Rob Roy

Current

• Senior Web Developer at VisitBritain

Past

• Web Contractor at Christian Aid
• Senior Web Developer at Emerging Systems
• Web Developer at Sydney Adventist Hospital

• Director, Fundraiser and General Manager at Respiratech
• General manager and Aus/NZ Sales Manager at Opal Technology
• Junior Programmer at Custom Credit Corporation

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Education

• University of Western Sydney
• Southern Cross University
• CITP - Computer Industry Training Program

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Recommended

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Connections

88 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• Photo Gallery
• My Blog

Rob Roy’s Summary

Broad range of experience and industries building Internet websites and applications. Special interest in Web Standards.

Rob Roy’s Specialties:

Dynamic web site design and implementation, Web Standards, Accessibility and Usability, Tridion CMS, Google Map/Google Earth integration, PHP5, Symfony MVC Framework

Rob Roy’s Experience

• Senior Web Developer

  VisitBritain

  (Government Agency; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  June 2005 — Present (4 years 2 months)

  Senior technical resource in relaunch of www.visitbritain.com and www.enjoyengland.com for 50+ country and language sites. Emphasis on Tridion CMS and Web Standards (XHTML, CSS, Javascript).
  
  VisitBritain replaced the old British Tourism Authority and English Tourism Council and is the official voice of the UK Tourism industry working to bring travellers to Britain.

• Web Contractor

  Christian Aid

  (Non-Profit; Philanthropy industry)

  August 2004 — May 2005 (10 months)

  Assisted with rollout of new www.pressureworks.org site (Tridion) and ongoing support of web sites.
  
  Developed editor-deployable donation forms and back-office donation processing including interface between payment gateway and internal accounting system.

• Senior Web Developer

  Emerging Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2000 — July 2004 (4 years)

  Analysis, system design and implementation of ESKE Content Management System, and used system to develop content-managed websites for clients including St Vincent's Hospital Sydney, Teachers Health Fund, Phoenix Health Fund, Southern Star television and Cryosite.
  
  Strong Javascript skills including development of complex web controls for Emerging's in-house web-deployed application system. (AJAX in 2000, many years before the term was coined)

• Web Developer

  Sydney Adventist Hospital

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years)

  Sydney Adventist Hospital is the largest private hospital in NSW with a full range of medical, surgical and oncological services.
  
  I was the sole designer and developer for "SanDocs", a fully custom web-based Document Management System for all policy and procedure documents in the hospital. Features included web-based change and revision management of Word source documents, complex approval and authorization workflow and publishing to the Intranet including print formatting.

• Director, Fundraiser and General Manager

  Respiratech

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Medical Devices industry)

  1996 — 1999 (3 years)

  We developed the Pneumeter - a personal lung function meter like an electronic peak flow meter with additional clinical measures. The device was optioned by a large US medical supplies company.

• General manager and Aus/NZ Sales Manager

  Opal Technology

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

  1990 — 1993 (3 years)

  Helped create the OpalVision 24-bit video and special effects system for the Commodore Amiga.

• Junior Programmer

  Custom Credit Corporation

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Financial Services industry)

  April 1986 — November 1989 (3 years 8 months)

  Worked on the Custom Credit Corporation Factoring project. CCC was the consumer finance arm of the National Australia Bank.
  
  I was a member of the first intake to the Computer Industry Training Program (CITP) jointly developed by the Australian Computer Society and the NSW department of Technical and Further Education (TAFE)

Additional Information

Rob Roy’s Websites:

• My Company
• Photo Gallery
• My Blog

Rob Roy’s Interests:

photography, travel, family history, adventure motorcycling (BMW F650GS Dakar)

Rob Roy’s Groups:

Symfony Camp

•    SDL Tridion R5

Rob Roy’s Contact Settings

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