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Senior Freelance Consultant, Lead Developer, Architect
Morten Nystrup Rasmussen
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Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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Senior consultant with 20+ years of professional experience within the IT development field and a proven track record of delivering quality software, great business value, and satisfied end users.
Specializes in web, microservice, and back end architecture and development. Extremely well versed in C#, .NET, and database performance optimization.
Highly rational and analytical with a creative approach to problem solving and a pragmatic mindset. Above all, a team player, able to both to lead and follow, teach and learn, as the situation requires.
Specializes in web, microservice, and back end architecture and development. Extremely well versed in C#, .NET, and database performance optimization.
Highly rational and analytical with a creative approach to problem solving and a pragmatic mindset. Above all, a team player, able to both to lead and follow, teach and learn, as the situation requires.
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Norway
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2017 - ?
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Principal Consultant
Aeon.
• Consultancy work involving any part of the Microsoft .NET technology stack, acting in a technical advisory capacity, as lead developer, or as a senior developer resource.
2017 - ?
job
Senior Software Architect, Lead Developer
KMD.
• Became associated with KMD when Danmarks Nationalbank transferred its IT business to said company.
• Advised internal enterprise and solution architects as they familiarized themselves with the sprawling systems suite of the bank.
• Contributed to analysis work regarding two major upcoming projects.
• Currently working on the first new feature suite for the FIONA Online 3 web application, leading the associated developer team comprised of freelancers and permanent employees.
• Skills used: Enterprise, solution, and software architecture, OOD/OOP, C#, ASP.NET WebAPI, WCF, MS SQL Server/T-SQL, TFS, ALM, scrum, agile.
• Advised internal enterprise and solution architects as they familiarized themselves with the sprawling systems suite of the bank.
• Contributed to analysis work regarding two major upcoming projects.
• Currently working on the first new feature suite for the FIONA Online 3 web application, leading the associated developer team comprised of freelancers and permanent employees.
• Skills used: Enterprise, solution, and software architecture, OOD/OOP, C#, ASP.NET WebAPI, WCF, MS SQL Server/T-SQL, TFS, ALM, scrum, agile.
2011 - 2017
job
Software Architect, Lead Developer
Danmarks Nationalbank.
• Advised department heads, traders, and financial analysts alike, helping them recognize and capitalize on software-supported workflow automation and productivity enhancement possibilities.
• Single-handedly analyzed, architected, developed, tested, polished, and delivered an emergency project covering massive data set import, validation, storage, data transformation and enrichment, and reporting, all within three weeks, allowing the Department of Financial Stability to accurately assess financial exposure of specific companies, a necessary prerequisite for granting short-term, multi-billion loans to shore up financial institutions in need.
• Installed and configured TFS from the ground up.
• Using TFS, set up continuous integration across an expansive, initially brown-grass code base, improving developer productivity immensely.
• Set up continuous delivery as an addendum to continuous integration build.
• Defined department “best practices” regarding solution architecture, coding style and patterns, source branching and versioning, software development, unit and integration testing, and deployment.
• Successfully lead multiple developer teams.
• Designed and implemented Proteus, a proprietary SQL Server database and C#-based API which continually adapts to business domain changes, automatically creating tables, types, procedures, and functions as required, minimizing ongoing developer involvement in the evolving system while maximizing administrator flexibility in designing complex reporting forms.
• Architected and lead the implementation of the second and third generations of the custom-built statistical reporting platform FIONA Online used by both Danmarks Nationalbank and the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority. FIONA Online 3, built using the Proteus database, WCF services, ASP.NET WebAPI, and an Angular/HTML5 UI, today stands unrivalled as the most sophisticated reporting platform in use by any government financial agency or central bank in the world.
• Single-handedly analyzed, architected, developed, tested, polished, and delivered an emergency project covering massive data set import, validation, storage, data transformation and enrichment, and reporting, all within three weeks, allowing the Department of Financial Stability to accurately assess financial exposure of specific companies, a necessary prerequisite for granting short-term, multi-billion loans to shore up financial institutions in need.
• Installed and configured TFS from the ground up.
• Using TFS, set up continuous integration across an expansive, initially brown-grass code base, improving developer productivity immensely.
• Set up continuous delivery as an addendum to continuous integration build.
• Defined department “best practices” regarding solution architecture, coding style and patterns, source branching and versioning, software development, unit and integration testing, and deployment.
• Successfully lead multiple developer teams.
• Designed and implemented Proteus, a proprietary SQL Server database and C#-based API which continually adapts to business domain changes, automatically creating tables, types, procedures, and functions as required, minimizing ongoing developer involvement in the evolving system while maximizing administrator flexibility in designing complex reporting forms.
