Experience

Personal Project - Best Bottle

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Creator

  • Oct 2009 - Present

  Best Bottle is a tool to allow people to search for wine across UK press reviews. The tool is designed to be easy and straight forward to use and allow people to access wine review data when they really need it - either before setting out to shop or standing in the wine aisle with Best Bottle Mobile. It has been developed using Ruby-on-Rails.



Can Factory

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Developer

  • Jan 2004 - Aug 2009

  Worked as both a permanent developer and a contractor on the design and implementation of bespoke web-based solutions for a variety of clients using agile development. Technologies used: Java, Perl, Tapestry, Spring MVC, Apache Struts, HiveMind, Hibernate, Eclipse, Maven, Ant, Tomcat, Jetty, CruiseControl, TestNG, EasyMock, Mockito, JWebUnit/HttpUnit, Oracle 10g, MySQL, Web technologies



Thorogood Associates

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Intelligence Consultant

  • Sep 2000 - Jan 2004

  IT Consultant working for a variety of high-profile clients in various industries. Programming and design experience of bespoke business intelligence systems. Technologies used: MS Visual Basic, MS Access, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Analysis Services, Proclarity, COM, Web technologies (including XML, XSLT)