Senior Developer at Torchbox
United Kingdom
- Current
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- Chief Geek Herder at Oxford Geek Nights
- Senior Developer at Torchbox
- Past
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- Electronic Publisher at Extenza ePublishing Services
- Education
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- University of Oxford
- University of Oxford
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
J-P Stacey’s Summary
Content and intent require more careful handling than you'd think, if they are to translate between different media, or from the project plan to the finished product.
From my time as a published science researcher, through workflow management in journals e-publishing services, to developing & maintaining both websites and the CMSes or frameworks behind them for a fast-moving, cutting-edge web development company, I've tried to keep one eye on the functional and one on the useable, glancing to new technologies only as and when they've made sense for the job in hand.
I am a jack of all trades, and a master of what's necessary at the time; and wherever I work, I always make tea for my nearest neighbours.
J-P Stacey’s Specialties:
Workflowing & maintainable code; XHTML, CSS & clean websites; CMSes, webservers and command-line footling; Javascript, PHP, XML, XSL, all flavours of SQL, Coldfusion, Drupal, Perl; good ideas, novel solutions, hacking, hewing, wringing out a solution, and sometimes just making do.
J-P Stacey’s Experience
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Chief Geek Herder
Oxford Geek Nights
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
July 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Main organizer, sorting web presence, sponsorship, speaker bookings, venue hire, basic tech support etc. with help from a secret cabal of advisers, and with colleagues providing more tech support and help at the events.
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Senior Developer
Torchbox
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Planning, managing & executing development of websites and applications for predominantly charity organisations; converting & critiquing designs for feasibility, accessibility & useability; administration & deployment of existing sites; content management systems including in-house, Drupal & Wordpress; some project management & PM enabling
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Electronic Publisher
Extenza ePublishing Services
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
September 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 4 months)
Managing the process of web-enabling other publishers' journals content; writing & maintaining systems for automated checking of metadata content; enabling better non-automated checking for team; managing & assessing relationships with outsourced content converters; workflow & content management for many dozens of journals.
J-P Stacey’s Education
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University of Oxford
DPhil, Physics, 1999 — 2003
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University of Oxford
MPhys, Physics, 1995 — 1999
- Activities and Societies:
- Independent Music Society; DougSoc; Cruel and Unusual Punishment - comedy revues
Additional Information
J-P Stacey’s Websites:
J-P Stacey’s Groups:
Oxford Geek Nights, Oxford Geeks, Institute of Physics
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Carbon Footprint Reduction Group member
J-P Stacey’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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