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DAVID WILLIAM EDWARDS

Date of Birth:	24th September, 1971	Marital Status:	Single
Nationality:	British	E-mail:	jkjerome@freenetname.co.uk

KEY SKILLS

A conscientious, thorough developer who enjoys creativity and problem-solving. Experience of communicating with end-users across all levels, all aspects of website production & maintenance, and the full development project life cycle.
6 years hand-coding HTML, DHTML,DOM, CSS, JavaScript & SQL for a wide range of applications 4 years CRM development experience, 1 years intranet development experience 3 years ASP, VBScript & MS Access, & all aspects of website production & maintenance 6 months IIS, SQL Server 2003, limited ASP.Net Graphics production using Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro Trained in ASP.Net, XML and SQL Server 2003

WORK HISTORY

October 2002 - present day:	Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Birmingham Building bespoke front/back end applications onto an off-the-shelf CRM to cater for specific needs of various Chamber departments. This involves building new screens via a WYSIWYG editor, and coding JavaScript(client/server side), SQL statements, HTML, DHTML and CSS. Responsible for ascertaining user requirements, producing specifications, making estimates, development, demonstrating work in progress, testing, training users & writing user guides. I provide ongoing support for my software as well as existing applications. For the last 6 months, I have recently taken over maintenance of the Chamber’s websites, using ASP, IIS, SQL Server 2003, and limited ASP.Net.
July 2001 - September 2002:	Unemployed After redundancy from CSC, I sought employment in web development. Meanwhile I taught myself all I could about web development including FTP, search engine optimisation/submission, & cross-browser compatibility. I also learned ASP, VBScript, SQL, MS Access, and produced 3 websites.
October 1999 - June 2001:	CSC Application Services(JP Morgan Fleming Account), Romford Trainee programmer: hand-coded database-driven intranet applications using HTML, DHTML, JavaScript and MivaScript. Getting user requirements, coding, testing and giving demonstrations to end users. Training new users, writing user guides and providing support for applications. Main project was an Absence System I produced for a call centre.
January 1999 - September 1999:	Job Search/Temping Having received 4 offers of places on IT graduate schemes, I opted for a place with CSC Financial Services Group in Camberley, due to start in September 1999. In the intervening time, I temped and studied for the forthcoming training. However, CSC terminated the scheme 2 weeks before the start date. As an alternative, CSC offered me employment as a Trainee Programmer on one of their accounts in Romford which I accepted.
July 1998 - December 1998:	The Span Consultancy (for IBM), London IBM Trainee Programmer(2 year secondment): After 1 month's training in COBOL & an IBM induction course, my group was placed on standby, awaiting placement with IBM. Contract was then unexpectedly terminated by IBM for reasons unknown.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

School & University:
1990 to 1994:	University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST)
	B.Sc. Hons in Physics with French:
	This 4-year degree course involved studying scientific French in addition to the standard Physics curriculum & spending the penultimate year at l'Université de Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France where I studied the French 'License de Physique'.
1983 to 1990:	Barr Beacon School, Oldhall Lane, Aldridge, Walsall
	A-Levels:	French(B), General Studies(B), Physics(C), Maths(D)
	GCSE:	Physics(A), French(A), Art(A), Geography(A), English-Literature(A), English(B), Maths(B), Statistics(B), Chemistry(B)
Training:
Jul 2006:	SQL Server 2003, Interquad Training, Birmingham 1 week’s training for BCI in light of new website maintenance duties.
Nov 2004:	ASP.Net, Quanta Training, Worcester 1 week’s training for BCI in preparation for potential web development work.
Oct 2004:	XML, Quanta Training, Worcester 1 week’s training for BCI in preparation for potential web development work.
Nov 2002:	Salespage Development Tools, Salespage, Godmanchester 1 day’s training in developing this off-the-shelf CRM solution.
Oct 2000:	ASP, JB International, London 1 week's training for CSC in preparation for forthcoming projects.
Jul 2000:	Java, Skill Advance Training, London 1 week's training for CSC in preparation for forthcoming projects.
Jun 2000:	JavaScript, Skill Advance Training, London 1 week's training for CSC to aid intranet development.
Jun 1998:	COBOL/Structured Programming, QED Training, London This 3-week course was given by IBM in preparation for a role with them.

REFERENCES

References are available on request.