John Mc Donagh
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US/British citizenship. |
| · Objective | Seeking a Lead/Snr developer position with .NET. |
| · Availability | Immediate. |
WORK EXPERIENCE (REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST)
| Dec 2007 - Present | |||
| Venice Capital, Connecticut.
C# Winforms, WPF, MySQL, Umbrello UML design. Venice is a hedge fund that
is implementing a new automated trading system for which I created a
high-performance winform monitoring application. I architected
the first version of this in an object oriented design. I was
also commissioned to design and code a 2.0 version with a strong messaging
architecture reflective of the design of the actual trading system.
I carried version 1.0 through testing and into production. Both
versions were coded in VS C#, although I also began some intitial work
on a Mono proof of concept. Additional duties included MySQL scripts for daily auditing of the trading system. |
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| May 2007 – April 2008 | |||
| Direct Partners,
San Francisco
.NET 2.0/3.5, WCF, SQL Server 2005/2000, VSS, UML 2.0, Enterprise Architect Built ASP.NET/Web Services/Windows apps to support a large distributed database/data warehousing system. |
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| Direct Partners is a data
warehousing outfit with clients including Sony Entertainment (my primary
concern) and Barclays Global Investors.
My tasks include maintenance and development of the distributed database system and supporting systems. As well as improving and developing existing applications for synchronization of the databases, ETL of data and web service based APIs for client companies, I have also developed an OO framework intended to replace and overhaul the existing 'ad hoc' integrated systems approach. The framework I have developed is an abstract factory based pattern, utilizing .NET remoting to target particular servers for reading and writing objects and collections of objects. |
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| Feb 2007 - Apr2007 | Concentric Solutions, New Jersey. (contract) | ||
| ASP.NET SQL Server 2005 affiliate sales program. | |||
| Oct 2004-Feb 2007 | |||
| Ciber Inc, San Francisco
ASP.NET 2.0 (C#), SQL Server 2005, VS 2005, XML, VSS, UML 2.0, Enterprise Architect. |
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| Working in both the development and engineering teams for an asp.net 2.0, SQL Server, n-tier Special Education software system. As well developing asp.net pages and editing tools I have also worked on the application framework and database design. I have communicated with the clients (San Francisco Unified School Distrct and Chicago Public Schools) to gather their product requirements and from there derived the technical requirements and specifications whilst ensuring compliance with IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act). As a team lead I mentored many of our team of developers, managed their tasks as well as developed and communicated best practices. I developed the standards and practices of our interview process for technical employees as well as leading most of those interviews. | |||
| 2002-2004 | |||
| Contractor, San Francisco | |||
| Since 2002 I have been involved with contract work in San Francisco. I have developed within the entire software lifecycle for several products using C#/ASP.NET and SQL Server 7.0/2000. For Walther Solutions I reported directly to the CEO and developed a .NET Web Portal, VB windows app and a WebService app all with a SQL Server 2000 backend. Other projects included a winform simulating a cellular automata exhibit for the Exploratorium and an affiliate management web application for an online marketing firm. | |||
| 2000-2001 | |||
| xSides Corp., Seattle | |||
| Position of Server Developer working with Windows/VC++, ASP/ADO, VBScript, SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000. | |||
| 2000 | |||
| Furry Dog Web Factory - Shrewsbury, UK | |||
| Working as a consultant, writing ASP pages (mainly VBScript) and ADO components creating and manipulating Access databases on Windows 2000 and Windows 98. | |||
| 1998 - 1999 | |||
| Morgan Laboratories, San Francisco. | |||
| PowerBuilder developer and Database Administrator, producing Trade Finance software. As a developer I mostly maintained and enhanced existing code. As DBA I maintained and updated scripts for Microsoft, Sybase and Watcom databases. In addition I managed the build processes for the products. | |||
| 1997 - 1998 | |||
| MATRAnet, Mountain View CA. | |||
| SQA for a project producing a web-based call center. HTML design and Java source code maintenance with Symantec VisualCafe on NT. | |||
INTERNSHIPS
| 1996 | |||
| Information Resources Inc., Chicago. | |||
| Summer internship, designing and implementing a GUI using VB on Windows 3.11 and NT to interface with a database and an image processing engine. | |||
| 1995 | |
| Ferranti-Thomson Sonar Systems UK, Cheadle Heath, England. | |
| Summer internship, implementing a complex GUI interfacing with submarine Sonars using X-Designer and UNIX. This was a project for the Royal Navy. |
EDUCATION
| Sept '93 - June '97 | |||
| The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. | |||
| (Named University of the year,
2001, by the London Sunday Times university guide. Awarded a five star
rating by the British IEE, and given third position in a recent industry
league table of British Universities.) BSc Computer Science This Degree comprised 36 half modules in Computer Science. The final year of this degree was the equivalent of an MSc Computer Science and included an individual project which for me was an investigation into the use of stacked generalization to improve the performance of a neural network. |
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| Sept '86 - June '93: | |||
| Manchester School for boys, UK. | |||
| Advanced Levels - Math, Physics,
Chemistry, General Studies. GCSEs - English Literature, English Language, Math, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, French, History, Art. |
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EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
| I
am a keen writer and have had articles published in The Guardian (a
national broadsheet newspaper) and The New Mancunian. Although I don't
write much these days I maintain a voracious appetite for news and current
affairs. At Sheffield I was instrumental in the setting up and running
of a Corporate Fund-Raising Group. Amongst the sports I enjoy are horse
riding, running and hiking. I love the outdoors and enjoy long distance
running. I completed the 19th Marathon des Sables, a 240km self-sufficient
foot race across the Sahara desert for charity, as well as various other
marathons and half marathons. I am enthusiastic about challenging travel and head for far off places at every available opportunity. |
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| 646 Green St. San Francisco CA 94133 |
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| E-MAIL: JOHNMANCHESTER@YAHOO.COM | ||
| HTTP://www.oocities.org/ |
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| Tel: 415 846-0546 | ||