With a passion for web standards, semantics and best practices, I have been lovingly hand crafting websites since 1998. Using PHP as my technology of choice I have developed everything from simple sites to complex solutions, feed parsers / generators, CMS platforms and more; as well as extending existing solutions and advising on technologies to use. Although I am mainly a back-end developer I have strong front-end skills and have an interest in responsive / mobile design; usability, accessibility and user experience; and shiny things like jQuery and AJAX.
Test Driven Design (TDD), Performance Testing, Split Testing, Progressive Enhancement / Graceful Degradation, on-page SEO, higher level project management, ASP.NET (C#), mobile app development (iOS and Android), Joomla; Drupal and other CMS platforms, social media API integrations, graphing, ZEND framework, Bootstrap.
I was commissioned to implement a CMS for the design of the languatics.com website. My choice of CMS for this was SilverStripe as this provided a strong base to expand on for rapid development whilst also providing a simple to understand and use interface for the clients future updates.
My tasks within West63rd are varied, from taking a simple design and turning it into a website (straight PHP sites and CMS driven) to developing complex systems for clients to manage orders, schedules, staff, certificates and invoices etc. and everything in-between. I am also the lead feed developer dealing with feeds and APIs from companies such as Expert Agent, Rightmove, LaPAMS, Vebra / Vebra Live, Jupix, ReapIt and Alcium. I am involved in meetings both with clients and internally to discuss technology stacks and determine what functionality is required for projects.
My main roles were to maintain, update and enhance the existing website (code, design, usability and user experience) both to set plans and of my own initiative. I was also the affiliate manager; leading the affiliate program, expanding their toolset and supporting new and existing affiliates.
City and Guilds 7261 in Computer Programming
Health and Safety and Work
First Aid Appointed Person
BTEC National Diploma in Computer Studies
NCFE Intermediate in Telematics
City and Guilds Visual Basic Programming Level I
City and Guilds Visual Basic Programming Level II
Basic Comp. in IT (part of work experience as user testing documentation)
10 GCSE's
UX Consultant
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MD of XTiDesign
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Technical Manager at West63rd
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