Mark James Price
Flat 3, Vetro Building, 20 Clere Street, London, EC2A 4LL, United Kingdom
E-mail: markjprice@msn.com, Mobile: 0752 592 6060, Home: 0207 250 4029

Introduction

I am a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with more than 15 years experience in the IT industry. 

I am passionate about learning new technologies like ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight and teaching them to others. I have excellent communication and team work skills.

I have trained thousands of programmers over the years, but I'm not just a teacher — I've also developed production applications for Exxon, Oxfam, the Department for Education and Employment and many other blue chip organizations.

I currently work as a freelance developer and trainer working primarily with Visual Studio (all versions), C# and Visual Basic, ASP.NET, AJAX, Expression Suite including Blend, Silverlight, and SQL Server. 

I am extremely adaptable and work well in organizations of varying sizes and cultures, from one (as a freelance trainer meeting new people every week) to 50,000+ (Microsoft Corp working in the same team for years).

Qualifications

I was an Early Achiever for the MCSD on Microsoft .NET qualification and one of the first 100 people worldwide to attain the new .NET 3.5 MCTS qualifications such as Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Workflow. 

I have achieved the highest qualifications for Enterprise, Windows, Web and SQL Server database developers (MCPD, MCITP) and I am an active MCT. My MCP Transcript lists the Microsoft certifications and 30+ exams that I have passed.

Work History

IT Trainer, self-employed
January 2006 - present

I currently provide developer training services to my clients in Europe and the US. Clients include: Firebrand Training, Verhoef US, Xpertise, QA-IQ, Global Knowledge, F1 Computing, PPI Training. In 2008 Microsoft employed me to teach a three-day Silverlight 1.0 training course in the CEE and MEA regions.

Student, Vancouver Film School
January 2005 - December 2005

During 2005 I took a sabbatical to pursue my interest in screenwriting. Today I am a member of several writer's groups and continue to write television pilots and feature scripts as a hobby.

IT Trainer & Technical Writer, self-employed
February 2003 - November 2004

I provided developer training services including .NET training boot camps for Hewlett Packard and Microsoft to get their developers passed the MCSD .NET exams. I also worked remotely for Microsoft on two projects: the first as a Subject Matter Expert in .NET and the second as a Technical Writer. 

Subject Matter Expert, Microsoft Corp
April 2001 - January 2003

I worked for Microsoft's Training and Certification group in Redmond, WA  writing code for demos and labs, and ensuring technical accuracy on the teams that produced the following Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courseware, used worldwide as the definitive source to teach Microsoft products:

• 2389: Programming with Microsoft ADO.NET
• 2663: Programming with XML in the Microsoft .NET Framework
• 2657: Programming Microsoft Access 2002

Early in 2003 I collaborated with the SQL Server Product Group to write lab exercises to give early adopter partners such as SAP hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2005, code-named "Yukon".

I also contributed to the following MOC courseware: 2565: Developing Microsoft .NET Applications for Windows (Visual Basic .NET), 2555: Developing Microsoft .NET Applications for Windows (Visual C# .NET), 2556: Developing Mobile Applications Using the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework, 2500: Introduction to XML and the Microsoft .NET Platform, 2717: Introduction to Microsoft .NET Development 

Reference: my manager, Dana Calleja: danaca@microsoft.com

Senior Developer, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP
October 1999 - March 2001

In 1999 I applied for an H-1B visa so that I could work full-time for a large organization in the US and gain experience and skills I could not if I remained in the UK. As a Senior Developer for Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, one of the top 20 law firms in the US, I was responsible for mentoring junior developers as well as leading the development efforts on the firm's intranet and customized Windows applications. I led the development of a custom intranet based on Microsoft technologies such as COM, ASP and SQL Server that integrated with an existing document management and billing system.

Reference: my manager, Glenn Rogers: glenn@asgcorp.us, +1-925-287-9458

IT Trainer & Consultant, Self-employed
June 1995 - September 1999

I provided development and training services to my clients who included national and local government, large and small businesses, charities, and major training companies. I consulted and developed Visual Basic, Microsoft Access and Microsoft Office applications for Barclays Bank, Ford Motor Company, Department of Education, Department of Defense, Westdeutsche Landes Bank, Esso Engineering (Exxon), and many more. I ran developer training classes for most of the larger training companies in the UK including Azlan, Barefoot, Comtec, Prince, SHX, and many more. Most classes were on Microsoft Visual Basic (version 3.0 to 6.0) but I also taught Microsoft Office Development, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual InterDev, and Windows Architecture and Solution Design. 

Training Consultant, SHX plc
May 1993 - May 1995

After graduating from university I worked for two years for SHX plc of Abingdon, Oxfordshire. I had responsibility for writing training materials, running training courses, and doing systems analysis and implementation of development projects for clients, primarily using Microsoft Access and Microsoft Visual Basic.

Education

University (1990-1993)

I studied Computer Science for three years at the University of Bristol in the UK and earned an Honours Degree in the summer of 1993.

High School (1983-1990)

At Bishop Wordworth's School in Salisbury, Wiltshire, I passed nine GCSE exams in 1988 at grades A-C and three "A" Level exams in 1990: Mathematics (B), Chemistry (B), Physics (C).