Senior Developer (contract)
March 2012 – Present
- Built various sites using the Modx content management system
Senior Developer
March 2011 – January 2012
- Managed development of the BugFinders site, featuring such complexities such as a streaming video server, multi-language support and a mobile site.
- This was more than just a development position – responsible for managing the team, liaising with external suppliers and helping develop the business and products.
- As well as working with PHP/MySQL, a great deal of time was spent in using new technologies (eg, OAuth, Java and Python) and learning testing methodologies.
Developer (contract)
December 2010 – March 2011
- Lead development of the new British Pathé site, featuring 90,000 videos and a massive database schema
- The site is fed primarily by a MySQL database, but also features an Apache Solr schema on it’s largest data repositories.
Dragonfly Creative, Stourbridge
Developer (contract)
November 2010
- UI Development role, writing the CSS theme and associated JavaScript for a pub chain’s new restaurant brand.
Developer (contract)
October 2010
- Built a content-managed site for an estate agent using a bespoke CMS developed in the Zend Framework.
- Although a fairly standard site, it incorporated many external feeds in various formats (mainly XML, CSV and plain-text).
Developer (contract)
September 2010
- Built the ecommerce shop for the new Group Lotus website, using the Zend Framework.
Red Procurement, Henley-in-Arden
Developer (contract)
June – August 2010
- Designed and built Streamline, a purpose-built tool to aid procurement managers track their workflow and for directors to see company-wide trends. There were some very complex things to put in this site, such as currency conversion and graphic data representation.
- A major requirement for this was for the site to be non-OS specific. To do that, the database was abstracted using Doctrine.
Platform Programmer
February – May 2010
- Lead development of a bespoke content-management system for a multi-million pound NHS website using the Zend Framework.
- The platform made heavy-use of video integration and external web services
Developer (contract)
December 2009 – January 2010
- A fire-fighting role doing emergency updates on the business critical Loanfinder.co.uk website, often out-of-hours.
- For their long-term stability, I implemented a version-controlled development environment and established formal programming standards.
Developer (contract)
March – August 2009
- Headed development of a complex ecommerce system involving 4 developers.
- Site developed using an extensible in-house object orientated framework, which I made various important updates to
The Ale Shop, Birmingham
Developer (contract)
September 2008 – March 2009
- Developed this ecommerce site based upon the ‘drop-shipping‘ business model
- Configured the site to automatically generate PDF invoices and purchase orders to send to the suppliers. This was then integrated with their accounting system.
Northwick Events, Kidderminster
Creative Director
October 2006 – August 2008
- Programmed a complex system to automate much of the business process – client management, event websites and email marketing.
- Responsible for the digital marketing of the business – generated over £35,000 in the first 6 months of the campaigns, well in-excess of targets.
