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I most recent role was with IE, a digital agency based in Melbourne, Australia. although in a few weeks I start work with Positive Studio in Bristol UK. Most of the work listed here I have done whilst with IE and it is listed here merely as an example of some of the projects I have worked on and in order to highlight some of the technologies I have used.

Movember – www.movember.com.

Technologies: PHP, Zend Framework, MySQL, ecommerce with various payment gateways including Paypal.

Movember generates an enormous amount of funds and awareness every year for cancer charities ($21million in 2008 and over $40million in 2009), most of which is processed online. I have been a member of the small development team that has worked on Movember for the past 2 years. The site is built on a custom framework we developed which is based off the Zend Framework. The site includes custom build ecommerce in 5 different currencies with several payment gateways including Paypal’s Express Checkout API. Due to the enormous amount of traffic this site receives during the campaign, it is a great example of how powerful the Zend Framework is. Other features include facebook integration, a Google mapping feature and multi-language translation with inline CMS editing.

The Tyre Factory – www.ttf.com.au

Technologies: PHP, Drupal, MySQL.

The Tyre Factory is an Auto franchise operating across Australia. I was the sole developer on this project for which we utilised a Drupal solution, including implementing a custom designed theme and customising a variety of modules in order to allow google mapping and product filtering.

Guy Leech Fitness/Telstra

Technologies: PHP, Zend Framework, MySQL and ecommerce with Paypal.

Developed for Guy Leech and Telstra, guyleechfitness.com provides fitness and health services for members. Solutions implemented in this project include ecommerce with Paypal’s Express Checkout API and our custom CMS solution also developed for Movember.

Melbourne Convention and Visitors Bureau

Technologies: PHP, Zend Framework, MySQL, Interspire Email Marketer

MCVB markets Melbourne and Victoria nationally and internationally as one of the world’s best Business Events destinations. We developed a custom Email marketing solution for MCVB to promote their destinations and events to their delegates around the world. The Solution includes a custom API to link our CMS solution with the Interspire Email Marketer.

PKHT – The Commentary Box – commentarybox.pkht.co.uk

Technologies: PHP, Wordpress, MySQL.

The Commentary Box is my personal Sports Blog. It is a Wordpress solution implementing a custom design.

Hoyts – www.hoyts.com.au

Technologies: C#.NET/Sitecore

One of Australia’s biggest cinema chains, I worked in the team to help improve the functionality of this Sitecore site. It was very interesting to get across a new technology and gave me the opportunity to become a Sitecore certified developer.

Mitre 10 – www.mitre10.com.au

Technologies: PHP, Zend Framework, Smarty, PostgreSQL, SOAP

A leading hardware brand in Australia, I’ve been working with Mitre10 for the last 3 years. Built in an earlier version of the Zend Framework this utilises the Smarty templating framework. We’ve implemented various projects for Mitre10 including an online catalogue viewer and a custom API to communicate via SOAP with the company’s warehousing software to update product information.