I run Codeistry - a small web development company. I craft sophisticated personalized websites, complete with full Content Management Systems, for a wide variety of clients, spread over four continents.As it's my company, I do most everything myself - marketing, SEO, customer relations, design, coding, support, invoicing - you name it, I do it. I've become very experienced managing the complete business and project lifecycle from beginning to end.

Working as part of a world class development team, building big data applications, using Apache Hadoop, Accumulo & Python.Designed and developed the User Experience for PHEMI’s next generation healthcare productivity applications and Big Data Warehousing Systems; built the UI for the front end applications, using Bootstrap, LESS, jQuery & AngularJS.Built provisioning & continuous deployment system for our complete platform stack — for both development & production — using Ansible, Vagrant & Docker.

Bridging the worlds of development, UX and Data Driven Marketing, via Analytics.Working as part of the development team, building the application in PHP, HTML & CSS.Extensive database refactoring, managing large tagging ontology; writing SQL scripts to clean & curate user generated content.Data driven content marketing, including writing content, blogging, running social media and forum based community management.Both designing and implementing UI & UX as well as acting as a bridge between the design & development teams, both internal and external.

Comprehensive position developing CMS driven websites for clients, training a small team of junior developers and modernising the company's development practices.Introduced open source PHP based CMS MODx, modern semantic CSS web site development & company Wiki. Increased production automation through use of automated image processing software and bespoke database migration scripting.Introduced & ran regular project debriefs, training seminars, workshops & design reviews as part of team building & improvement process.

Senior SQL Tutor responsible for the training and support of MCDBA, MCAD & MCP students studying for Microsoft SQL Server exams 2000 & 2005 (70-228 & 70-229). Working with another tutor, provide classroom training & student support via email, web chat and phone for ~500 students.Created (on own initiative) SQL Server & ASP intranet to support tutors, office staff and managers which provided extensive Student Records, Phone call tracking & student reporting for tutors. This system imported data from existing Paradox database system, doing extensive cleaning and cross referencing - and merging with other data sources to produce a complete, modern, unified system.

Responsible for development & support on the successful company wide implementation of Microsoft Business Solutions Navision, a complete manufacturing, sales, financials, ERP & CRM system. This replaced a ˜20 year old bespoke system and launched with ˜50 users.Developed the company's intranet applications in XML, HTML & ASP; including database driven design drawings and product specifications systems, SVG org. charts, XML driven internal phone and contacts, forum and collaborative wiki.Developed a replacement for legacy payroll data collection and processing system in VB & SQL Server; system had successfully processed over 85,000 payroll transactions at the time of writing.