MJ Ray

Current

Board member at Cooperatives-SW
Developer at Debian
Partner at software.coop (Turo Technology LLP)

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Past

Part-time Lecturer at College of West Anglia
Director at Luminas Ltd
Teaching Assistant/Technical Assistant at University of East Anglia

WWW Manager at UUEAS

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Education

University of East Anglia

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

MJ Ray’s Summary

• Self-taught webmaster and programmer with about 15 years experience

• Education background in statistics, mathematics, computing and languages

• Experience in radio, new media, academic and other sectors before joining current co-op

• interested in applying my education to building and improving websites, along with what I've learned (the hard way, sometimes) about collaboration, cooperation, health theory and sustainable development.

• main software used recently is Koha, Django, Drupal, Wordpress, OSCommerce and Perl in general.

I want to make a good, ethical living by helping good organisations connect to the rest of the world better through the web. I'm interested in projects which help me to do that, or let me try something new which might be useful in future.

MJ Ray’s Specialties:

Statistics, measurement, accessibility, e-commerce, web shops, CMSes, syndication, open services, free software, system administration, localisation, teaching, security, gnu, linux, django, drupal, koha, wordpress, perl, python

MJ Ray’s Experience

Board member

Cooperatives-SW

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Cooperatives-SW is a union of cooperative and mutual enterprises in the South-West of England (Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Bristol, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire), offering networking opportunities to members and supporting representation to the Regional Development Agency, Government Office, Regional Infrastructure for Social Enterprise.
Developer

Debian

(Internet industry)

2003 — Present (6 years )

Packager of yet another text editor (but a massively moused hypertext one) and mentor/sponsor of a few developers who have gone on to be far better than I am.
Partner

software.coop (Turo Technology LLP)

(Partnership; Internet industry)

November 2002 — Present (7 years 1 month)

Founding member of this worker cooperative that does pretty much anything relating to the internet, with an emphasis on sustainable web development, including free and open source software and ethical online marketing.
Part-time Lecturer

College of West Anglia

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

February 2002 — June 2003 (1 year 5 months)

Part-time teaching of mathematics to ease transition between Director and Partner positions. Led teaching of A2 Mathematics for 16-18 and Key Skills Numeracy for post-16 horticulture; also delivered teaching for Key Skills Numeracy for post-16 animal care, travel and hairdressing.
Director

Luminas Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2000 — September 2002 (2 years 6 months)

Startup using XML, XSLT and related technologies to do Really Clever Things for large databases.
Teaching Assistant/Technical Assistant

University of East Anglia

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

April 1998 — September 2001 (3 years 6 months)

Mixture of teaching assistance and computer system administration duties while studying as a postgraduate. Assisted with seminars for Statistics courses for maths majors. During the final year, led a lecture course on Statistics for Business and Accountancy majors and set and marked a blind exam for the course.
WWW Manager

UUEAS

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

May 1997 — October 2000 (3 years 6 months)

Developing the web presence of a membership organisation and the shops, venues and advisory services that it owned. Designed and delivered practical non-examined training courses in the first two years as talks, workshops and one-to-ones for volunteers and staff as required.