Matheus Guimaraesv4.6

Personal Details

Location: Wimbledon,London, UKMobile: (+44)7766107856

Nationality: BrazilianE-mail:

Immigration: Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR)Website:

Profile

I have a proven track record of delivering projects and services, meeting or exceeding clients’ expectations. I am very driven and focused; this combined with my skills acquired over 14 years of experience in the field, results in a unique and competent individual.

Recent Projects
Duration / Company & Project / Role / Technical Snapshot
July 2015 – September 2015 / Fetch Ltd. / Technical Lead / Solution Architect / Xamarin.(Xamarin Forms, Xamarin.IO, Xamarin.Android), Xamarin Test Cloud, Umbraco 7.2, Microsoft Azure (Notification Hub, Storage), Windows Phone 8.1, ASP.Net MVC 5, APIGee, ASP.Net Web API 2, NUnit, TDD, SendGrid
Jan 2015 –June 2015 / Aqovia - Clevara
Green field whitelabel learning platform system / Technical Lead / Principal Architect / Mentor / Asp.Net vNext, Asp.Net MVC 6, jQuery, TDD, AngularJS, NUnit, NSubstitute, Azure (Storage, Cloud Services, Machine Learning), Grunt, ElasticSearch , Jira, Confluence, Agile, Kanban, MarkLogic, BrightStarDb, Triplestores, RDF, JSON-LD, , Linked Data, Asp.Net 4.5, Asp.net MVC 5
Oct 2014 – Dec 2014 / Aqovia - MLex
Green field digital publishing platform fronted by a public subscription-based web site
/ Chief Architect / Lead Developer / Azure (Storage, Scheduler, Queues, WebJobs Cloud Services and CDN), AngularJS, Asp.Net MVC 5, C#, Castle Windsor, Asp.Net Web API 2.2, Sql Azure,, SendGrid, Elasticsearch, TDD, NUnit, NSubstitute, Jira, Confluence, Agile Scrum
Aug 2014 - Oct 2014 / Northern & Shell – OK Magazine and Daily Express
Systems integration for live web sites and data mining infrastructure / Technical Consultant / Senior Developer / Apache Solr 4.1,C#, Castle Windsor, Asp.Net Web API 2.2,Grunt, Azure(Service Bus, Storage, CDN), TDD, Rx.net (Reactive Extensions), BDD, Specflow, Gigya, Teamcity, RESTful APIS (Twitter API, Facebook Graph API, ExactTarget, EngageSciences), Node.js, Jira, Confluence, Backbone.js, Agile Scrum, Git, Sourcetree, Bitbucket, jQuery, Moq
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014 / CharityJob Web Site
Greenfield e-commerce job search web site / Technical Lead / PrincipalArchitect/ Mentor / MVC5, C#, jQuery, Javascript, StructureMap, NUnit, Moq, Azure, Sql Server 2012,TeamCity, Octopus, powershell, JIRA, Confluence, Git (Bitbucket), Nuget, Sourcetree and Agile
Sept 2013 - Dec 2013 / JBMS
Administrationportal and real-time reports system for an international egg distributor / LeadDeveloper/ Architect / MVC4, MVC Web API, Razor, jQuery, Javascript, C#, Morris.js,Grister.js, Datatables.js, Bootstrap,Azure, StructureMap, Highcharts.js,AngularJs, HTML, CSS,Git, Sourcetree, Agile and Sql Server 2008 R2
June 2013 - Sept 2013 / Daily Mail
Greenfield news publishing and synching system to remote offline mobile devices / Lead Developer / Architect / Mentor / MVC 4, Asp.Net Web API 2.2, Razor, C#, Entities Framework 5, Dapper, TDD, Nunit,Moq, NInject, Windows Services, Sql Server 2008 R2, Amazon EC2, TeamCity, Top Shelf, Kanban and JIRA
April 2013 - June 2013 / Royal Rugby Union Web Site
Course booking system and management / Architect / Lead Developer / Sitecore 6, Asp.Net MVC 4, C#, SQL Server 2008 R2, NHibernate, TDD, Nunit, Moq
Feb 2013 - April 2013 / Manchester United Football Club Web Site
Extension to CMS system and backend improvements / Senior .Net Developer / Asp.Net MVC 4, C#, SQL Server 2008 R2, Sitecore 6, NHibernate, TDD, Nunit, Moq
May 2012 - Nov 2012 / Tesco Entertainment / Tesco Direct Web Site and Lines of Business Systems
Extensions and maintenance of Tesco Entertainment web followed by merge with Tesco Direct / Lead Developer / Asp.Net MVC 3 and 4, C#, WCF, Sql Server 2008 R2,Endeca, TDD, MS Test, Moq, Entities Framework 4.1, CastleWindsor, Mercurial Hg, Agile Scrum, TFS 2010, Azure, Blinkbox API, Facebook API

