Simon Sawyer
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17 February 2006 |
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26 Elmfield Road, Cambridge CB4 1SF
07808 069046
www.sawyer.me.uk
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Profile
Primarily, a talented and imaginative internet developer with excellent analysis skills. Much experience of the full project lifecycle, and vast depth and breadth technical knowledge. Secondarily, an accomplished web designer with an eye for a professional look and feel. Years in the business world have given a good understanding of commercial influences and priorities. Honest, hard working and personable.Key Skills
| Skill | Years | Recent |
|---|---|---|
| ASP (on IIS) | 8 years - continuous | Current skill |
| .NET (ASP.NET & C#) | 2 years - occasional | Current skill |
| SQL (Microsoft SQL Server) | 8 years - continuous | Current skill |
| Java (J2SE, J2EE, EJB, Servlets, JSP) | 3 years - continuous | 2 years ago |
| HTML/HTTP/Javascript/CSS | 8 years - continuous | current skill |
| XML/XSLT | 6 years - continuous | current skill |
| Adobe Photoshop | 2 years - continuous | current skill |
Other areas of technical experience include LDAP, Word, Excel, VBA, reporting tools, Sage and various SDKs.
Career History
| Freelance Developer | |
| 2002 - 2003 and 2003 - current |
Working freelance has involved working with many different clients on internet-based projects of varying size. Working as consultant, project managing, analysist, web designer, but mostly software developer. As such developed an increasingly vast understanding of internet-related solutions to clients problems. |
| Software Engineer (Active Hotels) | |
| 2003 (5 months) |
Active Hotels (www.activehotels.com) is one of Europe’s leading online reservation providers to the hotel industry. As part of their development team, I worked a stand alone project as well as front and back end of their website. |
| Systems Development Manager (Jumpleads Ltd) | |
| 2000 - 2002 | Jumpleads (www.jumpleads.com) was a new company providing retail into the workplace through a web-based solution. As Development Manager my responsibility was to ensure the delivery of functionality to the website and to intergrate partner retailers. |
| Development/Support Analyst (Rolfe & Nolan) | |
| 1999 - 2000 | Rolfe & Nolan are the world's leading software solutions provider to the global listed derivatives industry. Worked in the new products team to develop a product to publish data from legacy systems on the web in a secure manner using Windows DNA architecture. My support/analysis role required dealing with corporate clients both in the UK, US and Japan. |
| Development Manager (Business Solutions) | |
| 1996 - 1999 | Business Solutions supplies IT based business solutions, specialising in Accounting Software. Responsible for 2-3 developers, managing a wide variety of jobs. Researching new technologies. |
| Programmer (Business Solutions) | |
| 1992 - 1996 | Learnt to working in a team and how to prioritise workload. Developed skills in building good rapport with clients. Development of bespoke Sage/Pegasus packages, including interfacing with legacy systems. |
Qualifications:
BSc (Hons) in Maths with Computing at the University of Exeter.
3 A Levels: Pure Maths [A grade], Applied Maths [A grade], Physics [A grade];
7 O Levels.
Personal details:
Date of Birth: 13th January 1971
Marital Status: Single
Interests:
Watching and playing variety of sports, including football and squash. Music - playing and listening. Active member of local church.
Simon Sawyer's CV - http://www.sawyer.me.uk/simon/cv.html