• Architected and lead the implementation of the second and third generations of the custom-built statistical reporting platform FIONA Online used by both Danmarks Nationalbank and the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority. FIONA Online 3, built using the Proteus database, WCF services, ASP.NET WebAPI, and an Angular/HTML5 UI, today stands unrivalled as the most sophisticated reporting platform in use by any government financial agency or central bank in the world.
2004 - 2011
job
Senior Consultant, Junior Partner
Pentia A/S.
• Provided consulting and developer services to more than two dozen separate clients (e.g., National Board of Health, Danish Pharmacy Association, Danish Consumer Authority, Copenhagen Municipality, Klasselotteriet, Vega, UK-based play.com, Swedish Volvo Trucks, Danish Competition Authority, DIBS, NETS, University of Copenhagen, etc.)
• In various capacities, contributed to 30+ web development projects of all sizes, primarily based on the Sitecore CMS and ASP.NET, consistently delivering maintainable code, scalable performance, and solid business value.
• Was one of three members of the internal supervisory architecture and code quality group, ensuring every website was designed, implemented, and maintained according to best-practice standards.
• Conducted numerous architecture and code reviews in aforementioned capacity, facilitating the professional growth of less experienced colleagues.
• Embraced the role of de facto database guru of the company, mentoring other developers and providing ad-hoc assistance.
• Frequently acted as “fixer” resource, being temporarily assigned to various project teams when exceptionally complicated bugs or other deeply technical impediments prevented the team in question from making progress.
• Gained several Microsoft ASP.NET and Framework certifications as well as all relevant Sitecore developer certifications in three different versions of the product.
• Often assisted sales team with technical advice in pre-sales phase.
• Authored technical specifications and high-level architecture documents for more than a half-a-dozen significant web development projects.
• Was offered a Junior Partnership in the company due to demonstrated technical excellence as well as unwavering dedication to customers, company, and colleagues alike.
• Skills and technologies used: Enterprise, solution, and software architecture, OOD/OOP, C#, ASP.NET, Sitecore, MS SQL Server/T-SQL, Subversion/Tortoise, scrum, agile, PRINCE2.
• In various capacities, contributed to 30+ web development projects of all sizes, primarily based on the Sitecore CMS and ASP.NET, consistently delivering maintainable code, scalable performance, and solid business value.
• Was one of three members of the internal supervisory architecture and code quality group, ensuring every website was designed, implemented, and maintained according to best-practice standards.
• Conducted numerous architecture and code reviews in aforementioned capacity, facilitating the professional growth of less experienced colleagues.
• Embraced the role of de facto database guru of the company, mentoring other developers and providing ad-hoc assistance.
• Frequently acted as “fixer” resource, being temporarily assigned to various project teams when exceptionally complicated bugs or other deeply technical impediments prevented the team in question from making progress.
• Gained several Microsoft ASP.NET and Framework certifications as well as all relevant Sitecore developer certifications in three different versions of the product.
• Often assisted sales team with technical advice in pre-sales phase.
• Authored technical specifications and high-level architecture documents for more than a half-a-dozen significant web development projects.
• Was offered a Junior Partnership in the company due to demonstrated technical excellence as well as unwavering dedication to customers, company, and colleagues alike.
• Skills and technologies used: Enterprise, solution, and software architecture, OOD/OOP, C#, ASP.NET, Sitecore, MS SQL Server/T-SQL, Subversion/Tortoise, scrum, agile, PRINCE2.
2001 - 2004
job
Senior Developer
Traen A/S.
• Worked as the back end lead developer on the Acadre case and document management system, custom-built for the Danish regional governments and municipalities, taking it from near-conceptual level and all the way to deployment in various production environments at client sites.
• Optimized the complex, proprietary database associated with the project via targeted indexing and query optimization, taking it from being effectively useless to real-time performance.
• Collaborated with Microsoft Support Engineer in order to isolate and resolve a critical schema corruption bug I discovered in the SQL Server 2000 core service.
• In 2004, ported and refactored the majority of back end service code from Visual Basic 6.0 and COM+/MS Transaction Server to C# and ASP.NET web services, thus modernizing the platform while improving maintainability.
• Skills and technologies used: Software architecture, DB design and optimization theory, MS SQL Server/T-SQL, OOD/OOP, C#, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, COM, DCOM/COM+, Microsoft Transaction Server, SourceSafe, Perforce.
• Optimized the complex, proprietary database associated with the project via targeted indexing and query optimization, taking it from being effectively useless to real-time performance.
• Collaborated with Microsoft Support Engineer in order to isolate and resolve a critical schema corruption bug I discovered in the SQL Server 2000 core service.
