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Ropley Information Technology Ltd. is an independent one-person software consultancy firm specialising in
object-oriented requirements modelling, analysis and design, both for
conventional and agile processes. We also have extensive practical commercial experience in
modern .NET application development. Details about the principal director of the company follow below:
Work Information
Related Web resources
Contact Information
Current Projects
Personal Interests
Work
Information
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
here
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.
The course exercises and specimen solutions for an example enterprise Web site using ASP.NET may be obtained as a zip file by clicking
here.
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) 797 400 8224
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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.
The Wessex Area Laverda Owners' Club pages are accessible through
this
link.
Main application server Terminal Server connection.
Main application server FTP
Server connection.
Main application server Web
Server connection.
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Last Revised: April 2008