Director at Essential Systems
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Director at Essential Systems
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Ruby, Python, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Django, Linux and Windows network administration.
Asterisk PBX installation & maintenance using IAX, Zaptel and SIP technologies.
Team & project management, training, research & development of new methods and technologies for organisations.
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (9 months)
Developer of flexible and powerful business software for customer and staff management with specialist insight into legacy integration and the financial industry.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)
July 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 7 months)
* Lead developer for a loan selection tool streamlining and improving the whole broker loan selection process for underwriters and account managers.
* Involved in further development & maintenance of the first major large-scale broker management system in the industry. Handling customers from the beginning to the end of the loan application process.
* Installation and maintenance of Asterisk PBX systems for company franchises. Installed on Fedora using ISDN or FXO/FXS connections.
* System administration of Linux servers and Windows networks.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
June 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 1 month)
* Lead developer for the company's CMOS system which manages the content of numeorus sites across multiple domains with features specific to SEO.
* Junior developer on Quesit find engine.
* Lead on a number of smaller dynamic website projects.
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
September 2003 — February 2004 (6 months)
Involved in the management and support of the Shropshire county's Primary Care and Community Care NHS network. Spanning 50+ doctors surgeries, 5 community hospitals and 3 main agency sites.
Technologies included ISDN, leased line & satelite links, ethernet LAN and servers were UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, etc) and applications included Oracle, MySQL, etc.
BEng, Software Engineering, 2001 — 2005
Agile web development using Ruby, Python, Rails and Django. Eastern philosophy, Martial Arts, Personal development, NLP, Transactional analysis, Psychopathology, History, Running
Python West Midlands,
International Webmasters Association,
Tai Jutsu Kai Bromsgrove,
PEAR Package Maintainer,