Neil P.
Senior Web Developer at ASCENTIAL EVENTS LIMITED- Claim this Profile
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Dominic Robinson
Neil was my first hire of a new team and was a key member as the team grew. He’s committed to quality and best practices, helping define team standards and reshaping legacy code. Neil capably handled challenges presented to him and acquired essential knowledge of the business processes behind the code. He recently worked on a business critical CRM integration, becoming an key contributor to the success of the project. Neil is an outstanding developer and has great potential for the future.
Dominic Robinson
Neil was my first hire of a new team and was a key member as the team grew. He’s committed to quality and best practices, helping define team standards and reshaping legacy code. Neil capably handled challenges presented to him and acquired essential knowledge of the business processes behind the code. He recently worked on a business critical CRM integration, becoming an key contributor to the success of the project. Neil is an outstanding developer and has great potential for the future.
Dominic Robinson
Neil was my first hire of a new team and was a key member as the team grew. He’s committed to quality and best practices, helping define team standards and reshaping legacy code. Neil capably handled challenges presented to him and acquired essential knowledge of the business processes behind the code. He recently worked on a business critical CRM integration, becoming an key contributor to the success of the project. Neil is an outstanding developer and has great potential for the future.
Dominic Robinson
Neil was my first hire of a new team and was a key member as the team grew. He’s committed to quality and best practices, helping define team standards and reshaping legacy code. Neil capably handled challenges presented to him and acquired essential knowledge of the business processes behind the code. He recently worked on a business critical CRM integration, becoming an key contributor to the success of the project. Neil is an outstanding developer and has great potential for the future.
Credentials
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Sitecore 8 Professional Developer Certification
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Experience
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ASCENTIAL EVENTS LIMITED
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United Kingdom
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Events Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Web Developer
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Apr 2015 - Present
When I started at Ascential Events my role involved maintaining and developing the Cannes Lions, Eurobest, Spikes Asia and Dubai Lynx websites and commerce systems. For a short period I developed new systems in C# and Sitecore CMS. Before moving onto the design and development of a new eCommerce platform written in Lucee 5 and taffy.io. This software quickly and reliably takes millions of euros worth of payments each year as well as gathering the details required to operate a festival full of speaker, judges, on-site contractors and journalists. The tools I use daily I've used here is Lucee 5, GitFlow, SQL Server 2014, VSC and Redgate SQL Compare and IIS 10. Show less
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PMA Digital Ltd
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United Kingdom
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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App Developer
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Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
I helped complete an app for Huntsman, tailors of Savile Row. Written for the iPad using jQuery, HTML 5 and PhoneGap. I helped complete an app for Huntsman, tailors of Savile Row. Written for the iPad using jQuery, HTML 5 and PhoneGap.
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Sport Focus
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India
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Developer
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Jun 2012 - Feb 2015
I developed a smart device application that provides council tenants a modern interface to council services. The app is a platform of customisable modules that can be sold as extensions to a platform. The platform is re-sold as a customisable product to councils. I used ColdFusion 9 and SQL Server 2008 to develop a server side system that could consume data from each council optionally by restful JSON, SOAP or via a bespoke data management system I wrote. Data would be consumed nightly via a scheduled task, saved to the database and cached in application memory for rapid retrieval. The app communicates exclusively to the server via JSON and caching of data in memory kept the application response time minimal. In total 6 custom apps were released from the code base. The app was developed with PhoneGap, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Lawnchair and lab.js. Popular modules for the app included waste management and fly-tipping reports such as in Connect – South Oxon & V of WH. Optional extras include multi-language support as in Connect Swansea, with customised branding and custom naming standard. The application uses notifications and push messaging to inform users of last minute disruptions or changes to their scheduled waste collection date. ColdFusion pushes the messages to the devices by identifying their device OS and interacting directly with the Google Cloud Messaging and Apple Push Notification services appropriately. I maintained existing membership websites written with Mura CMS, FW/1 and ColdSpring. I refactored major areas of legacy membership systems that were the backbone of the company's products. I eradicating SQL injection, reduced code duplication by moving more functionality into components. I introduced better error handling which was responsible for a major reduction in bugs. I introduced documentation with Atlassian Confluence and helped push git with git flow and branching as the de-facto method of source control. Show less
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Pancentric
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United Kingdom
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Design Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Developer
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Dec 2006 - Jun 2012
Here I primarily spent my time developing a multi-lingual 360° surveying tool. The programming language used was ColdFusion 9. The system grew in popularity due the large number of features that I subsequently added in the 3 years after it originally went live. Eventually becoming an integral part of staff training for a number of the biggest and most successful organisations in both the UK and the world. A 360° survey is a survey whereby a person completes the same self-evaluation survey once before a training course and once after. The person also nominates one or more colleagues to evaluate them using the same set of questions. A report containing bar charts and tables is used to collate the data and is generated after both rounds of surveys. The first report is used to show the person how they perceive their abilities before the training and how they are perceived by their colleagues. The second report does exactly the same except it also includes additional data on where they have improved during training, and highlights where they still fall short. In addition to the original 360° survey I also programmed a 225° survey, 180° survey and a Kirkpatrick surveying tool. All of these surveys had high level reporting functionality that allowed data to be pulled from all correspondents or filtered to a specific subset. A very powerful self evaluation tool for the client. On this project I really honed the skills necessary to be considered a top notch programmer. My ability to encapsulate complexity and abstract to simplicity was challenged and improved, largely to the point where it was unappreciated just how complex the system had grown to. My ability to create, organise and find re-usable code functions and components became second to none. As a result of this project I began developing a rich library of proprietary code across ColdFusion, Javascript and SQL. At Pancentric I was relied upon to take on the most complex projects. Show less
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Education
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2002 - 2006
University of Hertfordshire
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2002 - 2006
University of Hertfordshire
Bachelor Of Computer Science, Computer Science
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