Curriculum Vitae

 

Feburary 2005

Personal Statement

With a career starting in the developing technology of automated hardware test, I am able to quickly acquire skills on new platforms and with a wide range of software languages. Developing test systems for Integrated Circuits, units and complete systems, while also creating software coding standards and data processing/presentation systems, has given me the ability of rapid skills acquisition in new technologies, techniques and development platforms. Over the last seven years I have concentrated on Software Testing, quickly developing test harnesses, drivers and tools for companies such as Scottish Hydro, EDS, Schluberger-Sema and Microsoft as well as providing test consultancies to companies such as Orange. A motivated team player with excellent communication skills, I am contributing to a project in a very short space of time and enjoy working within dynamic teams. In December 2004 I succesfully completed the Microsoft MCAD (C# Windows Applications) course with pass marks of over 95%.

Professional Competencies

Business based requirements analysis

Software test harness development

Web front and backend development

Web server configuration & deployment

Code reviews

Test Requirements Analysis

Test Framework Development

Database driven software development

Technical & user documentation

Code library development

Telephony systems

Systems integration and acceptance

Software maintenance and updates

Technical Competencies

 

MS DotNET (Visual Studio 2002)

MS C#

MS VB Scripting

MS SQL Server

MS Web Services

MS Remoting

ASPX (C# & VB)

XML

SOAP

C/C++ (Ansi and Visual Studio 6.0)

WinRunner

Test Director

MS Visual Basic

DCL/VMS

PASCAL (Ansi)

TCP/IP (HTTP, Telnet, SMTP)

Unix

DEC VAX systems

Professional Positions Held

January 2005

Test Lead

To analyse test requirements of Government Gateway hotfix's and develop new automated test suites for changes. Tests involved communications with Web Services and SQL Server databases.

 

April 2004 - November 2004

Deputy Test Lead

On the UK MOD Freedom Of Information Act software toolkit at Microsoft. Responsibilities included resource managment, planning, development process verification and customer support. Activities included; development of test infrastructure and test development process, creation of test-templates, creation and maintenance of test environments and harnesses. Systems included Windows 2000/XP, Microsoft VPC, Winrunner, Sharepoint, Office, K2, VBScript, C#.

 

February 2003 - February 2004

Software Test Consultant

Working within the UK Government Gateway core development team at Microsoft, ensuring the core Gateway system was delivered on-time and within budget.  Roles included; the analysis of customer requirements and specifications, creating test requirement specifications, development of drivers for test-automation and development of end-to-end test packages/harnesses.  Included in-depth work with XML, SOAP and Microsoft WebServices as well as working with BizTalk and SQL-Server. All development was using Visual Studio 2003 with C# and VB-Scripting.

 

September 2002 - February 2003

Software Test Consultant

Working with UK Government Inland Revenue bespoke applications; performed analysis of UML-based software test strategies, development & delivery of automated test packages and development of HTML-based test-result analysis system.  All work was carried out for EDS Ltd.  All code development was done using MS Visual Studio .NET (C#).

 

January 2000 - August 2002

Software Integration & Test Systems Developer

A number of consultancies were carried out for Test Advantage (US) Inc, Orange PCS (UK) Ltd and Schluberger-Sema  These included the field integration, testing and support of new-technology test-optimisation tools to client customers as well as high-level analysis of test requirements and development of test systems, drivers and harnesses.  Work carried out for Sema, was the development of test-data injection systems for service-specific areas of the UK Government Gateway.

 

September 1998-December 1999

IT Test-Systems Consultant

Working with Scottish Hydro-Electric Ltd and Southern & Scottish Electric Plc, my role was to analyse the UK Electricity Deregulation documentation and develop test-data generation tools, data delivery verification systems and data cleansing filters.

 

1996 - 1998

Principle Engineer

Responsible for development of mixed-signal Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) test packages and results warehousing/reporting systems with Wafer (pre-test) and Packaged (Final test) new-generation teletext devices.  Team-leader role with input to product development team.

 

1990-1996

Defence and Civil Aviation Test Consultant

Development of board and systems level functional test packages, software translators and automated program generation suites.  Clients include Siemens Plessey Systems, Marconi Command & Control Systems, British Aerospace (Dynamics) and Racal.  Also included development of a complete digital hardware design-verification system for the OTC Corporation in Sydney, Australia.

 

1985-1990

Test Systems Development Engineer

Apprentice field-test engineer with Marconi Underwater Systems, quickly rising to automated test-engineer developing torpedo board and systems-level test packages.  Moved to Plessey Systems and quickly promoted to senior engineer, designing digital and mixed-signal radar and weapons-systems test packages.

Education

1984-1986 Highbury College, Portsmouth

B/TEC National HNC in Computer & Electronic Engineering.

1982-1984 Eastleigh College of Further Education

BEC National in Business Computing.

B/TEC National OND in  Electronics & Computer Studies

1978-1982 Toynbee Comprehensive School Chandlers Ford, Hampshire

O-Level Passes:            English Language, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science,

Physics, Air Navigation, Biology, Craft Design & Technology,

Geography.

 

Personal Information

Living in the south of England with my partner, a general Manageress of a successful clothing retailer.  We are both interested in independent international travel with a comprehensive history of exotic and obscure destinations. Motorcycle enthusiasts, we enjoy touring and days-out.  I like to keep up to-date with the latest software-technology developments, while also hosting and managing a number of  websites for local bands.  I also develop freeware applications/tools.

 

Referees

References are available on request

 

Contact Details

Email:               mat@alexview.com.nospam (Please removed the .nospam before using)

Tel (Mobile):       +44 (0)7971 188651 

                       

Address: On Request