Working With Rails

Doug Hall 70 Hartland Drive South Ruislip HA4 0TH

020 8582 0897 07717 603 912 fastbloke@gmail.com fastblokeblog.blogspot.com

Summary An experienced, highly motivated, technically skilled and business minded individual. Precise and organised with a highly professional approach. Most comfortable taking the lead and delivering cost effective, commercially sound business solutions with both Microsoft and Unix platforms. Excellent communication skills. Experience in presenting enterprise scale solutions to board level clients.

Moneyspyder: www.moneyspyder.co.uk July 2006 – Now

moneyspyder.blogspot.com www.beautifulpure.com www.dc4uk.com

CTO Moneyspyder is a full service e-commerce solution provider and consultancy servicing medium and large businesses in the UK and Europe.

Moneyspyder demonstrated the effectiveness of ‘best practice e-commerce’ to clients through the use of statistical analysis of data generated by their sites running on Moneyspyder’s platform. Thus, ‘taking the think out’ of the business strategy and tactical decision making process.

Employing OSS throughout the system, Moneyspyder is a leader in the web 2.0 e-commerce movement publishing numerous Ruby on Rails plugins offering enhanced integration capabilities with payment systems, fulfillment, search and address finding services. Investing heavily in the development of a Ruby on Rails solution, the Moneyspyder technical solution has consistently out performed ‘traditional’ e-commerce platforms.

Building on a class leading technology platform the Moneyspyder business model was designed to build Moneyspyder through client website and business growth – the success of Moneyspyder hinged on our ability to affect change for our clients. The formula for success centred on using data to prove the success of changes through split testing. Through the support of split testing and in depth analytics, Moneyspyder was able to demonstrate the effectiveness of site enhancements.

Summary of Responsibilities:

Identification and management of technology partnerships. Build and mentor technical team. System architecture design and build. Interface with Board level clients in sales and consultation.

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, MySql, *nix, XML, jQuery/Prototype javascript frameworks, AJAX/Web 2.0 technologies

Blue Square: www.bluesq.com 2001- July 2006 www.meccagames.com www.bluesqcasino.com www.bluesqgames.com www.hardrockcasino.com

Web Developer/Technical Architect/Development Team Manager Blue Square is a large online fixed-odds betting and gaming company, owned by the Rank Group (www.rank.com) based in the UK.

Large heterogeneous architecture based in multiple locations. Built and managed the development team starting as the sole technical resource Built core system infrastructure resulting in common reusable technology solution Interfacing with and managing third party software and systems vendors Analysis, scoping, specification, design, build, test and management of projects Technical lead on flagship high street betting shop Designed and built CMS delivering content to over 90 sites Designed architecture and technically led Betting Exchange arbitrage project Built XML feed software offering latest prices and events

Technologies: VB, SQL Server, Solaris, PHP, MySql, RSS, SOAP, XML, Apache, Java

Current technical skills

Windows Apache HTML/DHTML MySQL Ruby on Rails *nix XML/XSL AJAX/Web 2.0 technologies jQuery/Prototype Javascript frameworks

EDUCATION

BSc Computation: UMIST 2:2 Year of Completion: 1996 6 ‘A’ and A/S Levels 9 GCSE Grades A-C

INTERESTS

I hold a private pilot’s license. I read extensively, run and juggle but not at the same time.

PERSONAL Date of birth: 11 October 1974 Marital status: Single Nationality: British Health: Excellent, Type 2 diabetic Driving licence: Full and clean UK License