Brighton, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Senior Web Developer at Cactus Worldwide Ltd
- Past
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- Web Developer at ArkSports
- Web Developer at Click with Tehnology
- Web Developer at Strawberry Soup
- Freelance at HRC
- Web Developer at NetProfess
- Web Developer at Time Out
- Web Designer at John Lewis
- Assistant Lead Producer at Worldsport.com
- Education
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- Surrey Institute of Art and Design
- University of Portsmouth
- Kings Acre, Clapham
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Tristan Bailey’s Summary
I am a diligent and hard working web developer. I enjoy realising my ideas and driving forward those of others. I apply myself whole-heartedly, to bringing ideals and techniques from diverse backgrounds to give the user the best targeted experience. Collaborate, Unify, Extend and Simplify are my key principles to achieving a sound base to work.
Over the last 10 years I have worked at companies building and maintaining 4 large sites. For the last 4 years I have been coding classes and front-end designs for a group of travel guide websites. I also run my own Linux web server for my freelance clients, developing and configuring the services and working to Open Source goals with Web Standards, mainly in PHP and XHTML.
Tristan Bailey’s Specialties:
php, mysql, web analytics, database design, visual design, css, html, ajax, web development, Mac, Linux
Tristan Bailey’s Experience
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Senior Web Developer
Cactus Worldwide Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Education Management industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Leading the web development and company strategy for our four main businesses of Language holidays, Evening courses, Tailor Made Training and Teaching English Abroad. Improving all web offerings and building new Web 2.0 channels.
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Web Developer
ArkSports
(Online Media industry)
2003 — 2007 (4 years)
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Web Developer
Click with Tehnology
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
August 2007 — November 2007 (4 months)
Working on travel websites. Building and updating clients in the holiday booking sector. HTML, PHP, Prostgres, MSSQL, Subversion
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Web Developer
Strawberry Soup
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Luxury Goods & Jewelry industry)
August 2007 — October 2007 (3 months)
Working as a freelancer on a new website for www.dreamicons.com. Recode from ecommerce application in OO PHP and standards compliant HTML to fit the new client. This converted the code from selling wine to selling luxury products. Database changes and structure of the Classes were required as well as new HTML and CSS.
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Freelance
HRC
(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
March 2007 — May 2007 (3 months)
Working as a freelancer on a large project to recode from scratch an extranet reporting application in OO PHP and standards compliant HTML. The application is used by about 300 researchers and bodies providing reports to back up the funding given to them for health research. The previous application is no longer in a maintainable state. I took on the remit to rebuild maintaining the current functionality, then improve UI and finally extend and integrate with other systems.
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Web Developer
NetProfess
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 2006 — December 2006 (3 months)
Working in a team of five building SME websites based on in-house Framework to web standards. Working on a short contract I was one of three developers. I worked through several small projects on quick deadlines in a fast growing company. cheesemakers.co.nz – design and build on framework , key-insights.co.uk – SEO the site to increase ranking, changepeople.biz – design, englishkaraoke.com – design templates for SEO revamp and site consolidation. Also look into how to market and sell SEO as a growing offering to SME. Set up Google Analytics and make reports for clients. Built in PHP on in-house Framework.
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Web Developer
Time Out
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
February 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 8 months)
Working in a growing team four to fourteen, we develop a London entertainment listings site to support the largest weekly listings print magazine in London, a restaurant and bars site, a film site and a travel site. I have worked on three evolutions of the site to expand the offering and improve SEO and traffic. I implemented two Analytics solutions (Google Analytics, then HBX) and work on analysis and improving traffic levels and conversion. The content is maintained in a CMS we built to be used by our editorial team. Built in PHP Framework using Smarty.
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Web Designer
John Lewis
(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
September 2000 — March 2002 (1 year 7 months)
Working in a team of 3 we produced the look and feel of www.johnlewis.com and www.gb.buy.com before it (Interface, Competitions, Coupons, Banners, Production)
Other projects included analysis of the John Lewis checkout procedure and dissemination of the requirements documents into a company brief when building johnlewis.com. -
Assistant Lead Producer
Worldsport.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Sports industry)
October 1998 — September 2000 (2 years)
Following promotion, in by then a 170 strong, .com company, I was managing a team of 2, working with designers, integrating design and code with developers. My team were managing templates for WorldSport's next Vignette website before the company closed it’s doors. I also created an online image database and an intranet address book. On-location for live web coverage of four Squash World Championships in Egypt.
