Developer at CPDcast®
United Kingdom
Developer at CPDcast®
United Kingdom
(Computer Software industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Full-time employment at CPDcast.com developing the website and associated systems.
(Internet industry)
August 2008 — December 2008 (5 months)
Contracted for 3 months to work on an Ad Serving Platform for http://www.workhound.co.uk/
(E-Learning industry)
March 2008 — June 2008 (4 months)
This is a start-up internet based company that provides CPD (continuing professional development) for Lawyers in the form of Podcasts via a website (http://www.cpdcast.com). The system is accompanied by a back-end to enable an administrator to perform tasks, such as: uploading new Podcasts, viewing reports and setting up offers and redeem codes. I worked with the client to develop their needs and ideas into feature sets and with an accessibility and CSS expert to create the system. The site runs on a LAMP setup and is built in PHP5 on top of the Symfony framework.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
November 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 5 months)
The Technology Works International Limited/TradeDoubler. This is a mid-sized Internet marketing company that use their own bid management software. I was employed here as a PHP developer as part of a team of seven. I primarily worked on projects to do with the bid management software, which is in use across five markets (UK, Germany, France, Korea and Japan). After about a year working here I worked as lead developer on a project to overhaul the legacy architecture of this system. This project has also seen me take on an architect role and I have used UML diagrams to document the design of the system.
The group this company was part of was bought out by TradeDoubler in 2007 and I was involved in the sale process when I was asked to do a code review with a consultant from TradeDoubler. The deal was completed in late July 2007 for £56 million.
(Telecommunications industry)
June 2003 — October 2005 (2 years 5 months)
This is a small sized telecommunications service provider with their own data centre. I was employed in a multi role position, which involved developing new applications to integrate with an in-house SMS system and their third party IVR platform as well as looking after some of the infrastructure. It was here that I started to develop my OOA/D skills due to the increase in software development I was involved with.
(Internet industry)
November 2001 — June 2003 (1 year 8 months)
This is a small company whose line of business is virtual hosting, I was originally taken on here to work on a client’s website which was written in PHP with a mySQL backend. I was offered a fulltime roll after completion of the site. From then on my duties involved maintaining the company’s four redhat servers and one Sun Solaris server as well as developing web solutions for some of their clients. Another of my duties was answering the technical support line. Problems here ranged from something like a Perl/PHP script not working to helping someone setup their email.