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Have lots of fun working with PHP, Ruby and Objective-C. Interested in iOS apps, web application architecture, bread making and snowboarding.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer
@Sittercity
Software consultancy, API design and implementation, OAuth design and implementation, System Monitoring consultancy.
Dates
May 2011 - Present
Owner
@Adapter Pattern
Software development consultancy specialising in providing high traffic web properties and iOS & mobile platforms.
Dates
May 2011 - Present
Contributor
@Kohana Framework
One of the core contributors to the Kohana Framework Open Source PHP project.
Dates
December 2008 - Present
Technical Team Lead
@Ibuildings
Provided Technical Team Leadership (2 to 8 members) across a wide variety of Ibuildings projects and clients. Ran a large development team externally for a large telecoms company.

Systems architecture for two large Service Orientated Architectures.

Consultancy services for a number of Ibuildings clients in the UK.

Software engineering on a wide variety of projects, highlight was certainly consulting on the BBC iPlayer v3 launched in Autumn 2010.

Public speaking at the Dutch PHP Conference and PHP NW (Manchester) in 2010.
Dates
July 2009 - May 2011
Owner / Developer
@Polaris Digital
Consultation, PHP, Ruby, MySQL, Javascript, Ajax (Hijax), XML, XHTML, CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator
Dates
January 2006 - July 2009
Lead Developer
@Mukuru
Provided system architecture, trained and lead a small team of developers tasked with refreshing the Mukuru.com web site.
Dates
April 2008 - May 2009
Web Developer
@PRWD
Backend and Frontend web design and development for a selection of SMB's in the North West and London.
Dates
June 2007 - April 2008
Software Development
@The Juice
Mixture of PHP and Actionscript development work, predominantly for Corus Plc. Also provided video and sound post production (editing, colour grading, effects) and DVD production services while at The Juice.
Dates
January 2005 - December 2005
Web Developer
@Hi8us South
Developed web site and off-line applications for a childrens television programme, titled 'L8R'
Dates
February 2002 - September 2003
Web Developer
@British Telecom
Part time web developer for the BT Research Labs producing a web front end for the NFM/TH (National Fault Management/Trouble Handling) Clarify ticketing system, using HTML and Perl.
Dates
July 2000 - September 2001
Education
University of Teesside
Dates
1999 - 2004
Colchester Sixth Form College
Dates
1997 - 1999