Paul Lockwood

Current

• Owner 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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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Paul Lockwood's Blog

Paul Lockwood’s Summary

Detail driven hands-on Architect and Team Lead on a large range of data driven applications.

Specialize in the complete life-cycle of 200->500 kloc, 5->20 developer projects. Also have experience with large (>1 million kloc and >70 developers) projects such as the London Stock Exchange, BP's OTI/FX division, and Yellow Pages sales systems.

Hope to be challenged in every assignment and try to be apolitical.

Paul Lockwood’s Specialties:

ASP.Net MVC, Web-Architecture, design, liaising with non-technical staff, creating estimates.

Taken many projects from concepts to go-live. Debugged and resolved many existing tricky problematic Integrations. Resolved many architectural flaws vastly improving performance/ stability.

Current technical strengths: ASP.Net MVC, C#, SQL Server, Automated Unit Testing (NUnit).

Paul Lockwood’s Experience

• Owner

  .Net Workaholics

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2002 — Present (7 years 3 months)

  All senior developer/ Architect positions.
  
  Clients included:
  . UBS
  . EDS
  . 3M
  . NC DOT
  
  Technologies used were mainly:
  . C#
  . ASP.Net MVC
  . jQuery/ AJAX
  . Classic WebForms
  . SQL Server

• Masters Degree in AI and Robotics

  Essex University, UK

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2001 — April 2002 (9 months)

  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 Websites:

• Paul Lockwood's Blog

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

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• consulting offers
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• business deals
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