ANDREW STEWART GIBSON
29 Sherwood Halls, East End Road, London, N2 0TA
An "Object Thinker" with real world experience. Finding the right compromise between
business and technical needs is a crucial part of my skill set. I am passionate about the
technology I use, and seek inspiration in the projects and people I work with.
Favourites:
Likes:
C#, Object Thinking, TDD, ASP.NET MVC, ORM, SOA, Mercurial
Fluent NHibernate, JQuery, NUnit, Castle, Rhino Mocks, Subversion, CI
Experience
Lloyd’s of London, Team Lead Developer,
March 2009 - Current
WCF, C# 3, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Entity Framework, LINQ / Expression Trees,
Security, NUnit, Rhino mocks, CruiseControl
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Rewrote a bespoke single sign-on solution to utilise SOA for scalability and
architectural agility. Integrated security framework with SiteCore CMS, ASP.NET
applications, AJAX RIA sites and legacy ASP.NET 1.1 and classic ASP codebases.
Worked with IBM technical personnel to prototype Tivoli security product
implementation.
Subject matter expert in WCF, C# 3 and ASP.NET. Mentored junior members of the
team on WCF, C# and .NET, as well as ASP.NET, TDD and Entity Framework.
Helped to introduce Scrum and pair programming.
Brit Insurance, Developer / Consultant
Oct 2008 – Jan 2009
ASP.NET MVC, MvcContrib, ASP.NET, NHibernate, Castle Windsor, WatiN, Rhino
Mocks, JQuery
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Performed upgrades to existing ASP.NET-based underwriting system as part of
weekly release cycle to QA environment. Troubleshot performance issues. Helped
introduce comprehensive unit and system testing approach including mocking (Rhino
mocks) and web-scripting (WatiN).
Prototyped next generation technology platform for system rewrite using ASP.NET
MVC, Castle Windsor IoC, Domain Driven Design and NHibernate.
Assisted with integration with 3rd party QAS and Thunderhead systems and
mentored junior developers in regard to C# and web-service integration.
Archon Group (Goldman Sachs), Developer / Consultant
Feb 2008 – Aug 2008
C# 3, Entity Framework, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio Team System
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Completed a technology refresh for an existing security entitlement system. This
included migration of the persistence layer from NHibernate to ADO.NET Entity
Framework, involving advanced use of LINQ and Expression Trees for dynamic
query compilation.
Migrated the application from ASP.NET 2 to ASP.NET 3.5 using ASP.NET AJAX and
the AJAX Control Toolkit in order to create a seamless user experience in
conjunction with SharePoint-based applications.
Migrated existing NUnit test suite to Visual Studio Team System tests, and assisted
with SharePoint integration using WCF and WF.
Jun 2007 – Feb 2008
Ancillary Care Services, Team Lead
TOGAF, WCF, ASP.NET, DevExpress Application Framework
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Introduced light-weight TOGAF enterprise architecture practice to ensure alignment
of IT with business strategy.
Responsible for delivering in-house training for junior team members on OO and
SOA in a .NET environment.
Responsible for research and prototyping of Developer eXpress Application
framework for rapid in-house application development. Developed project-tracking
application using click-once deployment, Developer eXpress UI and ORM
components.
Mar 2006 – Jun 2007
Ristken Software Services, Senior Software Developer
ASP.NET, AJAX, CodeSmith, Web Services
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Led a small team developing a dynamic rating system for auto-mobile insurance
warranty premiums, using 3rd party warranty feeds and a custom AJAX layer based
on a complex UI Process Controller pattern.
Developed a remote testing tool for customers to remotely execute FIT-like testing
suites against the developing code-base.
Customised and developed templates for automated Data Access Layer generation
using CodeSmith and a Repository model.
Ran a small offshore team tracking deliverability quality using daily reporting metrics
and weekly analysis and feedback sessions.
Dec 2005 – Mar 2006
Baylor Health Care System, Developer / Consultant
ASP.NET, Rainbow Portal
Sep 2005 – Dec 2005
AMX Corporation, Developer / Consultant
ASP.NET, Web Services, Payment gateway
VHA Inc., Developer / Consultant
May 2005 – Sep 2005
Classic ASP, ASP.NET, DTS, Data Cleansing
Software Spectrum, Developer / Consultant
Jan 2005 – May 2005
ASP.NET, E-Commerce
RealPage Inc., Developer
2002 - 2005
ASP.NET, Classic ASP, AJAX, Javascript, DHTML, E-Commerce
MarketNet Inc., Developer
2000 - 2002
Classic ASP, AJAX, Javascript, DHTML, SQL Server, E-Commerce
Education
Essential WCF, DevelopMentor
2009
ScrumMaster, Agile Estimating and Planning, Mountain Goat Software
2009
Theology / Philosophy, Durham University
2000