Daniel Bodart

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A Java / .NET certified professional with 10 years experience in development and 6 years in support / infrastructure. A fast learner with excellent problem solving skills and a passion for technology.

Experience

Sep 2003 - Present

Technical Lead / Developer / Lead Consultant / Agile Coach, ThoughtWorks Ltd, London

While working for ThoughtWorks I have worked on a large number of projects across a wide range of industries including investment banking, retail banking, broadband provisioning and retail chains. I have mentored a large number developers and also learnt a great deal about design, development, delivery and enablement.

  • Technical Lead for both Java and C# Projects
  • Strong experience in Investment Banking domain ( Front + Back Office )
  • Successfully designed and built a number of analytics engines (Basel 1 + 2)
  • Successfully delivered a number of integration services for retail chains

My greatest achievement has been replacing batch processes (6hrs+) with near real time interactive services (10sec)

Summary of pratices used:
Agile, TDD, Pair programming, Ruthless Refactoring, Retrospectives, eXtreme Programming, Continuous Integration, RESTfull services and SOA without the hype
Summary of technologies:
Java, IntelliJ, JUnit, JMock, StringTemplate, Velocity, FreeMarker, PicoContainer, Lucene, Hibernate, Ant, SubVersion, Cvs, C#, VS + Resharper, NUnit, NMock, Nant, CruiseControl.NET, Excel interop, Python, Django
Apr 2006 - Aug 2006

Adventure Motorcyclist, 2 guys, 2 bikes, 22 countries

I was lucky enough to be able to take a 4 month sabbatical from ThoughtWorks, and travel to the border of China and back. We drove through many of the former USSR member states and along one of the most remote roads in the world: the Pamir Highway. As with most travellers, we were amazed by the genuine hospitality of the people we met, often those with the least giving the most.

  • Covered 13,000+ miles
  • Learnt what it means to push the body to total and utter exhaustion and then sleep like you have never slept before
  • And finally learnt that when you are really hungry, you really will eat anything
Jun 2001 to Jun 2003

Software Engineer, Aspelle (DrKW spin off), London

I was Technical Lead for all UI related work of the Aspelle SSL VPN solution including creating the web portal, Active Directory and ISA MMC snap-ins and the web based management tool.

  • Refactored of many unmanaged / managed C++ libraries to pure C#.
  • Extensive experience of Marshalling, PInvoke, COM Interop.
  • Extensive use of certificates & cryptography (CAPI + .NET)
  • Extending Active Directory schema, ADSI and MMC.

My greatest achievements were solving problems that have previously been deemed impossible to solve such as extracting RSAParameters from X509Certificates or creating pure C# property pages.

Summary of pratices used:
MSF, Code reviews, Integration builds, Test harnesses
Summary of technologies used:
C#, .NET, Active Directory, WMI, MMC, XML, XSLT, HttpHandler(Asp.Net), Http, ASN.1, Certificates / Cryptography, Citrix MetaFrame, Terminal Services, IIS + ISA, UML, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Share Point Portal Server, MSMQ, VB, COM
Jan 2000 to Jun 2001

Developer / Consultant, Delphis Consulting (now Morse), London

I developed web applications, content management systems, and enterprise management systems for Delphis. In addition to providing back office market data integration services and consultancy to clients.

  • Built a custom enterprise management systems on top of WMI and SNMP.
  • Developed Delphis’ content management system.
  • Office (VBA) integration with Bloomberg / Reuters etc.
  • Researched emerging technologies (.NET / XSLT / WBEM - WMI)
  • Provided technical consultancy to partners
  • Managed clients expectations
Summary of technologies used:
XML, XSLT, WMI, ASP, SNMP, IIS, Coldfusion, SQL 2000, LDAP, VSS 6, Fireworks, VB / VBA Excel, Access, Perl
Apr 98 to Jan 2000

Systems Engineer, Delphis Consulting (now Morse), London

I provided trade floor / 3rd level support for UBS Private Banking. I was actively involved in application rollout and integrating new systems & software into the bank’s standard build. I was responsible for getting a large number of systems Y2K certified.

  • Team responsible to 400+ users, personally responsible to 50+ traders
  • Built very strong relationships both client side and team side.
  • Employee of the month (Delphis) Best New Joiner (UBS PB).
Summary of technologies / skills used:
NT4 Server / Workstation, Scripting + Packaging, Bloomberg, Reuters, BT Meridian Programming, Compaq Workstation & Server hardware support / installation, Cabling + Patching, Security/Encryption and AS/400 Client & Printer set-up

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