that nice php chap - web developer from sunderland

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Oct 09 – present	Senior Web Developer at a leading new media and IPTV firm in central London.
May 08 – Oct 09	Contract PHP, MySQL, CodeIgniter, Subversion, VYRE Unify, XML development with Cobweb, a business information firm, on their flagship product, a major OO intranet/extranet application offering business advice to hundreds of organisations.
Sep 06 – May 08	Freelance PHP/MySQL Web development for various organisations including Funkigroup in Gateshead (websites for mobile phones – included Smarty development), Pjing in London (several business websites and an intranet for stock-price feeds), Digital Zenith in Middlesbrough (AJAX-based shopping cart) and SEO optimisation for Zest Lifestyle in Newcastle.
Jun 05 – Sep 06	PHP/MySQL Web development of online shops and e-commerce systems at PointOV, a new-media firm in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Feb 05 – May 05	Java/Bluetooth research for an archaeological firm in London.
Sep 03 – Jan 05	M.Sc. in Network Systems at the University of Sunderland. Gained a distinction. The course covered many network-related disciplines including Java and PHP/MySQL development, together with my thesis on tracking wireless mobile devices.
Jun 03 - Aug 03	ASP, SQL Server and PHP development with The Web Design Bureau in London.
Mar 01 – May 03	Travelled independently through Africa, the Middle East and Australia. Included some freelance ASP work in Sydney.
Feb 99 – Feb 01	Worked again at Intapps as the SQL Server DBA.
Dec 97 – Dec 98	Travelled independently through SE Asia, India and Central America.
Jul 95 – Nov 97	ASP/SQL Server Web developer at Intapps, a Web publishing firm in London.
Oct 91 – Jun 95	B.A(hons) Business Computing with German at the University of Sunderland. Included an eight month placement in Darmstadt, Germany, working on a hypertext project for Danet GmbH, and three months software engineering and database design at the Fachhochschule Darmstadt.

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OO development with PHP 5 and CodeIgniter MVC
MySQL
Subversion
Javascript, JQuery, AJAX
CSS
XHTML, XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, XPath, Apache Cocoon, FOP
SEO
VYRE Unify

I also have experience with Apache, Linux, Java, JMeter, Smarty template engine, OSCommerce, PHPList, RSS, SQL Server, and Motorola STBs.

Education

M.Sc. Network Systems, University of Sunderland. Gained a distinction.
B.A (hons). Business Computing with German, University of Sunderland. Gained a 2:1.

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Most sites I have been involved with have been private intranets or extranets. Nevertheless, below is a sample of visible sites I have built or worked on.

cobra.cobwebinfo.com : a major business information extranet I worked on for Cobweb Information Ltd
www.natwest.com/business/business-school/business-start-up-course.ashx : online course for Natwest with Cobweb
www.rbs.co.uk/business/banking/starting-rbs-home/startup-guides/course.ashx : online course for Royal Bank of Scotland with Cobweb
www.ethicalsuperstore.com : a major e-commerce store I built using OSCommerce
www.giftsforlife.org : a Traidcraft site I built promoting alternative gifts
www.peopletree.co.uk : a major online fashion shop I worked on
www.traidcraft.co.uk : Traidcraft's principal website, which I worked on

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I do Web development (the back-end, programming stuff). If you were looking for a Web designer (the graphical, creative stuff), then my friend and erstwhile colleague Dan Edwards might be your man. You can contact him over at his rather nice designers' blog Dirty Mouse.

Another friend and erstwhile colleague is Victoria Midson. She has a portfolio on her site that you might wish to check out if you're on the lookout for a graphic and Web designer.