Detailed Employment History

Fetch Ltd. / XamarinTechnical Lead and Mobile Solution Architect / City, London, UK / July 2015 – September 2015

Alpha App – Android, IOS and Windows Phone 8.1 (Xamarin)

  • Lead the architecture and development of a high-profile mobile appfor HSBC (cannot disclose app name at present) built from scratch using Xamarin
  • Develop Android, IOS and Windows versions of the app
  • Some features included : Current user location and movement tracking, interactive maps using native map controls, interactive list of events and services which included placing phone calls, sending emails and interacting with external apps, consumption of REStful web services endpoints integrating various data sources, internationalization support with in-app language switching and push notifications
  • Create a Remote Notification Portal which can push specifically targeted notifications based on various pre-defined marketing segments such as gender, age, location, among others, or individual users by emails

Fetch Christmas Game - Android App (Xamarin)

  • Architect and implement a game using Xamarin to be released as a Christmas promotional piece for Fetch
  • Sample a selection of Christmas songs and play them at random speeds which can be regulated via finger swiping an animated Christmas tree at the right speed
  • Implement unlockable levels and gift rewards

Hr Resource Request Subsystem

  • Architect and implement a subsystem for Fetch intranet, specifically for the HR department, allowing employees to request resources for projects
  • Create a web site where users may log in to submit, review or approve requests
  • Implement an approval workflow with notifications and approval history tracking
Aqovia Ltd. / Technical Lead and Principal Architect / City, London, UK / Oct 2014 – June 2015Fe

MLex – Fs Core

  • Lead architecture and development of the modernization of the MLex digital publishing platform and creation of a subscription-based web site delivering a section of their financial news using the newly developed system
  • Serve as Chief Architect and consultant and lead development throughout full software lifecycle
  • Help develop and code review team’s output
  • Engaged with the client’s CTO and CEO on a regular basis in order to provide them with consultancy and technical strategy services

Clevara

  • Devise and implement technical strategy and roadmap based on product vision
  • Architect the enterprise product incrementally based on emerging requirements and input from technical product analysis, industry and technology research
  • As Product Owner, lead the conceptualization, and product development through workshops and multiple requirements gathering meetings while translating requirements to stories and devising acceptance criteria
  • Prioritize stories, lead the estimation process and queue up work for sprints for each system developed
  • Lead the development of 4 systems across the enterprise product : BETT Demo 2015, Learning Planner Tool, Adaptive Course Module and Smart Content Module
  • Pitched to clients and was actively involved in business strategy

Others

  • Created collateral for various company pitches including fully working prototypes, documents and presentations including one for the BBC
  • Provided technical consultancy for various company matters across projects including helping with an Azure marketing campaign
  • Handled DevOps task such as setting up Continuous Integration and Deployment and responsible for setting up standards for change and release management
  • Acted as Product Owner and SCRUM Master for Clevara for three of the systems built
Amido Ltd. / Technical Consultant / City, London, UK / Aug 2014 – Oct 2014

Northern & Shell – OK Magazine / Daily and Sunday Express web sites and marketing data mining systems

  • Implemented market segmentation systems for users of OK Magazine and Daily and Sunday Express publication by creating data mining stores in Apache Solrfurther enriched by Krux
  • Integrated Gigya, ExactTarget and EngageSciences data with backend systems throughMicrosoft Azure services such as Azure Service Bus and Storage
  • Created ETL tools to process client’s marketing data input and plug into the data integration system pipelines and segmentation subsystems
CharityJob /Principal Architect and Lead Developer/Kingston, London, UK / Jan 2014 – Aug 2014

CharityJob website

  • Architected solution through technical and gap analysis of their existing systems and driving business analysis to gather fresh requirements
  • Led development by coding, code reviewing and briefing developers into technical plans and architecture
  • Modernized development practices by introducing technologies such as MVC, TDD and Microsoft Azure
  • Mentored the technical team both on demand and through regular training sessions
  • Redefined company’s processes : introduced and coached the company on Agile SCRUM, Continuous integration, Continuous delivery, database patching and versioning and codebase management
  • Successfully led and delivered product from inception to agreed deadline
GreendogMedia /Lead Developer and Solution Architect / Home based / Oct 2013 – Dec 2013

