Richard Kimber

Current

• Web Developer at Ink Creations Ltd.
• Director/Web Developer at Dogma Creative Ltd.

Past

• Senior Developer at Skipton Financial Services Ltd
• IT Support at EWS
• Service Quality Analyst at PinkRoccade

• Customer Care/Web Marketing at iobox/Terra Mobile
• Petrol Pump Attendant at Brewsters Garage

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• My Portfolio
• My Blog
• Ink Creations

Richard Kimber’s Summary

I am currently working as a Web Developer for Ink Creations Ltd. My focus at Ink is ASP.NET MVC web development, integrating with jQuery and SQL Server 2005/8. We work on a number of projects including external eCommerce sites and Intranet Web Services.

I am also the Director of Dogma Creative Ltd. a web development company set up by my wife and I in November of 2006. We set up the company to try and achieve a better work/life balance. I’ve worked on several projects at Dogma, though most notably a knowledge management system for tracking the performance of hedge funds.

Prior to the formation of my company, I was working at Skipton Financial Services as a Senior Developer. At Skipton, I had an equal share of project management and application development. I was responsible for mentoring junior developers and supervising contractors. The role involved liaising with internal and external clients/suppliers on a regular basis.

I am excited by new web technologies and how they might be used to enhance the user experience. I have been using ASP.NET MVC for almost a year now and have recently switched to MVC 2 using .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010. My main are of interest at the moment is Object Relational Mapping. We currently use a bespoke library that sits on ADO.NET, but I'm exploring the merits of other solutions such as Entity Framework and nHibernate. In contrast to my sad devotion to code, I believe one of my strongest assets is my ability to communicate effectively with non technical parts of the business at all levels.

Richard Kimber’s Specialties:

C#, ASP.NET MVC, XHTML, JavaScript, Ajax, CSS, Photoshop, T-SQL, Project Management, Communication, jQuery

Richard Kimber’s Experience

• Web Developer

  Ink Creations Ltd.

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  ASP.NET & Client Side Developer. Working on large and small web applications, using ASP.NET MVC & Web Forms. Utilising ASP.NET Web Services, SQL Server 2008, jQuery, JSON, PayPal and GoogleCheckout.

• Director/Web Developer

  Dogma Creative Ltd.

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  November 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  Web application development for SMEs. Data driven applications and online presence development using ASP.NET (C#), JavaScript (incorporating Ajax & dHTML), Photoshop and SQL Server.
  
  Responsibilities include web development, client liaison, project management, marketing and product development.
  
  Other technologies used include CSS, XHTML, XML and QuickTime.

• Senior Developer

  Skipton Financial Services Ltd

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

  July 2004 — February 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  Responsibilities include project lifecycle management, liaison with internal & external clients/suppliers, mentoring, application development using ASP.NET (C#) and client side development using JavaScript, XHTML & CSS.

• IT Support

  EWS

  (Public Company; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  January 2004 — July 2004 (7 months)

  First and second line support of IT systems.

• Service Quality Analyst

  PinkRoccade

  (Public Company; Computer Networking industry)

  March 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 10 months)

  Reporting and Web Application Development using ASP and SQL 6.5.

• Customer Care/Web Marketing

  iobox/Terra Mobile

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Wireless industry)

  September 2000 — February 2002 (1 year 6 months)

  Managed web promotions.

• Petrol Pump Attendant

  Brewsters Garage

  (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  1995 — 1995 (less than a year)

  Pumping petrol, it's harder than it sounds...

Additional Information

Richard Kimber’s Websites:

• My Portfolio
• My Blog
• Ink Creations

Richard Kimber’s Interests:

Reading, Walking, Photography, Japanese, Comics

Richard Kimber’s Groups:

Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce (MyCCI), Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

•    .NET Developers
•    jQuery
•    Cocoa and Cocoa Touch Developers
•    O2 Litmus
•    Kirklees & Calderdale Business Group

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