I’m 22 years old and currently living in Coulsdon, Surrey with my beautiful wife Kara, our adorable son Ethan and our many pets (cats, dog, fish).

I’ve always been into web development. I love creating things. I’ve tried my hand at all aspects of web development, from front end including graphic design to system setup and of course to back end development. Everything I know at the moment has been self taught either through tutorials, from working around other developers or from good old trial and error. A LOT of trial and error.

I used to say that PHP is my main language, but I love working with Javascript so much that it’s becoming a strong competitor. Yes I work with PHP every day and all of my server side code is in the language, but there is something about working with Javascript – especially since the introduction of the popular libraries – that just can’t be beat.

Unlike a lot of people I work with or developers I talk to, I never went to University and so was never introduced to web development in any traditional way but it also means I’ve been determined to specialise in PHP development. Of course I’m open to branching out and learning other languages – the more the better – but from what I can foresee, I think I will always stay in the web development field.

I’m currently working with a leading eCommerce agency in London. The sites we are currently creating are using a complex back end system using the symfony framework. I recently developed a Flex administration system using RESTful web services written in PHP for our sites.

I am always looking for ways to challenge myself so if you have a project you believe I would be well suited for, please let me know.

My current skill set;

PHP
OOP
MVC architecture
Design patterns
Agile Software Development
Symfony. Symfony is an MVC based framework for PHP. More information can be found here. I’ve done a number of projects in this framework and feel very confident about my capabilities with it.
Silverstripe. Silverstripe is a very nice CMS platform with a nice sized community. It is written on top of the Sapphire PHP framework, developed by the same people. More information can be found here.
Magento. Magento is a very strong platform offering almost everything you could want to do with e-commerce. More information can be found here.

MySQL
Stored procedures
Triggers
Strong SQL

Javascript
Ajax
Literal object notation
Client side pseudo MVC pattern
jQuery. I’ve been using jQuery for a number of years now and pretty much everything I do in javascript is now done in jQuery. From my point of view it’s the best javascript library currently available. More information can be found here.

Flex
Modular applications
Communication with back end systems using RESTful web services written in PHP.

(X)HTML
XML
CSS
Linux
Apache
Subversion

Various applications and buzz words etc
Web 2.0. Microsoft Windows. Ubuntu. Zend IDE. RESTful web services. SOAP.