Elliot Smith

Current

Moblin Developer Tools Engineer at Intel

Past

Software Engineer at Talis Information Ltd.
Business Analyst at OpenAdvantage
Web Developer at University of Birmingham

Learning Advisor (IT) at University of Birmingham
Technical Author at Armada Computer Publications

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Education

The University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham
Canterbury Christ Church University

University of Kent

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Elliot Smith’s Summary

Developer with wide programming experience in Ruby on Rails, PHP and Java. Particularly interested in RESTful web applications, web development frameworks, content management systems, and open source software more generally.

Zend Certified Engineer (PHP)

See my oDesk profile for evidence of other skills:
http://www.odesk.com/users/~~fd862e53bd0e4309

Elliot Smith’s Specialties:

Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Java, web application frameworks, content management, Drupal, web client programming, web services, REST, XML/XSLT, AJAX, open source in business, ASP, Python, Ant, OPAC

Elliot Smith’s Experience

Moblin Developer Tools Engineer

Intel

(Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

Working on the Moblin SDK (http://moblin.org/)
Software Engineer

Talis Information Ltd.

(Computer Software industry)

October 2007 — October 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Java programming (Spring, Hibernate, JAXB, Ant, Jetty, JAX-RS, Ivy); library software; OPAC; RESTful web services; JRuby; Ruby on Rails; PHP; Zend Framework; Smarty; Sybase; CruiseControl; Hudson; Semantic Web; RDF; ARC; SPARQL; data wrangling

Worked mainly on Prism 3 (http://talis.com/prism)
Business Analyst

OpenAdvantage

(Educational Institution; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2004 — September 2007 (3 years 2 months)

Working as an open source advocate; developing applications using a large range of open source technologies; assisting companies in choosing open source solutions for content management, CRM, web development environments; providing training on PHP, Ruby on Rails and Drupal
Web Developer

University of Birmingham

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

February 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 7 months)

Writing custom web applications for University departments, e.g. vacancies system for personnel (http://www.vacancies.bham.ac.uk/vacancies/vacancySearch.htm), prospectus request form (http://www.prospectus-req.bham.ac.uk/main.htm). Written using ASP 3, MySQL, Java, MS Access, SQL Server etc..
Learning Advisor (IT)

University of Birmingham

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 2000 — February 2002 (1 year 7 months)

Developing e-learning materials and courses for University staff. Building bespoke web applications. Integration of WebCT VLE with other campus systems.
Technical Author

Armada Computer Publications

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1995 — September 1996 (1 year )

Authoring manuals for computer software; writing quality control procedures; developing technical documentation processes

Elliot Smith’s Education

The University of Birmingham

Ph.D. , Computer Science , 1996 — 2000

Thesis was on the topic of knowledge representation and inference in psychologically-relevant AI systems
The University of Birmingham

M.Sc. , Artificial Intelligence , 1995 — 1995

Received Distinction and awarded Best Computer Science M.Sc. in my year
Canterbury Christ Church University

Pg.Dip. , Business and Information Technology , 1993 — 1993
University of Kent

B.A. (Hons) , English and Comparative Literature , 1989 — 1992

Dissertation on JG Ballard and William Burroughs.

Activities and Societies:

Writing group (Hacksaw Poets)