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 &#x2013 &#x201CFlowers web site&#x201D to the Direct platform (single basket).
  Responsibility:
  &#x2022 Investigated and designed the migration for the new ******** web site for flowers.
  &#x2022 Helped the business to develop the customer offer and scale operations by streamlining the process of adding new fulfillers to the website.
  &#x2022 The customer experience was improved with the &#x201Csingle basket, single checkout&#x201D process.
  &#x2022 Communicated solutions internally to stake-holders, the project team and to external partners.
  &#x2022 Helped implement the final solution using .NET 2.0, WebServices,SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006.

• Trainer &#x2013

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2013

  &#x2022 Co-written and delivered a course on &#x201CPatterns and Practices for Enterprise Architecture&#x201D and &#x201CSecurity&#x201D.
  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 &#x2013

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Projects: Designing the new Integration Service Layer to support future ******** future partnerships.
  Responsibility:
  &#x2022 Part of the MS-Technical Adoption Program (TAP) for BizTalk Server 2006, building the next generation of Integration Services Layer for ********
  &#x2022 Designed the infrastructure for a reliable and scalable BizTalk Server 2006 group and get it rolled-out across all environments (Dev=>Build=>Test=>Production)
  &#x2022 I was the communication link between Operations, Development and the Infrastructure teams.
  &#x2022 Supported and documented the Integration Service Layer for &#x201CTesco Direct&#x201D (********)

• 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 ******** - &#x201CWine Club&#x201D to a new &#x201CMulti-Channel Architecture&#x201D (MCA)
  Responsibility:
  &#x2022 Managed a team of 3 Designers and researched and designed the MCA for ******** web site.
  &#x2022 Investigated and designed the migration of *******wine web site to a new platform.
  &#x2022 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.
  &#x2022 Coordinated and communicated the technical solution internally to stake-holders, project managers, project team and to external partners.
  &#x2022 Implemented using .NET 3.0, IIS 7.0, WCF, Web Services, SQL Svr 2005, C#APS.NET and BizTalk Svr 2006.

• Senior Software developer &#x2013

  2003 - Jan 2005

  Projects: Evolving Grocery and National Store web sites. Part of the &#x201CDynamic Scheduling&#x201D project.
  Responsibility:
  &#x2022 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.
  &#x2022 Use of XP methodology and &#x201Ctest-first&#x201D approach. Use also of waterfall methodology. Use of UML.
  &#x2022 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 (********)..
  &#x2022 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 &#x2013 BizTalk Team Leader (team of 4 people) &#x2013 Since Aug 2006
  &#x2022 Appraisals, Holidays/Absences, Timesheets, and expenses management.
  &#x2022 Helped recruiting new talent for the &#x201Cprofessional services&#x201D team.
  &#x2022 Initiated a dinner event, &#x201CPiz&#x201CPiz&#x2019 Talk&#x201D, 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

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  Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  _Part of the first integration project using BusinessWorks in France, &

• Role: Senior Software Engineer &#x2013 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)
  &#x2022 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.
  &#x2022 Made Technical Assessments for an important project at the group level.
  &#x2022 Wrote technical documents, made code reviews, produced planning documents and tracked them.
  &#x2022 Helped to recruit contractors. Tutor and help new people to gain speed on development.
  &#x2022 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.
  &#x2022 Gave a "UML presentation" as part of an internal knowledge sharing. Used UML when needed.
  Component Administrator (4 component administrators):
  &#x2022 Check correct use of internal procedures before releasing a component (1-10 per month).
  Support Developer for six web sites (during 2 months &#x2013 rotating role):
  &#x2022 Provided weekly reports about urgent problems and current statistics about web sites problems.
  &#x2022 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)
  &#x2022 Software development for Protected Radio Mobile network.
  &#x2022 Designed applications (use of UML and &#x2018Design Patterns&#x2019) and developed them in C++ on Windows NT using MFC for the GUI. Designed and Developed COM/DCOM components. Used MS SQL Server 7.
  &#x2022 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 &#x2013 Paris, FRANCE (8 people)

  Jan 1998 - Jan 1999

  Project: Animate satellite pictures for weather forecast videos on the French TV channel &#x201CFrance 3&#x201D.
  Responsibility:
  &#x2022 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).
  &#x2022 I have done technical benchmarking and make recommendation about material to choose and buy.
  &#x2022 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.