My current Position as a Dynamics NAV Contract Developer with a Reseller in Surrey finished at the end of May 2009, after running for 6 Months.
The last two contracts covered 33 months included 27 months in the City of London, this contract started out as a two month contract, for a city based medium sized Microsoft Gold Reseller of Dynamics, my role was as an office based Dynamics NAV developer/consultant, the reseller also had other consultants that carried out some development, with the customer base being quite diverse.
There were several large projects and many smaller projects, one of the larger projects being for an international multi site company, that have been using Navision for day to day transactions, after a buy-out by an international company the main consolidation accounting for the group was moving to G-SAP, the requested interfaces were to be done under Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance.
The SAP developers and databases were not in the UK but in Europe, the client project lead was in the US, my role was as lead developer to communicate with the different parties at a functional level and produce the Navision Interfaces and test files, turning the requirement into reality, there were many differences in what Navision could deliver and SAP could accept, and some extra changes were agreed as the project progressed, these required my in-depth understanding of Navision at a function and data level, also having an understanding the data structure required by SAP.
The development was carried out over three months and the system went live over the Christmas period, this meant that all Customers, Vendor, General Ledger static, historic and transactional data was exported for G-SAP, all Navision development and testing was carried out remotely from the UK, this Implementation went smoothly without any need for a roll back or any show stopping errors, and little ongoing support.
Another major project was a rolling project with the client driving the requirements in different phases, this project included adding new functions and features to thirteen county specific databases as well as two consolidated databases, a lot of the changes were to control the data to enable a group wide solution and central consolidation in Euro and USD Currencies.
My role in this project as lead developer was to communicate with the project lead and end client to how the requirements could be meet by Navision, quite often finding myself as the solution architect.
My main skills are in rapid development with a strong depth of knowledge of Navision at the business logic and GUI layers, working with Dynamics NAV and producing functional consistent interfaces, I have abilities to take a project through its full cycle and can offer input at all stages of a project from conception to completion.
I would like to hear from resellers or end users looking for contract resource to see if we can work together, short or long term, full or part-time positions, feel free to phone for an informal chat, you may also email or site mail me, the about page on my website has my current CV posted.
David
