CV/Mission de Consultant Reuters freelance

Exemple de missions de Joao,
Consultant Reuters habitant les Yvelines (78)

• Dev Team Lead (team of 8 people)

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2007

  Project: Migration of *******flowers – 𠇏lowers web site” to the Direct platform (single basket).
  Responsibility:
  • Investigated and designed the migration for the new ******** web site for flowers.
  • Helped the business to develop the customer offer and scale operations by streamlining the process of adding new fulfillers to the website.
  • The customer experience was improved with the “single basket, single checkout” process.
  • Communicated solutions internally to stake-holders, the project team and to external partners.
  • Helped implement the final solution using .NET 2.0, WebServices,SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006.

• Trainer –

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2013

  • Co-written and delivered a course on “Patterns and Practices for Enterprise Architecture” and “Security”.
  Key Achievements: Develop my mindset from a department vision to an Enterprise vision.
  Skills developed: Increase communication and presentation skills with customers. Improving my enterprise architectural skills to a greater depth and gaining experience within the retail area.

• _Technical Specialist –

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Projects: Designing the new Integration Service Layer to support future ******** future partnerships.
  Responsibility:
  • Part of the MS-Technical Adoption Program (TAP) for BizTalk Server 2006, building the next generation of Integration Services Layer for ********
  • Designed the infrastructure for a reliable and scalable BizTalk Server 2006 group and get it rolled-out across all environments (Dev=>Build=>Test=>Production)
  • I was the communication link between Operations, Development and the Infrastructure teams.
  • Supported and documented the Integration Service Layer for “Tesco Direct” (********)

• Senior IT consultant ******** /IVIS

  Group - Retail, London, UK
  Jan 2003 - Jan 2008

  IVIS Group is a retail consultancy employing 75 people in the UK
  Role: Project IT Architect Lead from April 2007 to 10/01/2008
  Project: Migration of ******** - “Wine Club” to a new “Multi-Channel Architecture” (MCA)
  Responsibility:
  • Managed a team of 3 Designers and researched and designed the MCA for ******** web site.
  • Investigated and designed the migration of *******wine web site to a new platform.
  • Managed the overall IT architecture for the programme. This included designs for product setup functionality, warehouse management systems, finance systems, website, order management systems and an after sales support system.
  • Coordinated and communicated the technical solution internally to stake-holders, project managers, project team and to external partners.
  • Implemented using .NET 3.0, IIS 7.0, WCF, Web Services, SQL Svr 2005, C#APS.NET and BizTalk Svr 2006.

• Senior Software developer –

  2003 - Jan 2005

  Projects: Evolving Grocery and National Store web sites. Part of the 𠇍ynamic Scheduling” project.
  Responsibility:
  • Designed, developed, tested and supported web applications in the production environment, front end and back end. Use of .NET, C#, COM+, IIS, ASP.NET, XML, XSL, MSMQ, SQL Server.
  • Use of XP methodology and “test-first” approach. Use also of waterfall methodology. Use of UML.
  • Worked on Food web site (Grocery) and non-food web site (Direct, Flowers, Wine, and Entertainments), helping the business to develop the customer offer and grow the business (********)..
  • Looked after the build server for the entire web site. Documented the process and successfully handed it over to the development team.
  Other Roles
  Senior IT consultant – BizTalk Team Leader (team of 4 people) – Since Aug 2006
  • Appraisals, Holidays/Absences, Timesheets, and expenses management.
  • Helped recruiting new talent for the “professional services” team.
  • Initiated a dinner event, “Piz“Piz’ Talk”, for the team (every 5 weeks) to talk about BizTalk et al.

• EAI Architect - Consultant Reuters Consulting - Finance, Paris, France

  Reuters is an International news agency employing 16,000 people world-wide
  Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

• EAI Architect from

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

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• Role: Senior Software Engineer – System Architect assistant

  Sr. Software Engineer Elsevier Science - Publishing, London, UKPart of Reed-Elsevier a global publishing group, employing 35,000 people world-wide
  Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

  Project: Improving content offer,search and navigation for scientific information on the web (e.g. The Lancet).
  Responsibility: (part of a team of 30 people)
  • As part of major migration project for six web sites to use COM technology, I helped to put in place internal procedures, developed core components using C++/Java, (D)COM, ADO, IIS, XML/XSL-T.
  • Made Technical Assessments for an important project at the group level.
  • Wrote technical documents, made code reviews, produced planning documents and tracked them.
  • Helped to recruit contractors. Tutor and help new people to gain speed on development.
  • Participated in developing Web Sites projects: products were always delivered.
  o Project managed by "Resources & time constraints". Analysis of the new functionalities.
  o Created a database source in order to support e-commerce (Shopping Mall) using Oracle8i.
  • Gave a "UML presentation" as part of an internal knowledge sharing. Used UML when needed.
  Component Administrator (4 component administrators):
  • Check correct use of internal procedures before releasing a component (1-10 per month).
  Support Developer for six web sites (during 2 months – rotating role):
  • Provided weekly reports about urgent problems and current statistics about web sites problems.
  • Initiated a new procedure for migrating to ClearQuest, reducing the time to allocate a problem and getting a better system to track old problems.
  Key Achievements: Became a COM expert and shared my knowledge (technical articles, presentation). Put in place internal procedures in order to standardise documentation and development. I made a procedure to reduce the allocation time of web site problems.
  Skills developed: To be pragmatic and develop new system architecture skills. Reuse was the main idea in each process I put in place or participated. To communicate in English.

• _Software Engineer

  Software Engineer Thales - Telecom, Paris, France
  Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  Thales is a world leader in Mission-critical information systems for the Aerospace, Defence and Security markets, employing 55,000 people world-wide.
  Project: Delivering private secure radio mobile network for civil organisations (police, fire-fighters).
  Responsibility: (part of a team of 30 people)
  • Software development for Protected Radio Mobile network.
  • Designed applications (use of UML and �sign Patterns’) and developed them in C++ on Windows NT using MFC for the GUI. Designed and Developed COM/DCOM components. Used MS SQL Server 7.
  • The whole system makes use of a main central database and distributed part of it on remote station. Certain operations that occur locally have to be reported on the central and transmitted to other stations. I was responsible for the development of the "main console application" which manages three different operators with different security accesses and set of functionalities to the main central database.
  Key Achievements: Improved the GUI for the end user (easier access to the system functionality).
  Skills developed: Improve my technical architecture knowledge and shared it with the team.

• _Software Engineer Software Engineer Trimaran, Multimedia – Paris, FRANCE (8 people)

  Jan 1998 - Jan 1999

  Project: Animate satellite pictures for weather forecast videos on the French TV channel 𠇏rance 3”.
  Responsibility:
  • Created applications to animate satellite pictures for weather forecast videos. These applications were created to replace old ones. The rendering time was reduced by 9 times (40 minutes instead of 6 hours).
  • I have done technical benchmarking and make recommendation about material to choose and buy.
  • Designed (design patterns and UML) a portable real-time 3D rendering application. Development in C/C++ with OpenGL on SGI station and Windows NT station (use of MFC).
  Key Achievements: Delivered a solution which reduced the rendering time by 9 times.
  Skills developed: Analysis of bottlenecks in software to improve the final solution.