STEVEN JOHN HOLLIDGE

C#.NET/SQL ANALYST PROGRAMMER London, United Kingdom

07882 839201 PROFILE

stevenhollidge@hotmail.com

Expert agile C#/SQL Analyst Programmer with over fifteen years experience developing Enterprise solutions with Microsoft and Oracle technologies for leading investment banks within the City of London and Europe. Early adopter specialising in XAML based Silverlight and WPF for both browser and desktop applications with server side WCF application services. Highly focused, disciplined and results driven with a can do attitude to both business and technology. Microsoft Certified Enterprise Solution Developer for .Net since 2004.
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE YEARS

Microsoft Development Stack (C#.NET 4.0 since 1.0 beta, VBA since 1995) SQL Server 2008 including 6.5, 7, 2000, 2005 HTML, JavaScript including jQuery XML, XSD and XSLT Subversion, Mercurial and GIT C# and SQL Technical Blog
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY SILVERBLADE TECHNOLOGY, LONDON & ASIA

15 15 10 10 4 Code Project Articles SINCE 1995 NOV 2010 CURRENT

.NET OPEN SOURCE & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT (click on the hyperlinks below to view the latest updates)

StevenHollidge.com

Tranquility.Net

Software Architect (Contract) Achievements: Next gen Silverlight out of browser applications using PRISM Unity & WCF RIA services Creation of WCF App Server to remove dependency on IIS for hosting C# .NET services WCF performance tuning using custom protocol, transport and serialization for bare metal perf C#, Silverlight 4, MEF, PRISM, UNITY, MVVMLight, StatLight, WCF RIA Services, JSON, Azure SQL

Skills:

Microsoft partner focused on bringing the latest Silverlight technology to the City of London. Key design tenants include asynchronous, multi-threaded, real time architectures with low network latency using Beta and CTP Microsoft software. Custom libraries, toolkits and controls are used to give users an unparalleled experience both in and out of the browser. Other projects include high performance, highly optimised and scalable WCF service architecture to maximise available computing power. This was achieved through the design of a WCF App Server utilising Protocol Buffers boosting standard .NET WCF performance by over 25%.
ELLIS FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, LONDON

MAY 2008 OCT 2010

Senior Analyst Programmer (Contract) Achievements: Introduced CGCalc Manager helping to win a multi-million pound contract with Royal Bank of Scotland following a 400% processing time reduction using a distributed computing model. Coutts, Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest, HSBC, Merrill Lynch, Bank of NY Mellon, SEI C# 4.0, WCF, WPF, Silverlight, IIS, SQL Server 2008, Crystal Reports XI, Subversion, SharePoint Server, NUnit, TeamCity, MSBuild, StyleCop, GhostDoc

Clients: Skills:

Worked within a team of developers on the development of a highly scalable, secure and reliable web software suite to provide global fund managers the ability to calculate, model and analyse Capital Gains and Income Tax liabilities based on complex client portfolio asset trade movements. The project featured a highly configurable Xml rules based calculation engine written in C#. The core business requirements included an extensible calculation engine allowing for plugins written by business analysts containing the latest changes in government taxation law. Techniques such as multi-threading, stateless class design, queued messaging and Chain of Responsibility design pattern with IOC has resulted in a highly efficient and optimised SOA solution.

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STEVEN JOHN HOLLIDGE

C#.NET/SQL ANALYST PROGRAMMER
OBJECTIVE SERVICES, LONDON

OCT 2002 MAY 2008

Software Architect (Contract) Clients: Skills: British Heart Foundation, Unison, Pasta Reale, Colleges of Occupational & Speech Therapists C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, VBA, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, SQL Reporting Services

Design and development of loosely coupled componentised .NET and SQL solution to manage regional donations, events and letters for the second largest charity in the UK. Data warehouse using SQL Integration (SSIS) with ETL workflow and SQL Reporting (SSRS) Services. Application providing integration of disparate membership systems for Unison, Britains largest trade union with over 1.3 million members and British Association of Occupational Therapists. Order processing, despatch and invoicing system for Pasta Reale (annual turnover 30m). Other solutions included a multi-threaded .NET Win app, ASP.NET web apps, Outlook Add-In built using VSTO 2005, compact .NET framework for smart device apps and a Windows service for file management

