17 years experience developing database application software and Internet middleware; building websites and e-business applications. Demonstrated strength in application design and technical documentation. Interested in XML technologies and open source development tools. References available on request. Work Experience
Education1989 - Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic), University of Auckland, New Zealand Competencies
Career HighlightsAggregated Business Data Portal (Nov 2004)Designed and implemented a web-based portal in .NET 1.1 to show aggregated data from a variety of disparate data sources throughout the business, bringing common data together into a composite view, with expanding and collapsing regions for usability. Ported to .NET 2.0 in 2007. Visual FoxPro 9.0 Reporting System (Apr 2003) and subsequent service releases (2005,2007)Designed and implemented new features of Visual FoxPro 9.0, as part of the Visual Studio Data Team at Microsoft. These features include language enhancements as well as Integrated Development Environment (IDE) enhancements. Sales Business Database Troubleshooting and Upgrade (Feb 2003)Update and migration of various FoxPro systems. Implementation of web services exposing these systems, and fulfillment of additional data-mining/output requirements, for external browser- and application- based clients. Web Services Engine (June 2002)Maintained and exteneded a web service engine that provides a mechanism for query and update of a hosted Oracle prospect and customer database by third-party clients using SOAP transactions, using the Tomcat servlet container and SOAP toolkit components from the Apache Software Foundation, writing the web services and multi-threaded business logic in Java 1.3.1, using JDBC and JSP pages for support and administrative functions. Developed on Win32, deployed on Tru64 Unix. Acxiom M.V.P Award (May 2002)Presented by Acxiom’s AbiliTec Software Business unit for mentoring their team on XML messaging API issues. Siebel-Acxiom Integration Toolkit (November 2001)Installed Siebel eBusiness application server 7.0.3 and developed and documented a set of worked examples or “Labs” (using Siebel’s own courseware as a model) that walk a prospective Siebel configurator through the process of integrating Acxiom’s Batch CDI and real-time Solvitur4 Knowledge Broker XML service into a customized Siebel application. MQ-Series/XML-HTTP bridge middleware (July 2001)Co-developed a Java console application that listened for MQ-Series messages, transformed them using XSLT into Acxiom’s Knowledge Broker XML request format, and posted the results back on to a response message queue. Used Java 1.2, IBM’s MQ-Series Java SDK, and custom Knowledge Broker toolkit code. XML Messaging Proposal (2001)Prepared a proposal for how Acxiom could express their current and future products in a consistent XML messaging format. Although not adopted globally across Acxiom, many projects and business units in Acxiom used this document as a starting point for developing their specific XML message schemas. Acxiom Bravo Project Excellence Award (2000)Awarded for work on the ADN Software Development Kit. ADN Toolkit/J (2000-2001)Designed and maintained a collection of Java packages, API documentation, and examples intended for integration by Acxiom and other third party developers to easily access Acxiom’s online data products. XML / HTTP seminar (January 2000)Co-created and taught a training course on XML messaging over HTTPS to a customer who wished to incorporate Acxiom’s real-time data cleansing into their application offering. Acxiom Data Network (ADN) 1.3 - 1.4 (April 1999)Implemented version 1.3 and 1.4 of Acxiom’s Data Network, allowing real-time access to Acxiom’s InfoBase data via XML over HTTPS, using West Wind Technologies’ WebConnection and Visual FoxPro. Acxiom ADN Wizard (February 1999)Designed an improved user interface for Acxiom’s data cleansing wizard. Implemented the revised wizard using Visual FoxPro, delivering a complete installation program using InstallShield. Development Team Management (1996-1998)Held the Development Manager role at Cornerstone Software, New Zealand for 3 years. In addition to being Team Lead on many customer projects, mentored and acted as advocate for the other developers. Accommodation Booking Engine (client and web) (1996-1998)Was lead developer on Accommodata's original accommodation reservation application, taking their existing data base application and re-developing it, extending it into an online web-based booking engine. This application appears to have been replaced in August 2003. Tenancy Database Application (1998)Designed and developed a client-server application that transparently
switched back-end databases on a single code base using Visual FoxPro and
SQL Server. Documented thoroughly so that the client who had no previous
experience in either platform could continue to develop and maintain the
application. Technical Articles (1993 – 1999)Wrote several programming articles and had them published in technical magazines:
(See http://www.spacefold.com/colin/articles/index.html) Speaker at FoxPro conferencesGiven sessions at a number of technical FoxPro programming conferences, in the US, Germany, Australia and New Zealand:
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