Richard Grant

Application Developer

Experience

Richard has strong problem-solving skills with an analytical approach to scheduling tasks. Richard has spent 20+ years in the Taranaki ICT sector working predominantly in Petro-Chemical and Energy roles.

With a friendly personality, excellent communication and organisation skills, Richard commits everything to every project to ensure it is successful.

Richard maintains a high level of expertise in current development practises.

His most recent projects include .NET 8.0 Full stack Blazor Apps hosted in Azure. Other projects include a .NET Core Blazor application with VoIP capabilities to call phones for hotel wakeup alarms.

After completing his Diploma of IT (Object Orientated Analysis Design and Programming) at TAFE Sydney, Richard has worked as an Application Developer with a number of Development Houses.

Adapting knowledge from previous roles, Richard combines his practical business experience with his software development skills to produce software applications and tools that produce results using the latest technologies.

Application Development

Richard has a broad in-depth knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle. He is an advocate and practitioner of the Agile approach to developing software, ensuring software systems are delivered on time and fulfil the identified business needs.

Web Technologies

Richard has strong credentials in Web-related tools, technologies and techniques. He has been responsible for design, development and deployment of successful Petro-Chemical and Energy applications.

Recent Experience - Projects

Asset Tags (.NET 8 Blazor/Azure)
Cost Savings Initiative App. (.NET 6 Blazor/Azure)
CO2 Loadout (.NET 6 Blazor/Azure)
Project Information Tracking Tool (Blazor/.NET 5/Azure)
Hotel Wakeup Caller. .NET Core Blazor application with VoIP capabilities

Older Projects

OnGas Project Management Application.
Tools Booking Calendar.
Decision Note. A Change Management spinoff.
Traffic Management.Number plate recognition system.
Alarms Management System
Instructional Blog of how to use KendoUI Master-Detail grids in a .NET Core 2 Web App. Link here
Modifications to a Software Change Management System
Modifications to an existing LAB Web App
PI to Maximo integration
Batch Printing application integrating with Maximo
Oracle to SQL Server Conversion for major application
Report Annotations application
LIM – Lab Information Management and Scheduling application
Mighty River Power B2B Application for Disconnections and Reconnections for Wells Electrical.
Service Provider Application (Web/Mobile application)
Improvements Register for project prioritisation (Windows Client application)
(GIS integration) GAS / Electricity Works Management System

Skills

Software Development Techologies

C#.NET, Blazor Apps, MVC, Unit Testing, SharePoint, ASP.NET, Silverlight, MVVM, Web Development, Web Services, Windows Communication Foundation, HTML, HTML5, JQuery, SQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, PHP, MS Access, VB for Office, Powershell

Work History

Developer/Director CodePro, since 2014
Gen-i Taranaki, 10 years
LansNZ, 3 years