Profile

10 years of experience building web sites and web applications. I focus on simple, usable interfaces and prefer to work by prototyping ideas.

Skills

  • HTML/CSS

    Excellent knowledge of standards and browser engines.

  • PHP

    Expert level.

  • SQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL

    Excellent knowledge of SQL and configuration.

  • Javascript/jQuery

    Sound working knowledge

  • Typography

    Good working knowledge.

  • Photoshop/GIMP

    Good working knowledge.

  • Linux Servers

    Web (Apache), MySQL, PostgreSQL, DNS, Samba

  • Networking

    Good knowledge of cabling, routing and protocols.

Experience

  • Abiquo

    June 2010–Present

    [to be written]

  • Deep Blue Sound

    Aug 2008–June 2010

    Administering and augmenting the existing web systems including Moodle, SugarCRM and others. Deputising for the System Administrator.

  • Footwork Solutions

    Nov 2002–Aug 2008

    footworksolutions.co.uk
    I was a lead developer and designer on the Halo care co-ordination system, including training and documentation and support. I was also the System Administrator for both the local network and remote server farm.

  • Granite Internet

    2000–2002

    Designed and developed and maintained several property company websites based on a single code base. Setup Windows, Linux and FreeBSD servers.

  • North Devon Journal

    1998–2000

    Set basic adverts using QuarkXpress and was responsible for laying out the classified pages. Learnt a lot about typography.

Portfolio

  • NeoMPC

    pixelhum.com/neompc

    Web based MPD client. Design and execution. Built on PHP and jQuery and uses mpd.class.php.

  • Footwork Solutions

    footworksolutions.co.uk

    Company logo and site design. I built the HTML for the Drupal template.

  • Halo

    haloteam.com

    Hosted care co-ordination system for drug treatment agencies. Design, initial implementation and ongoing development of key modules.

  • Dan Barber Photo

    danbarberphoto.com

    My own photography portfolio site. Designed and implemented the whole site using Ruby on Rails and jQuery, including backend admin pages.

  • Dan & Katie

    wedding.coweyes.co.uk

    My own wedding photo site. Design and implementation of theme for ZenPhoto.

Interests

  • Drumming
  • Music
  • Sound Engineering & Recording
  • Photography
  • Cycling