Rich Barrett-Small

Current

• Web Developer at Victoria and Albert Museum

Past

• Web Development Manager at Studio 24 Ltd
• Senior Editor, Data Solutions at ProQuest Information and Learning

Education

• The University of Sheffield

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Industry

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Rich Barrett-Small’s Summary

Rich is a specialist in designing and building database-driven web applications using Python and PHP frameworks, including Symfony, Zend and Django.

Rich Barrett-Small’s Specialties:

Data migration, Unicode and character set issues, development strategy, video encoding.

Rich Barrett-Small’s Experience

• Web Developer

  Victoria and Albert Museum

  (Government Agency; Museums and Institutions industry)

  March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  Created high-definition video processes to support Vimeo and YouTube channels.
  Developed Django-driven JSON API to serve collections data to internal and third-party applications.
  Developing and maintaining Symfony applications for exhibitions.
  Supporting legacy CMS and migration to new system.
  Auditing suppliers' code for security.

• Web Development Manager

  Studio 24 Ltd

  (Internet industry)

  October 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  Building database-driven sites for clients using PHP and MySQL. Developing strategies in-house to maximise efficiency of projects. Client liaison.

• Senior Editor, Data Solutions

  ProQuest Information and Learning

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PQE; Publishing industry)

  July 2001 — October 2006 (5 years 4 months)

  Maintaining large collections of bibliographic records. Protoyping applications using these records and Python, XML, XSLT, MySQL and Perl.

Rich Barrett-Small’s Education

• The University of Sheffield

  BSc Hons , Psychology , 1997 — 2000

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