Will Webster

Current

Senior ASP.NET Developer at toptable.co.uk

Past

Senior Interface / ASP.NET Developer at ioko
Senior Interface Developer at WTG
Senior Developer at R/GA

Senior ASP.NET UI Developer at Justgiving
Developer at CDC Respond
Web Developer at Vebra
Front End Web Developer at WTG
Web Developer / Integrations Manager at Liberty Bloom

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Education

University of Sunderland

Recommended

14 people have recommended Will

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Will Webster’s Summary

Strong experience with business requirements analysis and definition, web design and development, project management.

Application engineering skills using Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET 3.5, C#, webforms, MVC and Linq. Test driven development and agile programming techniques.

Experienced in SQL programming and data management.

Building and deploying system architecture to support Web 2.0 applications using MS SQL, MySQL, ASP.NET, XML and XSL.

Strong user interface design skills using semantic strict XHTML, advanced CSS, cross browser bug fixing, and the use of multiple design packages. Wire framing and usability testing.

Clientside coding using AJAX, unobtrusive JavaScript, and frameworks such as jQuery and MooTools.

Team leader and team player with strong product development and product management skills.

Creative innovator, out-of-the box thinker.

Will Webster’s Specialties:

asp.net, test driven development, agile, user interface, css, javascript, jquery, ajax

Will Webster’s Experience

Senior ASP.NET Developer

toptable.co.uk

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

November 2009 — Present (1 month)
Senior Interface / ASP.NET Developer

ioko

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2009 — November 2009 (3 months)
Senior Interface Developer

WTG

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2009 — August 2009 (2 months)

Asked back by this existing client to work on some important high profile government projects whilst permanent members of staff where on summer holiday. Accessibility and perfect web standards of upmost importance. Client side coding done using unobtrusive JavaScript and the jQuery library. A prototype was created for a potentially massive project which helped win inclusion to the next round of tender.
Senior Developer

R/GA

(Public Company; IPG; Marketing and Advertising industry)

April 2009 — June 2009 (3 months)

Involved on a very exciting project to build a community site for Alfa Romeo fans to celebrate their centenary. The site was being built using a highly customized install of Community Server and supported full globalisation, so all the clients markets can be covered.

The latest beta version CS5, which is based on ASP.NET 3.5, with MS SQL 2008 where used. jQuery was used for client side scripting.
Senior ASP.NET UI Developer

Justgiving

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2009 — April 2009 (4 months)

Working for this renowned client to develop their new website I was the technical lead for the user interface team. A WCF developed SOA architecture was used and I was responsible for developing a cutting edge user interface. AJAX and JQuery was employed to provide a great user experience.

The UI was heavily event driven and used the latest .NET 3.5 framework and controls. Good accessibility and semantic code was an important focus for the solution.

The project was successfully completed in a very short time schedule with tight deadlines.
Developer

CDC Respond

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

April 2008 — December 2008 (9 months)

CDC Software is an international software house. I was contracted to work on a new version of their popular customer complaints software, Respond 5. This new version is web based with a Win Forms desktop application used for configuration. The software was designed to be customisable so that the application can be applied to bespoke company needs.

To accommodate these requirements I implemented a Data Access Layer using test driven development and new features of .NET, such as LINQ, which enables the under lying schema to be modified and custom fields stored.

After this I worked on implementing the web interface which relied heavily on AJAX using script services and helped to finish off the WPF based Win Forms client application. I was then extended to help implement missing functionality and test both applications.
Web Developer

Vebra

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

February 2003 — December 2008 (5 years 11 months)

Working on the new consumer property portal Thinkproperty.com, using C#, JavaScript (AJAX), Source Control and ASP.NET 2. Page rendering via XML and XSLT, with a clustered MS SQL database. Working as part of a highly motivated team, responsible for project management of development cycles, test plans and usability testing. Previous projects include a complex web based Estate Agency application built using PHP 5 (Pear + Smarty templating), Linux (CVS, Apache), JavaScript and MySQL. Experience also gained in MaxDB, and various frameworks including BlueShoes.
Front End Web Developer

WTG

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — April 2008 (4 months)

WTG is a large scale internet solutions provider. During my contract I worked with a talented team of information architects, designers and web developers on several projects which included a new national system for the Police built using ASP.NET 3.5 with the AJAX tool kit, master pages, and themes. Another project involved redesigning an ASP.NET 1.1 application with semantic HTML and CSS. A detailed back end admin site and customisable front end where constructed.
Web Developer / Integrations Manager

Liberty Bloom

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Liberty Bloom provides services for the music industry including a CMS system. Working on a part-time basis, for around 10 hours per week, my duties included designing new websites, handling the integration of the PHP / XSL based CMS system into existing websites, managing other part time developers and liaising with clients. The Liberty Bloom environment is Linux based with work being done remotely via Putty, CVS WinSCP. For web design Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Fireworks, and DevPHP were used. Examples include: mrscruff.com, fingathing.com.