Current
  • Moblin Developer Tools Engineer at Intel
Past
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 2009Present (2 months)

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

  • Software Engineer

    Talis Information Ltd.

    (Computer Software industry)

    October 2007October 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 2004September 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 2002August 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 2000February 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 1995September 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 , 19962000

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

  • The University of Birmingham

    M.Sc. , Artificial Intelligence , 19951995

    Received Distinction and awarded Best Computer Science M.Sc. in my year

  • Canterbury Christ Church University

    Pg.Dip. , Business and Information Technology , 19931993

  • University of Kent

    B.A. (Hons) , English and Comparative Literature , 19891992

    Dissertation on JG Ballard and William Burroughs.

    Activities and Societies:
    Writing group (Hacksaw Poets)

Additional Information

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Elliot Smith’s Groups:

  •    University of Kent Alumni
  •    Semantic Web
  •    FOSS Professionals
  •    Drupal Community Network
  •    University of Birmingham
  •    code4lib
  •    Linux Networking Group - Midlands
  •    ICT Cluster

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