Neil Highley - Software engineer, Neilhighley.com

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Lam ResearchSoftware Engineer - Equipment Automation and Robotics

Dec. 2019 - Nov. 2022Bristol, Bristol, United KingdomMaintaining robotic software automation (SEMI/GEM) in the semiconductor industry. Handled new features and bug fixing on large codebase releasing to multiple Third party manufacturing companies. Created development pipeline for internal software projects with Azure Devops and automated UI testing, Unit Tests and software packaging. Liaised with Hardware Engineers and Senior Management for requirements gathering and Integration Testing. Winforms / Azure / C# / Javascript / SQL / DevOps / TFS / Git / Sharepoint / Hyper V / XUnit / MS.Test / Visual Studio 2008-2019 / VS Code / Industrial Automation / SEMI standards / GEM / Semiconductor / Microcontrollers / Electrical Engineering

SALONGENIUSSenior Software Developer

May. 2018 - Nov. 2019Bournemouth, United KingdomJoined multinational retail organisation to migrate systems to modern software technology and software development pipelines. Technical lead on Future Software development implementing Third Party components as a standard set for all tooling to aid in onboarding and reducing maintenance complexity. Migrated source control systems from internal TFS to external Azure DevOps. Implemented Automated testing and delivery to key projects. Created translation tool utilising Microsoft Cognitive Framework. Implemented .Net Standard C# for several COM interop projects to facilitate migration from legacy VB6 systems. Worked with retail payment systems and Online payment providers to implement updated PDQ EPOS systems for bricks and mortar retail units using REST API. Created installers using Visual Studio Setup Deployments and WIX Created Sharepoint based Knowledge Management instruments and tooling to aid in documenting common tasks and software development policy. Created reports using Sql Server Reporting Services and SQL Server from large datasets. Introduced Test Driven Design concepts and mentored the team on writing tests using Xunit and MS.Test for new, and existing, code bases, as well as ensuring new code is written to facilitate easier testing and maintenance. Technical lead and Agile SCRUM advocate, managed release and development pipeline for internal software projects with Azure Devops WPF / Azure / C# / SQL / DevOps / TFS / Sharepoint / VB6 / Hyper V / DevExpress / XUnit / MS.Test / Visual Studio 2008-2019 / VS Code

ASM Assembly Systems, Printing Solutions DivisionC# developer

Feb. 2016 - Apr. 2018Weymouth, Dorset, United KingdomJoined an agile scrum team to further develop software used in the semiconductor and electronics industry. Utilising Git workflows, C#, Modern development, MVC and ASP.Net, TDD with nUnit and BDD with Specflow as well as SQL server, Entity Framework 6.0, XML, HTML, CSS, Powershell, Bash and VMWare vSphere 6.5.

TheTinFullstack Azure Developer

Nov. 2015 - Jan. 2016Joined small team as part of a push to release for a cloud base auction site running C# and KnockoutJS on Azure web Application. Utilising Google Analytics and Application Insights alongside knockout, SOLID design and C# IOC. ASP.NET 4 / 4.5 / C# / LINQ / jQuery / Javascript / REST / XML / Visual Studio 2053 / Resharper / SQL 2008 r2 / IIS8 / Windows Server / MSSQL / CSS3 / HTML / TDD / KnockoutJS / Azure

AI Media commsSoftware Engineer

Feb. 2015 - Nov. 2015Joined medium size team expanding and updating current application platforms. Implemented Facebook, twitter integration and cloud based workflow into existing applications. Introduced a microservices architecture into several systems as part of cloud migration. ASP.NET 4 / 4.5 / C# / LINQ / jQuery / Javascript / REST / XML / Nunit / nHibernate / nHibernate Profiler / Visual Studio 2013 / Resharper / SQL 2008 r2 / IIS8 / Windows Server / Windows Services / asynchronous development / MSSQL / MSMQ / CSS3 / HTML / TDD / WCF / Services

Precise MediaContract Developer

May. 2014 - Dec. 2014Helped update an integral data mining system with various social APIs. Utilized unit testing and solid principles and helping with integration of a branching, feature based, development structure. Windows Desktop development, utilising parallel programming, reporting and user interface design with WPF. Retrieved records from various APIs. Created a HTML5 Angular SPA. ASP.NET 4 / Winforms / C# / LINQ / jQuery / Javascript / REST / Facebook / Twitter / Gorkana / Angular / XML / XSLT / WPF / Nunit / Ninject / Visual Studio 2010 / Resharper / SQL 2008 r2 / IIS7.5 / Windows Server / Windows Services / asynchronous development / Oracle / MSSQL / MSMQ / CSS3 / HTML / TDD / JIRA

Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)Web Developer

Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2014Developing webservices, mentoring junior developers, helping development on web front end

Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)Web Developer

Jan. 2014 - Dec. 2014Skills: Software Development · Programming · Cybersecurity · ASP.NET MVC

Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)Contract WCF SOLR Developer

Dec. 2013 - Mar. 2014Joined a friendly team of developers to push forward an Email alerting system which ran as a modularised WCF system hooking into a SOLR search engine. Helped junior developers raise their understanding of the opportunities in new development practices and how to utilise Subversion and Microsoft Test Framework to create a formalised branching feature driven SOLID development process. ASP.NET 4 / WCF / C# / VB.Net / LINQ / jQuery / XML / XHTML / MVC3/4 / XMLSpy / Nunit / Ninject / Visual Studio 2013 / Resharper / SQL 2008 r2 / IIS7.5 / SoapUI / / Windows Server / Windows Services

Smart421 ConsultingWCF Developer

Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2013Web Service development, testing

SapientC# ASP.NET Developer

Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2012Developing MVP based ASP.Net webform solution integrating facebook, Tridion and other social networks

Virgin AtlanticDeveloper

Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2013Web Service Development, Testing Services for realtime ticket management WCF/MVC/SQL

Big PinkWebsite Development

Jan. 2012 - Dec. 2012Helping deliver PHP application to client

iris DigitalInternet Developer

Mar. 2011 - Apr. 2011Employed to finish several projects, for SONY and DairyCrest. Using C# 3.5, Javascript and SQL 2005.

Dentsu LondonFreelance Developer

Jan. 2010 - Dec. 2011Flash development, webservice development, AWS development, Sharepoint development, javascript and web development

Lowe WorldwideSenior Developer

Nov. 2007 - Apr. 2010Working with Flash, Java, XML, XSL, Sharepoint MOSS, windows server 2008, SQL 2008, Amazon Cloud, video encoding, ASP.NET, CSS, Javascript, AJAX

IPGInternet Developer

Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2010Resource developmer, .net, javascript

AmazeSenior Flash Developer

Oct. 2006 - Nov. 2007Senior flash developer AS2

travissully - LondonFlash Developer

Jan. 2003 - Dec. 2005Developing flash applications, PHP development, ASP development, Flash Banners, Flash games.

CDP Travis SullyInternet Developer

Jan. 2003 - Dec. 2004

neilhighley.com ltd.Owner

Nov. 2002Managing Director, Lead Developer May 2018 Joined multinational retail organisation to migrate systems to modern software technology and software development pipelines. Migrated to Azure DevOps. Implemented Automated testing and delivery to key projects. Used Microsoft Cognitive Framework. Implemented .Net Standard C# for several COM interop projects. Worked with 3rd parties to implement updated PDQ EPOS systems for bricks and mortar retail units using REST API. Created installers using Visual Studio Setup Deployments and Wix Created Sharepoint based Knowledge Management instruments. Introduced Test Driven Design concepts using Xunit and MS.Test for new, and existing, code bases. Agile SCRUM advocate, managed release and development pipeline for internal software projects with Azure Devops WPF / Azure / C# / SQL / DevOps / TFS / Sharepoint / VB6 / Hyper V / DevExpress / XUnit / MS.Test / Visual Studio 2008-2019 / VS Code Feb 2016 Major International Manufacturing Company Joined large, global, multi-scrum, Agile team working on service and desktop software with C# industrial robotics for an industry leading SMT manufacturer. Followed bug sprints on JIRA and new projects cross team, mentoring existing team members to incorporate full TDD development with high hit-rate coverage and automated testing. Software involved parallel process management and hardware interfaces with a WinForms 2 User Interface and XAML tools for testing with an Automation layer for line control software based on SOAP WCF. Created tooling in XAML and ReactJS to allow Testing team to create scenarios for testing and help debug and test systems. ASP.NET 4 / 4.5 / C# / WPF / LINQ / jQuery / Javascript / HTML / REST / WCF / XML / XSL / Visual Studio 2013 / 2015 / VSCode / Resharper / dotCover / dotTrace / Codemaid / JIRA / MSSQL 2008 r2 / SQL / IIS8 / Windows Server / TDD / Nunit / dotCover / Hardware / Baldor systems /

Fifth Dimension ProductionsInternet Developer

Jan. 2000 - Dec. 2003Multimedia productions, ASP development, PHP development, Windows development, network admin, IT support

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