I’m a software architect working in Pearson International‘s Learning Technologies Group. Previously, I was the Senior Technical Architect at ShipServ, designing and developing the next-generation platform for the leading marine eMarketplace and I spent two years as technical lead for Imagini developing their recommendation engine technology alongside the proprietary VisualDNA technology and am listed as co-inventor on Imagini’s current patent applications. I also spent five years at Totally Communications as Technical Architect, developing bespoke systems for a variety of clients.
I have extensive experience in project delivery, with several years’ experience in auditing business processes with a view to translating these to a working technology platform, as well as over ten years of web development experience, including hiring, managing and mentoring other developers.
I’m experienced in recommendation and optimisation technologies, location-based services and GIS, neural networks and machine learning, high-traffic scalability and availability optimisations, MySQL/Memcached integration and other caching technologies, OOP concepts, RDF and semantic web technologies, MVC Framworks (CakePHP, Symfony, Zend), PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (inc. jquery, Prototype, YUI), AJAX, XML-RPC, Memcached, Apache, Linux, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, SEO, Mass-email marketing
My cybernetics final year project: Biofeedback-based Brain Computer Interface Technical Report