David Weir

Current

• Technical UML Consultant Architect at Spice Group plc
• Director at Weirsweb UK Limited

Past

• Technical Architect at Freedom Group
• Technical Lead / Architect at Carlsberg
• Technical Lead / Architect at Euro RSCG

• Technical Architect at Big Food Group
• Technical Architect at Vehicle Data System
• Technical Lead at Fowles Australia
• Lead Developer/Technical Architect at Auto Data Networks
• Developer Manager /Database Co-ordinator at Kah Systems
• Development Manager at Manheim
• Senior Developer at NCS Pearson
• Senior E-Commerce Developer at Halifax
• Internet Development Lead / IVR at ICR
• Systems Tester Operator at William Hill

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Education

• University of Leeds
• University of Leeds

Recommended

4 people have recommended David

Connections

53 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• Leeds Capoeira (Martial Art)

David Weir’s Summary

A highly dedicated IT professional; with accomplishments in Information systems, business applications & web based technologies at enterprise level. An Experienced & flexible “hands on” style technical/solution architect.

David Weir’s Specialties:

Experience Market Sectors:

• Financial Banking (inc. online)
• Financial Accounts
• Automotive
• Telecoms / Utilities
• Software Housing
• Gaming Industry
• Internet Business
• Marketing Methods on the Internet
• Internet Development
• E-commerce
• SEO

David Weir’s Experience

• Technical UML Consultant Architect

  Spice Group plc

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Utilities industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year)

  Job Track, a revamp of an existing legacy bespoke accountancy application.
  Integration with existing customers and user base, plugged into several 3rd party accounts packages (Focal Point, Access Dimensions, SharePoint, InfoPath, WPF, WF, VB.NET, Teams Foundation)

• Director

  Weirsweb UK Limited

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2002 — Present (6 years 8 months)

  Our imaginative and innovative design and programming skills enable us to develop outstanding solutions that are sure to meet your needs. We have extensive experience with developing custom websites and always follow strict standards when developing them.
  
  Providing direct contact with your representative and at all times know what's happening with your solution. We keep all our clients informed of the status of their project with mock layouts and test pages that are easily accessed on line.

• Technical Architect

  Freedom Group

  (Utilities industry)

  March 2007 — September 2007 (7 months)

  Safe Dig, a green field project to provide the ability for customers to request all underground maps for an area wishing to be excavated.
  Full integration with existing customer base, user base.
  Extensive backend admin system inc Audit/role permission/communication/flexible workflow
  (Windows Workflow foundation, SharePoint, Active Directory, Teams Foundation, Groove)

• Technical Lead / Architect

  Carlsberg

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  July 2006 — March 2007 (9 months)

  Enhance the tools used by Carlsberg UK’s Customer Contact teams
  Creation of a solution roadmap to construct the Carl bergs commercial sector and is a continuation of the initial .net projects.
  The solution embodied complex customer groups, activities surrounding the grant of Free Trade loans and the management of customer queries (SAP/Active Directory/SharePoint, C#, Enterprise Lib)

• Technical Lead / Architect

  Euro RSCG

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; HAVS; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  March 2006 — July 2006 (5 months)

  Essentially a vacancy management system, which publishes to a public facing web sites, and queues letters and emails. (CMS Server, BizTalk, C#, Enterprise Lib)
  Audited and adhered to strict council / government standards

• Technical Architect

  Big Food Group

  (Partnership; 201-500 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  December 2005 — March 2006 (4 months)

  Online stock catalogue, with web administration
  Web controlled IVR, and telephonist Port forwarding
  Sage integration system, for asset/ product management
  Facade database, to manage container shipments (SQL, InfoPath, Forms Server, C#)

• Technical Architect

  Vehicle Data System

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Automotive industry)

  July 2005 — December 2005 (6 months)

  Development of V-Spec Services, interaction with DVLA data services, to accurately identify vehicle types and associate appropriate data for a given request.
  Intense business logic, delivered in web services currently implemented by large scale organisation [Motability, Autotrader, Elephant, Best Price, Car Web and SMMT]
  ASP/C#/VB.NET, MS Report Server, MS SQL 2003/2005 & Role based user management and auditing. Web 2.0 model

• Technical Lead

  Fowles Australia

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Automotive industry)

  September 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 4 months)

  Web based auction system, mini-project to deliver a more targeted search approach.
  Explicit disabled access needed to be maintained, for all new screens.
  XHTML, ASP, SQL, CSS, CSS2. Use of DSDM applied methodology.

• Lead Developer/Technical Architect

  Auto Data Networks

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Automotive industry)

  February 2005 — July 2005 (6 months)

  Main project is yet to be released, AllCars.com project, which incorporates extreme searching criteria in which to find automotive vehicles; Incorporating a rapid distance calculators and alternate suggestions into search results.
  Orbit automotive data: main focus on the large scale manipulation/ report/ replication/ backup/ updates and QA of vehicle information from multiple sources.
  ASP/C#/VB.NET, MS Report Server, MS SQL 2003, DTS

• Developer Manager /Database Co-ordinator

  Kah Systems

  (Public Company; Automotive industry)

  January 2004 — February 2005 (1 year 2 months)

