Simon Donn
Role: IT Consultant
Skills: ColdFusion, jQuery, HTML, CSS, MSSQL
My Role
I have been consulting for agencies and companies direct for several years focusing on my skills with ColdFusion and MSSQL.
Responsibilities
My roles have included but are not limited to the following
- Consulting on Internet Projects for new applications and legacy code.
- Maintaining and improving ColdFusion code
- Administrating 4 ColdFusion Servers
- Administrating 2 MSSQL Servers
- Maintaining Development, Staging and Production enviroments
- Version Control over all changes to applications
- Coldfusion Bespoke Content Mangement System (35 clients, 10 e-commerce)
- Maintaining existing codebase including bug fixes and improvements to legacy code
- Maitainance and improvements to WordPress sites.
i-man Pty Ltd
Role: Coldfusion Developer
Duration: October 2013 - July 2014
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Skills: ColdFusion, jQuery, CSS, XML, MSSQL
The Company
i-man currently known as AroFlo Pty Ltd is a cloud based management tool to the trades and field service industries.
Responsibilities
- Maintaining existing codebase including bug fixes and improvements to legacy code
- Building new features
Skills
- technological skills across all desktop, smartphone and
 tablet platforms (iOS, Android, WindowsPhone, Chrome, Firefox,
Safari, IE)
NGA.net
Role: Senior Coldfusion Developer
Duration: March 2013 - September 2013
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Skills: ColdFusion, Mach-II, CSS, XML, MSSQL, Hibernate
The Company
NGA.net provide recruitment solutions as a Service (SaaS) model in the cloud.
Responsibilities
- Maintaining existing codebase including bug fixes
- Building new features
SiDon Consultancy Limited
Role: Director/Coldfusion Application Developer
Duration: July 2011 - December 2012
Location: Leeds, Manchester England
Skills: ColdFusion, ColdBox, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, Oracle
The Company
SiDon Consultancy Limited is my own company where I work as a freelance consultant using my programming, networking and computer skills for short term contracts..
Achievements
- ColdFusion Contractor at General Electric building VAT/GST Solutions
- Using Agile methodologies (Scrum and Kanban) to develop intranet based web applications for GE Corporate Global Tax Systems
- Taam Grill Website and consultation - www.taam.co.uk
- Accident Claims website and consultation - http://www.accidentclaims.co.uk
- Legally Confused consultation
- Domain Management
- Oracle consultation including moving existing SQL into Packages
Service Stream
Role: Senior Application Developer
Duration: June 2007 - March 2011
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Skills: ColdFusion, Mach-II, Flash Forms, Flex, JavaScript, ActionScript, CSS, XML, SQL, Mura CMS
Oracle, MSSQL, Robots, shell scripts
The Company
Service Stream Limited is an industrial services organisation that provides outsourced field force management, technical support, customer contact and asset management services. Service Stream has four key operating divisions: contact centre, field services, infrastructure services telco and infrastructure services utilities. Service Stream provides specialist end-to-end services, including fixed line and wireless infrastructure design; maintenance, deployment and management; contact centre activities; and logistics.
Achievements
- Design and Development of helloMobile for Tel Pacific on the MRTM Platform which lead to the sale of MRTM for $3.2 million to Tel Pacific
- DoNotCall.gov.au – Over 5 million people registered
- DoNotCall.gov.au – Over $20 million collected in fines in 2010
- DoNotCall.gov.au – Complaints about telemarketer companies reduced by 60%
- DoNotCall.gov.au – Over 5 million people registered
- DoNotCall.gov.au – Over $20 million collected in fines in 2010
- DoNotCall.gov.au – Complaints about telemarketer companies reduced by 60%
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and support the ACMA Do Not Call Register public web portal
- Design, develop and support the ACMA Do Not Call Register public industry web portal
- Design, develop and support the ACMA Do Not Call Register call centre application
- Develop misc applications including web-services, ColdFusion applications, SFTP Batch Scripts, Flex
- Develop, maintain and support the Mobile Real Time Management platform for realtime processing and billing of subscribers on the Vodafone network
- Maintain and support the corporate website
- Maintain and support the websites inherited when Service Stream acquire companies
- Maintain and create technical documentation
- Create and assist on technical specifications and quotations
- Create, test and deploy disaster recovery plans
- Design and develop web based Document Repositories
- Design and develop new ColdFusion, Flex, Flash Form applications for internal and external use
Lonely Planet
Role: Application Developer
Duration: September 2004 - June 2007
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Skills: ColdFusion, Flash Forms, Flex, PHP, JavaScript, ActionScript, CSS, XML, SQL, PostgreSQL,
MySQL, MSSQL, FarCry, Fusetalk, Windows, Unix
The Company
Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book and digital media publisher in the world. My primary role as a ColdFusion Developer was to design,develop and maintain all online media.
