Senior Perl Developer / Team Leader with management responsibilities, in or around central London.

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Skills:

	Web	SysAdmin	Management
Advanced	Perl (5 years) HTML (6 years)	Apache web server (5 years) Server architecture. NTlist, personalisable mailing lists MySQL (4 years)
Intermediate	Mod_perl (1 year) SQL (4 years) OO perl (1 Year) Digital TV (2 years) AvantGo - Palm pilot Template Toolkit XML / DTDs / XPath	Solaris Sys Admin (3 years) Apache SSL DNS Exim *nix SysAdmin ProFTPD PostgreSQL DBA	Team management Project management Specifications Standards Microsoft Visio
Basic	JavaScript	NT 4 Mac OS X Sendmail MailMan Majordomo	Microsoft Project Time management

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Personality:

Friendly, high self motivation / initiative as well as the ability to work with others and to problem solve quickly.

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Work Experience:

Foxtons - Senior Web Developer
July 2001 - Present
Foxtons estate agents had a small team of inexperienced perl developers. I was asked to join as the senior developer and am now managing the team as well. The focus has been around the development of a new site though at the same time I have implemented significant automation of all systems. The team is now experienced with OO techniques and are quickly picking up new skills all the time.

Cloudband.com - DBA / Developer
April 2001 - June 2001
Cloudband required me to redesign their database schema and migrate the existing (2 years worth of) data into the new postgreSQL schema. I approached this by creating an XML document and DTD describing the new schema (60+ tables) and a perl script which would create both the documentation (something which was non-existent) and the database creation code from the XML. I then created a migration OO module to assist with the data migration and testing of the data's validity.

Torrington Interactive Ltd - Senior Developer
Feb 2001 - End March 2001
In my short time at Torrington (another causality of the Internet low), I designed and created several systems and projects:
Agents - creating an agent to gather information from the web / mailing lists / news
Mail Analyzer - comparing information on subscribers to multiple mailing lists.
Technology comparisons, comparing HTML::Template with Template Toolkit.

Emap Online - Technical Manager
April 2000 - Jan 2001.
Emap Online: www.emaponline.com was the award winning online division of Emap PLC, one of the worlds largest publishing companies.

As Technical Manager I was able to build a strong team of people and guide the teams development to a point where we had invested sufficient time to drastically reduce project development costs through a set of standard approaches. This has made Digital TV versions of our sites and XML feeds of our content very simple to implement.

We had just finished the development of several key systems, one of which allowed the full integration of all location information (from resort guides to piest maps) across all the Travel Products in the companies portfolio.

I was responsible for all day to day issues relating to the technical team, which included the management of the four permanent staff working for me and any contractors we might be using. Once a specification had been created for a project it was my responsibility to raise any issues before allowing development to start. When a project had been signed off I was required to Project manage all technical aspects and liaise with the other areas of the company; from design to commercial and content.

I was still actively developing, creating a new system for the Escaperoutes site which included a generic shopping basket system.

Emap Online - Technical Operations Manager
August 1999 - April 2000.
As Technical Operations Manager I was responsible for the day to day running off all the company servers; 14 Solaris machines, a Linux box and an NT server. I was also responsible for creating and implementing infrastructure and security policies, as well as personalised email list systems. I was the line manager for the Technical Operations Assistant.

During my time as Technical Operations Manager I devised and implemented a new web server farm. The primary goal of this network was to make our sites fast, resilient and reliable. This was accomplished by using firewalls and load balancing with front end servers which proxy to back end application machines. Implementing the new server farm also included the full configuration of the servers and a new set of standards for development which allowed better logging of information and easier sharing of functionality between sites and versions.

I also remained the technical contact for A2bFlights.com (as I developed the site from scratch) and Bargainholidays.com as well as working on other projects when it was required.

Emap Online - Network Manager - Webmaster / Internet developer
August 1997 - August 1999.
As Network Manger my primary responsibility was the servers. From ordering and liasing with hosting companies to maintenance and development, for all 9 servers (Web, DNS, Mail and Office) which were hosted on an array of machines (Sun Solaris, Linux and NT).

I spent the bulk of my time developing and maintaining several of the companies web sites (Bargainholidays.com, Whatsonstage.com, The Digital City Network) as well as working with others in the technical team on all of Emap Online's products which were coded predominantly in Perl using DBI and MySql. I created numerous web editing systems and user interfaces to databases, including versions for Web, Digital TV, Palm Pilots and other Mobile devices. Regularly working with third parties required that I communicated methods and ideas for development (both technical and personal) between us.

I was often used for problem solving and fire fighting within the company as I had a broad knowledge of all systems as well as being able to quickly comprehend and find requirements for a solution.

Channel D Ltd - Webmaster / Net Software Engineer.
June 1996 - July 1997.
My duties included setting up and running Internet and Intranet servers (including editing systems) for small to medium sized companies. I used HTML, CGI and Perl to implement a range of projects from shopping baskets to online database interfaces. This job allowed me to develop my TCP/IP networking and PC support skills.

Inter-Action Ltd. - PC training / support
July 1995 - Sept 1995
I worked for Inter-action as their technical support, updating and troubleshooting the PC systems and training other members of staff how to use the new software.

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Education:

• BSc (Hons) Psychology - Essex University
• A-levels: Maths, Politics, Geography - LA SWAP 6th form.
• GCSEs: 8 (A-C), 1 D - Stoke Newington School.

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Other Experience:

My Own Server and Mac OS X.
I have recently put my own server on the internet (a RedHat box) which I SysAdmin and host several friends sites . My other toy of recent is a G4 Cube with Mac OS X.

London.pm
I am a member of the London Perl Mongers group and take an active part in the perl community. I have recently been accepted as an author on CPAN. I also run the London.pm web site: http://london.pm.org.

Current Open Source Projects
Can be viewed at http://london.pm.org/~leo/

All2cool: www.all2cool.com
Jan 2000 - present day
I have been the sole technical person on this site which has been through many incarnations.

The Cuckoo's Nest: www.cuckoo.org
Sept 1995 - present day
This is a web site I run with several friends. It was initially planned as a community portal but it was decided that there were to many other similar sites.

Inter-Action - Advisor to the Youth-Tech Advisory panel for Inter-Action
April 1997 - June 1999.
Inter-Action was a London based charity working in the IT field, training underprivileged Londoners (mainly people aged 14 to 25) in the use of computers and multimedia tools. My role on the advisory panel was to offer technical knowledge of the Internet. I helped devise and teach a peer training system in business and computer skills for peer trainers working with Inter-Action. This course was run both in the UK and Russia.