Andrew Collington Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Brighton

Falmer, East Sussex, England

Web site and web application design and development utilising PHP, MySQL, Oracle, Javascript, and other web-related technologies.• Responsible for conception and development of systems used by staff, students and external audiences on the public facing web sites• Conceptualised and created a student-focused, social media mash-up site for a £150,000 JISC-funded project• Created a content management system (CMS) for schools, departments and research groups (currently supporting 400+ sites)• Created and maintain a news and events system that is used university-wide (staff and students alike)• Front-line troubleshooting and user support• Act as peer-review and support for other PHP developers• Perform one-to-one and classroom based training for CMS system• Maintain a healthy degree of user-focused documentation

• Created the corporate site as well as the sites for all other offices including those in the US, UK, Japan, Germany and the Netherlands, as well as catering to the varying markets within each sector (floral industry, growers, wholesalers)• Developed a dealer locator facility with distance search on post/zip code for the UK and US markets• Developed a product search facility and news system that would cater to all sites and markets• Acted as consultant to other agencies that worked with Smithers-Oasis Ltd as well as their internal IT staff members

• Acted as consultant on site specifications and sole developer of the site to client design• Created aggregator of many web service feeds, consuming many gigabytes of XML data• Developed powerful search tool for the end user, including the saving of searches and highlighting other search terms if no items found• Created full administration area to control brand information, category mappings, XML feed resources, logs and users• Ensured that code was very easily adaptable to other markets, such as men’s fashion, without any redevelopment other than site design

London, United Kingdom

• Worked closely with graphic designers to convert their designs into practical, usable, standards-based web sites• Developed new administration features for a variety of clients including BioCity Nottingham; the Ritz Club Casino, London; and Enigma• Fixed bugs within, and enhanced, legacy code

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Created and maintained the corporate web site• Developed extensive administration area for web site• Created an interactive CD for a photographic printing services program installation• Created an interactive CD to distribute company’s catalog

• Developed integrated databases, online store features (ranging from catalogues to e-commerce), client extranets, mailing list managers, administration areas and website maintenance• Met aggressive project timelines set by clients and account executives• Worked closely with graphic designers to conceptualize web-friendly designs and then took those designs and created standards-based, usable web sites• Created client and internal sites that included:o MSN Direct where I conceived and created an extranet for their MSN 8 launch direct mail campaigno Norman Rockwell Siding (Gold ADDY Award® winning site) where I created an interactive siding comparison systemo Fristoe & Carlton (Gold ADDY Award® winning site) where I created a job search and CV uploading systemo Innis Maggiore site (Gold ADDY Award® winner)• Conceived and created MStash, an Innis Maggiore initiative that gave clients the ability to approve changes to art work online, make comments, and download full-resolution images; thus negating the need for courier services which saved both time and money for clients and agency

• Developed and maintained company web site, predominantly using Perl• CGI script programming, promotion of the web site, and general email inquiries• Charged with purchasing, installation and management of entire IT infrastructure

Retained by organization to create HTML pages, including image alignment, the testing of links and a large part of the design aspect of the pages