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 (1 year 7 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