Andy Geers

Current

• Technical Director at Framestore CFC

Past

• Software Engineer at Trinity Mirror PLC
• Apprentice at Fowey Parish Church

Education

• University of Cambridge

Connections

18 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Andy Geers’s Summary

Professionally, I'm passionate about all things internet and am hugely excited about the new world of web standards and open APIs. My experience at Trinity Mirror gave me a fantastic opportunity to work with all sorts of exciting products like the various offerings from Google and technologies like memcached and Hadoop.

Away from the office, I've been working hard over many years to create a Bible-teaching computer game in the genre of Monkey Island. I'd love to get some funding so that I could put a team of artists together, so if you're interested, get in touch!

Andy Geers’s Specialties:

Python, C++, ColdfusionMX, MySQL, Oracle, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, AJAX, automated testing, Selenium, Agile methodologies

Andy Geers’s Experience

• Technical Director

  Framestore CFC

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  April 2008 — Present (9 months)

  Working on the "core dev" team building tools and infrastructure to support a major computer generated motion picture project.

• Software Engineer

  Trinity Mirror PLC

  (Newspapers industry)

  2005 — 2008 (3 years)

  Worked on the digital team who looked after the development of the Content Management System used by editorial staff working on sites like http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/ and http://london.adzooks.co.uk/

• Apprentice

  Fowey Parish Church

  (Religious Institutions industry)

  August 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  One year's apprenticeship involving four aspects:
  1. Theological training and learning to teach the Bible and communicate well
  2. Ministry involvement, including running an after-school club at a local primary school and giving some talks at the church
  3. Practical tasks like cleaning and photocopying, and generally being useful
  4. Designing and developing the church website, written in PHP and based on a MySQL database

Andy Geers’s Education

• University of Cambridge

  BA, Computer Science, 2001 — 2004

  Activities and Societies:

  Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union, St. Andrew the Great church, Union Society

Additional Information

Andy Geers’s Websites:

• My Website

Andy Geers’s Interests:

web development, Bible teaching computer games, web APIs

Andy Geers’s Groups:

St. Helen's Bishopsgate

•    Framestore
•    The Tale of Despereaux

Andy Geers’s Contact Settings

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