Marcus Thompson

Current

• Senior Developer at Brightsquare Inc.
• Freelance web developer (Self-employed)

Past

• Web Application Developer at Insite Inc
• Payroll Officer at FirstCaribbean International Bank
• Data Capture Operator at FirstCaribbean International Bank

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Education

• University of Bradford
• University of the West Indies
• Queen's College

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Marcus Thompson’s Summary

Master of Science - Information Technology in E-commerce (Distinction)
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Accounting (Hons.)
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE Windows 2000)
Productive self-starter with a strong work ethic; consistently achieves goals

Marcus Thompson’s Specialties:

XHTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Coldfusion, Javascript, IIS, Apache, MS SQL, MySQL, MS Access, Win XP, Win 2000 (NT), Win 2000 server, Win 98, IIS, Apache, Microsoft suite: Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Visio; Open Office

Marcus Thompson’s Experience

• Senior Developer

  Brightsquare Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2008 — Present (6 months)

  Senior web developer.

• Freelance web developer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2005 — Present (3 years 1 month)

  I handle the design, coding and project management for small to medium sized client sites using standards compliant XHTML/CSS in conjunction with the server side scripting language PHP.

• Web Application Developer

  Insite Inc

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 6 months)

  I am one of two lead developers who create and manage the backend and frontend builds for client websites using a mixture of HTML, CSS, ASP, Coldfusion, Flash, Javascript, MSSQL, MySQL and Microsoft Access - in addition to managing the web and email servers. Recently, I prompted a complete revamp of our bespoke content management system to a fully css/xhtml structure, thereby improving its usabilty ten fold.

• Payroll Officer

  FirstCaribbean International Bank

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

  August 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 1 month)

  As a member of the Transaction Processing Unit, I processed payrolls on behalf of the Bank’s customers in a high volume and time critical, work environment. I was also involved in training new staff, both locally and in St. Vincent, in the use of new financial applications over a one month period, during the amalgamation of Barclays Bank and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. Liaised with internal and external customer in the event of queries.

• Data Capture Operator

  FirstCaribbean International Bank

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

  July 2002 — August 2003 (1 year 2 months)

  Part of the team responsible for capturing encoded information from vouchers for subsequent batch processing on mainframe computers the same business day. This included Liaising with other financial institutions for inter-bank clearings and training new staff in the use of the mainframe computer system for cheque processing.

Marcus Thompson’s Education

• University of Bradford

  MSc, Information Technology in Ecommerce, 2004 — 2005

  Activities and Societies:

  Bradford Katana Jiu Jitsu club

• University of the West Indies

  BSc, Computer science and Accounting, 1998 — 2002

• Queen's College

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Marcus Thompson’s Interests:

Martial arts, basketball, reading, web development, css, html

Marcus Thompson’s Groups:

ISACA

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