Dan Barber

Profile

I have 14 years of experience building web sites and web applications, from small simple websites and services to large enterprise level systems. I focus on simple, usable interfaces and prefer to work by prototyping ideas.

I am detail orientated and I love working alongside others on interesting projects and ideas. I love learning new techniques and technologies and I love simple, elegant, maintainable code.

Skills

Web Technologies

• HTML5/CSS3
• Javascript/jQuery
• Ruby on Rails
• PHP

Databases

• SQL
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL
• SQLite3

Design

• Photoshop/GIMP
• Illustrator
• InDesign
• Typography

Linux Servers

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

Networking

Good knowledge of cabling, routing and protocols.

Experience

New Bamboo

Nov 2012 — Present

Pixelhum

Aug 2010 — Present

Pixelhum is my own freelance/contract business. I design and build web applications for clients using Ruby on Rails.

WebBased Ltd

Dec 2011 — Nov 2012

Continued development of a CRM product built using Rails 2.3. I moved version control from SVN to git and brought the Rspec test suite up to date.

Abiquo

June 2010 — Oct 2011

Updated and maintained Abiquo’s websites, written in both PHP and Ruby on Rails. This includes the virtual image exchange site Thunderflash (thunderflash.com) which I rebuilt on Rails 3.

Deep Blue Sound

Aug 2008 — June 2010

Administered and augmented the existing web systems including Moodle, SugarCRM and others. Deputised for the System Administrator.

Footwork Solutions

Nov 2002 — Aug 2008

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 advertisements using QuarkXpress and was responsible for laying out the classified pages. Developed a love for typography.

Portfolio

Soundunlimited

I built a complete online shop system for a local music shop using Ruby on Rails. Rspec was used for testing.

NeoMPC

Web based MPD client. Design and execution. Built using PHP and jQuery and uses mpd.class.php to connect to the MPD server.

Footwork Solutions

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

Halo

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

Dan Barber Photo

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

My CV

My CV is a responsive design built using Stasis, HAML, SASS and Markdown that makes extensive use of HTML5, CSS3, typography and web fonts. The source code is available on Github.

Interests

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