N.B. If you wish, you can download a longer, more formal version of my CV.
Freelancing
I have been self-employed as a freelance web-applications developer since 2009, and I’m currently specialising in:
- Symfony Framework web-application development
- Obj-C iPhone development
- Bespoke WordPress plugin development
- Linux sysadmin tasks
Post-Graduate MSc:
Graduated with a Distinction in 2009
I read ‘Systems Design of Internet Applications’ at Newcastle University between Sept 2008 and Sept 2009: this included a period of 5 months at Arjuna Technologies researching dynamic propagation within a federated cloud.
Key points:
- From client-side scripting languages down to the TCP/IP protocol level,
- Web-Services (using SOAP, WSDLs, UDDI etc) and RESTful style interfaces,
- CORBA and Java RMI,
- Oracle and MySQL,
- Team-leader of an Amazon Web Services-based project.
- Expertise administering LAMP (Apache and Nginx) web-servers, and have some experience with WAMP servers as well.
My awareness of this field stems from this course, previous work in this industry and, to a large extent, from work on my own side-projects.
Previous Stuff
2008: Carrotmedia
Before returning to University to take my MSc, I worked as a PHP web developer at Carrotmedia.
2005-2008: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
I achieved a 2.1 BSc (Hons) in Computer Science at Newcastle University.