Alex Bird
Profile
- Software engineer
- 5 years of varied commercial experience
- 1st class Honours degree in Computing and Electronics
Recent work
- Developing custom back-end components for major public and private sector websites.
- Developing and maintaining business-critical web scraping, deep-linking and tracking.
- Migrating voluntary organization website to WordPress — structuring, skinning, SEO.
Skills summary
Core
Web Technologies and Languages (from the perspectives of both developing and scraping content)
- HTTP, HTML,
Javascript,
CSS, AJAX, JSON
- PHP, Python
- MySQL,
PostgreSQL
XML transformation
Microsoft Technologies
- .Net and C#
- SQL Server / TSQL
- Active Directory / Directory Services API
- SharePoint WebPart development
- Reporting Services development
Also
- LAMP — have installed and configured, mostly Debian flavours, Apache 1.3/2.2
- Other scripting languages: Perl, VBScript, Windows batch scripting
- Java (J2SE, JDBC, J3D) — academic experience
- C++ and C — have successfully modified software
- Electronics — building, repairing and modifying equipment
- Page layout and typesetting for print (Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP)
- Video/audio editing, and DVD authoring (FCP, Premiere Pro, Encore, VirtualDub)
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