Sam Phillips

Current

• Technical Director at Setfire Media

Past

• Head of Development at Setfire Media
• Manager, Web Development at Webmaint
• Web Applications Developer at Webmaint

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Education

• The University of Manchester
• The University of Manchester
• Bishop Vesey's Grammar School

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Connections

25 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Sam Phillips’s Summary

I specialise in managing successful e-commerce projects with a focus on getting things live, working and making money whilst not compromising good code. I draw from a technical background on *nix languages, and I was an early pioneer of advanced JavaScript techniques and standards-based design. I'm a recent convert to the Ruby on Rails platform.

Sam Phillips’s Specialties:

Project Management, Innovation, Team Leadership, Agile Methodologies, Technical Design/Architecture, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, SQL, Perl, JavaScript, CSS, Standards-Based Design/Markup, Form Design, Usability, Interchange, Server Administration, Averting Disaster Through Careful Planning and Quick Thinking.

Sam Phillips’s Experience

• Technical Director

  Setfire Media

  (Internet industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

• Head of Development

  Setfire Media

  (Internet industry)

  July 2008 — June 2009 (1 year )

  Building and running a busy, bright and successful development team.

• Manager, Web Development

  Webmaint

  (Internet industry)

  July 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 1 month)

• Web Applications Developer

  Webmaint

  (Internet industry)

  June 2005 — July 2007 (2 years 2 months)

  Cutting my teeth on my first commercial web applications, including creating from scratch what would later become one of the web's leading travel agents, and logging hours on other leading e-commerce sites.

Sam Phillips’s Education

• The University of Manchester

  MA , Modern European History , 2004 — 2005

  Graduated with Distinction; thesis entitled 'Suicide and the Suicidal: Madness, Self-Murder and the Victorian Asylum'.
  
  Other research included the history of pain and anaesthesia, history of the idea of 'self' and an attempt at a re-mapping of the history of prostitution.

  Activities and Societies:

  Student Direct, Manchester Academy, History Department Mentor and Guide

• The University of Manchester

  BA(Hons) , History , 2001 — 2004

  Graduated with First Class Honours; thesis entitled '"This fatal disease of civilised peoples": Suicide, Rationality and European Cultural Anxieties, c. 1830-1930' was in the top three of the year.
  
  Other research included the history of kleptomania and the Victorian department store, and an investigation of experience of the reserved trades in the Second World War.
  
  Winner of School of History and Classics MA Scholarship.

  Activities and Societies:

  Hulme Hall JCR Executive Committee, Hulme Hall Arts Society (Chair), History Department Mentor and Guide, Manchester Computing Engineer

• Bishop Vesey's Grammar School

  'A' Levels , History, Latin, English

Additional Information

Sam Phillips’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Sam Phillips’s Honors:

Grade 8 Piano
Grade 5 Flute (with Merit)
Grade 5 Theory of Music

Sam Phillips’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch