John Griffiths' Resume (Last updated June 19th 2009)

Experienced Information Technology Professional with proven expertise in developing innovative Web Applications for large corporations. Works closely and effectively with all levels of management to satisfy project and productivity requirements. Offers logical, forthright thinking and is able to provide effective solutions to solve difficult problems.

Capable of objective analysis and skilled at making quick decisions based on wisdom, experience, and judgment. Demonstrates commitment to superior customer service through positive attitude, leadership & hands-on teamwork.

Great team-player & fun attitude, competent time management, very dependable under pressure and passionately dedicated to the task.

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/red91
Portfolio: johnantoni.com

Web:

• Ruby on Rails 4yrs, ASP.NET 7yrs, PHP 2yrs, C# 2yrs, Python & Django 1yr
  

• 5-6 yrs accomplished front-end JavaScript AJAX, CSS 2.1, XHTML
  

• Coding to web standards, degradable javascript, maintainable code
  

• Cross-Browser testing & Javascript debugging, Selenium
  

• SEO, Analytics and performance tracking
  

• LAMP experience, remote deployment, security & firewalling
  

• Agile experience, test-driven development, ZenTest, versioning
  

• OOP, Design Patterns, REST & MVC Framework
  

• Competent Photoshop skills, ActionScript & Flex work
  

Data:

• SQL Server design & development 10yrs, MySQL 4yrs, PostgreSql, Oracle 10g data cleansing
  

• Studied SQL BI recently, member of the UK SQL user group
  

Certifications:

• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
  

• Microsoft Certified Professional
  

Development Environment:

• OSX, Ubuntu, Debian, Windows virtualized
  

• Visual Studio, TextMate, GEdit, DreamWeaver
  

• Cross-Browser testing on Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera & Chrome.

The Working Group, Developer, Toronto, Canada (May 2009 - June 2009)
Short-term contract working on-site with an applications development company based in Toronto, Canada. Producing commercial social-networking software and SaaS web applications within a team environment to tight deadlines.

KeepThinking, Developer, London (01/2009 - 03/2009)
Short-term contract, working with a small team of 3. Produced image converter for Wedgwood Collection using Ruby with WxRuby & FasterCSV. Helped create Horniman Museum Intranet with the CodeIgniter PHP framework, adapting our in-house CMS to requirements.
Google Maps API development for National Galleries of Scotland 'Artist Rooms' event

Moveme.com, User Interface Developer, London, UK (10/2007 - 12/2008)
Helped win Yahoo's award for most innovative company 2007 by helping construct one of the most unique consumer websites to-date.
Versatile role working in a team of 8 developers. Agile environment, developing the pioneering Moveme Calendar and Moving Tools using MooTools, Prototype and the jQuery AJAX frameworks; focusing strongly on front-end, cross-browser debugging & adhering to W3C conventions. Implement & tuned WebTrends, Zanox site tagging analytics, client-side A-B testing.
Branding & bug-testing the ajax planner and mini-tools for integration into partner sites SKY, MSN, AOL.
Improving performance with YSlow, CDN, lazy-loading, code profiling and helping re-develop back-end web-services in an iterative development cycle.

Agile environment with 2-4 week sprints, daily scrum meetings, burn-down charting, task weighting, pair-programming, continuous refactoring, code-coverage against tests.

Winner of Yahoo Peoples Choice Award 2008
Best B2C Application BIMA Awards 2007
Best Website BIMA Awards 2007
NMA Best New Business 2007
www.moveme.com

DatesWithMates Limited, Developer (part-time), London, UK (07/2007 - 09/2008)
July 2008 saw successful re-launch of this independently run RoR project, porting the .NET & SQL db of a unique double-dating social network. Recently featured on UK television, work is underway on a parallel Facebook app to work with the main site and improve growth.

A personal project working with original founders, completely revamped site from wire-frames and design meetings. Using Ruby, Liquid templates, ActionMailer, clustering, GeoCoding, jQuery with daily backups and redundancy, versioned with GIT & github.com.
www.datesplash.com

MisoVision LLC, Developer (part-time), USA (teleworking) (10/2007 - 11/2007)
Short-term project, working with developers overseas creating Ruby screen acquisition tools for isolating content for partners YouTube and MetaCafe. Processing and dispatching automatically as XML data for portal use.

PackPay LLC, Developer (part-time), USA / Tokyo (teleworking) (7/2007 - 1/2008)
Part-time Ruby project tele-conferencing with partners in the US and Tokyo. Creating first-stage social network with similar functionality of LinkedIn & Facebook. Creating Storyboards for concept work, database models and logic analysis, plus initial code template & carrying out market research.

WSP Group PLC, Web Designer & Developer, London (06/2000 - 10/2007)
IS team leader workin with a small team of 3, primarily involved in producing and delivering Web Applications for both internal and external clients.

Employing .NET, Ruby, C#, PHP, JAVA, JavaScript, XML-XSLT on a variety of projects; plus development and deployment of SQL Server data servers.

Notable products include forums, corporate Q/A web-based sessions for worldwide use, internal CMS and online procurement application (PRIMO) for global offices. Helped integrate CRM with business SAGE Saleslogix system. Replaced IIS search with Google Mini appliance and XSLT filters. Employing WebTrends analytics to track client traffic. Supported staff with hands-on training of new technologies, staff presentations and technical support. Promoting use of Agile methods within my team, implementing code versioning and improving documentation.

Responsible for web-server maintenance, upgrade and deployment. Hosted within a virtual n-tier environment, with 5-10 sql servers & 3 IIS servers across multiple physical locations.
www.wspgroup.com

Reuters Group PLC, Software Developer, London, UK (09/1998 - 05/2000)
Team member, chiefly responsible for Y2K upgrade of warehouse & asset management systems.

