Andy Hume

Current

• Lead Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
• Writer / Columnist at Freelance (Self-employed)

Past

• Web Development Lead at Multimap.com
• Web Developer at Multimap
• Owner at Artist Logs (Self-employed)

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Education

• Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• My Website

Andy Hume’s Summary

I started life at Multimap as the first front-end developer in the Product Development team. I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to grow that specialism up to a team of 9, working in offices in London and Istanbul. We worked on Multimap's JavaScript mapping API, multimap.com, maps.yell.com and a wide range of clients from Sony and Ford, to lastminute.com and The Royal Mail.

On acquisition by Microsoft I was appointed Lead Developer (with a team of 6) for Microsoft's consumer mapping products in the UK (multimap.com and maps.live.com).

Outside of Multimap/Microsoft I have contributed to numerous industry publications both on and off-line, most notably feature articles for Computer Arts Projects Magazine, .net Magazine and Sitepoint.com. I write regularly at my website/blog usabletype.com, which is required reading for web development and interface design courses across the world, and have guest lectured at the Arts Institute of Atlanta.

Andy Hume’s Specialties:

Experienced web application developer and architect. Core skills include front-end standards based development, Object Oriented Javscript Programming, DOM Scripting, Web accessibility, client-side performance optimisation, user experience/interface design. Also professional experience with PHP, Perl, Python/Django, MySQL/Postgres/Sqlite, and Apache/Lighttpd/Nginx Web Servers.

Andy Hume’s Experience

• Lead Software Development Engineer

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  I am currently Development Lead for the Multimap.com website, leading a team of 11 back-end and front-end engineers in the development of Microsoft's high traffic consumer mapping site.

• Writer / Columnist

  Freelance (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2004 — Present (5 years)

  Writer and columnist for various industry publications:
  
  Computer Arts Projects Magazine tutorial, "Type on the Web".
  .net Magazine, "HTML 5".
  MUSO Magazine feature, "How to Get Ahead on the Web".
  SitePoint feature article, "The Anatomy of Web Fonts".
  Bite Size Standards article, "Understanding Any Order Columns".

• Web Development Lead

  Multimap.com

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 3 months)

  As lead front-end engineer at Multimap.com I managed a team of professional front-end engineers that delivered highly complex and rich standards-based web interfaces for many Multimap and Microsoft clients. The team was also responsible for the front-end components of Multimap's core products, including the JavaScript mapping API, and the high traffic Multimap.com website (10 million users).
  
  I grew the front-end team at Multimap from a one man team of myself to a team of 9 in offices across London, Istanbul and Sydney, establishing front-end engineering as a specialised discipline within Multimap.

• Web Developer

  Multimap

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2005 — September 2005 (6 months)

• Owner

  Artist Logs (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  February 2002 — April 2005 (3 years 3 months)

  I founded and developed a freelance business providing design, development, and content strategy for artists and musicians. With experience in both the web development and music industries I strived to provide an outlet for artists to communicate with their fans and potential audience via the web.

Andy Hume’s Education

• Guildhall School of Music and Drama

  BMus , Music , 1998 — 2002

Additional Information

Andy Hume’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

Andy Hume’s Groups:

UK Web Design Association,
Web Standards Group,

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