Stephen Lockley
Director at Northumbria University
Alnwick, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Lockley is a director and veteran researcher with over 30 years of experience delivering cloud-based BIM and construction-sector IT solutions, combining academic leadership with commercial productisation. He co-founded the BIM Academy and Xbim Ltd, authored the original Xbim toolkit that underpins many IFC/BIM applications, and now leads development of the workflow-driven BimPress product suite. His career spans senior R&D and professorial roles at Newcastle and Northumbria Universities, RIBA Enterprises and the BIM Academy, where he led numerous UK and EU-funded research programmes. Hands-on in both front-end and back-end code, his open-source contributions include significant work on Xbim’s Windows UI and core IFC libraries, addressing geometry, rendering and IFC4 data structure challenges. Based in Alnwick, he brings a rare blend of architectural training, deep domain expertise in building information modeling, and a track record of turning research outputs into commercially successful software.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons, Architectural Studies, BA Hons, Architectural Studies at Newcastle UniversityDip. Arch, Diploma in Architecture, Dip. Arch, Diploma in Architecture at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (11)
net10
nuget10
data-structures10
asp-net10
wpf10
dotnet10
csharp10
data-structure10
dotnet-core10
netframework10
3d-rendering9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xBimTeam/XbimWindowsUI
Sep 2016 - Dec 2020
The home of XbimXplorer and WPF components for your desktop BIM applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 130 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily upgraded NuGet packages and addressed issues related to zooming and bounding boxes. They also made pre-release preparations for version 4.0.0 and incorporated all NuGet package updates. Their work involved modifications to multiple project files, indicating contributions across different modules of the application. Furthermore, the user fixed geometry issues and updated the geometry engine demonstrating a focus on UI and potentially 3D rendering aspects.
xamlbimcsharpdesktopwpf
xBimTeam/XbimEssentials
May 2016 - Jul 2022
A .NET library to work with data in the IFC format. This is the core component of the Xbim Toolkit
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:387 commits, 5 PRs, 432 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the core component of the Xbim Toolkit, a .NET library for working with IFC data. The commits reveal changes to the xBimModelFactors, indicating work related to model-specific workarounds. Additionally, the user was involved in merging and refactoring code related to data structures within the IFC4 standard such as IfcAppliedValue and other aspects of ifc data management.
net-librarycobieexpressc-sharpcore-component
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