Richard Fletcher
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Richard is a software developer and architect with a wide range of skills across the Microsoft development stack. With a proven track record of working on and leading enterprise level projects, he's able to work under strict deadlines and complex business requirements.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Git, Visual Studio
The most amazing...
...software I've created is an interactive, animated data visualization suite.
Work Experience
Freelance Software Developer/Consultant
Toptal
- Worked with various clients to achieve their specific needs.
- Performed team leadership responsibilities where required to ensure development plan is executed.
- Increased the performance of client applications through database tuning and optimization.
- Worked with clients to define and document application required.
- Delivered high quality software, meeting client timeframes.
Head of Product Development
VisionWare, Ltd.
- Owned the platform architecture and execution of the platform engineering schedule.
- Recruited the team and facilitated its growth and development.
- Maintained the engineering schedule through collaboration with the business and executives.
- Continued development of the product.
- Ensured that the correct processes were in place to ensure continued quality improvement.
Solution Architect
VisionWare, Ltd.
- Led the re-architecture of an existing software platform.
- Led the re-development of an existing software platform through an uptake of new architecture and database technologies.
- Increased product quality through implementation of unit, integration, and system testing.
- Increased product performance by two orders of magnitude.
- Worked with VIP clients to meet specific and demanding needs.
Senior Developer
VisionWare, Ltd.
- Led the continued development of existing MDM offering as a senior team member.
- Developed a custom, interactive data visualization suite.
- Worked with consulting teams to improve deployment of the product.
- Developed additional standards compliant integrations to the product.
- Increased performance of the product via relational database optimization.
Software Developer
Optical Express
- Designed and developed Electronic Medical Records sofware for nationwide opticians.
- Created a company Business Intelligence solution.
- Maintained and updated legacy medical records systems.
- Maintained and updated stock management systems.
- Liaised with business units to capture requirements and design solutions.
Analyst, Developer
Eden Springs UK, Ltd.
- Managed the design and implementation of a new software system in ASP.NET. The system was initially for Sales CRM / prospecting but due to the success of the project, was expanded to also include Purchase Ordering, Online Invoice Payments, and Warehousing.
- Designed and developed a Business Intelligence solution in SSRS/SSAS/SSIS.
- Developed an ASP.NET web application for sales/customer services.
- Created aGPS tracking system to track delivery drivers via their handheld devices. The data is synchronized to our local servers via a web service and is then plotted on a map and overlaid with the geo-coded deliveries from the same day. This will allow the operations department to identify cost saving measures that can be taken to further optimize company routing.
- Designed and developed company intranet in Microsoft SharePoint 2007.
Experience
Sports Data Platofrm
Insurance Platform
Master Data Management
Performance increase was in part due to switching to MongoDB as a data store and part through leveraging TPL/Dataflow as part of the ingestion process.
Messaging Bus
Data Visualization
Electronic Medical Records
Company-wide Data Warehouse/OLAP Solution
Delivery Driver GPS Tracking
Skills
Languages
HTML, CSS, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), SQL, C#, HTML5, XAML, SCSS, TypeScript 2, TypeScript
Frameworks
IdentityServer 4, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET Core 2, ASP.NET MVC 4, .NET, .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC 5, ASP.NET MVC 6, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET MVC 3, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Entity, ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET, MVVM Light Toolkit, ASP.NET Web API, SmartClient, Entity Framework Core
Libraries/APIs
TPL, Task Parallel Library (TPL), LINQ, Windows Forms (WinForms)
Tools
Visual Studio 2012, Notepad++, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2015, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Expression Blend, Microsoft Expression Blend, TFS, LINQ to SQL, SQL Management Studio, Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio, Docker Compose, Docker Hub, Webpack 2, Docker Swarm, Webpack, SSAS, Git, ELK (Elastic Stack), Elastic, Logstash, Kibana
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Scrum, Agile Software Development, Model View Controller (MVC), OLAP
Platforms
Visual Studio 2016, Visual Studio 2017, Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 7, Windows, Docker, Azure, Azure PaaS, Azure IaaS, Windows Phone, Windows Mobile
Storage
SQL Server 2012, Database Performance, SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), MongoDB, Azure Blobs, Azure Queue Storage, Azure SQL, Azure Tables, Azure Cache, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Other
Identity Server, MCTS, MCITP, SOLID Principles, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Data Warehouse Design, Container Orchestration, Containers, Data Warehousing, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
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