Developing tools to automate data processing & management of SQL Server. Notable achievements include automated documentation tools, custom DLL libraries, timers, calendars, SMTP and email batch processing. Helped port existing code to better designed OOP layout.
www.reuters.com

CanBridge Management Limited, Applications Specialist, Chelmsford, UK (07/1989 - 08/1998)
Focusing on software development, database design with admin duties for company's asset network. Worked as team leader designing IT infrastructure, permanent and part-time while finishing eduction.

Notables include creating online property management package (GreyWolf), supporting auto-backup, restore, mail-merge, reporting, documentation and accounting. Helped with on-site staff training and learning labs on new technologies

A & W Gowers Limited, Applications Developer, Chelmsford, UK (07/1996 - 09/1996)
Contract role while in University. Most notably creating dBase package for local timber yard to handle stock estimation, admin, re-ordering and job tracking. Carried out full life-cycle design, round-table discussions with staff and managers to build the perfect system. After which supplied training, support and on-site visits overseeing final deployment, hand-over with support visits.

Brointermed Lines Limited, Database Specialist, Harwich, UK (07/1995 - 09/1995)
Short-term contract position while in university to help re-engineer existing dBase software for large Harwich-based shipping firm. Refactored code, improved maintainability and produced documentation & black-box testing. Reveloped existing tools to better train staff, presenting final system to managers, along with on-site support.
www.brointermed.co.uk

Kings Cliff Hotel, Applications Developer, Clacton, UK (02/1991 - 07/1991)
While at college work-experience position arranged by myself and the hotel manager to supply a software package to handle stock-taking and accounting. Carried out staff interviews, questionnaires, group presentations and brain-storming sessions to design package. Developed full RDBMS suite with reporting, backup & recovery, mail-merge and archival; creating framework for future developments. Then provided support and training after final roll-out.

Andy Skipper, Chief Technical Officer
Moveme.com

I would like to recommend John Griffiths as a candidate for a position with your organisation. In his position as UI developer at moveme.com, John was employed in our office from September 2007 to December 2008.

John was an asset to our organisation during his employment here, and has excellent written and verbal communication skills, is extremely organised, can work independently and in close collaboration and is able to follow through to ensure that the job gets done.

During his tenure with moveme.com, John was responsible for developing the user interface part of the website using Javascript/Ajax, and was instrumental in the development of our multi-award winning Move Planner.
He is a very capable Javascript developer indeed, and has mentored other developers within the organisation to assist them in their learning.

Edward Leifer, Director
DatesWithMates Limited
London NW3 1NU

John Griffiths began working with DatesWithMates in July 2007 as our Web Developer and has been responsible for a complete overhaul and redesign of our website in Ruby.

Throughout this time John has been a pleasure to work with. He is a highly skilled developer and brings an organised approach to his work which has consistently been on time, to plan and far surpassing our expectations in terms of quality. His solutions have worked very smoothly and there have been very few bugs in any of the code John has developed.

Furthermore, John has a great deal of initiative and enthusiasm for his work and has made several suggestions and recommendations which have informed and improved the functional design of the website.

In the time that we have worked with John he has had an extremely positive influence on our business.

Lynn Smyth, Project Manager
WSP Group PLC

John is a highly motivated, structured senior developer. I worked with John for over 5 years and relied on him as my technical expert in delivering solutions to WSP and their clients. With strong technical and problem solving skills I would highly recommend John in a senior technical architect position. On a personal side John is a top guy and works very well in a team environment. Set him loose and lap up the rewards!

John Withers, Software Development Manager
Reuters Group PLC

During his time with Reuters I was greatly impressed with his dedication to each task, should a technical problem arise John would dedicate his work and home time to solving the problem. He is a resourceful and very capable individual who has developed his skills through self-learning and enquiry.

Michelle Clark, Interior Designer
Canbridge Management Limited

John has a gift with managing every aspect of a project at once, keeping a firm eye on the ball and on the stop-watch. His user-centric views always ensure the end product is something smart, powerful and simple to use. His technical firepower let's him dive into the heart of any problem. Couldn't recommend him more highly

StanleyBragg.co.uk
Offered on-site technical assistance, css, ajax, xhtml assistance.

Red91.com
Personal site, now 7 years & going strong. Technical tutorials, code snippets & research. Ported to my cms 'Matilda'.

'Abigail'
Flexible Rails CMS for the commerical industry, breadcrumbs, polymorphic objects, REST & Rails Engines.

Matilda
Simple Rails CMS for blogging. Sphinx for full-text search, RSS/ATOM feeds, Akismet spam protection, background management tools, validation & simple admin area. Open-sourced to the github community.

AtomPad.com
Online note taker similar to 37signal's basecamp, re-developing in-line with twitter.

Attended:
Ruby Manor 2008 (really enjoyable)
BarCamp 2007 (made some good friends there)
Google CodeJam 2006
Future of Web Apps 2006/7
Future of Web Design 2007

Photography for Air Canada, The Daily Mail and Universities
Published Thesis on 'User Interface Design' in 1998 for Anglia University

Field Work:

• Regular attendee of Web conferences.
  

• Presented at BarCamp and providing support for new projects
  

• Server construction & maintenance for personal development
  

• Blog regularly on new technologies that interest me
  

• Awarded 'Most Outstanding Student' in college
  

Languages:

• Fluent English, learning french
  

Interests:

• Film, Theatre, Photography, Ice Hockey, amateur guitarist and film maker