Achievements
- Designed and developed an application called Sophia for processing and tagging feedback for reporting to improve services and products.
- Designed and developed an application called The Media Vault. A Flash Video Streaming portal for the Australia, USA and England offices
- Designed, developed and supported the Lonely Planet online shop using ColdFusion for three distribution regions. Asia , Europe and America
- Developed and supported the Lonely Planet Travel Services section with external feeds from partners
- Designed and developed an online chat application for Authors of books to speak to the travel community
- Developed and supported the Lonely Planet Online message board with over 350,000 registered users
- Developed and supported applications in response to the Tsunami in December 2004
Responsibilities
- Design and develop new ColdFusion,Flex,Flash Form applications for internal and external use
- Develop, maintain and support new and existing xml data for partners
- Develop, maintain and support new and existing applications including ColdFusion,Flex,HTML,XML
Delivered Solutions
Role:Application Developer
Duration: May 2002 - April 2004
Location: Skipton, England
Skills: ColdFusion, JavaScript, CSS, ActionScript, BrioScript, XML, MSSQL, SQL
The Company
Delivered Solutions are a software development company who specialise but are not limited to procurement systems for nursing homes and the hospitality industry.
Achievements
- Designed and developed e-commerce applications to enable NHS nursing homes to purchase as a group
- Designed and developed applications for management of warehouse distribution
- Designed and developed Brio Intelligence dashboards for real time analysis
Responsibilities
- Design and develop new ColdFusion components for the procurement applications
- Design and develop BrioScript Intelligence Dashboards
- Maintain and support the Brio Intelligence Server
HostHope Limited
Role:Developer
Duration: March 2001 - May 2002
Location: Manchester, England
Skills: ColdFusion, HTML, ASP, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, XML, MySQL, SQL, DNS
The Company
Hosthope Limited was my own company where I worked as a freelance consultant using my programming, networking and computer skills for short term contracts.
Achievements
- Fully supported web hosting solutions
- Problem Solving
Responsibilities
- Designing and developing Static and Dynamic Web Sites
- Supporting and configuring hosting server and services
- Creating mailboxes
- Design and developing relational databases
- Data Cleansing for direct marketing campaigns
- Graphics for web sites and television commercials
- Search Engine Optimisation. Doorway pages and statistical analysis
- Project management and full SDLC processes
- Network setup and configuration
- Domain name management and DNS services
Saychester Limited
Role: IT Manager
Duration: January 2000 - March 2001
Location: Manchester, England
Skills: ColdFusion, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, XML, MySQL, Microsoft Access, SQL
The Company
Saychester Limited is a personal injury claims company who have recently been sold to Claims Direct. My primary role was to develop new media and IT general duties.
Achievements
- Fully supported web hosting solutions
- Giving companies there first presence on the internet
Responsibilities
- Designing and developing Static and Dynamic Web Sites
- Data Cleansing for direct marketing campaigns
- Graphics for websites and television commercials
- Search Engine Optimisation. Doorway pages and statistical analysis
- Internal Network setup, configuration and support
- Management of company domains and DNS
BAE Systems (British Aerospace)
Role: Computer Operator
Duration: September 1998 December 1999.
Location: Cheshire, England
Skills: SGML, XML, HTML, Unix, VAX
The Company
BAE Systems PLC is the world's largest defence contractor who produce military and commercial aircraft's. My primary role as a computer operator working in the aircraft maintenance department was to create electronic manuals for the construction and maintenance of aircraft's.
Responsibilities
- Creation and quality control of data for manuals using bespoke applications for data conversions on UNIX and VAX operating systems
- Creation and quality control of manuals using SGML authoring and legacy data conversions
- 24 hour international support to Airline Maintenance Departments