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Kevin Bluer

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Kevin Bluer

Application Development Manager at MTV Networks
Information Technology and Services | Greater New York City Area, US

Summary

Kevin Bluer is an I.T. professional with substantial development, design, project management and consultative experience. From 1999-2004 he worked with Microsoft on projects including enterprise portals, content-managed systems, and bespoke, in-house applications. As a senior developer within a number of large and small organizations, he has overseen the development, support and evolution of a series of business critical systems. Companies and clients with whom Kevin has worked with include JP Morgan Chase, Deloitte, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Land Securities, De Beers, the UK government, and most recently MTV Networks.
Specialties: SharePoint, Microsoft .NET, web development, enterprise portals, document and content management systems, business analysis, specification writing

Experience

  • May 2009 - Present

    Application Development Manager / MTV Networks

  • Oct 2008 - Apr 2009

    Senior Architect, Manager Level / Cognizant Technology Solutions

    This role was entirely onsite at JP Morgan Chase in New York City, working on the migration from Lotus Notes to MOSS, ASP.NET and Exchange from both a technical and delivery perspective. The project involved the migration over 100 Notes databases (applications) spanning a range of types including libraries, calendaring, alerting, mailing, as well as completely bespoke. A large offshore team was used for a percentage of the development and as such the role involved the management, coordination and delivery from the various locations and resources. Additional activities included daily client interactions, collation and delivery of reports, and information gathering from across the organization.
  • Aug 2006 - Apr 2008

    Senior Developer / The Royal Bank of Scotland - Global Banking and Markets

    Initially brought in as a Microsoft .NET developer in the Global Banking and Markets division. Subsequently joined the Project Server and SharePoint roll-out team after completion of the initial contract. Involved in the entire lifecycle from requirements capture, planning, deployment and ongoing customisation and evolution of the solution. Technologies used within the role included MOSS, Microsoft Project Server 2007, Windows Forms, ASP.NET (C#), SQL Server 2005 (including Reporting Services) and Visual Basic for Applications.
  • May 2005 - Jul 2006

    Co-founder and Senior Consultant / Concentra Consulting Ltd

    Typical projects during this role included a wide variety of web-based .NET applications that ranged from one to six months in duration. The role would typically cover the entire development lifecycle from requirements gathering and functional specification writing, through to development and testing. Ongoing support for the applications and solutions was also fundamental
  • Dec 2004 - May 2005

    .NET and SharePoint Consultant (Contract) / Ratio One

    - Primarily a Microsoft SharePoint and .NET orientated contract but development included SQL Server 2000, K2, Active Directory and general web-application development - Primarily role required the me to be onsite with clients whom included Diamond Trading Company (De Beers), UK Sport, South West London Strategic Health Authority, Kroll OnTrack
  • Aug 2004 - Dec 2004

    .NET and SharePoint Consultant (Contract) / Land Securities

    - The projects primary goal was the replacement of the existing company-wide Intranet supporting approximately 2,000 people across the geographically dispersed business. The initial phase of the project began with the Intranet replacement which took approximately 3 months. Beyond this the focus turned to the development of an Extranet portal that Land Securities began trialling with some of their larger clients - The Intranet solution was based entirely on Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and included wide range of bespoke web parts written in C# and custom ASP.NET-based applications that were integrated into the portal interface - The role also included the carrying out of a series of in-house training sessions on both the .NET Framework and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies
  • Jul 2004 - Aug 2004

    Senior Developer (Contract) / Avanade UK

    This role was based onsite at O2 and included working as part of a large development team creating a company-wide HR suite to replace the legacy PeopleSoft system. Work units were typically provided by a team of dedicated Business Analysts against a set of predefined Use Cases
  • Feb 2004 - Jul 2004

    Partner Website Manager / Microsoft UK Ltd

    - This highly visible role centred on the management of Microsoft UK external Partner website from an infrastructure, development and editorial perspective. It involved working a number of US based teams during the roll-out of global applications that impacted the UK, as well as managing relationships with a number of MicrosoftÂ’s external suppliers - Typical technologies used included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, Microsoft Content Management Server 2002, and a number of in-house source control and management systems

Education

  • 1997 - 2001

    The University of Reading

    2:1 in Applied Computer Science
    Activities: President of the University Skydive Club

  • Columbia University in the City of New York

    TBD in Executive Master of Science in Technology Management

Additional information

Websites:
My Website, My Company
Honors:
MCTS: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Configuration MCP: C#.NET 2.0 Web-based Application Development
Interests:
I am into a range of activities including running, snowboarding, music creation, technology and (trying) to learn new languages. I have travelled extensively including much of Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas.
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