I was invited back to IPCMedia to help them with their ongoing Zend / Drupal integration, develop a photo moderation tool for Nuts and an image server for the NME rock photography project.

• Part of an Agile development team migrating enterprise CMS systems to Drupal 6
• Developed CMS moderation tool for http://www.nuts.co.uk.
• Ongoing Zend Framework / Drupal integration
• Developed an Image server for NME using Drupal Feeds Module & Services API.
• Technogies used – Drupal, Zend Framework, Simpletest, Hudson.

• One of a team of developers working on Sony Fantasy Festival for Sony and last.fm – http://fantasyfestival.last.fm. Site developed using Zend Framework 1.9.
• Built an AMF gateway using Zend_Amf for Flash / PHP Communication.
• Developed graphing data classes and REST API.
• Integrated third-party APIs including WebPurify.
• Implemented site-wide database caching with Zend_Cache and memcached.
• Conducted MySQL performance analysis and XSS/CSRF testing.
• Architected an XML-driven localisation system for 9 locales.
• Integrated a WordPress blog using Zend_Feed.

• Re-architected a whitelabel system which enables HomeServe to resell their products through third-party branded websites such as http://partner.homeserve.com/anglianwater.
• Implemented a database-driven multistep form generator using OOP best practices.
• Liaised with Non-technical stakeholders, an external design agency and testing team.
• Owned all project stages from requirements gathering to deployment.
• Technologies used: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP5, cakePHP, prototype, scriptaculous, PostcodeAnywhere, HTML Purifier, Ant, Subversion.
• Reduced the development time for new whitelabel sites from 6 weeks to 1 week.
• Contract renewed several times.

• Implemented a Geocoding service in PHP to convert postcodes to LAT/LONG values for display as markers and overlays on Google Maps.
• Combined or ‘mashed’ these results with proprietary data to display venue information such as the network SSID and / or images.

• Implemented a Geocoding service in PHP to convert postcodes to LAT/LONG values for display as markers and overlays on Google Maps.
• Combined or ‘mashed’ these results with proprietary data to display venue information such as the network SSID and / or images.

• Lead developer on the clubnme section at NME.com, Europe’s most successful music website with 15 million page impressions per month and 1.2 million unique users.
• Architected and built a custom CMS module.
• Technologies: PHP 5, MySQL, AJAX, HTML/CSS.