STEPHEN ALEXANDER BROWN

 

38 Audley Grove, Lower Weston, Bath, BA1 3BT

Email:  stevebrown@mail.com

Telephone:  01225 428283

Date of Birth:  21 August 1971

 

Availability: 4 weeks. notice

 

Versatile and enthusiastic graduate MCSD Senior Analyst Programmer with over 8 years. experience,

looking for a challenging opportunity to apply and extend skills into Microsoft.NET and C#.

 

Skills:              Extensive knowledge of Microsoft development technologies, including:

 

·         Microsoft Certified Solution Developer:    70-100: Analyzing Requirements

      70-175: Desktop Visual Basic 6.0                        70-176: Distributed Visual Basic 6.0

70-029: Designing and Implementing Databases with SQL Server 7.0

70-165: Visual Basic 5.0               70-160/70-161: Windows Architecture I & II

 

·         2 years experience of Internet Development, including Active Server Pages, HTML, VB-Script, client-side Javascript,  MTS COM components (VB 6.0), XML/XSL, Internet Information Server, Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition

 

·         Over 8 years experience of Visual Basic, including object-oriented n-tier COM-based development in Visual Basic 6.0 (3 years+), VB 5.0 (10 months), VB 4.0 32-bit

                              (2 years), VB 3.0 (2½ years), Visual C++ 1.0 (2½ years)

 

·         6 years Relational Database Systems, primarily Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and

                              T-SQL (3 years+), Oracle 7 (14 months), Access (3 years), ADO 2.1 (3 years+)

 

·         Microsoft Visual Source Safe 6.0 source code control (6 years)

 

Excellent Visual User Interface design skills

 

Experience of the full software life cycle, from Requirements Analysis through to Acceptance Analysis and Maintenance, in a wide variety of development environments.

 

                        Good spoken German, Italian, French and Russian.

 

                        Full United Kingdom Driving License held since November 1990.

 

Employment History

 

Nov 01 - present  National Milk Records, Chippenham  (Senior Analyst Programmer)

Mar 98 . Nov 01  NMR Software Solutions, Chippenham  (Senior Analyst Programmer)

ASP (HTML, VBScript, Javascript), XML/XSL, Visual Basic 6.0, MTS, COM, ADO 2.1,

SQL Server 7.0, T-SQL, Win 2000 Pro / NT 4.0, IIS, Site Server Comm., Access, VSS

 

Jun 97 - Mar 98   Sage Engineering Ltd, Bath  (Analyst Programmer, I.T. Dept.)

                        Visual Basic 4.0 32-bit, Excel 7.0, Access 7.0, SQL, OLE, Jet, Word 7.0, VSS

 

Apr 96 - Jun 97    MVM Consultants plc, Bristol  (Software Applications Developer, VB Team)

                        Visual Basic 4.0 32-bit, RDO, SQL, Oracle 7, SQL Plus, Access 7.0, OLE, Word, VSS

 

Aug 93 - Mar 96   CCN Group Ltd (now Experian), Nottingham  (Programmer, New Products Team)

                        Visual C++ 1.0, Visual Basic 3.0, Access 2.0, Seagate Crystal Reports, Novell

 

Education

 

Sep 89 - Jul 93  Nottingham Trent University

                        BSc. (2ii HONS) Combined Studies in Sciences (Computing and Biology)

 

Sep 82 - Jul 89  Kingswood School, Bath

                        3 GCE .A.-Levels, 10 GCE .O.-Levels.

STEPHEN ALEXANDER BROWN

 

Full Employment History

 

National Milk Records, Chippenham

 

·           Current position: Senior Web developer (since November 2001).  Support and development of corporate web-site and Intranet, and in-house Windows software.

 

·           Whilst in Software Solutions (from joining NMR in March 1998, to November 2001 when the division was closed), I worked as Senior Analyst Programmer on a variety of projects, including:

 

·           www.grainman.co.uk - on an online trading site for major international grain-trading company, including a seed shop.  The site allows farmers to find the best price for grain, by matching against available contracts and adjusting for haulage costs.  Running on the standard Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Ecommerce platform of ASP, VBScript, Javascript, VB6 MTS components, XML/XSL, SQL Server 7.0, IIS and Site Server 3.0 Commerce, the site uses LDAP to control access and security.

 

·           Senior Visual Basic 6.0 developer in the ABM team, responsible for the application architecture and user-interface design.  The software is a data-capture and reporting system, with Visual Basic presentation and business object layers, and a SQL Server 7.0 database back-end.

 

·           Senior Visual Basic 5.0 developer in the impelPRO Team, responsible for application architecture and user-interface design.  impelPRO is a shrink-wrapped .On Farm. management and reporting tool.  It passed the Windows NT / 98 Logo test on its first submission, and launched in July 1999.

 

·           Input regarding user interface design across projects, and coding standards for ASP/HTML & VB. 

 

·           .Mentoring. and encouragement of junior colleagues, one of whom attained MCSD status.

 

Sage Engineering, Bath

 

·           Development of 32-bit Visual Basic applications, Excel Spreadsheets, general code for the company and other developers in the team; Visual User Interface design consultant.

 

·           Technical Analysis and development of a system for laboratory data capture, using existing Excel form designs, storing the data in Access 7.0, and exporting in industry standard AGS format.

 

·           Analysis of Engineering problems and development/maintenance of Microsoft Excel 7.0 spreadsheet solutions. Developed VB and MS Office OLE code to enhance corporate applications.

 

MVM Consultants, Clifton

 

·           Development of Geographic Information System (GIS) OLE Server products for the company.s 20/20 suite of Local Authority Planning applications.  These are written largely in Oracle Forms, which did not support 32-bit custom controls.  These 32-bit VB 4.0 servers use RDO to Oracle 7.

 

·           Development and maintenance of a dynamic SQL builder, driven by a configuration database, to allow a database and data structure independent Gazetteer for the GIS.

 

CCN Group (Experian), Nottingham

 

·           Programming of Windows DLLs in Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0 to increase the efficiency of Visual Basic clients to existing IBM mainframe servers, rewriting complex VB procedures in C++.

 

·           Development of Visual Basic 3 front-ends for mainframe-based credit scoring applications, utility applications using Visual C++, and a Visual Basic Custom Control (VBX).

 

Degree Subjects

 

·           Object Oriented Software Engineering; C++ Programming; RDBMS (Oracle 5 and SQL); Assembly Language; Artificial Intelligence in LISP and Leonardo.

 

·           Applied Plant Science; The Physiology of Extreme Environments; Genetics; Structural Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Animal Physiology; Plant Physiology; Microbiology.

 

Interests

 

My main interest lies in music, and I take singing lessons as a baritone.  I particularly enjoy singing Lieder, and also 18th and 19th century Italian and Russian opera.  I took part in four recent productions by amateur group Bath Opera, and also sing in our Orthodox Church choir and play drums in a jazz band.  I enjoy learning foreign languages, outdoor pursuits and playing tennis.