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Duncan Lock


Personal Information

Date of Birth:
5th August 1976
E-mail:
Website:
www.dflock.co.uk
Portfolio:
www.dflock.co.uk/portfolio/
Address:
Birmingham, UK
Mobile:
07815 970782

Profile

An adaptable and enthusiastic developer with broad experience and strong graphical communication skills. Proven web, database and application developer – able to work as a team with users and other developers to create and support practical solutions.

Artistic background and strong design, creative and problem solving skills.

Achievements

Technical Skills

Extensive Experience

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Qualifications

Interests & hobbies

Drawing, science, history, web design, rock climbing, digital photography.


Microsoft Certified Professional Logo Microsoft Certified Database Administrator Logo Microsoft Certified Desktop Technician Logo CIW Professional Logo
Microsoft Certified Trainer Logo Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist Logo CIW Master Designer Logo

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Experience

April 2007Present

Web Development Manager, ebxp

ebxp are a small flash & web development studio specialising in flash ebrochures and dynamic CMS driven websites.

Comprehensive position developing CMS driven websites for clients, training a small team of junior developers and modernising the company's development practices.

Introduced open source PHP based CMS MODx, modern semantic CSS web site development & company Wiki. Increased production automation through use of automated image processing software and bespoke database migration scripting.

Introduced & ran regular project debriefs, training seminars, workshops & design reviews as part of team building & improvement process.

June 2005April 2007

SQL Tutor, Computeach International

Computeach, established for over 40 years & with an annual turnover of £25m, provides IT distance learning courses to thousands of students — and currently has over 9,000 students enrolled on a wide variety of courses.

Senior SQL Tutor responsible for the training and support of MCDBA, MCAD & MCP students studying for Microsoft SQL Server exams 2000 & 2005 (70-228 & 70-229). Working with another tutor, provide classroom training & student support via email, web chat and phone for ~500 students.

Created (on own initiative) internal SQL Server & ASP intranet to support tutors, office staff and managers; provided extensive Student Records, Phone call tracking & student reporting for tutors.

October 1998April 2005

Analyst Programmer, Roc Office Furniture Plc.

Roc Office Furniture, employing 100 people and turning over £10m, design, manufacture and supply office seating and furniture, providing a one stop shop service for prestigious national and international clients.

Responsible for development & support on the successful company wide implementation of Microsoft Business Solutions Navision, a complete manufacturing, sales, financials, ERP & CRM system. This replaced a ˜20 year old bespoke system and launched with ˜50 users.

Developed the company's intranet applications in XML, HTML & ASP; including database driven design drawings and product specifications systems, SVG org. charts, XML driven internal phone and contacts, forum and collaborative wiki.

Developed a replacement for legacy payroll data collection and processing system in VB & SQL Server; system had successfully processed over 85,000 payroll transactions at the time of writing.

December 1996October 1998

Development Engineer, Ross Computer Services

Ross Computer Services developed management, logistics and accounting software for the road haulage industry and are now part of Mandata

Developed, with a small team, 32bit distributed n-tier business solutions in VB 5 for the road haulage industry. Responsibility for the design & development of client side applications and server-side components implementing business rules & database independent data services. Shared responsibility for hardware support of the NT servers, networks & PC's for the installed client base of ˜200 users.


References available on request.