Curriculem Vitae - David Felton

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SUMMARY

Highly skilled in the field of Internet technologies, including the programming and database languages that are the building blocks of producing dynamic, content-based sites. Experienced in building and maintaining e-commerce solutions. In-depth experience of web development technologies. Extensive knowledge of software design principles including software engineering and requirements engineering. High level of experience of working with the programming language Java, including J2SE and J2ME (for mobile devices), Swing, RMI for distributed systems and JMF (Java Media Framework). Three years experience of administrating Windows 2000 server.

My Computer Science degree scheme focused on principles of computing which has given me the ability to quickly pick up a language, idea or API. As well as covering Java, the also had other practical aspects like programming in the procedural language MIT Scheme and in-depth work in the field of databases, including the query language SQL.

SKILLS

Technical Skills
MySQL, SQL Server, IIS, J2SE, J2ME, UNIX/LINUX (working knowledge).

Languages
PHP, Java, SQL , HTML, DHTML XML, XSLT, JavaScript, CSS.

Other
E-commerce, Web services, Client Facing Experience, Database Design, Design Documentation, Technical Writing, User Interface Design.

QUALIFICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WEB PROGRAMMER
- promoted to SENIOR WEB PROGRAMMER January 2003.
- promoted to LEAD WEB PROGRAMMER October 2004.

• Completely responsible for the production of the bespoke backend system and content management system for the new Codemasters website launched in December of 2001. The dynamic, database driven website spans 6 languages across 8 territories: http://www.codemasters.com
• Developed systems for complete management of database driven sections of the site, handling, adding editing, removing and displaying of items, including (but not limited to) games section, downloads section and news section.
• Developed ‘Code M’ members section which manages over 700,000 users and their profiles, and handles personalised mass emailing to any subset of the members database.
• Designed and developed web-based survey builder to interactively create surveys online, dynamically display these surveys to the user, record the results and then display / export these results in the backend system.
• Designed and developed online cheat codes purchasing system, including handling credit cards, interfacing with credit card processor and porting cheatcode generators to PHP.
• Developed Java-based bulk emailing program, using Java RMI client-server technology.
• Designed and developed bespoke e-shop, including managing products and orders, interfacing with payment gateway (using XML) and processing card payments: http://www.codemasters.com/eshop
• Implemented retrieval of Xbox Live! leaderboards from Microsoft servers using SOAP
  

WEB DESIGNER

• Responsible for creating and produced many local websites for local branches of this nationwide teachers union.

TELESALES

• Summer spent running the pilot telesales initiative, aimed at making full members out of newly qualifies student members of the teachers union.

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