Consultant at Microsoft
Guildford, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Consultant at Microsoft
- Past
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- Founder and Director at CharityCheckout.com
- Senior Technical Consultant at Conchango
- Senior Technical Consultant at Conchango US Inc.
- Systems Development Manager at Cabinet Office
- Senior Interface Developer at Bluewave
- Internet Development Manager at National Express
- Education
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- Aston University
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Andy Britcliffe’s Summary
I am a highly capable and experienced software developer who is a hard working team player that can show leadership where necessary but can also listen to people’s thoughts and ideas. I am thoroughly committed to making the most of my ability and feel I have the qualities to progress further in the software development industry and more specifically in the Microsoft .Net space. I feel I have the necessary drive and motivation for customer satisfaction and skill set to design and develop best of breed enterprise applications. I am also a certified Scrum Master.
I have worked with clients such as Microsoft, Virgin Atlantic, VW, British Airways, Lloyds of London, HMV, Chevron, Boots.
Skills and Technologies include:
C# / .Net Framework (1.1, 2.0 and 3.0) / Win Forms / ASP.Net / WPF / Silverlight / Windows services / Web services / REST / Astoria / Remoting / TDD / XHTML / CSS / XML / XSD
• Microsoft Content Management System / BizTalk / Sharepoint / InfoPath
• SQL Server 2000/2005 / MSMQ
• Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and Orcas / VSTS / TFS / ReSharper
• Unit testing (NUnit, Rhino Mock, NMock) / Cruise Control (Continuous integration)
• Enterprise Library
• Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and Xml) Extensions / YUI / Dojo Toolkit
Andy Britcliffe’s Specialties:
Software development, Web development, Web 2.0.
Examples of Industries worked in:
Retail
Finance
Energy
Travel
Transport
Andy Britcliffe’s Experience
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Consultant
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — Present (10 months)
Application development and best practice guidance using technologies such as WPF, Silverlight, .Net and other parts of the Microsoft technolgy stack. Also working closely with Microsoft product teams to enable enterprise adoption.
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Founder and Director
CharityCheckout.com
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Retail industry)
November 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Technical Development, Marketing of Charity web site application developed to drive social responsibility and enable people to do something to help those less fortunate than ourselves without extra personal financial cost.
The site has been developed on a UNIX platform using the great Ruby on Rails and MySQL.
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Senior Technical Consultant
Conchango
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 7 months)
In my role I was responsible for the architecture, analysis and design, construction, testing and implementation of .NET Win Form and Web Form applications and to provide consultancy on Microsoft technologies to Conchango's high profile clients using agile development methodologies (Scrum).
Work Achievements included:
• Technical Lead for Virgin Atlantic iTravel project.
• Technical Lead for a Silverlight proof of concept project for Microsoft.
• Lead UI Development, Engineering practices and Build management for global Chevron US .
• Stream Technical lead developing a C# .Net 2.0 SOA Pharmacy application for Boots UK store network (1400 stores)
• Technical Lead on development for Lloyds of London (Lloyds.com) leading a development team of 6. -
Senior Technical Consultant
Conchango US Inc.
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2006 — August 2007 (1 year)
Worked as a Senior Technical Consultant on the West Coast of America for bluechip energy companies specialising in .Net development.
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Systems Development Manager
Cabinet Office
(Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Legislative Office industry)
February 2003 — May 2005 (2 years 4 months)
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Senior Interface Developer
Bluewave
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years)
Working for leading web agency. Work involved leading front end web development (xhtml,Javascript,CSS,ASP) for brands such as VW, British Airways, GSK.
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Internet Development Manager
National Express
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
June 1999 — May 2000 (1 year)
I was responsible for the design and development of NationalExpress.co.uk, Eurolines.co.uk and GoByCoach.co.uk
Andy Britcliffe’s Education
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Aston University
MAS, 1997 — 1999
Incomplete due to job offer (3 years fully passed - 1 year to go) - hoping to complete in the future.
- Activities and Societies:
- Managerial Administrative Studies
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Andy Britcliffe’s Interests:
New Technology, Software Engineering Best practices, Sport, Music, Reading, Film.
Andy Britcliffe’s Groups:
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Conchango Alumni
Andy Britcliffe’s Honors:
ASP.NET C# MCP
Andy Britcliffe’s Contact Settings
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