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Various short term contracts - Coulsdon, Surrey, UK

Systems Administration, Development, Deployment with a stand alone and team leadership approach. Undertake front end e-Commerce right thru to 2nd & 3rd Line systems support environments.
Unix/Linux, Java/Apache/Tomcat, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, NT, Macintosh

Rating:Unrated (New)
Hourly Rate:£44.44
Available From:Now
Seller ID: 243462

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CV

Employment History

(Jul 2005 & ongoing)

Various short term contracts

Creation of a new CMS for Up My Street in PHP4/Cake.
Work with automatically created map images using GD/PHP for Up My Street.
Creation of calendar and quiz plugins for Studio Artois (Stella Artois Films) website for Draft London in PHP/Cake/Smarty
Security work, code auditing and implementation of a "related articles" plugin for Press Gazette
SEO consultancy (in the form of reports suggesting improvements) for various clients , including Daddy Fresh Music.
Search Engine marketing, Search Engine optimisation, accessibility and other consultancy for William Reed
Development of backend systems for Silverleaf Productions website using PHP5/MySQL/Smarty.
Sourcing and Implementing new hosting environment for William Reed.
Helping train existing web development staff in correct HTML and CSS for William Reed.
Helping transfer Media Week to new systems for Haymarket Publishing.
Coding work (PHP 5, XHTML, CSS) on NME (http://www.nme.com) and Loaded (http://www.loaded.co.uk) websites for IPC Media (a division of AOL Time Warner).


(Oct 2004 to Jul 2005)

Senior Developer

Responsibility for a small team of developers and graphic designers.
Responsible for development of custom CMS using PHP5/MySQL/Smarty for the use of multiple publications within the company.
Responsible for re-development of the Press Gazette website (www.pressgazette.co.uk) and migration from older Microsoft .NET solution developed by a third party.
Responsible for maintenance of Media Week (www.mediaweek.co.uk) website using a Zope/Python solution developed by a third party.
Responsible for helping the IT department deal with UNIX issues.
Responsible for setting up and maintaining a full development/test environment and release process.
Set up monitoring system using Nagios for alerting on call staff of systems issues - also wrote custom nagios plugins.
Responsibility for search engine optimisation.


(May 2003 to Oct 2004)

Director/Technical Architect

Information Intelligence

Programming MySQL/PHP websites including ecommerce facilities using several different payment providers (Datacash, Worldpay)
Programming Perl CGI for processing XML feeds.
Worked with postcode location databases to provide geographical location services for commercial websites.
Created an email list server and client (EPMS) in conjunction with another company that provides such functionality as multi-mode rich text editing (allows multi-mode HTML and text emails to be made easily without large amounts of user intervention), email tracking, bounce handling, automated subscription and removal from mailing lists, external link tracking and reporting.
Acted as technical director and consultant to Mysterious Ways.
Worked with several clients to improve their search engine optimisation and positioning.


(Apr 2002 to May 2003)

UNIX Systems Specialist

Agilisys

Responsible for the systems administration and planning for several high profile e-commerce (mainly holiday booking, running Java/Apache/Tomcat or Java/Apache/mod_jserv) sites with server clusters of up to 20 servers. These sites include www.thefirstresort.com, www.skydeals.co.uk, digital interactive TV based sites (SkyTravel) and a group of holiday cottage sites for Cendant Corporation.
Suggested and helped implement a content caching system using mod_rewrite and perl and bash scripts for several java based sites to take load away from servlet engine for semi-static pages in a heavy load environment - an example of this in action can be seen at www.cottages4you.co.uk - this saved purchasing several additional systems and greatly improved user-perceived performance of the sites.
Responsible for providing technical advice and consultancy to the CRM and other teams.
Built a secure menuing system using openssh, pdmenu and perl scripts to give members of the NOC secure access to view logs without UNIX expertise.
Responsible for design and implementation of new server infrastructures.
Responsible for cross-training NT based staff into Unix roles.
Responsible for the security of the previously mentioned e-commerce sites.
Rebuilt and administered the intrusion detection systems for several large clients, including McDonalds UK.
Responsible for parts of Unix Internal Infrastructure for two Large clients (Jarvis Rail, Netdecisions).
Assisted with Oracle (7,8) on Solaris and Linux


(Aug 1998 to Apr 2002)

Network Manager

Quantum Business Media

Responsible for running of the company network and hosting environment (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, NT, Macintosh).
Responsible for Information Security for the entire company.
Responsible for company hosting environment (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Bind, exim).
Teamleading responsibility.
Responsible for all network connectivity (Cisco switches and routers, Linux routing and firewalling, FreeBSD VPNs and RAS connectivity)
Responsible for evaluating and procuring network equipment and servers.
Web Development (PHP/MySQL).


(Aug 1996 to Jul 1998)

Sales Support Clerk (and various)

Lombard Motor Finance

Primary point of contact for a group of dealerships.
Assisting the underwriting team with making loan underwriting decisions.
Selling different finance programs to dealerships to provide to their customers.
Having an understanding of Finance & Leasing Association industry guidelines and the Consumer Credit Act.
Ensuring the Data Protection Act is properly followed

Professional Qualifications

CCNA - ICND (Interconnecting Network Devices) 2000
CCNP - BCRAN (Building Cisco Remote Access Networks) 2001
MCP - Exchange 5.5 and Active Directory courses. 1999

Key Strengths

Key Strengths
Team Leading skills.
Ability to train other members of staff.
Communication skills.
Excellent problem solving skills.
Working under pressure.
Strong ability to explain technical issues to non-technical personnel.
Technical Skillset
Programming and scripting in Perl, PHP, Unix Shell.
DBA skills with MySQL.
Expertise in UNIX (Linux,Solaris) and many UNIX services.
Accessibility skills for Web, familiarity with WCAG 1.0 guidelines.
Search Engine Optimisation and Marketing skills.
Web front end coding skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS).
HTML compliance skills.
Expertise with TCP/IP routing and switching (Cisco).
Familiarity with MVC and OO programming paradigms.

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