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If you'd like more detailed information, we also present this information in the form of Curriculum Vitae. Alternatively for further information about the skills of our consultants, please contact MicroCrest directly.

This section contains a brief Bio of MicroCrest's Principal Consultant, Peter Hurford.

Overall Design, Analysis and Development Experience

involved in commercial software development, since 1989

architect on commercial products, since 1995

experience of distributed, component-based systems design, including Client-Server, Remote Invocation (RMI, CORBA, DCOM) and the use of messageware (MQ, Tibco, Krypton)

familiar with Case tools (Rational Rose, Visual Modeller) and UML

• Internet Technologies

Lead roles in both electronic commerce and electronic banking products

Web site architecture, balanced toward Microsoft but also experience of J2EE-based technology

Expert knowledge of a variety of "presentation" languages, (including ASP, HTML and Javascript). Knowledge also of JSP, servlets, PHP, ISAPI and Acrobat development

Security skills, including NT, Network, Session and Application Security, use of third-party products

Involvement in Infrastructure design

Site performance metering

• Component-based Systems

involved in the design of component-based systems (and of components themselves) since 1995

have been working with OLE/COM since 1996, Win2K and COM+ since 1999 (VB, ATL, MTS, COM+)

EJB, J2EE-based solutions design since 2000

Middleware/Messaging (sync and async) since 1997, including MQSeries, Tibco and Krypton

product selections performed on App Servers, Content Management and Data Translation products

• Databases

relational database skills since 1994, also experience of o-o and hierarchical designs

Strong Data Modelling skills as a by-product of architectural roles (some Erwin exposure)

Connectivity (e.g. ADO, ODBC), SQL Language, and product-specific skills (e.g. SQL Server administration) have been gained on an "as needed" basis Commercial Experience

Experienced with both Oracle (v7 - 10) and SQL Server (v4 - 2000)

• Has performed consultancy services to the following Companies:

  GAM

  Coutts & Co

  Nationwide Building Society (Technical Development Department)

  Barclays Bank plc (Electronic Banking Department)

  IBM (MQSeries Department)

  BVR Corporation (working in collaboration with Barclaycard and Chase Manhattan)

  Dr Solomon's

  AEA Technology

• Has been consulted on the following Commercial Products :

  Coutts Online Banking

  Nationwide Online Banking

  Barclays BusinessMaster

  IBM MQSeries Three Tier for Windows NT

  Barclaycard PurchaseOnLine

  Dr Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit for Windows NT

  Dr Solomon's Support Software for Windows 3.x

Education

• BSc (Hons) Degree in Physics, from University of Wales (Cardiff, UK) (1989)
• 3 'A' levels, including Maths and Physics
• Lots of 'O' levels, including English, French and German Languages

Download Peter Hurford's Curriculum Vitae

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