  Handheld to web communications, for vehicle appraisals and tracking.
  Leading small to medium size teams, to rapidly deliver bespoke Hand held/web site solution. DSDM micro-management, fused with hands-on development tasks on both handheld application and web sites.
  Vehicle Database web front end. A large scale vehicle/parts database is maintained by a team of 10+ editors. A total remote web based solution was implemented and in turn became the framework from which all other web solutions we built.
  Pocket PC Compact .Net Framework, XML/ASP/VB.Net/Web Services/ MS SQL 2003

• Development Manager

  Manheim

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)

  January 2003 — September 2003 (9 months)

  Windows / Web based systems to feed/load/maintain stock of vehicles going to auction, and out of auction sites to buyers.
  UNIX shell, C++, ASP, VB. XML. SOAP

• Senior Developer

  NCS Pearson

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PSO; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 5 months)

  ICPS and CPS services, for maintaining account transfers between supplier [BT] and vendors. Data entry capture which interacts with call centre auto dials and ftp imported transfers.
  ASP, Visual Basic, Oracle 8i Database. Heavy DHTML 4th Gen specific front end client application (AJAX)

• Senior E-Commerce Developer

  Halifax

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

  August 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 1 month)

  High-level design of Internet based applications (UML)
  Design & Development of encapsulated components for ASP to IBM Mainframe / SQL-Server / Oracle interaction (PL/SQL-T/SQL)
  Design & Development of web channelled Display (ASP/SHTML)
  Design & Development of Low-band channelled Displays (WAP/Open/NTL)
  XML messaging structure, hierarchy, and implementation (DOM)
  Re-Branding using XSLT and CSS
  Workshops present to graduates and secondment employee
  ° Active Server Pages
  ° Client Side scripting methods
  ° Introduction to the Internet and Business cases
  Project Involvement
  ° Maintenance & Support (Technical Lead/Senior Developer)
  ° Group Security Wrapper (Technical Lead)
  ° Branch On-Line Automation (Technical Architect)
  ° Online ISA / Savings (Lead Developer)
  ° CIS (Developer) ° Inelegant Finance (System Dev)

• Internet Development Lead / IVR

  ICR

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Market Research industry)

  September 1999 — August 2000 (1 year)

  Development of bespoke software solutions (VB, .EXE, fat client administration and thin client [ASP] browser presentation and/or administration)
  Utilisation of Flash, Shockwave, Courseware, Java Applets & JSP
  Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Telephony development
  Computer Based Training development / Generic ID-2-Post-code retrieval (IVR)

• Systems Tester Operator

  William Hill

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Gambling & Casinos industry)

  December 1997 — March 1999 (1 year 4 months)

  System and Unit Year 2000 Testing (Test director software)
  Testing and Error handle for Internet based betting
  Internet exposure to ASP and Perl - CGI

David Weir’s Education

• University of Leeds

  1996 — 1999

• University of Leeds

  HND, Business Information Technology, 1996 — 1998

  Activities and Societies:

  Capoeira society treasurer

Additional Information

David Weir’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• Leeds Capoeira (Martial Art)

David Weir’s Interests:

IT Languages:, WPF, WF, WCF, Card Space, LINQ, ASP.NET, .NET, .NET 1.1, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, VB, C#, C-sharpe, WMI, MS Visual Basic (5.0), (6.0) ,MTS, JPS, PHP, Com, Dom, Ruby on Rails, HTML, Dynamic Html, WAP, WML, VBS, JavaScript, Jscript , XML, XSL, XSLT, SAX, PL/SQL, T/SQL Software: Sever Internet Information Services,Microsoft Visual Source Safe,Microsoft SQL Server / Oracle 8i,Microsoft Transactional Server,Site Server / Commerce Server,Biz Talk 2000, 2002,Microsoft Active Directory,Microsoft SharePoint 2003, 2007,Microsoft Groove Server,Microsoft Forms Server,MS Teams Server,Master Data, Management (Bulldog) Software: Legacy systems /OS / Interfaces Microsoft DOS / FTP / Terminal Client,Microsoft Windows NT, 9x, 200x, XP,Stratus HP 50/60/70,Solaris,SAP, .Net Connectors,Access Dimensions, Focal Point,Sage Line 50, 200, 500,MapPoint,Paypal, Proxt

David Weir’s Groups:

.NET People, SoftwareEngineering

•    International Association of Software Architects

David Weir’s Honors:

Sep 2006 ° Microsoft ° .Net WWF .Net 3.0
Feb 2006 ° Microsoft ° SQL 2005
Nov 2003 ° Q&A ° SQL SOUNDEX
Nov 2003 ° Q&A ° C#
Aug 2001 ° Certified ° XSL and XSLT
Mar 2001 ° Certified ° Structured Systems Development Methods DSDM
Feb 2001 ° Certified ° Dynamic Systems Development Methods
Jan 2001 ° Internal ° SOAP & BizTalk
Jan 2001 ° UPCO ° Mentoring Methods and Techniques
Jan 2001 ° Spring IT ° Numega (Standards and Errors)
Dec 2000 ° Q&A ° Microsoft Transactional Server Components
Nov 2000 ° UPCO ° extensible Mark-up language
Nov 2000 ° UPCO ° Client Side Scripting
Sep 2000 ° Q&A ° Enterprise Visual Basic Pack
Nov 1999 ° Phillips ° Speech Processing (Dev Environment)
Nov 1999 ° Perphonics ° Interactive Voice Response (Dev & Design)
Oct 1997 ° Q&A ° Microsoft Office suite

David Weir’s Contact Settings

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