David Brankin
(Last Updated September 7th, 2005)
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·   Personal Details

Full Name:  David John Brankin Address:
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Redmond, WA
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USA
Nationality:  British
Age:  --
Marital Status:  Single
Driving Licen[c|s]e:  USA (Full)
 UK (Provisional)
Current Position:  Team Lead Telephone:
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Notice Period:  None
E-mail:  cv@brankin.com

·   Primary Skills & Experience
5 years Visual Studio / .NET / C# (from COOL onwards) (1999 - Current)
8 years Multi-lingual software design & development (1992 – Current, with breaks)
2 years ASP.NET and web-related skills (2000 – 2002)
8 years Microsoft FoxPro, spanning DOS, Windows and Visual (1992 – 2000)
6 years Client Liaison, Technical Liaison and Functional Specification (1993 – 1999)
6 years Human Resource and Payroll experience (1999 – Current)
1 year running a small development department (1996-1997)

·   Professional Qualifications
Microsoft Certified Professional: Visual FoxPro 3 (851/1000, 1995, Lapsed)
Microsoft Certified Professional: Visual Basic 4 (951/1000, 1996, Lapsed)
Microsoft Certified Trainer (1996, Lapsed)
 
·   Secondary Skills
Client-Server (SQL Server v7.0 / 2000, Oracle 8.x)
Basic Server Administration and Networking skills
Microsoft Word and Excel (VBA, automation and end-user experience)
Technical Documentation (Course Notes, Functional Specifications and UML)
Visual C++ (1997 – 2001, but not as primary language)
EDIFACT (Electronic data reporting to the UK government)

·   Tertiary Skills
RAS and multi-site communications (1997-1999)
68000, Z80A, MapBasic v3.x, MapInfo v3.x

·   Educational History
1990 – 1993:  The University of Kent at Canterbury
  2:2 in Physics With Computing (BSc, Hons), including:
  “1st” on Computing Paper,
  2:1 on 3rd Year Project (Neural Networks)
  I.C.I. Scholarship
 
1985 – 1990: The Castle School, Thornbury, Bristol
  A-Level Maths, Physics, Chemistry
  AO-Level Maths
  GCSEs A’s:  Maths, Physics, Biology, Social Science
  B’s: English Language, English Literature, Chemistry
  C’s: C.D.T. Realisation, H.E. Food
  English Oral Grade 1

·   Employment History

March 2003 - Current
Current Position: Software Development Engineer (Team Lead)

Microsoft Business Solutions
One Microsoft Way,
Redmond,
WA,
98052
USA
April 99 – March 2003
Current Position: Principle Developer

Microsoft Business Solutions
(previously Great Plains,
previously PWA Personnel Software Ltd),
Microsoft Campus,
Thames Valley Park,
Reading,
RG6 1WG
 
November 97 – April 99
Final Position: Team Leader

Fiege-Merlin Limited
(previously Merlin Distribution Ltd)
Headquarters Road,
West Wits Trading Estate,
Westbury,
Wiltshire,
BA13 4JR

November 93 – November 97
Final Position: Development Manager

F1 Computing Systems Ltd,
3 Kelso Place,
Upper Bristol Road,
Bath,
BA1 3AU

·   Selected Project History

(Project name covered by NDA) 2003 – Current
Internet based service-orientated infrastructure that is still under NDA. 
 
Microsoft Business Portal 2001 – 2003
Human Resource Management Self Service Suite. Focused primarily on the development of foundation controls. If you get your hands on a copy, check out the coolest calendar and masked entry controls yet to hit the internet :-)
 
Empower 1999 – 2002
A multi-lingual Human Resources and Payroll system implemented in many different languages and localisations. Specifically responsible for V3 of the PowerTool (our core base technology) and the Multi-lingual Data-dictionary.
 
PDS 1997 - 1999
Team Leader for a project involving 7 million parcels a year. Key features included the use of RAS, ODBC and FTP to access, transmit and update data between 25 sites.
 
Previous Projects 1993 - 1997
Various multi-lingual, financial and commercial systems