Duncan Isaksen-Loxton

Current

Owner at Red5 Media

Past

Senior Developer at Debtdomain GLMS Pty Ltd
Development Team Lead at Red5
Owner at SixFive (Self-employed)

Senior Developer at McGrath Estate Agents
Team Lead at RecruitAdvantage
Senior Web Systems Engineer at McGrath Estate Agents
Ski & Snowboard Instructor at Perfect Turn - Sunday River
Project Manager at Studio2Online Ltd
Ski & Snowboard Instructor at Perfect Turn - Sunday River
TAILS Project Assistant at Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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Education

De Montfort University

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Industry

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Duncan Isaksen-Loxton’s Summary

Developing a taste for computers at an early age (apparently one of my first spoken words!) I gained a taste for multimedia development at school, and went on to gain an A-Level in Computing backed up by Electronics and Physics.

I was in the first year to complete Multimedia Computing - one of the first courses of its kind in the world at a university level - a degree in all facets of the internet. From low level protocols such as http, smtp, imap and gsm in mobile networks, programming languages for the internet to databases and web design, animation and human computer interfaces, the course gave me an in depth of knowledge not found from a lot of other computing degrees.

Now proficient in a range of technologies and languages I can advise on the suitability of solutions for the job at hand and tailor that solution for the best results.

Currently learning about new and developing rich media platforms such as Macromedia's Flex, and the Javascript and Web Services technique known as AJAX, I am looking to expand my knowledge and push the boundaries of applications delivered over the internet.

Duncan Isaksen-Loxton’s Specialties:

ColdFusion (versions 4.5, 5, MX, 7 and 8), PHP, Fusebox, CSS, HTML, Javascript and AJAX, XML, Project Management, SQL Server, ECommerce, Search Engines, ASP, .NET, C#, Java, J2EE, Flex, Action Script. Web Application Architecture, Server Deployment, Load balancing. SQL Server Replication, Coding Standards, Team Leader, i18n Internationalisation, Globalisation i11n, Localisation i10n, IVR, VoiceXML, Flexcoders, cfug

Duncan Isaksen-Loxton’s Experience

Owner

Red5 Media

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

Red5 Media is a leader in the field of web design and development located in Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia.

We build and host content management systems, ecommerce and complex applications deployed via the internet or desktop. Specialists with Adobe technologies such as AIR, Flex and ColdFusion.

If you require web hosting, outsourced help with complex web-site production, or a great looking web presence of any kind - Red5 can help. Whatever you need to do online no matter how complicated or specialised - the website designers and developers at Red5 can make it happen.

To achieve your online goals we can offer you a number of solutions and a broad range of design and development services. We support our clients throughout the lifecycle of any project including assisting in developing the strategy and specification, keeping them informed of the progress throughout the build, smooth implementation and ongoing assistance, training and support.
Senior Developer

Debtdomain GLMS Pty Ltd

(Banking industry)

February 2007 — January 2009 (2 years)
Development Team Lead

Red5

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2007 — February 2008 (1 year 1 month)

I am currently responsible for making sure projects are run on time and to budget using my team of ColdFusion developers. My job also involves looking at new and emerging technologies and if necessary moving them into the development process. I spend time each week looking at code reviews and holding development meetings to help grow the team. My aim is to have everyone participate in our future, and in doing so we all help each other learn and grow.

My time is split about 60% to coding, and the remainder between hardware related activities, capacity planning, client meetings, specifications, wireframing and other personnel based work.

My day revolves around making sure we produce the highest quality product in the least amount of time, as such I spend time looking at development and coding practices and finding ways of streamlining our days, making life that bit more productive and easier.
Owner
SixFive (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

November 1999 — January 2008 (8 years 3 months)

SixFive is a small company specialising in creating websites that are easy to use, look great, have good accessibility and perform consistently in Search Engines.

We have built small sites to large community sites with online management of users, message boards, online content management, surveys, product catalogues and shopping carts.

Other tasks can be carried out such as Database proparation, data transformations, linking legacy systems and more. Pretty much any task that requires programming can be accomplished.
Senior Developer

McGrath Estate Agents

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Real Estate industry)

June 2006 — January 2007 (8 months)

Working on taking the company into a Franchise based business model.
Responsible for the planning and build of the new CRM module
Integrated SubVersion Version Control with Trac into development team workflow.
Team Lead

RecruitAdvantage

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

September 2005 — May 2006 (9 months)

Senior Developer and Development Team Leader. Working with a multinational team, and multinational clients on a system deployed over 24 countries in 12 languages. Recruitment agents use TurboRecruit to manage their job listings and applications through the recruitment process.

Direct communication and liaison with several multinational clients at senior levels and close management of key accounts from a technical perspective with the Account Managers.

Involved in using Artificial Intelligence and IVR, the complete solution is hosted and based in Sydney, Australia on a multi server clustered and load balanced environment with a Tier 1 provider.

Responsible for project management at the development level, team workload, code standards, and peer reviews, and ongoing education. Implemented code versioning with Subversion and Trac.
Senior Web Systems Engineer

McGrath Estate Agents

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Real Estate industry)

September 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 1 month)

Building and maintaining the McGrath suite of enterprise applications. Migration from ColdFusion 4.5 > ColdFusion 7. Application of FuseBox 4.1.

Building and maintaining the McGrath fleet of websites, 5 in total. Search Engine Promotion and traffic growth. New Features such as a wish list, customer login for administration of details.

ColdFusion 4.5, MX, 6.1 and 7. SQL Server administration and replication. Windows Server 2000, 2003 administration.
Ski & Snowboard Instructor

Perfect Turn - Sunday River

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Sports industry)

January 2003 — April 2003 (4 months)

Teaching all ages and all levels in Skiing and Snowboarding
Winner of the Supervisors Award for outstanding service
Project Manager

Studio2Online Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 8 months)

Placement Student to Project Manager in 2 years
Spearheading Search Engine Promotion for the Company
Managing workload of 3-5 people
Primary Customer contact point
Programming in PHP, HTML, ColdFusion, .NET, C#, XML
Ski & Snowboard Instructor

Perfect Turn - Sunday River

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Sports industry)

January 2002 — April 2002 (4 months)
TAILS Project Assistant

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Veterinary industry)

September 1997 — January 1998 (5 months)

TAILS - Tasking, Advice, Inspectorate, Logging System
A project to deliver mobile IT.