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About Chris Cavanagh

Top Coder Competition Ranking
# 315 of 50,772

Raw Score Total: 9,000.00

Name:	Chris Cavanagh (see 2 ratings)
	in Stockport, Cheshire United Kingdom
Seller / Coder Rating:	10 (Excellent)
Sign up date:	Oct 19, 2002 6:05:25 PM EDT
Last Logged In:	Aug 10, 2003 6:28:37 PM EDT
Jobs Started:	3
Jobs Completed:	3
Missed Status Report Warnings Issued:	0
Arbitrations Lost:	0 (out of 0 Arbitrations) What is arbitration?

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Areas Of Expertise:

Languages / frameworks
- .NET CLR (C#, VB.NET, J#.NET, JScript.NET)
- Visual C++ 6
- Visual Basic 6
- Delphi
- JScript, VBScript + VBA
- Windows Installer custom actions (Installshield, VS Installer)
Web
- Secure portals (with or without SSL)
- Web-based challenge/response authentication
- Data collection and analysis applications
- Mobile applications
- Web-enabling existing applications / services
Data
- Database schema design
- SQL Server 7 and 2000 (including triggers, views and high-performance stored procedures)
- OLEDB, ADO and ADO.NET
Graphics / multimedia
- DirectX 8.2 (including Direct3D, DirectShow and Video Mixing Renderer)
Platforms
- Windows XP, 2000, .NET Server, NT4, 9x
- Windows CE (PocketPC)
Further technical expertise
- C++ ATL COM, including aggregation and IDispatch delegation
- In-process and out-of-process COM servers, including singletons
- Threading models and thread safety
- .NET web services and applications
- Intranet / LAN remoting with DCOM and .NET
- Application of digest hash algorithms (in .NET, C++ and JScript)
- .NET COM interop and P/Invoke

Resume:

I'm an accomplished software architect and developer with 17 years commercial experience. Right now I'm Lead Developer on a consumer demand modelling system, in use by major retail and gas multinationals.

I've a huge amount of experience in technologies old and new, and can apply myself to anything. Lately I've been designing and developing for MS platforms with .NET, but some of the things I know about COM+ could make Don Box blush (maybe!).

I understand the importance of good design in software. Rest assured any coding I do will be accompanied by a design overview, clear comments and no nasty bugs.

I'm motivated, innovative and efficient; and not just at coding! Feel free to leverage my architecture / design expertise too.

Top Coder Competition Raw Score

Average Job Size		Average Coder Rating		Number of Completed Jobs		Penalty for Missed Status Reports Warnings *
$300.00	x	10	x	3	-	(0 warnings x 1000 penalty) = 0
Raw Score Total: 9,000 * Penalty rule enacted on 10/8/2001 and applies only to warnings sent after that date. Note: all top coder competition stats are only updated once a day between midnight and 1:00 EDT.

Rent A Coder Work History

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	Rated For	Rated By	Rating	Bid Amount	Rated On
	.NET Messaging Web Service	QUIET	10 (Excellent)	$250.00	December 14, 2002 7:54:15 AM EDT
	Chris did a supurb job, often improving the design and has written a very clean system for me. I would (and plan to) use Chris often in the future.

	Bonus for exceeding expectations. 11/16/2002 4:18:36 PM	BTR	None Given	$50.00	November 16, 2002 4:23:46 PM EDT


	online xml editor/ web page generator	BTR	10 (Excellent)	$600.00	November 16, 2002 4:17:30 PM EDT
	My first experience on RAC could not have been better. He was the man for the job. His responsiveness, experience and commitment was beyond the most optimistic of expectations. I plan to work with him in the future.

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Average:				10.00