I worked in a team of three contractors (who worked off-site in their own offices) developing from scratch, ‘ActiveLibrary’, the client-side of a fully-secure (ACL-based) extra-organisation document management / publishing system which fully integrated with Microsoft Office 2000/xp/2003. It was developed using Agile Methodologies and implemented predominantly in C# .NET 1.1 (with third-party UI libraries). My focus was particularly with the WinForms / UI elements (I was also responsible for the client installation.) Typically, the team would gather requirements (both specific and very general) from the customer, design and implement prototype functionality for subsequent review by the customer then revise and implement the full functionality as necessary. The application communicated with a remote server using XML over HTTP/HTTPS, was internationalised into Japanese and had comprehensive, Lucene.NET based-search facilities. It was built on a dedicated build server using Continuous Integration (CC.NET) with NAnt.

I worked in an established team of five people developing the retinal scan scoring/grading GUI plugin component of their ‘IP for Reading Centres’ product using C#. We worked to tight deadlines and used MSF Agile / Visual Studio Team System to maintain rigorous control over the development of the system

I used a very wide range of technologies and worked on many key ‘shrink-wrapped’, customised and bespoke client, server and web-based applications, including:
•AWE, Active Knowledge & Kenjin: Design & implementation of Windows-based end user products that hook into other user applications and use Autonomy technology to automatically provide suggestions to documents, web pages and emails similar to those that the user is working with. Client-side built using Visual C++, MFC & Win32. Server side built using C. Communication implemented using XML over HTTP

•Autonomy Service Dashboard: Design & implementation of web-based interface that communicates with a central administration server enabling configuration, control, monitoring & reporting on all of Autonomy’s servers and services. Built using J2EE-compliant Servlets & JSPs, HTML & Javascript. Communication implemented using XML over HTTP

•Autonomy Service Manager: Windows-based dynamically configurable server/service management tool. Built using Visual C++ & MFC

•Products Database: Autonomy’s internal web-based product tracking application which enables complete product management including bug & feature tracking, automatic generation of release notes with event-based email notification. Built using ASP connected to an SQL Server database

•Category Editor: Windows-based application enabling administrators to create and manage category taxonomies within the Autonomy infrastructure. Built using Visual C++ & MFC

•HTTP Fetch Administration Utility: Windows-based administration tool which enables configuration & control of the Autonomy HTTP Fetch. Built using Visual C++ & MFC.

•Autonomy License Server: Web based application which generated license information for Autonomy’s products. Built using ASP.NET/C#.NET

I designed & implemented the Kenjin website & performed some maintenance on the Autonomy website

I was the social events coordinator and organised over 100 events for employees of the company.