Richard Wilburn

Current

Software Developer/Analyst at Datacom Employeer Services

Past

Student at Massey University
Customer Services General Assistant at Massey University
Help Desk Analyst at Massey University

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Education

Massey University
Massey University

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Information Technology and Services

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Richard Wilburn’s Summary

Currently I have a very broad area of experience. While I have enjoyed the flexibility of change in working for Massey University, I am looking foward to becoming more specialist.

The area in which I want to specialize is in plugin development with .NET because it is a challenging area architectually, however the potential reward is greater as a solution isn't being made from scratch .

I also would like to become Microsoft Certified by getting my Microsoft Certified Solutions Architect (MCSA).

Richard Wilburn’s Specialties:

.NET (specifically c#)
Business Process optimization and alignment with IT.
Visual Studio Plugin Development experience.
Web (asp/php/js/xml/apache/iis/silverlight/java applet) experience.

Richard Wilburn’s Experience

Software Developer/Analyst

Datacom Employeer Services

(Accounting industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Working on making payroll software.
Student

Massey University

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2003 — February 2008 (5 years 1 month)

I was a tutor for part of my study at the University. I tutored 200 level computer science students.

My study included:

Bachelor of Engineering major in Software
Masterate in Science
Customer Services General Assistant

Massey University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — December 2007 (2 years )

Web Site Design.
Aligning IT to Business Requirements in conformance with the Service Catelogue.
Spent 2 weeks in the workshop, dealing as tier 2 support in Hardware.
Construnction of Diagrams of current and optimized business processes using Visio.
Worked closely with Help Desk Team Leader for confirmation of Business Processes.
I gave a number of Project Proposals in this postion. That led to the next job in the Applications development team. As CS General Assistant I had a high variance of work as I had a proven record of being able to handle many different areas with the department as they required me.
Help Desk Analyst

Massey University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 9 months)

Responsible to Help Desk Team Leader.
Spent 2 Weeks As Tier 2 support (consultant)
Web Site Design.
Answering Phone Calls.
Answering Reception.
Answering Email.
Job Escalation.

Richard Wilburn’s Education

Massey University

BEng & M.Sc , Software Engineering , 2003 — 2008

More information on the Masters Thesis:

The resulting output of the research has led to 2 Visual Studio plugins. An exciting feature of the final product is that it allows for events to be totally decoupled from the User Interface. Products such as Microsoft Expression Blend are examples that suggest that User Interfaces are being made by graphic designers rather than programmers. Another intersting note is that with .NET 3.5 and the development of LINQ (Language Integrated Query), there is a trend towards more self aware applications. This has been along time coming with the advances in aspect oriented programming. As previously mentioned I stated that the UI was decoupled from the event logic behind, but I negelected to mention that instead of offering to handle events from a single source, I handle events based on a query expression saying where the source of the event was.

Thesis avaliable at: http://www.codeplex.com/eventabstractionapi

Activities and Societies:

Did a 4 Year Bachelor of Engineering Honors Degree with honors majoring in Software Engineering. Completed a Masterate in Science, investigating extending traditional event handling practices by a more abstract method using event alegbras.The project utilized the third party tools: R2ML & NVelocity and required the use of .NET 3.0 .
Massey University

Engineering , Software , 2003 — 2008