Designer & Developer - Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
Freelance web designer and developer based in Cambridge. I specialize in the latest web 2.0 technologies, Ruby on Rails and AJAX in order to create slick, high quality websites on time and on budget.
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| Hourly Rate: | £44.44 |
| Available From: | Now | Seller ID: | 246317 |
CV
I have 8 years web application design and development experience from both large scale enterprise systems to small scale web site projects. My key skills are Java of which I have 5 years experience, Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, AJAX, CSS and XHTML.
Employment History
(Jul 2006 to Dec 2007)
Designer & Developer
CambridgeRecently completed http://www.lowcarbon.com for an online recruitment company using Ruby on Rails. We also release our own web based services including http://www.sizeasy.com. This site was released in September ’06 and grabbed the attention of high profile online press including Yahoo, BoingBoing, Engadget and Gizmodo as well as radio stations and online retailers across the globe. During this period I also designed and developed several small business sites.
KEY SKILLS: Ruby on Rails, AJAX, CSS, Eclipse IDE (RadRails), Design, Subversion, MySQL
(Jan 2006 to Jul 2006)
Software Developer
CambridgeFirst software developer at a start-up company looking to push an innovative solution to the problem of online fraud. The development involved many agile processes as the start-up environment meant short term deadlines and often non specific requirements. I developed a fully working application suitable for showing potential customers and investors. The main application was for the mobile phone and involved J2ME programming in the eclipse environment. There were also server-side provisioning and verification components which I developed in Java to work with the Apache Tomcat Servlet Container.
KEY SKILLS: Java, J2ME, Eclipse IDE, ANT, JSP, Subversion
(Jun 2002 to Jan 2006)
Software Developer
CambridgeJoint responsibility for high level design of n-tier enterprise architecture as well as taking full responsibility for design of presentation and business logic tiers. Also responsible for designing UI and crystallizing end user requirements by performing rapid prototyping along with regular demonstrations to key stake holders.
KEY SKILLS: C#, ASP.NET 2, MS Atlas, Custom Controls, Web Services
Responsible for the design and development of client-server web based visualization solution (VDK). Played a major part in the entire project lifecycle from gathering and specifying requirements, through to building automated test frameworks and onto supporting customers with technical deployment issues. KEY SKILLS:
• Java, Javascript, JSP, Javadoc, Eclipse IDE, ANT
• C#, Visual Studio.NET,
• SQL
• Time estimating, project scoping, task prioritization
Education
(Sep 1996 to Sep 1999)
Manchester University
BSc (hons) Degree, 1st Class, Computer Science

