Dave Cross

Current

Consultant at Gumtree.com
Module Author at CPAN
Owner/Director at Magnum Solutions Ltd

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Past

Visiting Lecturer at University of Westminster
Consultant at LOVEFiLM
Consultant at Guardian News and Media

Consultant at UBS Investment Bank
Consultant at BBC Technology
Consultant at UBS Investment Bank
Perl Mongers User Groups Co-ordinator at The Perl Foundation
Consultant at BBC Technology
Consultant at Guardian News and Media
Senior Perl Programmer at Outcome Technologies
Author at O'Reilly Media Inc
Leader at London Perl Mongers
Author at Manning Publications
Senior Programmer at Walt Disney
Senior Programmer at Comtext
Programmer/Senior Programmer at Learmonth & Burchett Management Systems

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Education

London South Bank University
City University

Recommended

3 people have recommended Dave

Connections

299 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Dave Cross’s Summary

Open Source consultant, author and trainer specialising in database and web technologies.

Dave Cross’s Specialties:

Perl, Databases (especially MySQL, Oracle and Sybase), Unix (including Linux), Apache, HTML, XML (Including RSS/Atom), CSS, JavaScript (including Ajax), Web Technologies, Consultancy, Training, Technical Writing, Blogging

Dave Cross’s Experience

Consultant

Gumtree.com

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Module Author

CPAN

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2000 — Present (9 years 1 month)

Writing and distributing open source libraries to extend Perl.
Owner/Director

Magnum Solutions Ltd

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

April 1995 — Present (14 years 8 months)

Using Open Source technology to build databases and web sites for clients which include investment banks, media organisations and dotcoms.
Visiting Lecturer

University of Westminster

(Education Management industry)

March 2009 — March 2009 (1 month)

Teaching "Introduction to Perl" as an evening class.
Consultant

LOVEFiLM

(Privately Held; Entertainment industry)

October 2008 — February 2009 (5 months)
Consultant

Guardian News and Media

(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

July 2008 — September 2008 (3 months)
Consultant

UBS Investment Bank

(Public Company; UBS; Investment Banking industry)

July 2007 — June 2008 (1 year )
Consultant

BBC Technology

(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

April 2007 — June 2007 (3 months)
Consultant

UBS Investment Bank

(Public Company; UBS; Investment Banking industry)

April 2006 — March 2007 (1 year )
Perl Mongers User Groups Co-ordinator

The Perl Foundation

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2002 — August 2006 (4 years 2 months)

Co-ordinating and assisting hundreds of local Perl User Groups all over the world.
Consultant

BBC Technology

(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

July 2005 — March 2006 (9 months)
Consultant

Guardian News and Media

(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

January 2005 — June 2005 (6 months)
Senior Perl Programmer

Outcome Technologies

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

May 2004 — December 2004 (8 months)

Design and implementation of web-based systems to gather data on prescription drugs. Line management of development team.
Author

O'Reilly Media Inc

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

September 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 4 months)

Co-author of "Perl Template Toolkit".
Leader

London Perl Mongers

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 1998 — December 2001 (3 years 8 months)

Founder and first leader of the first Perl users group in Europe.
Author

Manning Publications

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

September 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 5 months)

Author of the book "Data Munging with Perl".
Senior Programmer

Walt Disney

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

February 1993 — April 1995 (2 years 3 months)

Designing and implementing systems that tracked Disney's video sales and reported figures back to national offices as well as head office in Burbank. Included time managing installations of projects in both London and Madrid.
Senior Programmer

Comtext

(Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1992 — February 1993 (7 months)
Programmer/Senior Programmer

Learmonth & Burchett Management Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1988 — August 1992 (4 years 1 month)

Dave Cross’s Education

London South Bank University

BSc (hons) First Class , Computer Studies , 1984 — 1988
City University

Applied Physics , 1981 — 1982

SU Social Secretary (82/3)
Never finished degree