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While there have been many highlights in my career I find two things particularly outstanding. 1) The opportunity to work with fantastic people. Working at the BBC has introduced me to vast numbers of really smart people who want to do amazing things. It has been inspiring and exciting to work with them and be a part of what is happening there. 2) Creating great software.Whenever I get the opportunity to take a business problem and design a solution that meets that need I get quite excited. It is challenging and often difficult but very rewarding to see something I created being used to either help people or fix a business process. A selection of rewarding projects: SPIN - BBC Worldwide An application to collate sales forecasts globally and collate that into reports used to make investment decisions - a huge time saver from the old system and a real hit with users. Glue - Universal Music Group An asset discovery tool that allows marketing users to create both digital and physica

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While there have been many highlights in my career I find two things particularly outstanding. 1) The opportunity to work with fantastic people. Working at the BBC has introduced me to vast numbers of really smart people who want to do amazing things. It has been inspiring and exciting to work with them and be a part of what is happening there. 2) Creating great software.Whenever I get the opportunity to take a business problem and design a solution that meets that need I get quite excited. It is challenging and often difficult but very rewarding to see something I created being used to either help people or fix a business process. A selection of rewarding projects: SPIN - BBC Worldwide An application to collate sales forecasts globally and collate that into reports used to make investment decisions - a huge time saver from the old system and a real hit with users. Glue - Universal Music Group An asset discovery tool that allows marketing users to create both digital and physica

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.NETASPASP.NETAsp.net MVCCC#CucumberDesignHTMLJavaJavaScriptMarketingMicrosoft SQL ServerMusicMVCPythonReportsSalesSoftware DesignSQLTestingVideo

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  • Marek_Nelken says,

    Derek is an excellent Ruby programmer, web designer and systems analyst. He built a great system, quickly, to spec and with an extensive test suite to ensure that everything worked perfectly. He went beyond the initial requirements and developed a back-end using MongoDB and was polite, helpful and effective throughout the project. I would thoroughly recommend Derek's skills and services to anyone who wants a great job done well.

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