Resume - The Curriculum Vitae of Gareth Alexander
Professional Profile
I am a professional PHP/Drupal web applications developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Employing me you would gain a dedicated and enthusiastic I.T. professional with extensive experience creating and debugging Drupal modules, a specialist in Accessible Website and Application Development using PHP, jQuery and MySQL with proven skills in project management.
I am now looking for a new position in a company that actively supports open source technologies who can offer a new and challenging position, one that will make best use of my skills and experience and enable further personal and professional development.
Employment History:
- Current Position: Web Applications Developer
- Future Publishing
- Remote, Edinburgh, Scotland
- March 2013 - Present
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- Support, maintain and enhance drupal websites. Site Building, Module development and Theming using Drupal and PHP as required.
- Site migrations from various CMSs to Drupal as the portfolio has been considerably consolidated.
- Support and commercial work on various OOP PHP based websites using Futures internally created bespoke templating engine and COPE (create once publish everywhere) system.
- Integrating third party RESTful APIs as well as fully utilising Google Tag Manager and Ad manager (DFP) for delivery of externally provided functionality.
- Previous Position: Freelance Web Applications Developer
- GA Web Development
- SelfEmployed | Glasgow & Edinburgh, Scotland
- March 2003 - March 2013
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- Support, maintain and enhance numerous local businesses Drupal websites and subcontract to local digital agencies for Site building, Module development and Theming as required.
- Upgrades completed from Drupal 5 to 6 and 6 to 7, including a direct migrations from Drupal 5 to 7 which have included bespoke module upgrades and custom theme development.
- Drupal theming, Site Building, Module development, Module customisation.
- Bespoke CMS and contact management and event management systems development.
- Previous Position: Web Applications Developer
- Ambergreen Internet Marketing
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- November 2008 – February 2011
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- PHP and Drupal development, with strong emphasis on SEO and marketing. Drupal theme and module development.
- Using and developing with various technologies, e.g. Zend and cakePHP Frameworks, Wordpress and Joomla.
- Experience in supporting and reverse engineering applications for clients in a number of programming languages including PHP4 & 5, ASP.net, both C# and VB and MySQL, MSSQL and Postgres.
- Previous Position: IT Manager
- Sense Scotland
- Glasgow, Scotland
- July 2002 - November 2008
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- Technical support for all Desktops and Servers.
- Maintenance and performance tuning of Linux, MacOSX and windows 2003 Server, including Apache, PHP and MySQL tuning.
- Supervising and supporting a small team.
- IT support and management, including developing IT procedures and policy, server support and network administration, enduser support, website development and management as well as the training of staff.
| Service Engineering | Various agency positions | Jun ’98 – July ‘02 |
| Senior Engineer | Microtechs Ltd, Effingham: | July’00–July‘02 |
| Break Fix/Support Engineer | Intelligent Finance, Livingston: | Apr’00–July‘00 |
| Service Engineer | Direct Care UK Ltd, Rotherithe: | Dec’99–Mar‘00 |
| Install/Maintenance Engineer | Micro-Route Ltd, Croydon: | June‘98–Dec’99 |
- All aspects of the desktop and Server support from installing and upgrading the computer hardware to break/fix, fault diagnosis and supporting the end user.
- Installing networking equipment, which developed a sound knowledge of networking fundamentals in order to troubleshoot and support communications.
- Worked in large call centre environments as well as Point of Sale locations and Office environments.
- Supporting engineers and liaising with the clients to ensure the service level provided was acceptable.
- Many letters of commendation from both the companies employing me and also from their customers.
| Various Temporary Work. | Reed Employment Agency, Glasgow | Feb. ‘98 - June ‘98 |
| Dispatch Operator. | NCR, Cumbernauld | April ‘97 - Feb. ‘98 |
Education and Qualifications:
- Unix, Linux and OSX Command Line Interface
- Self Study
- Ongoing
- PHP and Object Oriented Programming for Applications Development
- Self Study
- Ongoing
- Diploma in Web Design Level III.
- Distinction
- The Learning Library International Ltd, Glasgow
- 2002 – 2004
- Covering: HTML, XHTML, JavaScript and Dreamweaver.
- Diploma Intoductory Applications Programming.
- Distinction
- Computeach International Ltd, Dudley
- 1997 – 1999
- Covering: Data Processing Principles, Job Control Languages and Programming Design, PASCAL
- BTech in General Technology
- University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
- 1991 – 1996
- BSc Architecture.
- Robert Gordon Institute of Technology, Aberdeen
- 1990 – 1991
- Our Lady's High School, Cumbernauld
- 1985 – 1990
- 5 Highers; Chemistry-B, English-C, Geography-C, Mathematics-B, Physics-B
- 7 O’grades; Arithmetic-1, Chemistry-2, English-2, French-2, Geography-2, Maths-1, Physics-1
Specialisms
Contact
- Online contact:
- Linkedin Profile
- Drupal.org Profile
- Contact Form
- Offline Contact:
- Please contact me online first then I'll give you offline contact details.
