Peter Edwards

Current

• Perl Software Contractor at BBC
• Owner at Dragonstaff Limited

Past

• Primary Software Architect and Development Contractor at Digital Advertising Company
• Consultant developer at Beacon Computer Services
• Contractor / Senior developer at The Open University

• Resource manager / Senior Developer at Radix Micro Devices
• Project Manager at Open University
• Systems programmer / administrator at The Open University
• Software Engineer at Lex Logistix
• Trainee software engineer at The Open University

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Education

• The Open University
• University of Hertfordshire

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Peter Edwards’s Summary

Widely experienced business software architect and developer with management consultancy skills, specialising in web technology. Interested in building relationships with clients and partners to grow my business. I can help you with design, branding, websites and business database applications. Also with setting up quality processes, technical management and IT infrastructure.

Peter Edwards’s Specialties:

Packages - Talisman Recruitment, Trac project management, SugarCRM, Access Accounts, CMSMS, osCommerce / Zencart web shops, OTRS issue tracker
Software - Web development, Open Source, Linux, Solaris, RDBMS, MySQL, perl, C, C++, DHTML, ExtJS Web 2.0 Javascript, XML, CSS, MS Access, shell, Catalyst, DBIx::Class, OpenInteract, CVS and Subversion, CPAN CLucene, CPAN bulksms
See http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk and http://dragonstaff.com

Peter Edwards’s Experience

• Perl Software Contractor

  BBC

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

  April 2008 — Present (4 months)

  Working on a CMS using WxPerl on ActiveState client side, XML/XSLT under mod_perl on Solaris with Oracle server side talking via SOAP::Lite.

• Owner

  Dragonstaff Limited

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

  March 2005 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  Business IT consultancy
  Software design and development
  Package selection and implementation support
  Business systems using web technology
  Internet hosting and web sites
  Access Accounts software partner
  Microsoft registered partner

• Primary Software Architect and Development Contractor

  Digital Advertising Company

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 2006 — August 2007 (10 months)

  Designed and lead development of the prototype software platform for the first outdoor digital advertising network in the UK. Outsourced IT director role helping with recruitment and selection and strategy.
  Server-side Linux / Apache / Mysql / Perl CMS talking XML-RPC to many remote client sites running Windows XP Embedded, ActiveState Perl and C# .NET video players.

• Consultant developer

  Beacon Computer Services

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

  March 2001 — February 2005 (4 years)

  Systems architect improving 3GL perl framework to use OO and run under mod_perl.
  Project management.
  Technical sales.
  Porting legacy recruitment software and accounts/financial software to perl.

• Contractor / Senior developer

  The Open University

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

  November 1996 — February 2001 (4 years 4 months)

  Contract senior developer.
  Designed and developed web framework and transactions for course approval system using Sun Solaris Unix, Ingres RDBMS, Windows NT, Visual C++, VB, Word, MS Access, C, COBOL, HTML, Javascript, perl.

• Resource manager / Senior Developer

  Radix Micro Devices

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 1996 — October 1996 (8 months)

  Resource manager and senior developer.
  Worked on utility billing systems and meter reading handheld devices using Unix, Oracle 7, Forms 3, PL/SQL, DOS, Windows, Visual C++, VB, MS C, MS Access.

• Project Manager

  Open University

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

  1994 — February 1996 (2 years)

  IT project manager.
  Administrative office head.
  Bid for, designed and part wrote/part subcontracted call centre advice system using VB, Delphi, Access, MS C, Unix, Windows NT, Word, Excel.

• Systems programmer / administrator

  The Open University

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

  1990 — 1994 (4 years)

  Systems programmer and administrator.
  SunOS, Solaris, Unix, VAX/VMS, Ingres, TCP/IP programming in C, ROSS Financials software.

• Software Engineer

  Lex Logistix

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

  1988 — 1990 (2 years)

  Software engineer, System administrator, Tehnical Support.
  Used HP-UX, ICL Unix, BSD Unix, SCO Unix, Informix C-ISAM and 4GL to produce warehouse control software.

• Trainee software engineer

  The Open University

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

  1987 — 1987 (less than a year)

  Worked in the Academic Computing Service writing computer animations for Open University videodisc and TV programmes. Wrote a substantial graphics manual.

Peter Edwards’s Education

• The Open University

  PgDip, Management, 1991 — 1996

• University of Hertfordshire

  Computer Science, 1984 — 1988

  Activities and Societies:

  Fencing

Additional Information

Peter Edwards’s Websites:

• My Company

Peter Edwards’s Interests:

Teaching fencing at Salle Jeudi club. Playing chess for the Open University A Team. Open Source software, perl, Linux, CentOS, MySQL, Catalyst.

Peter Edwards’s Groups:

FSB, MK.pm, YAPC::EU Vienna 2007, UK Recruiter

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•    Open Source member

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