Nic Wise is grey haired software developer from New Zealand, living in London, UK. He is a freelance contractor, and has worked at BBC Worldwide on a redevelopment of the Top Gear website and a redevelopment of the bbc.co.uk homepage. He’s currently at Universal Music, working in various artist-related websites.

He’s usually considered an architect, despite the connotations of that title.

Nic has another alter-ego: Big Ted Ltd, purveyor of fine iPhone apps including Nearest Bus, Mobile Agent (for FreeAgent), London Bike App, Trip Wallet and Tweetlightning.

He has worked on many projects over his 15+ years in the industry, including point-of-sale systems, warehouse management systems, web-based applications, hand-held mobile applications, enterprise messaging applications, high volume web sites and most things in between. Previous employers include:

• Glazier Systems Auckland (now Intergen)
• Borland New Zealand
• Orbiz International
• AfterMail.
• Quest Software.
• BBC Worldwide
• ComArchive
• The Prince’s Charities (Start)
• Universal Music

He was a Microsoft MVP from 2003 thru 2007, with a specialty in the .NET field, and holds a BTech(IT) from the University of Auckland and MCP qualifications in SQL Server and ASP.NET.

Nic’s CV is available on request, however most of this information can be found on his StackOverflow profile. Both are pretty up-to-date and accurate. He occasionally puts code up on GitHub.

Nic has experience in a wide range of areas, including:

• Application design and architecture
• .NET development (web, windows forms, services etc)
• Mobile development – web and iOS (MonoTouch)
• Agile processes(Scrum, XP)
• Object-Relational Mapping (NHibernate)
• Sound development practices – Continuous Integration; Source Control; Automation, XP/Scrum

If you wish to contact Nic, please feel free to do so. He blogs here, and also Tweets as fastchicken.