Nic Wise is grey haired software developer from New Zealand, living in London, UK. He is a freelance contractor, and has recently worked at BBC Worldwide on a redevelopment of the Top Gear website and a redevelopment of the bbc.co.uk homepage. He’s usually considered an architect, despite the connotations of that title.
Nic has another alter-ego: Big Ted Ltd, purveyor of fine iPhone apps.
He has worked on many projects over his 15+ years in the industry, including point-of-sale systems, warehouse management systems, web-based applications, hand-held mobile applications, enterprise messaging applications, high volume web sites and most things in between. Previous employers include:
- Glazier Systems Auckland (now Intergen)
- Borland New Zealand
- Orbiz International
- AfterMail.
- Quest Software.
- BBC Worldwide
- ComArchive
He was a Microsoft MVP from 2003 thru 2007, with a specialty in the .NET field, and holds a BTech(IT) from the University of Auckland and MCP qualifications in SQL Server and ASP.NET.
Nic’s CV is available on request, however most of this information can be found on his LinkedIn profile or his StackOverflow profile. Both are pretty up-to-date and accurate.
Nic has experience in a wide range of areas, including:
- Application design and architecture
- .NET development (web, windows forms, services etc)
- BizTalk
- Agile processes(Scrum, XP)
- Object-Relational Mapping (NHibernate)
- Sound development practices – Continuous Integration; Source Control; Automation, XP/Scrum
If you wish to contact Nic, please feel free to do so. He blogs here, and also Twitters as fastchicken.