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Leicester, United Kingdom

My company, through which I provide consultancy services to clients, and develop other projects.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Developing VMware vSphere Orchestrator workflows integrating with HTTP APIs, in JavaScript. Chef and Ruby development to support IT infrastructure automation. Ruby utilities to automate Git-controlled modification and updating of Chef cookbooks. Part of an Agile Scrum team.

Wymeswold

HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Django templates, Bootstrap, responsive design implementation, for a number of promotional campaigns: Tilda Rewards, Taste Inc, and Kenco Rewards Club.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Implementation of UI components for browser-based data viewing applications used by commodities traders.Microsoft SignalR server-push technology to provide real-time updates to displayed data. KnockoutJS, including implementing custom bindings.

Beeston, Nottingham.

HTML, JavaScript, and CSS for clients of a digital marketing agency, primarily implementing a responsive front end to a Drupal-based site.

Leicester, United Kingdom

Mobile app and website for the National Careers Service.

Wymeswold, Leicestershire

HTML CSS, JavaScript, Django templates, primarily for Cow & Gate's Growing Up Rewards campaign: https://www.growinguprewards.co.uk/

Cambridge, United Kingdom

JavaScript, HTML and CSS on Ant's Galio platform for Freesat's new product.

London, United Kingdom

Implementation of JavaScript, HTML and CSS3 animations for fashion company ASOS's Urban Tour promotional campaign: http://www.asos.com/urban-tour. This campaign's interactive elements won awards from Cannes Lions/Cannes Cyber Lions/Cannes Media Lions, Webby Awards, OneShow, and BTAA

Cambridge, United Kingdom

JavaScript optimisation.

Enderby, Leics.

Enhancements to client-side product pages at next.co.uk.

Assisting with the transition of http://forums.contractoruk.com/ to vBulletin version 4: creating new vBulletin skins, writing vBulletin plugins in PHP and MySQL, modifying and creating HTML and CSS templates, adding missing IE6/7 support. Ongoing work includes the creation of a skin customised for efficient display on mobile devices, and an iPhone.

Part of a team implementing an application embedding the Gecko rendering engine for the secure delivery of examinations over local networks.Implementation of a custom JavaScript library capable of manipulating documents containing XML namespaces, including full support for the CSS Selector API (CSS3 selectors), a flexible animation API, collection.

General web development for a number of clients of a marketing agency, including ASDA Finance and Pizza Express.Conversion of an existing PHP report generator (runtime: 20 minutes) to a small number of complex SQL queries (runtime: less than a second).Technologies: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Google Maps mashup of TrafficMaster and TfL (Transport for London) XML data streams with traffic camera images from TfL and the Highways Agency, including implementation of an agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm to enhance usability of camera data.Capital Radio and ONE Network CMS: design and implementation of JS/Ajax user interface component.

Working in an agile Scrum development team on development of components of a new Yahoo! application using PHP (Symfony framework), XML, YAML, HTML, CSS and JavaScript/Ajax (YUI library). The application provided a social networking framework for user reviews of businesses in the UK and France and integrated data from a variety of Yahoo! properties.

Implementation of HTML and CSS for 80+ templates to be used across 34 local radio stations, with specific focus on accessibility best practices and W3C standards. Page content aggregated into XML from a variety of internal and external data sources and transformed into HTML using XSLT.Scheduling Web Application: Intranet application using.

Working on a number of projects for large and small clients of this full-service design agency, including design, specification and implementation of Intranet and Extranet sites for PepsiCo's EMEA operations.Technologies: (X)HTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, ASP, Standards-compliant & accessible web site implementation, HTTP, HTTPS, Ajax, XML-RPC, SQL.

Focus on skills enhancement during the dotcom slump. Intensive study of W3C and IETF standards and RFCs, web accessibility, relational database theory, web design principles, and emerging trends in social media.

Working on several intranet projects.Technologies: HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.

Working in a team implementing the intranet-based version of Intercede's world-class security administration system Edifice.Technologies: HTML, XML, CSS, XSLT, Ajax, ASP, JavaScript, SQL Server.

Working on a number of projects for this independent web development house, including the University of Birmingham Business School and West Midlands Co-op Travel.Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP, SQL Server.

Part of a team implementing the transition to an online service of the existing Assuresoft product, which provides quotations to IFAs.Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML.

Short-term project assisting with implementation of a new design for the BBC News web site.Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

Implementation of a number of e-commerce projects for client British Telecom plc.Technologies: HTML, JavaScript.

Freelance software developer for a number of clients, including creation of educational software and implementation of a driving simulator to support a human factors research project.

Games development in assembly language (80x86, 680x0, 6502) on IBM PC compatibles, Atari St, Commodore Amiga, BBC Micro, C64, including implementation of Forth programming environment on Atari ST.

Training long-term unemployed people in the use of word processors, spreadsheets and databases.

Visiting housebound frail and elderly people, providing support and companionship and arranging for medical or social services assistance when needed.

Working in Forth and assembly language on the IBM PC and proprietary 6809 and 8086 systems producing control software for Teletext transmission systems.

B.A. Hons., Philosophy

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