Freelance .NET Developer
Leeds, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Technical Consultant at Ian Nelson Systems Limited
- Past
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- Senior Software Developer at Marshalls PLC
- Software Developer at Broker Network
- Software Developer at ioko
- Education
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- University of Nottingham
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Ian Nelson’s Experience
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Technical Consultant
Ian Nelson Systems Limited
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Freelance software developer designing and implementing enterprise .NET systems in the Leeds area.
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Senior Software Developer
Marshalls PLC
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MSLH; Building Materials industry)
October 2003 — March 2008 (4 years 6 months)
Principal Developer and Architect of a mission-critical ASP.NET / C# / SQL Server solution used by call centre staff at eight locations and via the internet by 350+ builders’ merchants for the creation of quotations totalling over £1.8 billion per annum. The system uses Windows services to enforce company trading policy and send quote acknowledgements, minimising lost revenues and significantly reducing time taken to issue accurate quotes.
Developed a “Portal” application framework allowing rapid and consistent development of ASP.NET applications for use internally and externally (via an Extranet). Leveraging technologies including compiled master pages, CSS, XML web services and shared low-level business objects, the team are able to benefit from a common look and feel, authentication, role-based security, deployment platform, and other features. In sixteen months, over 20 applications have now been developed within this framework for use by internal staff and external customers. -
Software Developer
Broker Network
(Public Company; Insurance industry)
March 2003 — September 2003 (7 months)
Developed Windows and web-based applications for a network of insurance brokers. Technologies used included ASP, ASP.NET, Visual Basic 6, VB.NET and SQL Server 2000.
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Software Developer
ioko
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 2 months)
Designed, developed and implemented web-based applications, primarily on Microsoft platforms with some exposure to J2EE / UNIX technologies. Major projects included:
IMS Health Early-Insight
Lead developer of a web application that presents daily sales data to subscribing pharmaceutical companies. Created using classic ASP and VB6 COM objects with an Oracle 8i database. In addition to a web front-end, users can also schedule emailed reports, which are generated by an NT service written in VB6.
Successful delivery of this application for the UK and Irish markets and positive feedback from customer has resulted in separate versions being rolled out on the same codebase for a further 15 countries.
Hutchison 3G Digital Accessories
Worked in a small team to develop an application to allow users of third generation mobile phones to purchase ringtones and graphic logos via their handsets. The product was developed with J2EE technologies on a UNIX platform using the NetBeans IDE.
Ian Nelson’s Education
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University of Nottingham
Mathematics 1994 — 1997
Modules studied included Structured Programming, Coding & Cryptography, Game Theory, Algorithmic Graph Theory, Applied Probability, and Statistical Inference.
