Paul Lockwood

Current

• Chief Workaholic at .Net Workaholics

Past

• Masters Degree in AI and Robotics at Essex University, UK
• Independent Contractor at European Clients
• Lead Architect at Indus International

• Mangement Consultant at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting)
• Student Engineer at Siemens Defence Systems

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Education

• University of Essex
• UMIST University
• Woldgate School, Pocklington

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Industry

Computer Software

Paul Lockwood’s Summary

Low risk, low cost Software Development. One stop shop for performant .NET solutions. Specialize spearheading .Net projects, delivering simple architectures and training permanent staff to maintain the system. Simplicity and speed are what sets up apart from the competition.

Preferred Technologies are:
. C#
. SQL Server or MySQL
. ASP.Net MVC or Silverlight
. jQuery with AJAX/ JSON for elegant/fast web pages

Industry Segments include:
. Health-care
. Banking/ Finance

Clients include:
. UBS (Investment Banking/ Finance)
. EDS (Health-care Insurance)
. 3M (Health-care)
. NC DOT (Traffic Cameras and Human Resources)
. Several smaller clients (mainly Health-care)

Paul Lockwood’s Specialties:

C#/ ASP.Net Performance Tuning
Simple, maintainable Architectures

Paul Lockwood’s Experience

• Chief Workaholic

  .Net Workaholics

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)

  Manage developers and design/develop core C# components
  
  Several C#/ ASP.Net engagements. 100% success rate so far, often clients long standing issues are located and resolved in a day or two

• Masters Degree in AI and Robotics

  Essex University, UK

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2001 — April 2002 (9 months)

  Took a break from too many 70->100+ hour week projects. Top of class in most subjects

• Independent Contractor

  European Clients

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 1996 — August 2001 (4 years 11 months)

  All Architect or Technical Lead positions.
  
  Clients included:
  .Deloitte and Touche
  .Yellow Pages
  .SwissRe (in Zürich, Switzerland)
  .Philips
  
  Technologies used were mainly:
  .Java
  .ATG Dynamo
  .Powerbuilder
  .Oracle

• Lead Architect

  Indus International

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1995 — September 1996 (1 year 4 months)

  PowerBuilder, Oracle

• Mangement Consultant

  Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting)

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  October 1993 — July 1995 (1 year 10 months)

  Tandem Mainframes at the London Stock Exchange
  PowerBuilder/ Sybase for BP OTI (future and options)

• Student Engineer

  Siemens Defence Systems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  June 1989 — July 1993 (4 years 2 months)

  Clipper 5, DBase IV, ASIC Design

Paul Lockwood’s Education

• University of Essex

  Masters , AI and Robotics , 2001 — 2002

  Activities and Societies:

  Computer society

• UMIST University

  BSc (2:1) + MEng , Microelectronic Systems Engineering , 1989 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  Mountain biking club, motor club

• Woldgate School, Pocklington

  High School , Close to straight A grades , 1981 — 1989

  Activities and Societies:

  Computer Club, Chess team

Additional Information

Paul Lockwood’s Interests:

Mountain biking, running, boxing

Paul Lockwood’s Groups:

•    International Association of Software Architects
•    Atlanta SPIN
•    ALT.Net

Paul Lockwood’s Honors:

Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified Application Developer
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer

Paul Lockwood’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch