Laura Thomson

Current

• Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla Corporation
• Author at Pearson Education

Past

• Principal at OmniTI
• Director of Web Development at OmniTI
• Senior Web Developer at OmniTI

• Lecturer at RMIT University
• Principal Consultant at Tangled Web Design (Self-employed)
• Researcher at i-cubed
• Associate at Boston Consulting Group
• Programmer at Multimedia Database Systems

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Education

• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• RMIT University

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Recommended

9 people have recommended Laura

Connections

229 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog

Laura Thomson’s Summary

Leading internet development projects; building teams; driving success

Laura Thomson’s Specialties:

Web architecture development, specialising in robust, scalable, maintainable LAMP apps
Building, managing, mentoring teams
Strategy development
Technical writing, author of best-selling "PHP and MySQL Web Development"
Training course development and delivery

Laura Thomson’s Experience

• Senior Software Engineer

  Mozilla Corporation

  (Internet industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

• Author

  Pearson Education

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  2000 — Present (8 years)

  Author of the bestselling "PHP and MySQL Web Development" (now in 3/e) and "MySQL Tutorial". Tech reviewer of "PostgreSQL Developers Handbook".

• Principal

  OmniTI

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  November 2006 — August 2007 (10 months)

• Director of Web Development

  OmniTI

  (Internet industry)

  April 2006 — November 2006 (8 months)

• Senior Web Developer

  OmniTI

  (Internet industry)

  August 2005 — April 2006 (9 months)

• Lecturer

  RMIT University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  July 1999 — August 2005 (6 years 2 months)

• Principal Consultant

  Tangled Web Design (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1998 — August 2005 (7 years 8 months)

  Partner in web development consultancy specialising in building complex dynamic sites using Open Source tools, especially the LAMP suite.

• Researcher

  i-cubed

  (Internet industry)

  January 1998 — July 1999 (1 year 7 months)

  Multidisciplinary research team funded by Telstra and RMIT University. Developed strategic plans for implementation and use of new services and technologies inside Telstra.

• Associate

  Boston Consulting Group

  (Partnership; Management Consulting industry)

  December 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 2 months)

  Develop strategy, particularly IT strategy for Fortune 500 corporations.

• Programmer

  Multimedia Database Systems

  (Internet industry)

  July 1996 — December 1996 (6 months)

  Contract position. Developed software (in C) to support research in the area of speech querying of text databases.

Additional Information

Laura Thomson’s Websites:

• My Blog

Laura Thomson’s Interests:

open source, equestrian sports, conversation

Laura Thomson’s Contact Settings

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