About Ropley IT Ltd
Ropley Information Technology Ltd. is an independent software consultancy firm
wholly owned by a single director. The company specialises in
object-oriented requirements modelling, analysis and design, both for
conventional and agile processes. The company also has extensive practical commercial experience in
modern .NET application development. Details about the director of the company follow below:
Work Information
Name and DOB
Sean D Smith, 6 Aug 1957
Job title
Independent software development consultant and chartered engineer
Professional and
other qualifications
BSc PhD C.Eng, MIET
Key areas of
expertise
Provision of consulting and contract services to software houses and
telecommunications/electronics companies. Particular areas of expertise are:
- Object-oriented analysis and design, Unified
Process based methods, systems modelling with UML.
- Agile software development using XP and Scrum based methodologies.
- Windows application development, especially: systems and
network programming using C++, C# and VB.NET
- Multi-tier web site and Web service development using ASP.NET technology, WCF,
XML and .NET Web Services
- Office automation applications using .NET and WPF
- Professional C#, C++, Java and assembler
programming experience
- Highly experienced lecturer/instructor/course
author, responsible for several courses offered by Learning Tree
International Ltd.
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Related Web Resources
The demonstration software for the Learning Tree International course 323 on
Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML may be found by downloading the file
323xmpl.zip
The Use Case Editor, a tool for capturing and organising use cases using an
automated document template and use case diagram generator is available for
download as
uceditor.zip
The course exercises and specimen solutions for Learning Tree course 302 on
Win32 Systems and Network Programming may be obtained by downloading the file
cse302.zip
Some course exercises and specimen solutions for an example enterprise
Web site using ASP.NET may be obtained by downloading the zip file
cse506.zip
Assorted sample programs for the .NET Framework can be obtained by
downloading the file
DotNETSamples.zip
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Contact Information
Electronic mail address: sdsmith@ropley.com
Web address: http://www.ropley.com/
Business phone (Mobile): (+44) 7772 309174
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Current Learning Tree Attachments
Contracts with Learning
Tree International
- Course author for
Course
323: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UML
- Active instructor for software engineering courses on:
Object Oriented Analysis and Design with UML; Gathering User Requirements; Agile
Software Development and Business Modelling
- Active instructor for software development courses: C# and C++ programming; ASP.NET
enterprise web-site development; WCF and XML Web service development
- Technical Editor for courses 218 "User Software Requirements",
and 419 "Hands-on introduction to C#"
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Personal Interests and Links to Company Application Servers
Primary interests are in change-ringing and church music/pipe organs.
Ringing resources include the ERIL program,
that enables compositions to be proven or sought. See the links off the Eril menu
selection at the top of this page.
Main application server Terminal Server connection.
Main application server FTP
Server connection.
Main application server Web
Server connection.
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Last Revised: Feb 2009