Personal Profile

• 13 Years in the IT Profession. An intelligent, confident individual with strong problem solving and lateral thinking abilities. My positions have been characterised by taking responsibility for projects, combined with strong technical competence
• Design of software based on customer dialogue is my major asset, particularly in a generic environment where services and frameworks are built. This is backed up with strong C++ and COM knowledge and Modelling experience in Component-Based and Multi-Tier Development environment. More lately, I have been using C# and ASP.Net to implement functionality where it was more appropriate. Additionally, I seek to apply and refine established idioms, and have the experience to know when to use them. Coupled with knowledge of the common design patterns, my software contributions remain stable and flexible
• I am an active member of ACCU, recently joining the editorial committee for their journals, as well as writing articles myself. Their tagline, "Professionalism in Programming", I find very fitting. See my homepage at www.simonsebright.com for more information

Technical Skills

Key Achievements

• UBS, Zurich - Designed and implemented web-based Asp.Net/SQL Server application for managing software installations on 35 000 of the Bank's computers
• BAe Systems -Rearchitected a major interactive graphical view component. Lead the introduction of an automated build process
• ARTiSAN - Lead rearchitecture and implementation for new
code-model synchronizer product family, enabling the company to target a more technical customer base with a user-friendly and flexible Use Case-driven approach. This included a Pattern Wizard for generating RTOS code frameworks
• SELECT - Lead team to implement $800 000 business commitment. The successful porting of multi-tier based repository access, on time and budget, allowed the company to fulfill its obligation to 3rd party
• SELECT - Key member of Core Technology team of 100 man-year product rearchitecture, taking the product to a Win 32, multi-tier, multi-user/multi-threaded platform
• Toplevel - Pioneered the development of first 32-bit software for the company, enabling it to become a supplier to other software houses, and develop its own product line to give a modern user experience. The Designer and Filler engines are still in use in the company's current high-end solutions

People Skills

• At itsystems, I work as a Senior Collaboration Project Leader, working with external customers to define their requirements, and talking to the development team to put these into effect
• At UBS, I worked in a global team, which requires new personal and social skills to achieve results and maintain relationships. I had whole responsibility for some of the team�s products, essentially working as a product manager and project manager, including gathering requirements and validating, managing customer expectations and agreeing delivery, as well as the expected high quality implementation
• At SELECT, I was technical lead for a team of four software engineers, providing a common infrastructure for a middle business object layer At ARTiSAN, the team structure is flat, however, my ability to see both sides of arguments, and articulate complex ideas was of great use in gelling the team. My approachability and open-minded nature often finds me being the first port of call to discuss new ideas, and this is something I find both rewarding and useful for the organisation
• In BAe Systems, my technical strength and articulate reasoned argument enabled me to help phase out some arcane practices, and encourage thinking. I presented a number of process and technical improvements to management

Employment

itsystems is a small dynamic company growing fast. My role is to liaise with customers to define their needs, in the field of workflow, document management and collaboration projects, often using SharePoint

I create project requirements, specifications, and budgets and manage the implementation and deployment of the finished product, together with on-going maintenance and change requests. Managing customer expectations is key to successful projects and winning repeat business

Member of the Windows Integrated Systems Engineering Tools team. This is a global team (line manager and colleagues sit in USA), responsible for a number of solutions to integrate different aspects of the Bank�s IT infrastructure. I was responsible for two products. One is a web-based tool to help IT administrators schedule software installation and monitor the results. Written in C# and ASP.NET, with a SQL Server back end, I provided the implementation as well as managing the requirements and delivery schedule for the project, and customer expectations

The second was a system for verifying software packages conform to company standards, and do not clash with any other packages. This is an ASP web front end, with C++ service running over a SQL Server database

I also provided direct and second line support to customers of the products, and work with colleagues to provide a central team SharePoint website to manage the team�s resources

Member of the Bowman Core Implementation team. The Company produces CMIS, the software configuration tool for the Army's next generation of digital communication equipment. The role is to provide design and implementation input to the product's core framework. Using VC++, MFC, STL and COM in a multi-threaded environment

Additionally, I identified a number of areas in which the Development Team should look to improve, both in terms of code design and writing, and process

Specifying, researching and writing a COM component in C++ to translate RTF files into the Company's own internal file format

ARTiSAN took the SELECT Enterprise product and tailored it for the real-time market, creating Real-time Studio (RtS). The small, crack development team added several user-driven features which were highly complex, such as model-aware rich text, source code control integration, and a new family of code synchronizers, of which I was a key architect

SELECT produced an Enterprise-scale Modeling Tool (SELECT Enterprise) for the Component Based Development (CBD) market. It is a three-tier application sitting on a repository. My role was in the Core Development team. Core technology is an abstraction of all the qualities generic to the products the company sells, and is used to build specific products very quickly and reliably

As the company produces Enterprise, a best-of-class modeling tool, staff there had ample opportunity to use it in everyday work and I have been on several in-house training courses on UML, Modeling and Methodologies

Produced an Outliner called ThinkBlox, a slimline word processor for structured documents (similar to outline view in Word, but easier to use). This was for a company called AlphaBlox. It involved the refactoring of the company's in-house word processing technology and combining it with a full OLE Client/Server MFC application

I then joined the team re-writing the Office Forms product where my pioneering 32-bit and MFC work gave me the ability to advise the team and implement some of the key use cases

Additionally, maintenance/enhancement of in house C/Assembler-based software, including low-level drivers and printing routines

Initially as a job in between further education courses, I was brought in as a Project Manager for the deployment of a third party manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) tool. I managed requirements with the supplier, as well as installation, training and hardware needs

I then became in charge of the whole IT requirements of the company, managing the 15 workstation network, as well as writing an in house database to interface with the third party product above. This involved reporting to the board of directors and budget management

Education

Personal Details

• Born 2nd July 1970
• Member of ACCU (Association of C and C++ Users - an object-oriented group of industry professionals)
• Security Cleared (UK)
• Conversational German
• Full, clean driving license
• Enjoy badminton, woodwork, DIY, guitar, walking, squash
• Head Boy 1987 - 1988