Ben Ward

Current

• Software Applications Development Engineer at Yahoo! Open Development
• Specification Editor and Author, & Community Administrator at Microformats.org

Past

• Software Applications Development Engineer at Yahoo! Brickhouse
• Web Developer at Yahoo! Europe
• Contributing Writer at Digital Web Magazine

• Web Developer (Self-employed)
• Web Application Developer at Yobject Ltd
• Information Systems Developer at Fujitsu Siemens Computers

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Education

• The University of Manchester
• Hills Road Sixth Form College

Recommended

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Connections

170 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Ben-Ward.co.uk

Ben Ward’s Summary

A hard-working, thoughtful and creative software developer. Passionate about the web and new technology.

Experienced in building large-scale, social web applications. Generally fascinated by all things that make people interact.

Ben Ward’s Specialties:

HTML, Semantics, CSS, Microformats, Accessibility, PHP, Mac OSX, Web Standards, User Interface, JavaScript, YUI, Social, Writing

Ben Ward’s Experience

• Software Applications Development Engineer

  Yahoo! Open Development

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  January 2009 — Present (7 months)

  Engineering on the Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) and related developer community tools.

• Specification Editor and Author, & Community Administrator

  Microformats.org

  (Computer Software industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years)

  Microformats.org is a successful community-driven effort to bring structured data to the web.
  
  I contribute to maintaining the community infrastructure to facilitate this work, as well as working on new ideas to improve community participation.
  
  I'm an active editor on a number of microformat specifications, a credited author on the Recipe microformat and actively researching new areas of interest for future microformats.

• Software Applications Development Engineer

  Yahoo! Brickhouse

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  July 2008 — December 2008 (6 months)

  Emigrated from Yahoo! Europe to work as a front-end web developer on Fire Eagle at Yahoo's Brickhouse incubator in San Francisco.

• Web Developer

  Yahoo! Europe

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)

  April 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 4 months)

• Contributing Writer

  Digital Web Magazine

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2008 — July 2008 (1 month)

  Wrote the following article for Digital Web magazine, which was well received.
  
  • Portable Social Networks: The Building Blocks of a Social Web — http://bit.ly/33alXs

• Web Developer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  March 2007 — April 2007 (2 months)

• Web Application Developer

  Yobject Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2006 — March 2007 (7 months)

• Information Systems Developer

  Fujitsu Siemens Computers

  (Computer Software industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year)

Additional Information

Ben Ward’s Websites:

• Ben-Ward.co.uk

Ben Ward’s Contact Settings

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