Jo Carter

Current

PHP Developer at Pod1

Past

Developer at Mind Candy
Customer Support Volunteer at LiveJournal.com

Education

Microsoft Certification
University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham

Université de Nantes
Ashby Grammar School

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Jo Carter’s Summary

Agile developer with experience in object-oriented design and test-driven development for database-driven websites in PHP5, JSP/Java and XML/XSLT

Jo Carter’s Specialties:

• OOP, ORM and Agile Development
• PHP4 and PHP5 (inc Symfony and Propel)
• JSP, Java, Hibernate, JUnit
• SQL (MySQL, SQL Server)
• XSLT, XML, XHTML, CSS
• Freemarker, Velocity
• Apache, Tomcat, mod_rewrite
• Windows (XP and NT), Mac OS X and some Unix
• Fluent French

Jo Carter’s Experience

PHP Developer

Pod1

(Internet industry)

June 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Developer

Mind Candy

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

March 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Mind Candy is an interactive entertainment company that specialises in puzzles and Alternate Reality Games. Our first project was a groundbreaking puzzle-based ARG called Perplex City - a global treasure hunt played simultaneously by tens of thousands of people around the world.

Responsible for maintaining and developing many versions of perplexcity.com, a large online community site for an alternate reality game (ARG). Additionally responsible for designing, developing and maintaining a User Administration website for internal use by Customer Support.
Responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the management system for a Store Locator.
Responsible for designing, developing and maintaining a Puzzle Manager system.
Responsible for designing and developing a wayback archive for the sites from Perplex City Season 1.
Responsible for developing a website used for the BBC Big Weekend ARG.
Responsible for developing a Content Management System (CMS).
Customer Support Volunteer

LiveJournal.com

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

January 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 6 months)

Volunteer on the Customer Technical Support Team for a database driven blogging website, LiveJournal, serving over 2 million users. I gained many levels of trusted privileges and answered over 3000 requests to the users' satisfaction. I was a mentor for other volunteers, and was involved in their training, and in producing training documents

Also, involved in translation of LiveJournal.com technical support documents into French

Jo Carter’s Education

Microsoft Certification

MSCA 2005 — 2008

Activities and Societies:

MCP, MSCA
University of Nottingham

Msc, Information Technology, 2004 — 2005

MSc in Information Technology at the University of Nottingham: (Distinction: average 75.4%)
Dissertation: Hyperstructure Image Organiser (based on ZigZag) (73%) (available to download at my Website)

10/2004 - 09/2005 Representative on the Student-Staff Consultative Committee (MSc in IT)
01/2004 - 06/2005 IT Officer on the Societies Executive Committee (University of Nottingham

Activities and Societies:

Student-Staff Representative, IT Officer
University of Nottingham

BA (Hons), Law with French, 2000 — 2004

09/2000 - 06/2004 BA (Hons) Law with French at the University of Nottingham: Second class
(3rd year at l'Université de Nantes, France)

01/2004 - 06/2005 IT Officer on the Societies Executive Committee (University of Nottingham)

Activities and Societies:

IT Officer
Université de Nantes

Droit francais 2002 — 2003

As part of my Law with French degree at Nottingham
Ashby Grammar School

1996 — 2000