Gareth A.

Fulltime freelance developer for 2 years based in Edinburgh, Scotland with clients worldwide. Past experience working as a Drupal Web Developer for a large Internet Marketing Company in Edinburgh. My role was creating rich Internet applications. Development in PHP and MySQL, with strong emphasis on SEO and marketing. Drupal theme and module development. I liaised with clients and was involved in a thorough scoping process to ensure clients requirements were fully understood before embarking on both bespoke development and adaptation and enhancement of open-source technologies. A background in Sensory impai rment working for a disability charity gave me a valuable understanding of accessibility and usability issues, which I keep in mind while I develop the website or web application that meets the clients requirements. While working alongside experts in SEO and Internet Marketing has given me special insight into the working of Search Engines and also the way that a clients potential customers use search which I try to bring into my development ensuring that any optimisation is as simple as possible for the end users of the application. I am open to using whatever technology is best for the application being developed, as I have had exposure to Zend and cakePHP Frameworks and have developed numerous bespoke modules and themes for Drupal, wordpress and joomla to ensure that the customer gets exactly what they require. I have also supported and reverse engineered existing applications for clients in a number of programming languages including PHP4 & 5, ASP.net including both C# and VB. Area of Expertise Skills HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL/Javascrip - Expert Windows 2000/XP, Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server - Expert Windows Server 2000/2003, Linux - Expert LAN / WAN / DNS / Intranet / Extranet - Intermediate Member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers