Paul Thornton

Current

Senior Software Engineer / Development Consultant at British Sky Broadcasting
Managing Director at Proteus Solutions Limited

Past

Web Development Consultant at UKTV / Virgin Media / BBC
Web/IT Consultant at Hemming Group Limited
Web Development Consultant at Square Music Limited

IT Consultant at Reed Elsevier
Senior Web Developer at Reading Room Limited
Web Manager at Hervey Bay City Council, Australia
Software Developer / Application Support Manager at Trinity Mirror - Digial

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Education

BSc (Hons) University of Staffordshire

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Paul Thornton’s Summary

Graduated with a 1st Class honours degree in Computing Science and with over eight years experience working predominately in the web development arena of the media/publishing sector, I have accumulated a wealth of valuable technical expertise in website technologies and business processes to help deliver projects successfully.

Paul Thornton’s Specialties:

Software engineering, web/application development (ColdFusion MX, SQL Server/Oracle, XML, UML, Verity, CSS, IIS, D/X/HTML, JavaScript, Java, AJAX, Flex, Fusebox, Mach-II, ColdSpring); Continuous Integration; Website design (Photoshop/Fireworks) & usability; Project & team management.

Paul Thornton’s Experience

Senior Software Engineer / Development Consultant

British Sky Broadcasting

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BSY; Broadcast Media industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years)

Web and application development/software engineering using Mach-ii v1.5, ColdFusion 8, Flex 3 and Oracle. Continuous Integration environment configuration (Hudson, ANT, Selenium, MXUnit, Subversion). Agile/SCRUM principles and practices.
Managing Director

Proteus Solutions Limited

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2003 — Present (5 years 11 months)

A limited company setup to provide IT consultancy expertise to the web industry, specialising in dynamic, database-driven, e-commerce websites.
Web Development Consultant

UKTV / Virgin Media / BBC

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Media Production industry)

February 2007 — July 2007 (6 months)

Web development of numerous microsites for UKTV History: Britain's Best; UKTV Food: Local Food Hero; and UKTV G2: Car of the Year. Technologies: ColdFusion, Fusebox, SQL Server.
Web/IT Consultant

Hemming Group Limited

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

February 2006 — February 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Web Development Consultant

Square Music Limited

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Music industry)

September 2003 — September 2006 (3 years 1 month)

Web design and development of the "online music label" http://squaremusic.com/
IT Consultant

Reed Elsevier

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; REL.L; Publishing industry)

September 2003 — February 2006 (2 years 6 months)
Senior Web Developer

Reading Room Limited

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

June 2003 — September 2003 (4 months)
Web Manager

Hervey Bay City Council, Australia

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2002 — January 2003 (4 months)
Software Developer / Application Support Manager

Trinity Mirror - Digial

(Public Company; TNI; Publishing industry)

September 1999 — August 2002 (3 years)