Architect for high load internationalized platforms at Yahoo!
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Principal Architect at Yahoo!
- Past
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- EU Web Search Engineering Manager at Yahoo!
- Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo!
- Core Developer at Joomla - Open Source Project
- Software Engineer at Yahoo!
- Core Developer at Simple XML Application Server
- IT Manager at Elgate Products Limited
- Contributor at Zend Framework - Open Source Project
- Google summer of Code at Developer for the Mambo Content Management System
- Creative Product Designer at Elgate Products Limited
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- Industry
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Richard Allinson’s Summary
Social Networking, Information Networks, Internationalization, Geolocality, Distributed Systems and Architecture
Richard Allinson’s Specialties:
Loosely coupled PHP designed for distributed modular systems
Richard Allinson’s Experience
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Principal Architect
Yahoo!
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Principal Architect of Yahoo! Global Platforms
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EU Web Search Engineering Manager
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
October 2007 — July 2008 (10 months)
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Senior Software Engineer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
May 2007 — October 2007 (6 months)
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Core Developer
Joomla - Open Source Project
(Internet industry)
October 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 5 months)
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Software Engineer
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
May 2006 — October 2006 (6 months)
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Core Developer
Simple XML Application Server
(Internet industry)
June 2002 — April 2006 (3 years 11 months)
A personal project that I began in 2002 to produce browser based MS Access style reporting. The
software uses XSL style sheets to transform raw XML data into relevant presentable formats. -
IT Manager
Elgate Products Limited
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2000 — April 2006 (6 years 1 month)
Managed a network of 30 computers with 9 remote workers. Duties included administrating several
Microsoft, Linux and RS/6000 servers insuring minimum down time. Providing company wide user
support for Microsoft Office and sourcing new technologies to improve work flow management.
Maintaining SAP and Oracle ERP Applications.
Integration and modification of browser based Customer Relationship Management software,
including automated data-mapping from an Enterprise Resource Planning system
Designed and implemented an extension for an open source Content Management System to
display XML data transformed with XSL
Developed and maintained an XML/XSLT reporting server written in PHP that connects to several
relational databases including MySQL
Managed server migration and administration from Microsoft products to Linux, Apache, Samba,
postfix and MySQL
Designed and produced off-site back up software utilizing the FTP protocol for file replication -
Contributor
Zend Framework - Open Source Project
(Internet industry)
November 2005 — March 2006 (5 months)
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Google summer of Code
Developer for the Mambo Content Management System
(Internet industry)
July 2005 — August 2005 (2 months)
I was one of 6 selected by Google from 186 developers to work on the multi award winning Open Source
project Mambo. I had a time frame of two months in which to write, document, test and integrate several
code enhancements including a new core caching system. The main goal of the project was to leverage
reuse of code and introduce a simple Model View Control system for third party developers. The software
can be found at www.opensourcematters.org -
Creative Product Designer
Elgate Products Limited
(Design industry)
October 1994 — April 2000 (5 years 7 months)
Designed products for general sale and exclusive customers, working closely with the Studio Manager and
Sales Representatives. Duties included hand illustration and computer aided design for packaging and
advertising.
Brought computer aided design in house saving 40% on product design costs
Instigated procedures to transfer packaging film production to China saving 80% on cost
Increased product sampling time by utilizing a direct to Hong Kong on-line delivery system
Developed and implemented a multi-user database for tracking artwork production
Produced and managed digital backup procedures for product designs
