Kenton Price

Availability

I am currently on sabbatical, and am next available for BizTalk-related contract work from 4^th August 2008.

Please note that my CV and current availability are always updated first at www.kentonprice.com

Abstract

A highly experienced BizTalk Server consultant and architect, effective team lead and seasoned developer. Every contract extended and/or subsequently rehired by the same client. Multiple successful full project lifecycle implementations. Early achiever of Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist in BizTalk Server 2006, and further certified in BizTalk 2004 and 2000.

Core Skills

· Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in BizTalk Server 2006

· Extensive enterprise application integration experience using BizTalk Server 2006, 2004, 2002 and .NET

· Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)

· Effective at many levels including architect, developer, team lead and mentor

· Extensive experience of a broad range of Microsoft tools and technologies

· Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET (under the C# track with BizTalk Server as the elective)

· Microsoft Certified Application Developer for Microsoft .NET (under the C# track)

· C#, .NET Framework, Visual Studio.NET, ASP.NET, WinForms, WebForms

· Web Services, GXA, WSDL, UDDI, XML, XSD, XSLT, XPath

· Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for Visual Studio 6 (under the VB 6 track)

· Website development using ASP, Visual InterDev, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML

· Visual Basic 6, Visual InterDev 6, SQL Server 2000, Exchange 2000

Personal Information

Age: 38 Nationality: British

Marital status: Single Place of birth: London

Professional Qualifications

To verify my Microsoft certifications online, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/transcripts and enter transcript ID ‘671328’ and access code ‘kentonprice’.

· Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: BizTalk Server 2006 2006

· Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: BizTalk Server 2004 2005

· Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for Microsoft .NET (early achiever) 2003

· Microsoft Certified Application Developer for Microsoft .NET (charter member) 2002

· Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for Visual Studio 6 (charter member) 1999

Training and Professional Development

· Microsoft TechEd Developers 2008
Orlando

· Pluralsight WCF / WF “Double Feature” intensive training course 2008
Boston

· Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference (BizTalk 2006 R2 / WCF / WF) 2006 & 2007
Redmond

· Microsoft Business Process Integration & Workflow Partner Conference (BizTalk 2006) 2005
Redmond

· Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 “Deep Dive” Training 2005
Redmond

· DevelopMentor training courses: Essential BizTalk 2004 and Guerilla .NET 2004
London and Los Angeles

· Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 Partner Training Lab 2003
Redmond

· Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003
Los Angeles

Education

London Business School 2006 - 2007

Degree awarded: Masters in Business Administration (Executive MBA)

Aston University 1991 - 1995

Birmingham, West Midlands

Degree awarded: BSc. (Hons) Computing Science

Christ’s Hospital 1981 - 1988

Horsham, West Sussex

4 A-levels: Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

2 AO-levels: Mathematics and French; 8 O-levels including Mathematics and English.

Employment History

Sabbatical May – August 2008

USA, Canada, Chile, Brazil

Logica / UWV September 2007 – May 2008

Amsterdam / Den Haag, The Netherlands

The UWV is the Dutch social security administration, and Logica was awarded the contract to design and implement its new disability benefits payment system using a service oriented architecture (SOA). My role in the core generic team is to provide business process management middleware services, and to offer architectural guidance and act as a beacon of best practice to around 20 BizTalk developers in the functional development teams. The middleware services also report management information for BPM tracking, and implement the error handling elements of the BizTalk Server 2006 R2 enterprise service bus architecture provided in Microsoft’s ESB Guidance.

LogicaCMG / InBev UK June – September 2007

Luton

This greenfield BizTalk 2006 project interfaces InBev’s AS400 DB2 resources to its new warehouse management system using XML over an HTTP interface. I was brought in after functional design sign-off to architect the technical design, develop and document the solution, create automated tests using BizUnit/NUnit, and train operations staff.

MBA Exchange Semester December 2006 – May 2007

UCLA Anderson Business School, Los Angeles

I attended UCLA’s Anderson Business School in Los Angeles for an exchange semester under my MBA programme.

