My profile
I am currently operating as a 'digital odd jobs' via my company: Lightwisters™ where I have developed for a few local businesses as well as a few overseas agency and provided design and technical consultancy, project management and developer sourcing as a producer for Leo Burnett Hong Kong. I'm currently looking for angel investors in my various company projects. Please get in touch with me via LinkedIn.
- Cultural composition: British, Hong Kong
- Language ability: English, Cantonese
- Language "exposure" (these are language I've learnt in the past but have had no practical use thus I won't say I 'know' them but still relevent as if I ever get the chance to use them I would): Japanese, German, Mandarin
History
- 1996-2004Development as a hobby, creating various programs and websites for self and local groups.
- 2005-07Web developer/Database administrator at ICMA Center, University of Reading
- 2007Graduated from University of Reading with a Masters of Engineering Computer Science and Cybernetics
- Won the third year's Robot Rally event with my team Cerberus by pragmatism. - 2007-08Head web developer/producer in Pixel Scene (part of Purple Agency as of 2010)
- aintree.co.uk
- rosebowlplc.com
- sandown.co.uk
- uksports.gov.uk
- durhamccc.co.uk
- and countless other smaller business portals and shopping carts in the UK
- 2009Founded Lightwisters™
Left a beloved job at PS and started to create own internet platform while doing various agency work. - 2009-2010Joined Leo Burnett / Arc Worldwide in Hong Kong as their sole Digital Producer
- Wyeth Hong Kong
- A campaign for Sony camera produce launch
- P&G (MaxFactor and Vidal Sassoon) China and Hong Kong
- IKEA Hong Kong
- WWF Hong Kong
- 2010-2011Rekindled Lightwisters™
Left an extremely rewarding job at Leo Burnett to finish the Lightwisters internet platform, moving the company to pure R&D and moving forward with various business plans.
Skills
Things I haven't listed, I haven't used in practise commercially, but I've probably heard of it and played with it since it's almost impossible not to now-a-days.
- Preferred development style: extreme (a.k.a let's just get on with it)
- Preferred development framework: my own
- Preferred development tools: jQuery, Eclipse, Git
- Preferred project management tools: Basecamp
I have a mind for security and can test for SQL Injection and XSS attacks.
I have managed, trained and motivated small teams of developers in the past and managed projects as a producer for clients.
Development tools knowledge
- Subversion
- Git
- Eclipse
- Aptana
- FDT
- Adobe Flash
- Zend Framework
- jQuery
Development philosophy knowledge
- Waterfall
- Scrum
- Extreme
- Unit Testing
Programming languages knowledge
- (X)HTML (except for HTML5 as I deem it to be premature.)
- PHP
- ASP (classic)
- Javascript
- C/C++
- Actionscript 2/3
- Delphi
- VB6
Web development philosphy knowledge
- REST - before it was even coined
- MVC
- Frameworks
- Usability Testing
Database knowledge
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
Operating system administration knowledge
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- CentOS
- Ubuntu
- Windows (inc. Server) and MacOSX
Standards and law compliance knowledge
Me in real-time
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