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Kenneth Cox
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Maidstone, United Kingdom
Toptal member since July 7, 2022
Bio
Kenneth is an industry software professional with extensive experience in the development and project management of full-stack Angular and .NET web and mobile applications. His primary experience and aspirations are with software development using the Microsoft stack with an optional element of software project management. Kenneth qualified and practiced part-time as a Certified Agile Practitioner.
Portfolio
Clopen VR
Stakeholder Management, Virtual Reality (VR), Investments, Microsoft SQL Server...
Snapwire
.NET, SQL, Angular, Azure, Azure DevOps, Stakeholder Management, Agile, Scrum...
CoreLogic
.NET, SQL, REST, jQuery, ASP.NET, APIs, HTML, ASP.NET MVC, CSS, ASP.NET Core...
Experience
- C# - 20 years
- Software Development - 20 years
- SQL - 20 years
- .NET - 20 years
- Visual Studio - 20 years
- Software Design - 15 years
- Azure - 4 years
- Angular - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Microsoft, .NET, IIS, Angular, Azure, Azure DevOps, SQL, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Visual Studio, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft SQL Server, Transact-SQL (T-SQL), REST APIs, .NET Core, Azure App Service, Azure API Management
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is a digital receptionist using conversational AI and facial recognition to greet visitors and automate front-of-house activities.
Work Experience
Technical Advisor
2021 - PRESENT
Clopen VR
- Developed business plans for the future of business heavily focused on technical architecture requirements to become the "Netflix of VR."
- Projected a five-year cost plan for technical architecture using a hybrid of cloud environments and local services.
- Tendered and pitched for multiple grant and investment opportunities.
Technologies: Stakeholder Management, Virtual Reality (VR), Investments, Microsoft SQL Server, .NET Core
Lead Developer | Architect | Freelance
2010 - PRESENT
Snapwire
- Developed a touchless digital receptionist to converse with visitors and used facial recognition to personalize conversations and automate 75% of traditional receptionist activities. I worked as a lead architect, developer, and project manager.
- Led the web app development that produced PDF reports to be used within the UK courts. The data required was obtained from various sources, qualified, and normalized to ensure accuracy. Reports are now generated 90% faster with greater accuracy.
- Worked as a lead developer on an induction app for National Grid, which is used to test contractors before being approved to work on site. The process is now completely automated, saving four staff hours per day.
- Headed a small team of diverse skillsets to develop a 3D model configurator, allowing architects to virtually build decking systems. It can be seen at balconycomponents.co.uk. I also increased the number and quality of leads.
- Oversaw a small team to develop a web app to automatically migrate Excel spreadsheets to web applications for improved usability, version control, data retention, security, and reporting. It can be seen at snapwireevolve.co.uk.
- Spearheaded a team to develop a highly customizable Kanban-style project management board. This project management board can be seen at tcardsonline.co.uk.
Technologies: .NET, SQL, Angular, Azure, Azure DevOps, Stakeholder Management, Agile, Scrum, jQuery, JavaScript, Web API, ASP.NET, APIs, HTML, ASP.NET MVC, CSS, ASP.NET Core, C#.NET, Windows, Microsoft SQL Server, Razor Pages, Transact-SQL (T-SQL), REST APIs, .NET Core, Azure DevOps Services, Visual Studio 2016, Git, Azure Functions, Azure API Management
Lead Developer
2007 - 2010
CoreLogic
- Developed an app that consolidated and qualified property data from multiple sources to provide a valuation for any property in the UK using various mathematical models.
- Progressed from a sole developer to a lead developer and oversaw five programmers working on the entire software lifecycle.
- Introduced Agile software practices to replace Waterfall and improved prioritization, development assignments, and team cohesiveness.
Technologies: .NET, SQL, REST, jQuery, ASP.NET, APIs, HTML, ASP.NET MVC, CSS, ASP.NET Core, Windows, Microsoft SQL Server, Transact-SQL (T-SQL), Visual Studio 2016
Senior Software Engineer
2005 - 2007
Accenture
- Worked on London Stock Exchange to create an alerting system for the office reacting to market movements.
- Worked within the technical design team on a share scheme product for Lloyds TSB Registrars.
- Represented Accenture at Microsoft TechEd in Amsterdam.
