
Freelance Web Developer
London, United Kingdom

Freelance Web Developer
London, United Kingdom
Never had a formal interview, and don't own a suit!
Coding, design, graphics, HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP, MySQL, Perl, LAMP, JavaScript, DHTML, Flash, Photoshop, Paintshop Pro, Deluxe Paint, server admin, NTP, SSH, Apache, qmail, vpopmail, SMTP, POP3, spam-filtering, music industry, official artist websites, merchandise, merchandising, Mojo, Dada, e-commerce, OScommerce, NetBanx, WorldPay, PayPal, NOCHEX, Protx, Office, Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Premiere, Cool Edit, Telnet, Dreamweaver, Notepad
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Internet industry)
May 2008 — Present (8 months)
Running my own limited company for my various freelance work.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Entertainment industry)
February 2008 — Present (11 months)
Working on new website for TV presenter and make-up artist Sarah Cawood - http://www.sarahcawood.co.uk
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Took over charge of http://www.bugvideos.co.uk, initially as a simple information page about the BUG events.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Set up http://www.promonews.tv for client David Knight and developing music video database site
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Working 2 / 3 days a week on various projects for thelondonpaper.com - the website supporting London's most popular evening newspaper (500,000+ circulation) - based at News International's HQ in Wapping
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
May 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Built simple brochure site for actress, character comic and voice-over artist Eirlys Bellin - http://www.eirlysbellin.com
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Setting up and maintaining the new PHP London website (wiki) and web server, and being an active member of the executive committee.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Developed and updated XHTML/CSS compliant website and mail-out system/newsletters for BBC2's weekly topical comedy panel show, Mock The Week (produced by Angst Productions) - http://www.mocktheweek.tv
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Music industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years)
Looking after The Sanderson Pitch's website - http://www.thesandersonpitch.com - including code-tidying and using PHP to allow easy updates to news and gigs pages
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)
August 2004 — Present (4 years 5 months)
Working on a handful of different web applications/e-commerce sites, as well as their own company site - framedcds.com, digitalinsert.com, shotdeadinthehead.com, pushshop.com and pushentertainment.co.uk
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
April 2002 — Present (6 years 9 months)
Built and still maintain simple but functional website - http://www.hitsheet.co.uk - for music industry magazine Paul Kramer, since its inception including a messageboard with secure subscribers area where new issues are made available for download.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
April 1999 — Present (9 years 9 months)
Building the company websites (over the years) and providing technical/IT support for the whole company, by phone, e-mail and site visits.
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 1999 — Present (9 years 11 months)
Providing Internet hosting services for myself and various clients, including WWW, e-mail, spam-filtering, FTP, DNS and IRC
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Design industry)
June 2007 — November 2007 (6 months)
Built portfolio website with printshop (through PayPal) and customised admin (CMS) pages - http://www.robingreene.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Furniture industry)
January 2007 — October 2007 (10 months)
Built simple brochure site for the company to replace their previous one, in XHTML/CSS - http://www.northlightdesign.co.uk
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)
July 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Working for the Ignite division, updating and developing new pages on the web sites for NME, Nuts, Loaded, Uncut and Wallpaper, and covering for staff holidays through the summers of 2006 and 2007.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)
April 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 2 months)
Working for the Country And Leisure Media Technology/Inspire Digital division, working on various web projects for different magazines that the company publishes, along with the corporate and advertising sites.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Music industry)
July 2006 — April 2007 (10 months)
Developing XHTML/CSS website for the organisation, with admin system for back-end updates. CMS includes information on member organisations and their employess, event calendar, sub-groups, file archive and e-mail system
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)
January 2007 — April 2007 (4 months)
Initially built simple brochure site for the company, in XHTML/CSS - http://www.t-rockpl.com
Then added a private trade log-in area, allowing the company and their clients to manage uploading/downloading of design and accounting files, and information on deliveries. Also functionality to allow the company to update the front page of the site with news etc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Legal Services industry)
February 2007 — February 2007 (1 month)
Replaced existing JPEG site with simple XHTML/CSS compliant pages - http://www.ganzlegal.com
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Music industry)
October 1996 — October 2006 (10 years 1 month)
Official webmaster for the alternative rock band Mansun, who released 4 albums on Parlophone / EMI Records in the UK. Took care of the various incarnations of their official website over the years, and informed the world of their demise in 2003.
(Internet industry)
2001 — 2005 (4 years)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Retail industry)
May 2002 — February 2005 (2 years 10 months)
Overseeing all operations of the company (a music merchandise retail website), as well as taking care of all major aspects of building/maintaining the site and providing customer service/order processing.
(Internet industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years)
B.Sc., Computer Science, September 1997 — June 2000
Final year course project was a system written in Perl to convert discography and gigography data from a MySQL database to an XML file that could be viewed in a browser as a functional information resource using XSL.
A-Levels, Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Music (AS-Level), September 1995 — June 1997
music, movies, technology, entertainment, comedy, skiing/snowboarding
on executive committee for PHP London
member of Mensa, Facebook Developer Garage London, PHP London
MANSUN.NET website nominated (Top 5) for Best Fan Site at the UK Online Music Awards 2001