I am a programmer who has been working in the field of Web Development for the past 4.5 years, most recently working at a fun Web 2.0 focused shop in Melbourne, Australia. After learning a lot and improving professionally as a programmer — starting, maintaining and managing projects — I have decided to make the move to work in England. I have been involved in all parts of the development of successful web applications, including estimating costs, test & behaviour driven development, taking part in the visual design process and developing the application while keeping in touch with the clients.
I have just arrived in England on a Youth Mobility Visa (2 year work permit), I have brought my own laptop so can start work at short notice.
Outside of the technology industry my main interests are espresso coffee making (I have successfully made one cup of coffee from beans I grew myself) as well as listening to a large variety of music and I have also recently become interested in cycling (particularly a single-speed setup).
The Tier 5 Youth Mobility Visa allows me to work for the full 2 years I am here.
Email: adam@pkqk.net
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London, UK
April 2009 — current
Melbourne, Australia
March 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 10 months)
I joined Trike very soon after they started up, as part of the main team we learnt about and made of extensive use of Test Driven and later on Behaviour Driven Development. I developed on Radiant various small brochure style websites at first and as the company grew we took over the maintenance of a successful educational sports video website and I helped to develop a social networking for teams and coaches addition to the site.
As the number of staff increased we started to use pair programming extensively and we developed a successful wiki and knowledge sharing website for radiologists. Later on as we had gained a large experience in RoR as a team we started a few side projects including a podcast modifying service powered by AWS and a soon to be released self improvement progress tracking website.
My final project was adapting the open source Reddit codebase to help a successful blogging team who want to slow things down a bit, but still provide their readership with quality articles by using community submitted articles and the collaborative rating system from Reddit.
Auckland, NZ
April 2006 — December 2006 (8 months)
At Idiom I worked on a patient data tracking project for various District Health Boards using the companies two products. I started as a developer on the project and took over management later on, maintaining contact with representatives from the DHBs, tracking requirements and issues.
Auckland, NZ
March 2004 — April 2006 (2 years 2 months)
Most of my time at Zeald was spent doing custom additions to and integration of external services with the company’s core product (A CMS/E-Commerce application) using Perl, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and MySQL. I worked closely with designers for usability and graphic appearance. Prior to this role I worked in a team of 4 maintaining the company’s CMS/E-Commerce application, including prototyping a significant feature upgrade, and improving internal tools.
February 2004
21 Day Classic Course
2000 — 2003
BSc (Hons) in Computer Science
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