Russell Michell

Current

• Geonet Web Developer (.nz) at GNS Science

Past

• Senior Web Developer at Salt Interactive (.nz)
• Web Developer at Daryl Willcox Publishing (.uk)

Education

• University of Hertfordshire
• Impington Village College

Connections

25 connections

Industry

Research

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• The GeoNet Project

Russell Michell’s Summary

Web Developer/Web Applications Developer since '99

Currently located in Wellington (.nz) at GNS science working on geonet.org.nz, prior to this in Auckland (.nz) at vianet.travel and also London (.uk) at dwpub.com. In Perth (.au) at the mighty Itomic.com. Cambridge (.uk) at apu.ac.uk and again Wellington (.nz) at the now defunct Selectnet.co.nz.

Russell Michell’s Specialties:

Cross platform, cross browser and standards compliant www development in LAMP/WAMP environments with: PHP, MySQL, Python, XHTML, CSS, RSS, Javascript, Proto-aculous, bash, AJAX, XML, XSL, Apache, eZ Publish, Zope and Plone.

Russell Michell’s Experience

• Geonet Web Developer (.nz)

  GNS Science

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

  GNS Science is a Crown Research Institute (CRI) wholly owned by the New Zealand Government. The Geonet project, financed by EQC (Earthquake Commission) provides real-time monitoring and data collection for rapid response and research into earthquake, volcano, landslide and tsunami hazards. My job is to upgrade the content management process of the GeoNet website, the design, layout and usability of the website and manage all aspects of electronic documentation systems pertaining to the project.

• Senior Web Developer

  Salt Interactive (.nz)

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2005 — December 2005 (7 months)

  00 and I18N development with PHP for an emerging global brand. Commercial site and application development for NZ specific and global brands.

• Web Developer

  Daryl Willcox Publishing (.uk)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 2003 — June 2005 (2 years 6 months)

  Based in South London, I was the sole in-house developer (LAMP), recruited to augment existing functionality of the company's three main online products:
  - featuresexec.com
  - sourcewire.com
  - responsesource.com

Russell Michell’s Education

• University of Hertfordshire

  BSc , Cognitive Science , September 1995 — June 1998

  Cognitive Science is the study of natural and artificial methods of cognition with biases towards the human implications of cognitive psychological research and the development of artificial learning systems such as neural networks.

• Impington Village College

Additional Information

Russell Michell’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• The GeoNet Project

Russell Michell’s Interests:

Peak Oil, Sustainability, Environment, New Energy, Alternative Propulsion, Alternative Electricity Generation, Anti Gravity, Off-Grid, Electronic Music, Internet Technology.

Russell Michell’s Contact Settings

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