Ross McNichol

I am a Solutions Architect

Ross McNichol

A hands-on IT Manager and .NET solutions architect developing desktop apps with WPF, web apps with Aurelia, and mobile apps with Xamarin. Sometimes I have found it difficult to find solutions to enterprise development patterns and solutions. This blog shares some of my favourite solutions to some difficult problems and elegant solutions I have found over the years

My Professional Skills

Broad skills are listed below, most of my software development revolves around the Microsoft platform. C# is my specialty mixing in a bunch of other things like T-SQL, XAML, Typescript, HTML, CSS to get the job done

Web Development 70%

Mobile Development 75%

Desktop development 90%

Server Side Developer 99%

Aurelia Web Development

Aurelia is an elegant componentised SPA framework by Rob Eisenberg who also created Caliburn Micro which I have been using for many years. I have only been using it since late 2016 but it has worked really well for us

Xamarin/WPF desktop application development

More of a hobby at the moment and a way to contribute to the Caliburn micro project on GitHub. I have created the samples for WPF, UWP and Xamarin for official Caliburn micro GitHub repository

MS-SQL, Sqlite Database Development

I have been developing against SQL databases since 2005 and have a plenty of practice with designing building and tuning them. I have recently started using SQlite for integration testing in .NET applications

Solutions Architecture

Being involved in SMB's for my entire career I have had the opportunity to create multiple architectures to suit various needs. I take a great deal of pride in being able to discuss a business need and being able to confidently propose a solution that has a high probability of success

IT management

I am a pretty easy going and understanding manager, but I do expect a personal drive, innovation and results from my staff

Quality Assurance

I have developed over the years a comprehensive and proven quality assurance patterns. I have patterns for unit, integration, functional and manual testing to bring software solutions to their highest quality

years developing

years managing

completed major projects

current projects