Technical Evangelist at Developer Express
Dundee, United Kingdom
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- Technical Evangelist at Developer Express Inc.
- Past
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- Senior Applications Consultant at Charteris PLC
- Software Architect at Computa Services Limited
- Software Architect at Scotland Online
- Director Software Engineering at Web Ecosse
- Software Engineer at Scottish and Southern Energy
- Software Developer at Scottish Enterprise
- Software Engineer at IMS Health
- Software Engineer at American Express
- Software Engineer at IBM Software Laboratory Hursley
- Software Developer at Tayside Regional Council
- Police Officer at Grampian Police
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Gary Short’s Summary
An entrepreneural expert coder in the .Net framework in general and C# in particular with a focus on patterns & practices and agile development methodologies.
Gary Short’s Specialties:
.Net, C#, ASP.Net, TSQL, patterns & practices, Agile software development, Smalltalk.
Gary Short’s Experience
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Technical Evangelist
Developer Express Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
2008 — Present (less than a year)
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Senior Applications Consultant
Charteris PLC
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
March 2007 — March 2008 (1 year 1 month)
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Software Architect
Computa Services Limited
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
2005 — 2007 (2 years)
I architected a re-write of a legacy COBOL system into a modern Software as a Service (SaaS) system using C# and TSQL. I also created podcasts and video casts for the host venue for The Open 2007 which was held at Carnoustie.
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Software Architect
Scotland Online
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
2003 — 2005 (2 years)
I architected and worked on the Scotlandspeople.gov.uk site, which was coded in ASP.Net, C# and TSQL
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Director Software Engineering
Web Ecosse
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 1 month)
I worked on numerous systems written in ASP, VB and TSQL
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Software Engineer
Scottish and Southern Energy
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Utilities industry)
1999 — 2002 (3 years)
As a contractor I poineered the online sign up of gas and electricity customer via a web site written in ASP, VB and TSQL
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Software Developer
Scottish Enterprise
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Government Administration industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
As a contractor I worked on a web application to manage North American business contacts that might wish to invest in Scotland. This code was written using ASP, VB and TSQL
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Software Engineer
IMS Health
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; RX; Pharmaceuticals industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year)
As a contractor I wrote client code for a client server application which queried IMS Health's pharmaceutical marketing database. This code was written in Smalltalk.
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Software Engineer
American Express
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AXP; Financial Services industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year)
As a contractor I was part of a two man frameworks team that created an application framework to support a reward scheme for cardholders. This application was written in Smalltalk.
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Software Engineer
IBM Software Laboratory Hursley
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year)
I wrote client code for the CSS / Croeso project, using Smalltalk
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Software Developer
Tayside Regional Council
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
1990 — 1995 (5 years)
I wrote numerous management information systems, using Smalltalk, to help the the council prepare for Compulsory Competitive Tendering.
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Police Officer
Grampian Police
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)
1988 — 1990 (2 years)
I was a police officer
Additional Information
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Gary Short’s Groups:
Agile Scotland, DDD, Video Blogging
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C# Professionals Group member
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