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Thank you for taking the time to visit my IT site. I'm highly skilled in WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT and WINDOWSTM SERVER ENGINEERING and the associated WindowsTM Technologies. I have over 15 years of IT banking experience, and have the experience and professionalism that comes with this. I'm highly self motivated, disciplined and always improving my skills, techniques and knowledge. Current Role: My current role is (of the last 12 months) has been for BNPParibas as an RDS system engineer. In this role I have aided in the installation and implementation of SharePoint 2010, SQL 2008 (Clustered), Nightwatchman, WebWakeUp, SMSWakeUP, and worked on Citrix Server Farm performance. Additionally I’ve aided several sites with general SMS troubleshooting issues, and looked into Software Licensing solutions. I've recently been seconded to the Infrastructure Evolution team part-time to strengthen their development team. See below: To view some examples of my skill set and see examples of my recent work. Spoken Languages:      Other info: Full UK Driving License British Passport

 

[INTERNET] - WWW.FRENCHASSISTANT.COM V2 Objectives: The current version of Frenchassistant.com has completely out grown its original design (read incorrect design, and lesson learnt!). Some aspects of the site organically evolved, a new version is required to make the content fresh and to cater for the numerous issues caused by the original organic evolution: Multi Language Interface Support Multi Language Data and Content Support Enhanced user interaction Incorporate 2 dozen design ideas, enhancements and evolutions Result: This site is still work in progress, but already addresses most of the items listed as objectives, the project is running to its schedule and gaining momentum and will be released soon. A concept version / preview is available by clicking on the link provided, this outlines the concept / design and is HTML based, the ASP.NET version is not yet available for testing / review on the live Frenchassistant server. Skills & Languages used: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, Javascript, ActionScript, AJAX, WebServices, Globalization, T-SQL, CSS, XHTML 1.0, XML, XSL, Flash, (.NET 2.x), MP3, DIVX, UserControls, ServerControls Products used: Visual Studio 2005, MS SQL 2005, IIS6, Windows Server 2003, Macromedia Flash, Adobe Audition, Director, Paintshop Pro and Notepad (!) Security: ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles and Profiles with integrated WorldPay payments for secure transactions Click for more details

[INTRANET] - Custom Citrix Resource Manager Web Interface / Query Engine Objectives: There were several business requirements for tracking the use of a newly installed Citrix Presentation Server Farm, Specifically: Data: Track User logon / logoff times Data: Audit application use Data: Provide grouping by VLAN Interface: Remember selections / settings Interface: Provide exportable results CEO of business primary user of application, so had to be intuitive and totally robust. Result: I created a customised query page to look-up the data in the Citrix resource manager database configurable by: Date Range, Server, User, Application and VLAN. I created this system by reverse engineering the excellent work of Jason Conger and using some elements of his code to create a quick and tidy series of pages for querying the Citrix Resource Manager Database. Database was MS SQL 2005. The database schema I partially got from a combination of Jason's code, database table anaylsis and by tracing database activity. Click for more details   Skills & Languages used: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, Javascript, T-SQL, CSS, XML, XHTML 1.0 (.NET 2.x) Products used: Visual Studio 2005, MS-SQL 2005, IIS6, Windows Server 2003, Paintshop Pro and Notepad (!) Security: IIS Access via Authenticated users only, Fixed Read-Only SQL account used

[INTRANET] - Web Active Directory Lookup / Search Utility Objectives: During migration work, there were dozens of requests to check user credentials and user status within Active Directory. These requests were from Application teams, Project Teams, Line Managers and IT technicians. All had different levels of access and knowledge and all required similar information at different times, always along the lines of: Data: Profile Path Data: Group Memebership Data: Last accessed date Data: Links to external application site/s for user Result: I created a simple interface to enable all staff to query active directory (regardless of AD knowledge level) by user or groups. At the same time providing all the account properties and necessary links to make everyones work easier and quicker. Results were exportable and links were automatic re-queries to speed up finding similar information via the mouse. Skills & Languages used: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, Javascript, CSS, XHTML 1.0 (.NET 2.x) Products used: Visual Studio 2005, IIS5, Windows Server 2000, Paintshop Pro and Notepad (!) Security: IIS Access via Authenticated users, Specific ADUser account with domain user permissions used Click for more details

[INTERNET] - WWW.HEATERSANDLAMPS.COM Objectives: An existing company required an new online presence to increase their potential customers and sell their increasing range of heaters, lamps and outdoor equipment. They needed a solution that enabled them to administer everything and yet require no additional site coding once complete. There were the following requirements: Intergrate with Protx Secure Payments Allow site admin to administer everything Provide completed solution in 6 weeks Add all existing products in Database Result: With the timescales involved, it was unfeasable for me to create something completely from scratch for this site. After a review of available products I suggested that they use the ASPDOTNETStoreFront software, with some customisation. I extended the code and the database design to cater for their specific requirements and to better handle META tags and to create custom page templates for thier products. I took their plans from idea to fully functioning site, with all product data in the 6 weeks. I was able to make the site match all their specific requirements too. More details - Coming soon   Skills & Languages used: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, Javascript, T-SQL, CSS, XML, XHTML 1.0 (.NET 2.x) Products used: Visual Studio 2005, MS-SQL 2005, IIS6, Windows Server 2003, Paintshop Pro and Notepad (!) Security: ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles and Profiles, PROTX payment system incorporated, and VeriSign Certificate installed

[INTERNET] - WWW.MARKGIBBONS.COM Objectives: Make the MARKGIBBONS.COM brand recognised for my marketting and racing activities. Showcase my abilities as an IT Consultant / Professional, and generally provide some of my racing experience back to the world. I had the following goals Make it professional / good Make it Racing themed and styled Make it extendable for future additions Showcase my IT abilities for future employment Result: I completed the design of the site with some inspiration from a couple of other sites. I have incorporated the best elements of these sites, my own ideas and modified everything for my own unique requirements. I've used Flash for the main site menu and it dynamically loads the XML sitemap via a custom handler I've created to do this. Content is still coming and generally I'm pretty happy with it! I've recently added this "IT" section to better help distinguish it from the racing parts. Skills & Languages used: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, Javascript, AJAX, CSS, XHTML 1.0, XML, XSD (.NET 2.x) Products used: Visual Studio 2005, IIS5, Windows Server 2000, Paintshop Pro and Notepad (!) Security: Annonymous users via IIS. No additional other security required.  You are here!

[INTRANET] - Visual Phone Book Objectives: The users in part of a migration project from one company to another, needed a local intranet based visual phone book system for thier staff to use. There were the following requirements: Administrator able to add | edit | remove details Ability to search, by department, building or name Image inclusion should be optional System to be produced in 1 week Result: Created a simple webpage that allows the lookup of the users based on search criteria. Additionally created an administrative section that allowed for the admin of all the database tables within the database. Image handling was controlled with a simple upload to a virtual directory on the website through the admin interface, with a standard placeholder for entries without images. Click for more details   Skills & Languages used: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, Javascript, T-SQL, CSS, XHTML 1.0 (.NET 2.x) Products used: Visual Studio 2005, MS-SQL 2005, IIS6, Windows Server 2003, Paintshop Pro and Notepad (!) Security: ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Roles.

[INTRANET] - Restricted Directory Lookup Objectives: The users from an existing company were being integrated into the new parent company and needed to access certain elements of the parent company's directory systems, but were not permitted to access them directly (as too much classified information was available). So there was a need to present a subset of this data securely to these users. Secure, only permitted informaion available Searchable Standalone doesn't effect existing systems Not an official solution ! Result: I created a custom (essentially a cutdown version of original site) search page that in the background of a request directly connected to the other site and did the search, waited for the results and then provided the allowed subset of the data back (via ScreenScrape and RegularExpressions) to the user. Access to the other site was done directly on the webserver so this satisfied the security issues. The system required no maintenence as it was simply an interface / gateway to the other site and held no data. Skills & Languages used: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, Javascript, RegularExpressions, CSS, XHTML 1.0 (.NET 2.x) Products used: Visual Studio 2005, IIS5, Windows Server 2000 and Notepad (!) Security: Annonymous users via IIS. No additional other security required. Click for more details

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