What I’m looking for
I like to create web tools and application which give a great user experience. Which are both fun and functional to use. I like to explore new technologies emerging in this very young industry, problem solving, creativity and teamwork are all essential to my perfect job.
Skills
- PHP4/5 – Self taught PHP, with 5 years of commercial experience. Using ADodb and Smarty code abstractions, OOP and MVC structures.
- SQL, MySQL - 5 years of experience, tuning servers, designing schemas, optimizing queries and configuring replication.
- Javascript – Started a javascript framework called Kscript (Adopting jQuery for its large community). Written the WYSIWYG editor for my CMS system. See knarly.com/contact for example. Extensive use of API’s from Google and other third parties.
- CSS, HTML, XHTML, XML, XSLT
- Linux, LAMP and shell scripting (BASH) – I’ve managed Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat servers running multiple Apache VirtualHosts with SSL and databases in a LAMP environment, 5 years experience.
- Webservice protocols: OAuth, Openid, RSS, ATOM, SOAP, REST, XML-RPC, DNS, SMTP, SSL.
- Dabbled with ActionScript and Flash (see andyd.co.uk), Python (for books.co.uk backend and windows apps), Perl, Oracle, ASP.NET and SQLServer (for stats.football.co.uk).
- Pixel pushing with PhotoShop and Gimp.
Projects
Knarly.com - A personal project
An online Content Management System (CMS). The feature list includes web standards DNS, Email, Pingback, Openid, OAuth, RSS, ATOM, WYSIWYG page editor, amongst administrative tools. The blog site perplexed.co.uk, my personal site drew81.com, Jobsabout.com & Joblist.co.uk are all being served from Knarly. It is an ongoing side project of mine which is written is scripted with PHP, MySQL on Linux.
A price comparison website hosting +3 million book titles and images, fed via XML. The application used web services, SOAP and REST, with affiliate sites
www.structuredretailproducts.com (alas, requires an account)
The crux of my work was in designing and developing a dynamic RDBS controller to analyze a changeable database schema which query and manipulation tools would automatically adapt to.
Please visit http://drew81.com/#/portfolio for a more comprehensive list.
Background
Freelance Web developer | Since April 09
Since leaving my last fulltime post I have been freelancing doing small websites for companies including HMRC, Parliament, CokeCola. As a certified Paypal Developer, I’ve offered consultancy to numerous small firms.
I regularly add new features to the knarly.com CMS system, and have created many websites which it supports - see knarly.com/sites_aboard_knarly/ <> System Developer at Arete-Consulting | Sept 06 - April 09 | London.
I was one of the leading developers of the structuredretailproducts website and internal content management system.
I built online tools for banks and fund managers to search and navigate the extensive products database using HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, MySQL, Linux, Apache and AJAX content management tools - to reduce the latency in our web applications. I developed: database architecture, query optimization, caching and load balancing techniques, to deliver content seamlessly to the end user.
I introduced the small team to code abstraction techniques including Smarty and ADOdb, Apache manipulation. And I designed and developed the content management system of the SRP Magazine and Arete-Consulting websites.
PHP Developer at Underground Digital Media (UDM) | Dec 04 – Sept 06 | Essex:
I worked with graphics designers building pixel perfect websites using HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, MySQL and Linux. I was the developer of the large catalogue and price comparison website, books.co.uk. I used SOAP and REST web-services, and CLI PHP to build the price comparison and to update the catalogue. I was a bit of a one-man-band, negotiating and creating affiliates contracts, monitoring click-throughs, tracking sales and providing reports.
I worked on football.co.uk stats. Which listed all the team games, who scored, who won, etc.. The information was provided by a third party. I developed the system with XSLT, C#, SQLServer, Windows Server to update the database and HTML, CSS graphs, PHP and IIS on the front end.
MSc Computer Distributed Science | Sept 03 – Oct 04 | Greenwich University, London. Studied Distributed Database Management & Web Applications and Design. Projects included building a shopping cart. I was offered a job at UDM and left the two year course after the first year.
BSc Financial Mathematics Honours | 1999 – 2003 | Brunel University, Middlesex
Specialised in probability / risk-analysis. Application of stochastic, statistics & econometric techniques.
Thanks for reading my CV, Andrew