which I helped upgrade from IIS5 to IIS6 (I gained strong IIS skills from this). The websites relied heavily on ad-hoc SQL, and I worked to increase the focus on stored procedures (both .NET and T-SQL SPs) to improve performance. My SQL Server maintenance involved checking the operation of scheduled tasks, performance monitoring, index tuning and data management, and regularly working with DTS.
I also administered the version control system (Visual SourceSafe 2005) - setting user permissions, and creating and housekeeping projects.
September 2003 — September 2004: Direct Wines Limited — Web Engineer.
Before being promoted to Web Development, I worked for the E-Commerce team, managing site content. I also regularly used Photoshop, Visual Studio and eXcelon Stylus Studio for XSLT development.
My job involved liaising with marketing representatives of the business, external companies such as BA, AirMiles, Mint and First Direct, and the Web Development team. I produced images and HTML to keep site content fresh across all of our core sites, and those of our business partners, and also to drive recruitment campaigns. I also produced branded websites for new business partners using my ASP, XML and XSL skills when the Web Development team were short of resources, and this helped gain my promotion.

Education

November 2007 - F1 Computing Systems Ltd, London.
Developing Web Applications with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX (2 Day Course)
May 2006 - JB International Consultants Ltd, London.
SQL Server 2005: Comprehensive Upgrade (3 Day Course)
March 2006 - Learning Tree International, London.
Enterprise Web Development with .NET (4 Day Course)
January 2006 - DevelopMentor, London.
Programming C# (5 Day Course)
December 2005 - JB International Consultants Ltd, London.
UML Introduction (2 Day Course)
July 2005 - Learning Tree International, London.
Oracle9i: A Comprehensive Hands-On Introduction (5 Day Course)
November 2004 - Learning Tree International, London.
Unix/Linux: A Hands-On Introduction (5 Day Course)
September 2004 - JB International Consultants Ltd, London.
Visual Interdev (1 Day Course)
September 2004 - JB International Consultants Ltd, London.
ASP Programming (3 Day Course)
2000—2003 - University of Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon.
BSc Mathematics with Computing: 2:2.
1998—2000 - Liskeard Community College, Liskeard, Cornwall.
A Levels: Mathematics D, General Studies C, Information Technology Merit.
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