Curriculum Vitae

John Main

Technical Director, Lost Ferret	March 2010 - Present

Providing technical direction to the development team
Staff supervision
Project management and development
Web development implementing PHP5, MySQL, Javascript, CSS, AJAX
Customer liaison, identifying business requirements and implementing development model
Use of JQuery (Javascript) and Zend (PHP) frameworks.
Presenting new systems to clients and providing training
Creating documentation and training material
Search engine optimisation including correct metadata implementation
Following accessibility and standards compliance guidelines
Data security implementation and PCI compliance
Use of Google Analytics, Adwords and Adsense
Unit, integration and system testing
Working to tight deadlines
Use of version control systems
Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP (LAMP) system specification and administration

Senior Web Developer (1 Month Contract), Psycle Interactive	Feb 2010

Project management and development
Staff supervision
Web development implementing PHP5, MySQL, Javascript, CSS, AJAX
Customer liaison, identifying business requirements and implementing development model
Extensive Wordpress development and integration
Following accessibility and standards compliance guidelines
Unit, integration and system testing
Working to tight deadlines

Senior Software Developer, Setfire Media	March 2008 - Jan 2010

Development of e-commerce systems
Web development implementing Ruby on Rails, Perl, MySQL, ERB, HAML, Javascript, CSS, AJAX
Object oriented design in Ruby on Rails and Perl
Use of Javascript frameworks including Prototype and JQuery
Customer liaison, identifying business requirements and implementing development model
Project management and development in a live server environment
Team working, task delegation and supervision
Data warehousing
Following iterative development cycles in line with Scrum methodology
Working to tight schedules
Data security implementation and PCI compliance
Collaborative work with third party data suppliers including XML integration libraries
Use of version control and collaborative development technologies
Use of safe code release technologies such as Capistrano
Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) system administration

Senior Communications Engineer, BBC Manchester	June 2008 - Present

Freelance Web Design	March 2003 - Present

Project management and development
Web development implementing PHP5, MySQL, HAML, Javascript, CSS, AJAX
Customer liaison, identifying business requirements and implementing development model
Use of JQuery for Javascript and HAML for markup.
Some use of Zend and Smarty Templates
Presenting new systems to clients and providing training
Creating documentation and training material
Search engine optimisation including correct metadata implementation
Following accessibility and standards compliance guidelines
Data security implementation and PCI compliance
Use of Google Analytics, Adwords and Adsense
Unit, integration and system testing
Working to tight deadlines
Design and development of object oriented MVC compliant PHP 5 web application framework
Development of e-commmerce and Paypal integration libraries
Use of version control systems
Linux, Apache, Mysql and PHP (LAMP) system administration
Clients include the BBC, Samantabhadra Buddhist Centre, Potala Buddhist Centre, Panoramic York, Aqua-fresh.co.uk

Senior Web Developer, IRIS	Aug 2007 - March 2008

Development of an online behaviour management system used by over fifty schools nationwide
Web development implementing PHP 5, MySQL, Javascript, CSS, AJAX
Project management and development in a live server environment
Personnel supervision, task delegation and team working
Creation of standalone Java applications
Object oriented design in PHP 5 and Java
Customer liaison, identifying business requirements and implementing development model
Design and implementation of secure data transfer systems
Design and development of a fully MVC compliant PHP5 web application framework
Design of reporting and statistical analysis tools
Use of version control systems
Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP (LAMP) system administration

Communications Engineer, Monitoring and Information Centre, BBC Birmingham	Sept 2004 - Aug 2007

Design and implementation of several nationally used web systems on the BBC Intranet

Systems relating to online data management, learning, accountancy and health and safety management
Languages used include PHP, VBScript, MySQL, SQL Server, Javascript, CSS

Trainee Broadcast Engineer, Broadcast Engineering, BBC Northern Ireland	Sept 2002 - Sept 2004

Technical Director, Camp Kinder Ring, New York	June - Aug 2001, 2002 & 2003

Senior Systems Engineer - Radio Lollipop (Hospital Radio) National Support Team	Sept 2005 - Present

University of Birmingham	2:1 BSc (hons) Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science	Sept 1999 - June 2002

Parrs Wood High School / Parrs Wood Sixth Form Centre	A Levels: Physics (B) Chemistry (B) Mathematics (C) General Studies (C) GCSEs: 10 A-C	Sept 1992 - June 1999

BBC Graduate Engineers Progression	Sept 2002 - July 2004
Electronic Graduates Induction Broadcast Engineering Foundation 1,2 & 3 Broadcast Engineering Consolidation 1&2 Progression Safety Module Internet Engineering Broadcast Engineering Advanced
AutoCAD 1&2 (BBC)	April 2003
BNCS Maintenance (BBC)	February 2005
ENPS, MOS and Broadcast Integration (BBC)	September 2005
Big Ted3 Administrator Training (BBC)	January 2006
Design Principles for the Web (BBC)	February 2006
Safari Field Guide Course in South Africa (Ecotraining)	April/May 2006
Training to Ecotraining Level 1 and qualification Animal tracking Approaching dangerous game Flora and Fauna identification Reserve management and conservation Safari vehicle driving Weapons handling
BBC Safe Driver Training Programme (BBC)	July 2006
First Aid at Work (St John Ambulance)	September 2006
First Aid at Work (Requalification)	September 2009