Adrian Callaghan

Current

• Web Developer at Butterfield Morris Bushell Ltd

Past

• Software developer + System Administrator at THUK Media
• IT manager/ hardware support for 2x stores at Cash Converters
• Electro mechanical engineer at Electroversal

• Trainee computer repairer at DG Computers
• Computer programmer at King Computers

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Education

• University of Bedfordshire
• Dunstable college
• Barnfied College

• Dunstable College
• South Luton High School

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Recommendations

8 recommendations

Connections

55 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Adrian Callaghan’s Summary

I work as a webdeveloper (Both fulltime and freelance), my main area of expertise is full life cycle bespoke CMS solutions, written in PHP(5)(MVC), JQuery/Jscript, MySQL, CSS, (X)HTML, ModRewrite(Apache) from scratch (COMPLETELY custom – I have my own MVC framework) or within a framework such as (Zend/Concrete5/Wordpress/Symphony).

Apart from working fulltime as a webdeveloper within a fast paced agency enviroment, I have extensive experience (over 8 years) in IT related technonolgies and have a degree in computer science with honours, in my spare time I am one of the developers for wordpress and manage my own VPS purely via ssh, hosting around 20 sites.

Adrian Callaghan’s Specialties:

Custom CMS builds

PHP(4-5), Mysql, bash scripting, Htaccess (mod rewrite), css, xhtml, ajax, dhtml, web accessibility, w3c, jquery, javascript, xml

Technologies:
SOAP, RSS, CORBA, AJAX, DHTML, Mysql hierachal structures

Frameworks:
Concrete5, Symphony, wordpress (developer) + MU, Zend, zen cart, joomla, jquery, PHP BB

Google ad manager, campaign monitor

Accessibility:
Email clients, W3C standards, box model rendering, seo, non-javascript degradation

Others:
Java & C

Adrian Callaghan’s Experience

• Web Developer

  Butterfield Morris Bushell Ltd

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2009 — Present (1 year 1 month)

• Software developer + System Administrator

  THUK Media

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 5 months)

• IT manager/ hardware support for 2x stores

  Cash Converters

  (Retail industry)

  January 2006 — May 2008 (2 years 5 months)

  I Managed and maintained two separate stores, computer repairs and configurations.
  
  In addition to this I offered repairs direct to the public sector through both outlets (my own private business that I managed), and managed the ordering and preparation of new stock.

• Electro mechanical engineer

  Electroversal

  (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  January 2004 — January 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  Electrical Mechanical engineer of office machinery, such as large photocopiers

• Trainee computer repairer

  DG Computers

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  January 1994 — January 1995 (1 year 1 month)

  Trainee computer repair man, I was fortunate enough to work alongside many talented individuals, one of which was Darren Mitchell, who was a member of the team responsible for the Commodore Amiga kickstart ROM

• Computer programmer

  King Computers

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 1993 — January 1994 (1 year 1 month)

  I worked as a computer programmer, writing demo`s for the Commodore Amiga in AMOS and PET.
  
  I also wrote software for the PD

Adrian Callaghan’s Education

• University of Bedfordshire

  Bachelor of Science with honours , Computer Science , 2004 — 2008

• Dunstable college

  BTEC IN IT 1997 — 1998

• Barnfied College

  NVQ in television repairs 1996 — 1997

• Dunstable College

  BTEC First in ITA 1995 — 1996

• South Luton High School

  GCSE Maths, English LIT LAT, Science, RE 1988 — 1993

Additional Information

Adrian Callaghan’s Interests:

Low Level to High Level programming Systems Architecture CMS`s Middleware Learning new guitaring techniques/ songs Martial Arts (mainly kicking techniques)

Adrian Callaghan’s Groups:

British Computer Society
UK Tang Soo Doo Federation, Moo Do kwan

•    LinkedPHPers - The Largest PHP Group
•    Linux Expert
•    SEO Ninjas

Adrian Callaghan’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
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