Bruce Gilham Jr.

All work · Media & entertainment

Fox Networks

A Silverlight application for the advertising side of the network, managing and scheduling the advertisements that go to air.

Years
2010–2011
Sector
Broadcast advertising
Role
Developer
Outcome
Ended

What was wrong

The network's advertising operation needed a tool to manage and schedule the spots going to air.

What I built

The Silverlight application that did it.

What happened in production

The engagement ended when the position was cut in a round of downsizing.

Stack

Silverlight C# .NET
Running something like this? What I do about Silverlight

Have a system like this one?

Tell me what it does, what it is written in, and what breaks when it goes down. I will say plainly whether I can help and how I would approach it.

Tell me what it runs on

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Thirteen years as sole developer for a right-of-way appraisal firm: an operating system built inside Lotus Notes, then rebuilt on Silverlight and again on LightSwitch as each was discontinued, ending as Esri-backed cloud sites over SQL Server.

Silverlight LightSwitch Lotus Notes C# .NET SQL Server Lotus Notes / Domino