About me

Personal

I’m a software developer in the UK, married with two fantastic children.

Work

I’ve been working as a software developer at Smartways Technology Ltd for almost 10 years.  My work encompasses full project lifecycle, development and management.

My primary focus is on web-related applications.  I started working using Perl and have moved through PHP and ASP to my current technology-du-jour: ASP.NET.

Experience

Over my time at Smartways I’ve been lucky enough to work with a large number of varied clients, including:

• Colleges (e.g. Northampton College)
• Councils (e.g. Warrington Borough Council, Bracknell Forest Borough Council, Northamptonshire County Council, Northampton Borough Council)
• Commercial entities (e.g. Asigra, Novastor, EBC Brakes Direct, Lambert Smith Hampton, Sundial Group)
• Levy bodies (e.g. AHDB, EBLEX, BPEX)

Please note that these links are to their homepages – I may or may not have actually been involved in their public website.

Education

Between 2001 and 2006 I undertook a BSc in Business Computing at the University of Northampton in an evening-only mode, allowing me to work full-time during the day.  This was structured by me first completing a HNC, then a HND, then (after a year of non-study), a top-up to the BSc.  The last year was identical to a final-year full-time degree course in units and workload, just studied in an evening-only mode.  I graduated from the course in 2006, getting a 1st class with honours.

Before that I was lucky enough to attend St. John’s School in Episkopi, Cyprus.  I left in 2000 after completing my A-levels.

Interests

Professionally I have a wide range of interests, a selection of which are below:

• Client-side
  • (X)HTML
  • Accessibility
  • JavaScript and jQuery
• Server-side
  • ASP.NET