I believe innovation drives profits and great ideas implemented really well are what drive value in any company.
Experienced web developer with 6 years experience with PHP, Apache, Mysql.
Recently my interests and work have moved towards mobile (native and web) apps, working with Objective-C for the iPhone and HTML5 for mobile web.My current position involves leading the Mobile Dev Team at Hostelworld, we create all of their mobile websites and applications including:
Our mobile apps are a core part of the growth strategy of our company (revenue from our mobile products has grown from 0.5% to just under 4% of company revenue in a year). I ensure that every member we add to the team is passionate about improving the product from design and usability right through to measuring RPC response times and CPU and memory utilisation.
Created an in-house CDN to improve global load times.
Created a CSS-Sprite Generation tool to automate a highly time consuming manual process.
Participated in a highly Agile development team, weekly releases, daily standups, pair programming.
At Digital:CC I lead a team of 5 developers to create an entire network of sites for the Hearst Corporation.
Uptime was a top priority and so redundancy was a key requirement for all aspects of the system. One interesting task from an engineering perspective was improving the system's performance. To this end I implemented a page caching system using memcache clustering to reduce load times from ~7 seconds to about 0.25 seconds (for HTML rendering).
Some sites we worked on (many have since been redesigned)
Created mobile WAP/web site (WML, XHTML language abstraction using PHP and WURFL), created SMS based entertainment services, built on a PHP/MySQL backend.
Bachelor of Science, Information Technology
Hons Degree (2.2)
Subjects included: Software Engineering, Database systems, Distributed Systems, Real Time Computing, French
Leaving Certificate (435 points)