• In 2004, ported and refactored the majority of back end service code from Visual Basic 6.0 and COM+/MS Transaction Server to C# and ASP.NET web services, thus modernizing the platform while improving maintainability.
• Skills and technologies used: Software architecture, DB design and optimization theory, MS SQL Server/T-SQL, OOD/OOP, C#, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, COM, DCOM/COM+, Microsoft Transaction Server, SourceSafe, Perforce.
1998 - 2001
job
Senior Developer
SunGard.
• Established a local software development team within the Scandinavian division of SunGard, Trading and Risk Management Systems.
• The division quickly capitalized on being able to deliver customized software products to their regional clients with minimal time-to-market, as a result landing—and successfully fulfilling—two new, high-profile contracts.
• Joined SunGard, Professional Services as a Senior Technical Consultant.
• Worked with a number of prominent Nordic clients within the financial sector (e.g., Unibank and Merita Nordbanken (now Nordea), Bikuben (now Danske Bank), Danmarks Skibskredit, BRF Kredit, and SEB), engineering customer-specific solutions that complemented their traders well beyond the capabilities of any standard application suite.
• Conducted several on-site client training sessions covering code-based customization of data cubes and live-data pivot tables within SunGard's Panorama and Infinity trading and risk management suites and underlying data warehouses.
• Performance-optimized massive databases on-site, reducing crucial query execution time from minutes to milliseconds.
• Implemented various system/service and database integrations.
• Was temporarily working out of London as part of the SunGard, Europe development team.
• Skills and technologies used: Software architecture, DB design and optimization, MS SQL Server/T-SQL, OOD/OOP, Visual C++, Visual Basic, C# RC, COM.
• The division quickly capitalized on being able to deliver customized software products to their regional clients with minimal time-to-market, as a result landing—and successfully fulfilling—two new, high-profile contracts.
• Joined SunGard, Professional Services as a Senior Technical Consultant.
• Worked with a number of prominent Nordic clients within the financial sector (e.g., Unibank and Merita Nordbanken (now Nordea), Bikuben (now Danske Bank), Danmarks Skibskredit, BRF Kredit, and SEB), engineering customer-specific solutions that complemented their traders well beyond the capabilities of any standard application suite.
• Conducted several on-site client training sessions covering code-based customization of data cubes and live-data pivot tables within SunGard's Panorama and Infinity trading and risk management suites and underlying data warehouses.
• Performance-optimized massive databases on-site, reducing crucial query execution time from minutes to milliseconds.
• Implemented various system/service and database integrations.
• Was temporarily working out of London as part of the SunGard, Europe development team.
• Skills and technologies used: Software architecture, DB design and optimization, MS SQL Server/T-SQL, OOD/OOP, Visual C++, Visual Basic, C# RC, COM.
1997 - 1998
job
Developer
Hans Tørsleff Management Systems.
• Initially worked in a QA capacity, introducing my developer colleagues to the core concepts of automated testing.
• Implemented extensive automated UI tests of two separate Windows applications. Coded regression tests in particular dramatically reduced the amount of bugs that made it into production code.
• Implemented suite of Word and Exchange Server VBA macros.
• Worked as developer on the company flagship application, TimeReg, stabilizing and optimizing it. After half a year, the application was effectively bug-free, rock-solid, and executed every user action in real time, even with the server under heavy load.
• Tutored the developer team in best-practice application of object-oriented design principles (e.g., SOLID) and design patterns, neither of which they had much experience with.
• Refactored parts of TimeReg to embody aforementioned principles and patterns, leading to faster turnaround rate with regards to new application features as well as generally improved maintainability and fewer dependency-related bugs in new code.
• Skills and technologies used: DB design and optimization, MS SQL Server/T-SQL, MS Access, OOD/OOP, Visual Basic, Visual Test, COM, MS Office integration, Exchange Server integration.
• Implemented extensive automated UI tests of two separate Windows applications. Coded regression tests in particular dramatically reduced the amount of bugs that made it into production code.
• Implemented suite of Word and Exchange Server VBA macros.
• Worked as developer on the company flagship application, TimeReg, stabilizing and optimizing it. After half a year, the application was effectively bug-free, rock-solid, and executed every user action in real time, even with the server under heavy load.
• Tutored the developer team in best-practice application of object-oriented design principles (e.g., SOLID) and design patterns, neither of which they had much experience with.
• Refactored parts of TimeReg to embody aforementioned principles and patterns, leading to faster turnaround rate with regards to new application features as well as generally improved maintainability and fewer dependency-related bugs in new code.
• Skills and technologies used: DB design and optimization, MS SQL Server/T-SQL, MS Access, OOD/OOP, Visual Basic, Visual Test, COM, MS Office integration, Exchange Server integration.
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