THALES / CWB SYSTEM SERVICES, LONDON

SEP 2000 SEP 2002

Analyst Programmer (Permanent) Clients: Skills: Deutsche Bank, AON and in house commercial product. VB 5 & 6, ActiveX, Oracle, SQL Server, Ms Excel, VBA, Crystal Reports, UML, Rational Rose

Lead VB and Oracle developer in charge of the analysis, architectural design and development of a Data Ratings Manager application for Deutsche Bank. The system merged data feeds from ratings suppliers Moodys, Standard & Poors and Reuters. Featuring N-tier architecture, ActiveX controls were developed to manipulate data within the data store for Asterisk - a credit risk ratings application suite. The application was designed in UML using Rational Rose and ClearCase. Reports were created using Crystal Reports along with the setup and configuration of a data warehousing universe using Business Objects. Other projects included a VB data application written for AON, using embedded Excel with Office automation and SQL Server backend.

COUNTRYWIDE ASSURED GROUP, LONDON

MAY 2000 SEP 2000

Analyst Programmer (Contract) Skills: ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL Server, Ms Access, VBA, Crystal Reports

Lead web developer for the leading provider in the residential property and related financial services markets across the UK. ASP.NET (from Beta) was used to build a solution for storing nationwide responses to a questionnaire from a 500 strong user base.

OBJECTIVE SERVICES, LONDON

MAR 1996 MAY 2000

Analyst Programmer (Permanent) Skills: VB, SQL Server, MS Access, VBA, Crystal Reports, EDI

Customer facing Analyst Programmer role writing and maintaining business solutions using Visual Basic 5 and 6, SQL Server 6.5/7/2000, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) within MS Access and MS Excel interfacing with electronic data interchange (EDI) for a wide variety of types of business.

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STEVEN JOHN HOLLIDGE

C#.NET/SQL ANALYST PROGRAMMER
RS SERVICES LONDON AUG 1995 MAR 1996

Analyst Programmer & IT Coach (Contract) Skills: VB, VBA, MS Excel & MS Access,

Helped local businesses embrace technology to improve processes and productivity through the development of key mission critical systems. Using VBA systems written bespoke for their needs, a local accountancy, solicitors, golf club and gardening firm moved from paper based systems to Windows based applications. Training was also provided for staff on how to use Microsoft Office 95.
RECENT TOOLING AND METHODOLOGIES

Silverlight, MVVMLight, WPF, WFC, WF, TFS, ProtoBuf, PostSharp, Ext.JS, TestDriven.NET, XUnit, NUnit, NCover, FXCop, ESB, NDepend, NAnt, CruiseControl.Net, Reflector, SOAP, Ajax, JavaScript, JSON.NET, REST, JQuery, HTML, CSS, Flash Moto, Dublin, MVC, PLINQ, LINQ, TSQL, SSIS, DTS, ETL, OLAP, OLTP, BCP, Profiler, RDL, TOAD,/ Erwin, RedGate SQLCompare, Visio, VBScript, PowerShell, Firebug, Fiddler, Git, Visual SourceSafe (VSS), SVN, R#, TDD, FDD, BDD, DDD, MEF, MAF, LLBLGen, MOQ, RhinoMocks, IoC, DI, Autofac, Automapper, StructureMapper, Ninject, CastleWindsor, BizTalk Server, Lean, Agile, SOA, Architect, TestCompleteQA and MadCap Flare.

ONLINE EXAMPLES OF PREVIOUS WORK Personal Website Creator of Tranquility WCF Application Server (open source) Code Project articles C# and SQL Technical Blog Travel Advice (beta)
MICROSOFT CERTIFICATIONS

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MCPD MCSD MCAD MCITP MCTS MOS OCA

Microsoft Certified Professional Developer.NET: Enterprise, Web & Windows Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer .NET: Enterprise, Web & Windows Microsoft Certified Applications Developer .NET Microsoft SQL Server 2000 & 2005 Database Developer and Administrator Microsoft Office Share Point Server 2007 Application Development Microsoft Office Specialist for MS Access (Expert) and Excel Oracle Certified Associate PL/SQL Developer
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