Consultancy Work

Mark Bleasdale Consulting Ltd. has 12+ years combined experience in software development, network setups, software architecture, websites and quality assurance testing.

We are available for consultancy work, with quick turn around on all our work. Our hourly fees changed dependent on the type of work, as shown below:

• Off-site web design = £20 per hour
• On-site web design = £25 per hour
• Off-site software development (e.g. C++) = £30 per hour
• On-site software development (e.g. C++) = £45 per hour
• On-site training and consultancy = £60 per hour

We pride ourselves on tailoring our services for any size of business.

Here is a brief summary of our technical skills:

• C/C++(10 years experience in design, architecture and implementation)
• Win32 API including NT Services (10 years experience)
• Multithreaded Win32 development (10 years experience)
• ATL COM/DCOM (5 years)
• ATL/STL (for GUI apps) - (4 years)
• Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) (4 years)
• Visual Basic (2 years)
• Active Server Pages (including ATL ASP components) (3 years)
• PHP/MySQL (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) (1 year)
• Apache Web Server configuration and development on (3 years)
• HTML/DHTML/CSS/XML (4 years)
• ActiveX controls (2 years)
• Visual SourceSafe (5 years)
• Object Oriented Analysis and Design using UML (2 years)
• TCP/IP sockets (Winsock and Berkeley) (5 years)
• Development of a BIO for OpenSSL (specifically async Winsock BIO)
• OpenAL development (6 months)
• Firewalls (5 years)
• Virtual Private Networks (L2TP, IPSec, PPTP) (5 years)
• Network security configuration (5 years)
• Network Router configuration (5 years)
• Operating Systems: Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/98/95, Linux (Fedora), FreeBSD, Sun Solaris, Terminal Services
• Embedded Operating Systems: NT-Embedded, XP-Embedded (4 years)
• Windows NT/2000/XP Device Drivers (9 months)

Here is a brief summary of our management skills:

• Team Leading
• Project Planning
• Software Quality Assurance Testing