Technologies: .NET, SQL, ASP.NET, APIs, HTML, ASP.NET MVC, CSS, ASP.NET Core, Bootstrap, Windows, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio 2016
Experience
Hello Indigo | Touchless Digital Receptionist
Indigo offers a visitor management experience like no other, with AI capabilities that automate front-of-house activities. Encompassing a touchless, voice-activated experience, Indigo can welcome people by name, facilitate meetings, provide directions, and send messages. Indigo even has a sense of humor. The touchless feature provides a safe, contamination-free solution benefitting staff, tenants, and visitors.
It is supported by a meeting room, hot desk, coworking booking system, an event management system, and integration into many third-party applications. Indigo is the solution to front-of-house staffing challenges for modern coworking office spaces.
As the project manager and lead developer on this project, I managed a team of five developers. We developed a digital receptionist that could converse with visitors and respond to commands such as "Indigo, I'm here for a meeting," or "Hello Indigo, send a message to a tenant." It uses facial recognition and QR codes to check into meetings or fast-track check-ins and personalizes conversations. The digital receptionist communicates with secure cloud APIs to confirm meeting requirements, anticipate visitor arrivals, and notify meeting attendees of arrivals.
It is supported by a meeting room, hot desk, coworking booking system, an event management system, and integration into many third-party applications. Indigo is the solution to front-of-house staffing challenges for modern coworking office spaces.
As the project manager and lead developer on this project, I managed a team of five developers. We developed a digital receptionist that could converse with visitors and respond to commands such as "Indigo, I'm here for a meeting," or "Hello Indigo, send a message to a tenant." It uses facial recognition and QR codes to check into meetings or fast-track check-ins and personalizes conversations. The digital receptionist communicates with secure cloud APIs to confirm meeting requirements, anticipate visitor arrivals, and notify meeting attendees of arrivals.
AllRates
http://portal.all-rates.comAn ASP.NET Core web application with SQL Server back end that is required to normalize, filter, and search 1,000,000s lines of data to produce BHR (Basic Hire Report) reports for UK Courts. Charged with stakeholder management, Agile project management, and Led the development.
Evolve - Excel to Web
ASP.NET Web application converting Excel spreadsheets to a custom web application using Evolve's proprietary language.
Full-life cycle experience, stakeholder management, technical architect, team lead, and DevOps.
Reduced overall development costs by avoiding software developers, increased time-to-market, and customer focussed purely on Excel functionality. Thereby improving requirements gathering, encapsulated data in one place (a major issue in many companies with loss and misplacement of data), and safer and version-controlled spreadsheets to avoid duplicate copies being sent and saved in random locations.
Results improved:
• Simpler management and faster time to the market of complex calculators to the web (i.e., used by accountants and financial advisors).
• More and warmer Lead Generation data for customer products with calculation requirements, significantly reducing 1st contact to sales lead times.
Full-life cycle experience, stakeholder management, technical architect, team lead, and DevOps.
Reduced overall development costs by avoiding software developers, increased time-to-market, and customer focussed purely on Excel functionality. Thereby improving requirements gathering, encapsulated data in one place (a major issue in many companies with loss and misplacement of data), and safer and version-controlled spreadsheets to avoid duplicate copies being sent and saved in random locations.
Results improved:
• Simpler management and faster time to the market of complex calculators to the web (i.e., used by accountants and financial advisors).
• More and warmer Lead Generation data for customer products with calculation requirements, significantly reducing 1st contact to sales lead times.
Education
2019 - 2022
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
University of Greenwich - Kent, England
Certifications
NOVEMBER 2016 - NOVEMBER 2019
Agile Certified Practitioner
Project Management Institute (PMI)
MAY 2015 - MAY 2017
Certified Microsoft Professional
Microsoft
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Web API, REST APIs, Azure API Management
Tools
Visual Studio, Azure App Service, Azure DevOps Services, Git
Languages
SQL, JavaScript, C#, HTML, CSS, C#.NET, Transact-SQL (T-SQL)
Frameworks
.NET, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core, Bootstrap, Razor Pages, .NET Core, Angular
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, Agile, REST, Scrum
Platforms
Windows, Microsoft, Visual Studio 2016, Azure, Azure Functions, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Microsoft SQL Server
Other
IIS, Software Development, Software Design, APIs, Requirements, Stakeholder Management, Virtual Reality (VR), Investments
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