Profile

Name

Zachary Richard Brown

Age

23 years (2nd January 1985)

Interests

Programming, piano, guitar, reading, writing, pirates, progressive metal, gaming, PHP!

Bio

Constantly striving to learn more and keep on top of the ever changing web phenomenon, Zack spends most of his time with his fingers glued to a keyboard and his head firmly moulded into a desk.

Education

The University of Hull, Scarborough: Sept 2003 - May 2006

BSc Internet Computing with Creative Music Technology (2:2 with Hons)

East Riding College, Bridlington: Sept 2001 - June 2003

BTEC National Diploma in Creative Music Technology.

Bridlington School, Bridlington: Sept 1996 - June 2001

9 GCSE's including English, Mathematics, Science (Double Award) & Information Technology.

Skills

Programming

xHTML & XML, CSS, JavaScript (AJAX), ActionScript, MySQL, PHP & ASP. Well versed OO principles and familiarity with PHP frameworks such as CakePHP and CodeIgniter.

Software

Working knowledge of Windows, MacOS X & Linux. Proficient with Macromedia Flash & Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop and SVN.

Web Oriented

Familiar with Apache, MySQL Administrator, phpMyAdmin, terminal/BASH & various FTP Tools.

Experience

Save9: Feb 2008 - present day

PHP and MySQL developer role, working as part of a team to produce dynamical driven web presences for large pulbic service networks. Sage200/SageCRM modification through the use of ASP and MS SQL technologies.

Firefly3D: July 2003 - Feb 2008

Freelance web developer working closely with 'in-house' graphic designer to create sleek and stable web environments to better facilitate the needs of a wide spectrum of internet users.

Lee Creative: Nov 2006 - Jan 2007

Temporary co-developer role undertaken to assist the development of several high profile websites with pressing release dates over the christmas and new year period.