
Principal & Co-Founder at Neutron Creations Ltd
London, United Kingdom

Principal & Co-Founder at Neutron Creations Ltd
London, United Kingdom
Web production and development, interface design, user experience design, information architecture, copywriting, web strategy, XHTML, CSS, Ruby on Rails, SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, ExtJS, MooTools
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
December 2008 — Present (8 months)
Web site and application production, front end development, UI, interaction and user experience design, web marketing, web sales, and search engine optimisation.
(Partnership; Investment Management industry)
March 2008 — January 2009 (11 months)
Management of an in-house software development team working on financial front office applications for trading, portfolio and risk management.
Business analysis, project management, work unit and release scheduling, co-ordinating test programmes, tool and application selection, staff recruitment (full-time and contract positions), and reporting directly to the COO and stakeholders across the business.
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Investment Management industry)
April 2007 — March 2008 (1 year)
Implemented information architecture and data visualisation best practises in a custom built rich internal web application providing drill-down reporting for portfolio and risk management.
Development work on all aspects of an in-house front office trading system for credit derivatives and structured credit instruments. User interface research and design, page implementation, database design and programming, automated scheduled offline processing, and third party integration.
C#, ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005, XML, XSL, Javascript (Prototype, Scriptaculous)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 7 months)
Comprehensive role covering all aspects of the use of information technology and systems across the business:
Network & system administration (Desktops, Exchange, ISA, IIS, SQL Server, Oracle)
Corporate website design & development
Business support services - web based applications development
Warehouse management system administration, testing, extension
EDI, WMS & shipping system integration
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2002 — July 2003 (1 year 1 month)
Supported the Sun Streaming Server development and QA teams in system and network administration roles of the project testbed.
Maintained product demonstration suite for client demos.
Overhauled and documented the project's intranet site, making it easier for other organisations within the company to find out about and make use of the product.
Diploma , Audio Engineering , 2004 — 2005
Audio Engineering study spanning a wide range of subjects such as sound theory, acoustics, multitrack recording, loudspeaker and microphone design and placement, post production, surround sound mixing, mastering, foley, ADR.
2:1 BSc with Honours , Computer Science with a Year in Industry , 2000 — 2004
Topics covered include OO programming, algorithms, databases, mobile & ubiquitous computing, computer graphics, data mining, computer networks, software failure and risk, neural networks, operating systems, and others.
A-Levels , Maths (+ Mechanics), Physics, Computing , 1998 — 2000
Audio Engineering Society