Tony Norcross

Experience 2014 » Now: Digital Fishies, Nottingham: Web Developer & Owner I have worked on many projects involving full-stack development with ASP.NET and MS SQL for server-side coding. I have great experience with JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Below are examples of the work I am doing, and have done at Digital Fishies. Financial documents on brand - I’ve worked for this client since January 2016. The end-clients are global financial companies with all software installed in-house. The browsers can be IE9, the web server 2008 and IE7 is also targeted for Office Add-ins. The solution enables users to browse and collate branded approved copy, data and images to generate docx, pdf or pptx files. The content can be browsed and collated using a web browser or a VSTO add-in. This product has thousands of end users worldwide. The technologies used for this project are Web API, LINQ, jQuery, Bootstrap. For more details please visit: https://is.gd/EzU5p5. Landscape architecture add-in for AutoCAD and Revit – I’ve worked for this client since June 2015. The end-clients are global architecture companies who wish to add landscaping to their CAD designs. This is done via an add-in to a website in which users are able to access planting information and organise plants into mixes or groupings. This project uses Web Forms, MVC, Web API, T-SQL, Telerik. For more details please visit: https://is.gd/C3xbFp. Lighting catalogue – for a product data agency in July 2015 Worked with a fellow .NET developer to create an Umbraco 7 CMS multi-lingual website to display an online product catalog. The end-client was a global market leader in its field. Although they have since been acquired, much of the fundamental work carried out is still in use today. My role was defining the view models, document types, templates and creating a responsive UI. For more details please visit: https://is.gd/ZhC6vk. Commercial property sales – for a design agency in 2017 I developed a responsive multilingual property search website aimed at large high-end properties. I did this using ASP.NET MVC. With the exception of the database I created all other aspects of the site including the search facility, property details pages and a multilingual facility. More projects Along with the projects above, I have developed promotional websites, created JavaScript games, responsive websites and even done some Flash/ActionScript. I am currently building a game using ES6 to help children learn maths, and learning .NET Core.

2004 » 2014: Linney Design, Mansfield: Technical Architect & Web Developer Linney Design (part of Linney Group) is a creative agency with over sixty employees. As part of the digital team, my role was to scope and develop solutions. Below is a snapshot of the type of work carried out (usually with a three week turn around):  Molson Coors (Grolsch, Coors Fine Light, Carling websites)  McDonald’s (translites, promotional websites and banners)  Mars (Mars Bar, Galaxy Chocolate, Snickers, Maltesers, Revels, Celebrations, M&Ms, Pedigree Direct eCommerce, Spillers, Dolmio)  Hasbro (My Monopoly, Nerf Alliance, Discover Hasbro)  Pizza Hut Delivery (Legendary prizes, TV advert voucher give-aways, Menu Maker)  LG (Movie and Sports on demand vouchers website)  Yamaha Motor Europe (websites, banners)  Compass Group (Internal websites including games)  Post Office (Digital signage, internal communications, websites)  Bupa (extending their Jive CMS with JavaScript and external MVC site)  Boots (adding non existing functionality to current boots.com CMS)  PayPal advertising banners promoting a new card reader  Virgin Media tool to reward staff performance  Chiquito restaurant developed flash games

The majority of my work would involve programming in ASP.NET (C#), Web Forms, MVC, MS SQL, JavaScript (including jQuery) and Flash (ActionScript). This would provide functionality such as on-pack code for instant wins, voucher giveaways in conjunction with e4 advertisement.

I advised on network infrastructure and introduced source control. I mentored less experienced developers, presented new technology, wrote appraisals and assisted managers with recruitment interviews. I researched technologies, such as Cinder, openFrameworks, Three.js, Raspberry PI, Processing, MS Kinect and Unity. This was with a view to using them in the business. I also introduced the use of ASP.NET MVC to projects and fellow developers.

1996 » 2003: WORLD ORT, London: MIS Manager & Web Developer I worked at the headquarters of a philanthropic organisation which supports ORT schools world-wide. It also provided Internet services for locally affiliated organisations. In conjunction with web development, I managed a small team consisting of developers, designers and it support staff. The organisation provided ISP hosting and broadband facilities to affiliated organisations. At the time I helped put the Old Testament online (Torah) with translations and cantillation (using Real Audio), created an IT course, multilingual art holocaust website and more. Just prior to leaving, I also developed a fundraising application using ASP.NET 1.1 which replaced the Raiser’s Edge application. At the time I mostly developed in used Classic ASP, T-SQL and some JavaScript.

1994 » 1995 Atom Computers, Nottingham: Network Manager & IT Support Engineer No longer trading, Atom Computers assembled PCs to customer requirements. While here, I managed the network, headed up technical support and assemble bespoke PCs to customer requirements.

Education 1991 » 1994 University of the West of England (Bristol) Studied Digital Systems Engineering and graduated with 2:1 BEng (Hons).

1991 Becket RC School, (Nottingham) 1 A level and 9 GCSEs with C grades or above, which included Maths and English.

Courses & Conferences I have attended numerous technical courses. These include ASP.NET MVC, .NET Web Development, IIS, Windows Server, TCP/IP Networking, Java and Flash. I have also attended several design related conferences too, such as Reasons to be Creative, New Adventures in Web Design and The Future of Web Design.

Interests & Additional Info Learning new technologies (currently ES6 and .NET Core) Member of local meetups: Conversational French and basic Spanish  Nottingham Programmers Full and clean UK Drivers licence for car and motorbike  Tech Nottingham Art & illustration  dotnetnotts Walking