Portfolio

Recent Technologies

  • Microsoft

    • Azure cloud development and hosting
    • C# on .net framework 3.5 through to net 6
    • ASP.Net MVC versions 1-5 for websites, .NET core 5 and 6
    • SQL Server 2005-2019
    • F# and modern functional techniques
    • Windows Communication Framework, LINQ to objects, LINQ to SQL
    • Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 customisation and web services
  • Mobile

    • iPhone and iPad application development (Objective-C and Xamarin C#)
    • Android app development (Java and Kotlin)
  • Other

    • Java 6, 7, and 8
    • Oracle 9, 10i and 11g database
    • Ruby on Rails website development
    • Borland Delphi development

Recent Projects

  • Current Projects and Work in Progress

    Please see our Blog for information on our most recent work.

  • Define – RX Info

    A suite of products for Rx-info pulling data from hospitals across the UK and allowing the monitoring and reporting of medicine stock across the NHS.

    We support thousands of users viewing data from over 400 hosptials, with data collected every day, heavily used in managing the Covid-19 treatment and vaccine programs within the NHS

    Key technologies:

    • C# .NET 6.0 using Asp.Net core
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2019
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    More details can be found on the RX website

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    Key technologies:

    • C# .NET 6.0
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005
  • Enhanced Desktop – South West Water

    The Enhanced Desktop project was part of a large 2 year long push at SWW to improve efficiencies in customer service, named 'Service Plus'.

    Concept First was contracted to be technical lead on the project. We designed the system, and with help from a number of other developers successfully rolled it out after 6 months of work. It integrates with a number of their current technical systems including mapping, billing and enterprise resource planning.

    The software is currently is use not only in the Call Centre at South West Water, but also in the ‘Service Centre’. It speeds up work for the 100 call handlers, and provides management information and visibility of SLAs to the service centre so they can better manage their resources and priorities.

    Key technologies:

    • Microsoft .NET (both Winforms and ASP.net, VB.net and C#)
    • Oracle 10i spatial
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    Key technologies:

    • Microsoft .NET (both Winforms and ASP.net, VB.net and C#)
    • Oracle 10i spatial
  • Report RX – RX Info

    Concept First were contracted by a local Pharmacy/Healthcare startup to write an application for hospitals and surgeries to report and monitor on their spend on drugs.

    The application pulls prescription information out of a legacy database system, transforms and summarises it into a SQL Server database. Allowing users to easily see prescription behaviour and drug spending, drilling down and filtering using many different characteristics of the data.

    Key technologies:

    • Microsoft .NET (VB.net)
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005
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    Key technologies:

    • Microsoft .NET (VB.net)
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005
  • MiradorCM – Mirador Software

    We were approached by Mirador Software, a company specialising in the analytical modelling of computer scalability and performance.

    They were building a new product to integrate with the Hewlett Packard Openview platform. They provided the theory, and we wrote the software for them, over 18 months, working closely with HP to interface with their range of management software.

    The software allows users very quickly to capture, view and model the performance of their computer systems inline with the ITIL recommendations for Capacity Management

    Key technologies:

    • Borland Delphi 2006
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005
    • HP Performance Manager
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    Key technologies:

    • Borland Delphi 2006
    • Microsoft SQL Server 2005
    • HP Performance Manager
  • Geospatial – Internal mapping project

    An internal research and development project to push the limits of the current mapping platforms, predominately Google maps.

    The application can we seen here. We show dynamic loading of content based on the view, and real time clustering to maximise usability of lots of data. Hopefully it may even save a few people from traffic jams!

    Key technologies:

    • Rails web development
    • PostgreSQL database with GIS
    • BBC Webservices for traffic information
    • iPhone dedicated client application
    Geospatial Screenshot Geospatial Screenshot

    Key technologies:

    • Rails web development
    • PostgreSQL database with GIS
    • BBC Webservices for traffic information
    • iPhone dedicated client application
  • Previous Projects

    This is just a collection of screen grabs from various of our projects we've done over the years.

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