Ashley Moran

Current

Agile Development Consultant at Cllearview
Managing Director at PatchSpace Ltd

Past

Agile Development Consultant at University of Sheffield
Freelance Developer at Rattle
Agile Development Consultant at Liquid Bronze

Contract Developer at TechnoPhobia
Web Developer / System, Network & Database Administrator at Codeweavers Ltd

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Education

University of Liverpool

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Ashley Moran’s Summary

I am a software developer and a keen follower of agile practices. I have my own company, currently just me, and I can provide my time on a contract or consultancy basis.

Ashley Moran’s Specialties:

Ruby, RSpec, Cucumber, Merb, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, behaviour-driven development (BDD), test-driven development (TDD)

Ashley Moran’s Experience

Agile Development Consultant

Cllearview

(Computer Software industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Providing training and development in: BDD with RSpec and Cucumber to build a Merb + Haml + DataMapper + PostgreSQL web application; use of user stories to determine and prioritize development needs.
Managing Director

PatchSpace Ltd

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

PatchSpace is the company I have formed to offer software development and consultancy.
Agile Development Consultant

University of Sheffield

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

June 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Software development in the Clinical Trials Research Unit, working on electronic data capture.

Implemented a user-story based development pipeline. Trained in the use of Cucumber and RSpec to deliver stories in high-quality BDD code. Coached in personal time/task management and assisted with management decisions relating to IT projects.
Freelance Developer

Rattle

(Internet industry)

August 2008 — February 2009 (7 months)

Built the initial version of NewsBods - http://www.newsbods.com/ - a prototype to see how BBC breaking news can be integrated with Twitter.

The application consists of a Ruby server daemon (daemons + EventMachine) that handles the RSS & HTML scraping/diffing and Twitter integration, and a Merb web app for the presentation layer. Code was developed BDD style using Cucumber, RSpec, Celerity and a little help from Ramaze.
Agile Development Consultant

Liquid Bronze

(Computer Software industry)

August 2008 — August 2008 (1 month)

Coaching on how to turn user stories into a Rails app, using Cucumber and RSpec.
Contract Developer

TechnoPhobia

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

March 2008 — April 2008 (2 months)

Working on admin functionality for a Rails app
Web Developer / System, Network & Database Administrator

Codeweavers Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

August 2004 — December 2007 (3 years 5 months)

Database administration (PostgreSQL and SQL Server), system administration (FreeBSD), web development (Ruby on Rails), continuous integration, behaviour-driven development/BDD (RSpec), business reporting (JasperReports)