Bruce Gilham Jr.

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Momentum Investment Services

Ten click-once WinForms applications over WCF and SQL Server forming the back office for an investment business in seven countries, plus web reporting and a multi-currency operational system for gambling floors.

Years
2004–2012
Sector
Investment operations and casino floors
Role
Lead developer
Outcome
Shipped

What was wrong

An investment business operated from offices in Spain, London, Florida, Canada, Los Angeles, Costa Rica and South Carolina and had no common back office: accounting, reporting, dashboards and communications were all local.

What I built

Around ten Windows applications, accounting, reporting, dashboards and a custom chat system with full logging, deployed by click-once so every launch pulled the current version, driven throughout by web services. Also the web-based reporting for the group's poker site, and the operational system for gambling floors in three countries, converting every local-currency figure at the rate for the day it was played.

What happened in production

Designed, built and maintained the whole estate over eight years.

Stack

WinForms .NET ASP.NET WCF SQL Server ClickOnce
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