Head of IT and Senior systems developer for a hedge fund producing intranet technologies for order and trade management, and multiple research and reporting projects to support a diverse front office, as well as providing systems for back office, and integration with third parties.

Web Developer
• Key PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript (prototype, ExtJS, JQuery, scriptaculous), SQL, XML and XSLT. Intranets for numerous customers.
• Introduced subversion source control, CakePHP, Smarty, Agile methods, and unit testing.
• Managed training of 6 developers and transition to new technologies and platforms.
Lead Developer (Java)
• Responsible for maintaining all existing Java products, plus research and development.
• Products included SOAPHub (an Enterprise SOAP messaging system integrating a Legacy system with .NET and numerous other client technologies).
• Developed and extended collaboration software based on Zimbra (integration with our own systems), Alfresco (Spring and Hibernate) and OpenFire (jabber messaging).
• Integration and experimental tools development for Google Apps (SAML, and other APIs)
Infrastructure Manager and Architect
• Rebuilt the entire data centre infrastructure in 3 days following the Buncefield Disaster.
• Introduced proactive monitoring (nagios), and massively increased technical support performance and response. Ran training for issue response.
• Introducing a VoIP system based on Asterisk with PHP management tools.
• Ran three data centre deployments in London, Manchester and Cambridge, and a 350 location network of many thousands of nodes.
• Managed Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, Tomcat, PHP and large scale MySQL

For some years I ran a small seasonal photography studio in Cambridge. In our busiest summer, I managed 7 photographers who took over 35,000 photos in two weeks, which I processed (Photoshop and Imagemagick) on a cluster of servers, running bespoke software written by me, and sold through an eCommerce site of my own design.

• Produced a PHP, MySQL e-commerce site with multi-level marketing implementation featuring various advanced SQL indexing and XML/XSLT tricks,.
• Introduced project management techniques such as gantt charts. Bought my first project in on time with a third of the budgeted team size.
• Managed 20+ servers (Linux and Windows).
• Maintaining an existing system with MS SQL Server and ASP VBScript, and adding XML-RPC support. Integrated Java and XML based credit card solutions including Worldpay, Xpay and ePDQ (ClearCommerce), and developed fraud prevention systems.

• Managed a number of marketing projects and produced website and databases for a variety of clients as well as internal management needs.
• Managed an advertising project for fifty local businesses.
• Produced various database driven website as well as front-end HTML and Flash designs and backend systems for external clients using PHP and MySQL with some XML and XSLT.

Designed a database and innovative interface for a start-up retailer in the USA.