I am a Software Engineer with over 8 years commercial experience and a straight-A First Class BSc Honours (4-year) Degree in Computer Science and a BSc in Mathematics.

I am a quick learner and highly motivated by solving complicated problems and exceeding targets. I have coding experience in a number of different programming languages and frameworks, primarily C#, ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC in .NET 4.0 (and prior versions). I am very passionate about IT and keep up-to-date with key software development frameworks by experimenting with new technologies at home, reading relevant articles online and attending technical seminars.

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Programming languages, frameworks and scripting languages

Officially, I am a back-end Software Engineer but my roles have often required me to do a bit of front-end work as well. Below is a list of the programming languages, frameworks and scripting languages that I have the most experience in.

  • C# .NET 4.0 & prior versions
  • Windows Phone 7, Silverlight
  • ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC & MVP
  • iPhone, Objective-C, Cocoa Touch
  • Web Services, WCF, REST, SOAP
  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript
  • WinForms
  • AJAX, jQuery, JSON
  • XML
  • PHP
  • SQL, TSQL

Third-party libraries:

  • Enterprise Library
  • StructureMap
  • Unity
  • Funq

Databases:

  • SQL Server 2008/2005/2000
  • SQL Server Reporting Services
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL

Testing:

  • NUnit
  • Moq
  • Rhino Mocks

Source control:

  • VSS & Team Foundation Suite
  • SVN

Management tools:

  • IIS 6 & 7
  • TeamCity

Project management frameworks:

  • Agile (Scrum)
  • RUP
  • UML

experience

University 2000-2003 – Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

First Class BSc Honours in Computer Science, BSc in Mathematics

Thesis topic:

A Web-Based Programming Learning Environment

Scholarships and prizes:

  • Victoria University of Wellington Graduate Award
  • School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences Studentship
  • Datacom Systems Scholarship in Computer Science
  • Unisys Prize in Computer Science and Information Systems

Publications:

Anna Maria Luxton, Ubiquitous Web-Based Programming.
In 2003 IEEE Symposium on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, Auckland, New Zealand, October 2003.

education

Albumprinter

Albumprinter is one of Europe’s largest photo book suppliers, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I currently work for Albumprinter as part of the backend team, developing APIs (C# .NET 3.5, Spring.NET, NHibernate, SQL Server) used by the public facing website and the factory where the products are printed and shipped, a secure shopping cart and ordering system, and bespoke localized ASP.NET MVC 3 web applications for specialized products.

Chemistry

Chemistry is an award-winning Digital Media Agency based in London, UK. During my 3 month contract at Chemistry, I continued the development of a hotel booking website and worked primarily on the Data Access, Domain and UI layers of a C# .NET 4.0 ASP.NET MVP web application (Unity, Entity Framework, SQL Server 2008, Sitecore). I also retrospectively added unit and integration tests and helped manage the requirements, third-party web service integrations and client expectations.

Mflow

Mflow is a London-based startup providing a social music streaming website. While at Mflow, I helped develop RESTful backend web services (C# .NET 3.5, Funq, Redis, Lucene, PostgreSQL), architected and built a stable deployment system (.NET web services, custom MSBuild tasks, TeamCity) and lead the development of the Mflow website, a single-page heavily AJAX’d site (ASP.NET MVC 2, StructureMap, AJAX, jQuery).

Microgenx

Microgenx was a software development house based in Brisbane, Australia, that delivered custom software solutions across many industries using Agile methodologies. While at Microgenx, I designed and built applications using combinations of .NET 2.0, .NET 3.5, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WCF, Enterprise Library, SQL Server, SSL setup, HTML, JavaScript and CSS within Visual Studio 2008 and TFS. Microgenx were aquired by SMS Management & Technology in 2010.

Trade Me

Trade Me is New Zealand’s largest Internet auction and classified website. Trade Me has over 2.8 million active registered members (65% of New Zealand’s population). My responsibilities included managing, prototyping, developing, unit testing, fine tuning and the smooth deployment of simultaneous projects in a team structured environment using ASP.NET, VB.NET 2.0, SQL Server, HTML, JavaScript and CSS.

Critchlow

Critchlow is a Wellington based digital mapping solutions company. I worked as part of a small team of software engineers on a variety of projects specializing in both C# and VB.NET web and desktop mapping development, VB 6.0 desktop applications, 3rd party application development (using MapInfo mapping, geocoding and routing SDKs), research and development, and customer-facing sales support.

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I currently live in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You can find me online on LinkedIn and Twitter or alternatively, please feel free to contact me using the form below.

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