James Simm
Web Developer
Profile
I am a software and web developer with 4 years experience working within the industry. I am looking to expand my skillset and gain more experience whilst making good use of my existing skills. I have an eye for detail and quality, am self-motivating and deadline focused, and have an ability to see through technical problems.
I have experience of working in environments using Agile and Test-Driven Development methodologies, and have had exposure to the full software lifecycle from analysis of requirements through development, integration, testing and deployment.
Work Experience
April 2009 - Present
Senior Developer
bd2 (Wigan)
I joined BD2 as one of two senior .Net developers. I’ve recently worked on web projects for various sizes of company: from an internal e-commerce application for Nestle, to a directory site for Bolton Council. I’m responsible for architecting our projects as well as working on the front-end development of the sites.
I build apps using ASP.NET 3.5 & 4.0, including ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery. I’ve recently introduced continuous integration/deployment and automated testing to our projects to improve the quality and speed of feedback on our work.
November 2008 - April 2009
Web Developer
Elevator Digital (Manchester)
I joined Elevator Digital as a .Net developer. I worked on the e-Learning side of Elevator's business, which develops learning tools for Pharmaceutical and Medical companies, as well as organisations like the North West Development Agency (NWDA).
I was responsible for prototyping various desktop applications and widgets using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Adobe AIR. Other tasks included customising Wordpress installations for the company's websites.
May 2006 - November 2008
Software Developer
ICS UK Ltd/Business & Decision Manchester
I joined ICS as a junior software developer part-way my 2nd year at MMU. I worked on projects ranging from the installer and licensing system for the company's product RSInteract, to enterprise desktop and middleware systems for clients.
During my time at ICS, I also worked on the total rewrite of Sporting Index’s website, implementing the AJAX-powered live-updating price grids, all the payments and accounts controls, and creating a lot of the CSS used to style the site. The price grid was built using a combination of ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery and JSON Web services to display constantly up-to-date prices to the customer. The payments and account controls where implemented using ASP.NET AJAX and backend web services.
Technical Skills
4 Years
.NET Framework
- C# (.NET 1.1 to 4.0)
- VB.NET (1.1 & 2.0)
- ASP.NET
- ASP.NET MVC
- WPF
6 Years
HTML, CSS & JS
- [X]HTML
- CSS
- jQuery, YUI, ExtJS, etc
- WCAG 1.0
4 Years
Databases
- SQL Server 2005, 2008
- Oracle 10g
Other
- ORM Tools: Entity Framework, NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate
- Dependency Injection: Windsor, Autofac
- Test/Mocking Frameworks: NUnit, MBUnit, Rhino Mocks, Moq
- Continuous Integration: TeamCity
- Source Control: Subversion
Certifications
- Umbraco Certified Professional (Level 1)
Education
Manchester Metropolitan University
BSc (Hons) Internet Computing
- Year 1: Programming (Java), Multimedia & the Web (HTML/CSS), Mathematics for Computing, Information Systems, Computing Fundamentals (OOP & AI), and Computer Systems Architecture (Hardware & Assembly programming).
- Year 2: Advanced Programming (Java), Web Development (Perl/PHP & MySQL), Computer Networking, and Peer-to-Peer Computing (Sun Microsystems' JXTA).
- I left university mid-way through year 2 to take up a full time position as a .Net developer at ICS (see "Experience" above). I hope to eventually complete the final year of my degree part-time.
Winstanley College
AS/A-Levels
- AS-Levels: Mathematics, Business
- A-Levels: Information Technology, Computing
St. Edmund Arrowsmith High School
GCSEs
- English Language/Literature
- Mathematics
- Science (Double Award)
- Geography
- Religious Studies
- Art & Design
- Information Technology