Freelance software developer/consultant Specialties: Technical architecture and design. Bespoke software projects. C# .Net development, WPF, Windows Phone.

Software Developer / Director @ In May 2011 I left my Hadley Industries to start Creou Software. Initially I am working as a software consultant and freelance developer with the long term goal of building a software products company. Contracts: Bravissimo - April 2012 – April 2013 * Responsible for complete delivery of a brand new mobile website as part of a small team. * Single page app architecture using Backbone.js and Marionette. * Development of new password security to use current best practices. * Implementation of new guest checkout system. Aqua Intelligence - March 2012 – April 2012 * Contracted to complete development of Mercedes Benz Accelerate sales platform. * ASP.Net MVC 3 / razor web app. Crimson Software - December 2011 – February 2012 * Implementation of two new modules for existing PharmaBase platform. Greenhous Group (GRS) – May 2011 – October 2011. * Assisted with development on 1.0 release of their new internal vehicle management system. * Development of prototype retail website. * Development of internal MOT/Service booking Silverlight application. From May 2011 to Present (4 years 6 months) Birmingham, United KingdomMember and occasional speaker @ Since joining NxtGenUG in 2008 I have been a regular attendee at several of the local regions. I delivered my first 20 minute session in June 2010 and another in December. Both were well received achieving scores of 7.2 and 8.1 out of 9. From 2008 to Present (7 years) Analyst Software Developer @ Initiation and development of an "Electronic Production Board" project. Generating £10,000 - £15,000 per installation for 4 installations. Achieved 4 times the original target for the project revenue. Responsible for full product life cycle from inception to launch within 9 months of joining the company. Responsible for development of a "Remote Machine Monitor" and advancing the project from the originally planned 6 installations to 41 installations across the company generating £315,000 in additional revenue for my department. Worked closely with electrical and hardware engineers using PLCs, CLMs and SCADA systems to build systems that integrate with machinery to provide control and capture information from a range of sources. Key participant in the design and code of a new quotation management system to improve the work flow and structure of the customer acquisition process. Responsible for liaisons with new clients and securing bespoke project work. [C#/.Net 3.5/4, Entity Framework, WCF, WPF, MVVM, WinForms, MVC, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, RS 232 Comms, Sockets, TCP/IP, Subversion, CruiseControl.net, BugTracker.net] From October 2007 to May 2011 (3 years 8 months) Software Developer @ Key participant in three maintenance releases of Respond's legacy product and new development on their flagship replacement. Responsible for design and code of several bespoke projects to secure contracts valued in excess of £500,000. Responsible for development of a ‘Record and replay’ plug-in to allow auditing and repeatability of configuration changes made to test/live environments. Responsible for design and development of a ‘Category linker’ system that correlated user entered categories to filter data and provide an enhanced user experience when using the web client. [C#/.Net v2, Web Services, MVC, VB6, ASP (Classic), HTML, XML, JavaScript, SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle 8/9/10, TFS] From September 2005 to October 2007 (2 years 2 months)

Bsc, Computer Science @ University of Birmingham From 2001 to 2005 Lawrence Sheriff School Simon Stevens is skilled in: C#, Microsoft SQL Server, WCF, JavaScript, XML, Web Services, ASP.NET MVC, Subversion, Oracle, WPF, .NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Mobile Applications