Ben Longden

Current

Software Engineer at Ibuildings

Past

Lead Developer at PlusNet
Senior PHP Developer at PlusNet
Data Developer at Acxiom

Developer at Aerodeon

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Education

University of Dundee

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Industry

Computer Software

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Ben Longden’s Summary

Senior Developer with 7 years professional development experience using a variety of languages and development methodologies, most recently PHP 5.

Long term interests in outsourcing, developed and delivered using TDD and other agile principles.

Ben Longden’s Specialties:

PHP5, Perl, Python, C/C++, MySQL, Test Driven Development, REST, Agile, Outsourcing.

Ben Longden’s Experience

Software Engineer

Ibuildings

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2010 — Present (3 months)
Lead Developer

PlusNet

(Public Company; Internet industry)

August 2009 — February 2010 (7 months)

After successfully leading a major project through to completion on time, I was promoted to the permanent position of lead developer. Since then I have achieved a number of successes in the department with the delivery of another major customer centric project, and improvements to the development process within the department.
Senior PHP Developer

PlusNet

(Public Company; Internet industry)

August 2007 — August 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Mainly working with PHP 5, but also Perl and bash shell scripting where required. I was part of the core team of people that built relationships and set up our development strategy for working with remote development teams based offshore. Using this strategy we have successfully delivered multiple projects to the business and will continue to evolve and use it going forward.

Internally to the department I have introduced a test driven development methodology (TDD) that is being adopted across the business and mentored junior and senior members of our team in the use of TDD and it's benefits and challenges.
Data Developer

Acxiom

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ACXM; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2004 — August 2007 (3 years 7 months)
Developer

Aerodeon

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

June 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 6 months)

Working as a developer primarily using Perl, I was part of the core team that put together a platform for delivering and managing SMS based marketing solutions.

I designed and built web applications to deliver bulk SMS capability across a range of unrelated third party suppliers, and manage inbound SMS (premium rate and standard) campaigns for a number of well known brands.