ICS Solutions / Euphony November – December 2006

Basingstoke

I was recommended to ICS Solutions by a former colleague as the architect on a greenfield BizTalk 2006 assignment for their new telecoms client Euphony. As the technical team lead to staff from both ICS and the client, I designed the solution, developed the high-level technical design technical architecture, and assisted ICS staff in developing proofs-of-concept. When I left for Los Angeles, the design was handed over to a replacement architect that I recommended plus to other ICS developers for a subsequent very successful implementation.

Avanade / Shell July – October 2006

London

I returned to my previous client Avanade, hired by the lead BizTalk architects from the EMI project, as a trusted safe pair of hands to firefight a deathmarch on an SAP integration project. My role as senior developer and technical authority included extensive mentoring of Avanade developers.

Accenture / KPN Telecom August 2005 – June 2006

Amersfoort, The Netherlands

I was the replacement lead BizTalk architect on this high-profile BizTalk Server 2004 project that integrates the billing systems of 1.6 million broadband customers using over a hundred long-running orchestrations. Duties have included performance tuning and configuration, including extensive rearchitecting to achieve optimal throughput, and designing a robust and resilient side-by-side deployment solution for fuure releases. Alongside my architectural and mentor roles, I assisted with the design and development of the second and third releases. Contract renewed four times.

EMI Music June – August 2005

London

I returned to my previous client EMI for a short contract upgrading the project I had previously worked on from BizTalk Server 2002 to BizTalk Server 2004, which went live on schedule with no significant problems. I also developed new functionality and advised on the performance and tuning.

Accenture / NHS National Programme for I.T. (NPfIT) April 2004 – May 2005

Leeds

I was contracted to Accenture working on the world’s largest civilian I.T. project that uses BizTalk Server 2004 as its core integration technology. I worked as a BizTalk resource in a variety of roles across application architecture, development, testing and operational support, including spending two weeks working alongside the BizTalk product team in Seattle to improve the application’s latency and throughput metrics. My contract was renewed four times.

Accenture / Avanade / EMI / Cassium November 2003 – April 2004

London

I was contracted through Cassium and Avanade to Accenture’s client EMI, working in EMI’s global architectural strategy group for reengineering their worldwide EAI architecture using BizTalk Server 2002. Tasks included architecting a tool for deployment of BizTalk artefacts and related components across multiple BizTalk installations worldwide. My project at EMI involved the architectural design and implementation of integrating SAP with iSeries MQ and Web Services, which went live on budget and on schedule and is considered internally as a major success. My contract was renewed, and I returned a year later to the client.

Solidsoft March 2003 – October 2003

Various locations throughout the UK

I returned under contract to Solidsoft, a highly-respected Microsoft Gold Certified Partner now best-known for their specialism in BizTalk, as a Microsoft technologies consultant on a succession of short consultancy projects each typically lasting two to four weeks, working on-site alongside clients that included the Inland Revenue, NHS, BT, Securicor, and Hertfordshire Police. About half of these projects were BizTalk-related; all of them .NET and C#. My contract was renewed numerous times.

Sabbatical August 2002 – February 2003

Australia, New Zealand, California

I took time out to travel the world whilst the economy recovered, including living in Sydney for a while and travelling New Zealand in a camper van.

Reuters March 2001 – July 2002

New York

I worked as a senior developer in the CTO Innovation Lab, a small team that evaluated and experimented with all the latest Microsoft products and technologies in prototypes and demos in order to demonstrate their value to the business and to top-tier focus account customers, championing findings to product development groups for integration into future products. With input into the design process of new Microsoft products, nearly all work was performed on beta and pre-beta releases of forthcoming products. Development was centred around the .NET framework in C# using Visual Studio.NET; projects vary enormously and gave me a huge level of exposure to soon-to-be-current tools and techniques.

BenefitsU.com January – February 2001

London

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young / Swiss Life October – December 2000

Sevenoaks

Solidsoft March – September 2000

Basingstoke

Dell Computer Corporation July 1999 – March 2000

Bracknell

Hexar Ltd December 1996 – June 1999

London

Rebus Ltd July 1995 – December 1996

London

ICL Edacom Ltd August 1990 – April 1995

Stansted Mountfitchet (full time until October 1991 then all vacations)

P&Q International Ltd February 1989 – August 1990

Ware

Professional Memberships

· Professional Contractors Group

· Mensa