JBMS Eggs Distributor Admin and Report Systems

  • Worked alone in the development and architecture of a reports system fed through the integration of various databases and web services
  • Created a real time reporting panel using Asp.Net MVC and various jquery plug ins and libraries to render complex graphs and self-updating tables
  • Brought in to help meet an important deadline by Christmas which was achieved comfortably
Daily Mail / Technical .Net Leadand Solution Architect / Kensington, London, UK / June 2013 – Nov 2013

Daily Mail Plus Offline

  • Co-architected and led the .Net development of an offline solution for Daily Mail Plus, the digital version of the Daily Mail, so the newspaper editions could be synched to remote mobile clients on holiday cruise ships
  • Created a “dropbox” like component from scratch, made to synch files and coordinate publishing of daily editions
  • Trained developers in .Net, TDD, Entities Framework and ASP.Net MVC

Aqueduct Ltd. / Lead Developer and Solution Architect / Farringdon, London, UK / Feb 2013 –June 2013

  1. Manchester United Football Club web site and CMS
  • Added more admin control over various features by expanding their Sitecore CMS
  • Refactored existing codebase to make it technology-agnostic particularly with their streaming media delivery
  • Worked on a few line of businessestools and lead a data migration exercise
  1. Royal Rugby Union Web Site
  • Expanded the course search functionality to make it complete and robust
  • Architected and lead development on implementing a new course search and course booking systems
  • Exposed management of course booking system through their Sitecore CMS

Silkroute Global UK Ltd. / Lead Developer / Waterloo, London, UK / May 2012 – Nov 2012

  1. Tesco Entertainment and Tesco Direct
  • Expanded Tesco Entertainment web site by leading and working on various modules, both for the public site and the back end admin and line of business systems
  • Was part of a team that maintained and hot-fixed the live web site
  • Worked and lead effort on improving Endeca integration and customizing default behaviour to suit requirements
  • Part of the team who handled the merged Tesco Entertainment into Tesco Direct
  • Helped with the handover of Tesco Direct to Tesco’s internal team
  1. ACS Exports Data Reporting and Distribution :
  • Led the development of a system that compiled export and import data of various goods from all the Caribbean countries which are part of the ACS union in order to help them analyse market requirements
  • Integrated and adapted data from multiple sources making it available through a single data store
  • Developed a variety of real-time tables and graphs based on the dynamic data input

Technical snapshot:VB.NET, VBA, T SQL, C#.NET, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, MS Access,MS Project, COM, ODBC, ADO, ADO.NET, XML, Virtual Machine, Source Safe, SVN Subversion

Creative Jar / Lead Developer and Solution Architect / Waterloo, London, UK / Dec 2011 – May 2012

  1. Pearson Online Learning Platform
  • Co-architected and led the development of an extension to the existing casual e-learning platform targeting middle-aged learners for Pearson
  • Led requirements gathering and set up development processes and governance
  • Code reviewed and mentored the team
  • Optimized data operations and delivery by architecting a dynamic rendering engine for course material based on RavenDB, Razor and Sql Server
  • Acted as Technical Project Manager defining and co-ordinating sprints, delivery goals and resources
  • Provided technical consultancy on ancillary projects and defined technical strategy for Love to Learn

