Ross Fruen

Design, develop and support web service and ASP.NET / Ajax web sites that record phone manufacture, register customers and send relevant information to third party service suppliers. Skills: Visual Studio .Net 2005, C# 2.0, Web Services, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XSL, SOAP, SQL Server 2005, Windows XP, UML, CM Synergy, NUnit, FXCop

Part of team designing, developing and supporting .NET based framework enabling test engineers to develop libraries which exercise mobile phones attached over a variety of media. Skills: Visual Studio .Net 2005, C# 2.0, CodeDom, WinForms, Remoting, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XSL, SQL Server 2005, Windows XP, UML, Source Safe, NUnit, SandCastle, DRM, FXCop

Part of team implementing the successor to LOTIES 2002, 2003, 2004 and SCL 2003 award winning digital dictation workflow software. Implemented using an n-tiered architecture where both windows and web based clients’ record and play back dictations, storing the audio files on centralised clustered servers. Inter application communications took place via XML documents passed over TCP sockets, intra application was based around COM. Skills: Visual Studio.Net, Extreme Programming, Visual C++, C#, ATL, STL

Part of team designing, documenting and developing a web based-system implemented using C++ as a series of COM+ components called from an ISAPI extension DLL. Its purpose was to sell licences for and stream copyrighted media items to the public on behalf of various clients. Skills: Visual C++, COM+, Digital Rights Management, ,UML, XML, XSL, STL, Windows 2000 and XP, Windows Media, Real, SQL Server 2000, ASP, DHTML, Select OMT, Source Safe

Designed, developed in C++ and documented cross platform (HP-UX, Windows 2000) MQ isolation layer insulating both organisation and COOL:Gen application developers from the underlying technology. A COM wrapper catered for VB and ASP developers. Inclusion of hooks for distributed transactions (Encina and MTS). Skills: MQSeries, MSMQ, Visual C++, C, COM+, COM/DCOM, XML, ATL, MFC, Win32, STL, Windows 2000, SQL Server 2000, Host Integration Server, Rational Rose, Visual Basic, ClearCase, CVS.

Development and support of an assured message delivery mechanism (MQSeries) for Windows NT/2000 from the initial UNIX port to version 5.2. Porting activities included the provision of system services, exploitation of event logs, internationalisation and bridging the MQ and Win32 security models. Later work required the provision of COM interfaces (MQAI), support for MSCS, integration with Active Directory and LDAP servers and XML based configuration.

Design, produce and support data dissemination and presentation systems for the financial markets, operating under Windows NT, Windows 3.1 and DOS Skills: Visual C++, MFC, Win32, Windows NT, C, DOS, Data Feeds (CRS, Sequence, TOPIC, etc.), Rational Rose, Booch.

Apple Macintosh application development in C++.

Produced multi-media applications under various languages (including AVC and C) for both internal and external use. Appraisal of various multi-media packages, particularly in respect to their operation over LANs. Trained others in use of AVC a multi-media authoring package.

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