Ben Ward

Current

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

Past

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

• Web Developer at Ben Ward
• 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

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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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! Developer Network

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 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.

• 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

  Yahoo! Europe

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

  April 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 4 months)

• Web Developer

  Ben Ward

  (Internet industry)

  March 2007 — April 2007 (2 months)

  Periodically I take on small freelance web design and development work for clients and personal contacts.
  
  I've done work design agencies in the UK, and in partnership with other freelance developers and designers all over the world.

• 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 )

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