Emma Harris BSc (Hons)

I learnt to program in Turbo Pascal and subsequently Delphi versions 3 through to X, during which I learnt important lessons, about the benefits of pushing my knowledge and clean code. Whilst today I would approach the configurable application that I created whilst at Torex Radiology Systems differently, there are a few things that I would do the same, and have guided me subsequently. Since 2016 I have specialised in C# (.NET Framework & .NET Core) web development.

Whilst I was at Gardiner Bros (see below) I worked on processing several hundred images, from Azure Blob storage, in resizing them (using a third-party library). Initially, the process was taking 8 hours on my development laptop. After about 2 days of development, I got the process down to 1 hour on the same laptop (an 800% or 8x improvement!). Due to restrictions placed on me it was not possible to fully utilize Azure resources to process the images.

During my time at EcoOnline I identified a bottle neck in the support process where it would take two or three minutes to find certain information out. I designed a portal that retrieved this information and reduced the time it took to retrieve this information to mere seconds.

I am currently rewriting a web application that tracks my job applications and working on another web application that catalogues applications and the infrastructure that they require. Both web applications use C# .NET MVC, jQuery and Bootstrap with a SQL Server backend.

Summary of Accomplishments:

These are using .NET Framework unless otherwise specified.

• Two days of coding effort by me resulted in an 800% reduction in bulk image processing.
• Created a JavaScript class to wrap JQuery Ajax requests. Source
• In the process of creating a library to access different SQL Databases in an agnostic manner.
• To help reduce costs, I rewrote a service that was being run in Azure into a T-SQL stored procedure
• Created a library in C# Core to calculate holidays based on a set of rules, summary of functionality (see here):
  • Calculates holidays or notable dates for a specific year or years
  • Checks to see if a give date is a holiday
  • Calculates Easter (based on a third-party formula) and the religious or notable dates that are based around Easter
  • Allows holiday dates to be adjusted that land on a weekend
  • Allows holidays to be adjusted in the future
  • Non region specific
  • Calculates dates based on the nth weekday of the month, for example the 1st or last Monday of the month
• Created a portal to track fuel consumption of my car
• Creating a web application to catalogue applications and the required infrastructure

Links

Code samples:

• Encryption Wrapper around C# .NET API
• Library to calculate Holidays

• SQL Server, including using T-SQL to create stored procedures, functions, types, rudimentary administration, DDL and DML
• C# .NET, ASP.NET, including JSON serialisation of settings (my preferred method of storing settings in a file) since 2017, prior to 2017 I specialised in Delphi
• JavaScript, JSON using JQuery and Bootstrap to manipulate and style web pages
• Continual development of skills
• Can use either Git or TFS for source control, and have used Perforce in the past
• Worked using agile principles and waterfall principles
• I have worked collaboratively with my colleagues
• Have in the past used:
  • Azure deployment slots
  • Octopus to deploy code

• Church Bell Ringing
• Wood Turning
• Volunteered as part of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games and other sporting events as a result.