Big Pink Media. / Technical Director / Windsor, UK / Nov2009 – Dec2011

  1. Novartis – Gladstone Platform:
  • Responsible for developing technical strategy and acting as a consultant to Novartis throughout the 1-year long project
  • Architected solution and wrote functional specs
  • Led development and Agile processes including planning and sprint reviews
  • Code reviewed and mentored the team
  • Held regular training sessions
  • Co-ordinated communication with outsourced team working on a separate sub-system which was eventually integrated
  • Created a Data Disaster Recovery strategy and ran a simulation with the client
  1. General responsibilities
  • Act as line manager to all staff in the IT department in addition to hiring and conducting reviews
  • Provide technical consultancy and strategy both internally and to various clients
  • Plan the company’s technical direction and project flow ensuring good running of business processes across the board
  • Act as Solution Architect for projects of various sizes
  • Guide the company through the adoption of Agile and other development practices and tools as introduced by me
  • Responsible for signing off all project plans, requirements and functional specs
Others
Duration / Company & Project / Role / Technical Snapshot
July 2009 – Oct 2009 / AKQA
Lead development and participated as senior developer in various small projects including Microsoft Xbox, McLaren, Unilever, Johnnie Walker and Nike. / Lead Developer / Architect / MVC,C#, .Net 3.5,N2 CMS, LINQ, WCF, Agile SCRUM, TDD, Javascript, JQuery, NUnit, Sql Server 2008, SharePoint 2007, CruiseControl.Net, Facebook API, FBML, SVN, Nhibernate, Ninject, Powershell
Feb 2009 – May 2009
Contract
Reading, Berkshire, UK / 3 Chillies
Worked closely with Microsoft to develop internal projects; No. 10 web site updates and email the prime minster system; NHS extranet upgrades and maintenance / Lead Developer / Asp.Net Web Forms, C#, CSS, Javascript, jquery, Sql Server 2008, TFS, Omniture, Site Catalyst
Sep 2008 - Jan 2009
Contract
Farnham, Surrey, UK / Elateral
Coca-Cola extranet to connect international marketing departments including 3D visualization and real-time application of textures on cans and vending machines to be processed through the system until approved and sent to the factory for prototype printing; NewBalance e-commerce web site upgrades, maintenance and custom reports admin system / Senior .Net Developer / Net 3.5, ASP.Net, WPF (briefly), Windows Services, WCF, C#, Javascript, JQuery, Prototype, LINQ, NHibernate, TDD, Agile SCRUM and Extreme Programming, Castle Monorail, NVelocity, Castle Windsor, Spring.Net, Unity, NHibernate, Subversion, Sql Server 2005, SSIS, Mingle, Rhino Mocks, Moq, NUnit, NBehave, TeamCity, FinalBuilder and Watin
Sept2007 - Sep2008
Contract
Reading, Berkshire, UK / Contemi Consulting Ltd.
Greenfield whitelabel insurance system aimed for sale to selected insurance companies / Senior .Net Developer / Architect / .Net 2.0 and 1.1, C#, VBA, ASP.Net, Windows Forms, DOS batch scripting, Windows Services, ASP.Net AJAX, C#, Javascript, TFS, Visual Source Safe, Sql Server 2000 and 2005 and NUnit
July 2007 - Sept2007
Contract
Twyford, Berkshire, UK / AvvioReply
Sky intranet; Vodafone All Hands Events Management System / Senior .Net Developer / Visual Studio 2005, .Net 2.0, C#, Gentle.Net, ContractFirst, ASP.Net AJAX,Javascript, XML Web Services, Sql Server 2005 and Visual Source Safe
Dec2006–June2007
Permanent
Clapham, London, UK / Research Machines Plc
Government projecs: RSR for the Housing Corporation and HMRC tax online / Lead Developer / Solution Architect / Mentor / Visual Studio 2005 and 2003, .Net 2.0 and 1.1, C#, ASP.Net, Coldfusion MX, Windows Forms, XML Web Services, .Net Remoting, Visual Source Safe, Sql Server 2000 and 2005
July 2006- Dec2006
Contract
Surbiton, Surrey, UK / Parabola Software Ltd.
Develop a kiosk application for Esher college / Senior.Net Developer / Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, .Net 2.0 and .Net 1.1, Windows Forms, ASP.Net, Smart Client Software Factory, Sql Server 2000, Entrprise Application Block and Composite Application Block (CAB).
March 2006 - July2006
Contract
Westminster, London, UK / Smart – Kronos
Served as Chief Architect and co-ordinated and code reviewed outsourced development teams for the build of lines of business systems and public web site / Chief Architect / Lead Developer / Visual Studio 2005 and 2003, .Net 2.0 and 1.1, ASP.Net, C#, Sql Server 2000
Jan 2006 - March 2006
Contract
King’s Cross, London, UK / Evisteon
Expand and maintain their admin system / Lead Developer / Architect / Dreamweaver 7, Colfusion 7, Coldfusion MX,Oracle 8i
Jan2004 - Jan2006
Contract
Westminster, London, UK / Parlourwood Ltd.
Lead development and architect various system including an automated package branding admin system for Piranha and an extranet custom built for the Dewalt Division of Black and Decker / Technical Manager / Senior Developer / Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005, .Net 2.0 and 1.1, C#, VB.Net, VB script, ASP.Net, Classic ASP (ASP 3.0), Coldfusion 4.5 and MX,Sql Server 2000 and Oracle 7 and 8i
Jan 2003 – Dec 2003 – Permanent - Loud Internet Ltd. – Southend-on-Sea, UK
June 2002, Nov 2002 – Permanent - Ronin Corporation – Victoria, London, UK
March 2002- Jun 2002 – Permanent - Magnin & Associates – San Diego, California, USA
Education and Qualifications

2015 Xamarin Certified Developer – London, United Kingdom

2002 Palomar College – Computer Science Degree – California, USA

1999 Unibero – Linguistic and Translation Degree – Sao Paulo, Brazil

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