ABOUT ME opportunity@callionica.com
In which you learn that I'm a software developer
I'm an experienced multi-language software developer based in the UK. I've written code professionally for iOS, Windows, and the web in C++, C#, Objective-C, Objective-C++, JavaScript, Typescript, SQL, Python, X++, and Visual Basic. (I currently write most of my code as Typescript web apps running on Deno). I used to work at Microsoft, as a result code that I've worked on is currently running on hundreds of millions of machines across the world. I founded Callionica, my own company, where I designed and developed 6 iOS apps.
I take a broad view of software development having worked in different disciplines within software development engineering (development, design, QA, and user education); having worked in different software categories (developer tools, business software, and consumer); having been an individual contributor, a technical mentor, a manager of a small team, and having coordinated work across teams on multiple continents; and having worked at companies small and large (from one employee to thirty to a hundred thousand). To me "software development" is all the work that needs to get done to build a software product or service, whether it's design, architecture, coding, technical mentoring, or managing a team or project.
I encourage you to contact me at opportunity@callionica.com. I'm currently available to help you design, architect, implement, or lead your software development project.
SUMMARY
The TLDR of my work history and education
- Designer and developer of multiple web apps
- Designer and developer of 6 iOS apps
- Member of engineering teams for Microsoft Dynamics AX and Visual Studio/Visual C++ (with additional Ship-It awards for Windows and SQL Server)
- Experience in management and as an individual contributor
- Experience creating business software, consumer software, and developer tools
- Over 20 years software development experience (including C#, C++, Objective-C, JavaScript, Typescript, and SQL)
- Microsoft Software Development Engineer, SDET, contract Program Manager, and Programmer Writer, earning multiple gold star awards
- Cross-team collaboration with internationally located teams across three sites including full-time employees and vendors
- Developer on the C++/SQL Server winning web app in the Ziff-Davis AppServer performance shoot-out
- Co-author of 2 books on programming with C++
- Degree in Mathematical Physics from the University of Nottingham, UK
TIMELINE opportunity@callionica.com
Dates and events in my curriculum vitae
2017+ |
Parental Care and Incubation Projects (UK) Carer, Developer & Designer In 2017, I shut down Callionica LLC to move back to the UK to care for my dying mother. Since then I've developed a number of unreleased personal/incubation web apps in JavaScript, Typescript, and Deno including: Rooms & Zones for Philips Hue, Crossword Party, The Unnamed Video Server, Bells, Brass, Let's Encrypt Interactive Client. |
2012-2017 |
Callionica LLC (USA) Developer, Designer, Founder iOS apps: SPEAKS, READS, Links, Multiverse, Soccer Aloud, Conjugations ES |
2009-2012 |
Microsoft (USA) Senior SDET MBS Dynamics AX Product-wide Test Data |
2005-2009 |
Microsoft (Denmark) SDE Test Lead MBS Dynamics AX Control / Cost Accounting Software Development Engineer in Test MBS Dynamics AX |
1998-2005 |
Microsoft (USA) Software Development Engineer Visual C++ Libraries - Managed CRT, native CRT + some std:: libs Programmer Writer Visual C++ Libraries - ATL and ATL Server |
1995-1998 |
Wrox Press (UK) Author ATL COM & Visual C++ books Senior Technical Editor COM, C++, Visual Basic books; authoring tools |
1991-1994 |
Education (UK) BSc Mathematical Physics, University of Nottingham, UK |
CONTACT
Send me some mail and we'll set up a meeting
Please get in touch at opportunity@callionica.com.