Si Walker
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LinkedIn User
I had the pleasure of working closely with Si at Mantacore. Si is a true professional and his skills as a developer made him a valued member on our development team. Si showed a genuine interest to build a great product that satisfies to the customer needs without compromising on maintainability and flexibility.
Fredrik Cederberg
It has been a great honor and pleasure to have had the opportunity to work with Simon. He is an experienced professional within the field of software development; his most valuable qualities are his strong dedication to the task at hand and focus on getting things done within the given constraints. Simon always sees the possibilities and his versatility gives great value to all companies developing software. He is a social person and fun to work with. I would choose to work with him again if the context were to be applicable for his technical skill set.
LinkedIn User
I had the pleasure of working closely with Si at Mantacore. Si is a true professional and his skills as a developer made him a valued member on our development team. Si showed a genuine interest to build a great product that satisfies to the customer needs without compromising on maintainability and flexibility.
Fredrik Cederberg
It has been a great honor and pleasure to have had the opportunity to work with Simon. He is an experienced professional within the field of software development; his most valuable qualities are his strong dedication to the task at hand and focus on getting things done within the given constraints. Simon always sees the possibilities and his versatility gives great value to all companies developing software. He is a social person and fun to work with. I would choose to work with him again if the context were to be applicable for his technical skill set.
LinkedIn User
I had the pleasure of working closely with Si at Mantacore. Si is a true professional and his skills as a developer made him a valued member on our development team. Si showed a genuine interest to build a great product that satisfies to the customer needs without compromising on maintainability and flexibility.
Fredrik Cederberg
It has been a great honor and pleasure to have had the opportunity to work with Simon. He is an experienced professional within the field of software development; his most valuable qualities are his strong dedication to the task at hand and focus on getting things done within the given constraints. Simon always sees the possibilities and his versatility gives great value to all companies developing software. He is a social person and fun to work with. I would choose to work with him again if the context were to be applicable for his technical skill set.
LinkedIn User
I had the pleasure of working closely with Si at Mantacore. Si is a true professional and his skills as a developer made him a valued member on our development team. Si showed a genuine interest to build a great product that satisfies to the customer needs without compromising on maintainability and flexibility.
Fredrik Cederberg
It has been a great honor and pleasure to have had the opportunity to work with Simon. He is an experienced professional within the field of software development; his most valuable qualities are his strong dedication to the task at hand and focus on getting things done within the given constraints. Simon always sees the possibilities and his versatility gives great value to all companies developing software. He is a social person and fun to work with. I would choose to work with him again if the context were to be applicable for his technical skill set.
Credentials
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Microsoft Certified IT Professional - Database Developer 2008
MicrosoftAug, 2011- Oct, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - SQL 2008 Database Devlopment
MicrosoftAug, 2010- Oct, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified Professional
MicrosoftApr, 2009- Oct, 2024 -
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - ASP.Net 2.0 Web
MicrosoftApr, 2009- Oct, 2024
Experience
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Industrial Telecom Limited (ITL)
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United Kingdom
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Nov 2014 - Present
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Keylane
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Netherlands
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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500 - 600 Employee
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Senior Developer
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Aug 2012 - Nov 2014
• Provided end-to-end enterprise solutions for the Insurance sector, developed and deployed solutions for the Property & Casualty insurance market. • Part of an established Agile Scrum Team practicing; Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning sessions, Sprint Retrospectives and Sprint Review sessions. Defined technology to be used, meeting customer requirements. • Acted as Scrum Master for a distributed Scrum team co-located in Stockholm and Birmingham. Facilitating Backlog Grooming Sessions (supporting the Product Owner), Retrospectives and Sprint Planning. • Regularly travelled to Stockholm and on occasions Norway to support customer implementation. • Developed cutting-edge software products employing the following technologies: o Silverlight 5 o HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, jQueryUI o WCF o SQL Server 2012 o TFS 2013 / ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) o Continuous Integration o SQL Server Reporting Services o Crystal Reports
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SSP Limited
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Consultant Team Leader, Web Development & Design
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Jul 2011 - Aug 2012
Developed e-commerce insurance solutions in ASP.Net and using SSP’s in house framework for integrating with the back office general insurance solution. Reviewed and made recommendations on website security following full penetration testing of the application.Lead and mentored a combined team of developers and designers to provide consultation and guidance in all aspects of development. Provided consultancy and advice on proposed architecture and produce technical specifications.
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Senior Web Developer
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Jan 2011 - Jul 2011
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Business Applications Developer
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Aug 1994 - Jan 2011
Solely designed and developed an external facing customer support portal which integrates with an internal third party service desk solution. Enabling customers to raise and view support incidents.Other projects I have worked on recently and have been responsible for include the following:Design and developed many bespoke internal applications which help streamline the business processes.Automated application for prioritisation of problem management records.Search facility of our incident management data via offline copy of the database utilising SSIS packages and Full-Text Search technologies.Internal and external reports for customers using SQL Reporting Services.Large format display dashboards for service centre environment using a combination of asp.net, ajax, sql server, silverlight and sharepoint web services.In addition to developing asp.net and Win Forms applications I am also responsible for supporting third party support applications and have experience with ICCM eService Desk and Hornbill Supportworks.
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Developer
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1994 - 2011
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Sirius Financial Systems
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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VB Developer
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1994 - 2007
Lead a team to develop and maintain a VB based Win Forms insurance software solution. Worked within a team and personally designed and developed the UI and server side business rules for a insurance quotation system. Worked on and supported a project for online insurance quotation solution for a large e-commerce company using the following technologies; classic asp, sql server 2000 and VB COM components. Lead a team to develop and maintain a VB based Win Forms insurance software solution. Worked within a team and personally designed and developed the UI and server side business rules for a insurance quotation system. Worked on and supported a project for online insurance quotation solution for a large e-commerce company using the following technologies; classic asp, sql server 2000 and VB COM components.
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