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<h1>Experience</h1>
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<h2>Microserve</h2>
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<div class="experience-item-role text-light">Senior Drupal Developer
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March 2017
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Present (Bristol, England).
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<p>Drupal 8 site building, custom module development, theming, data migrations.</p>
<p>Drupal 7 site building, custom module development, theming.</p>
<p>First Acquia certified Drupal 8 Developer.</p>
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<h2>Freelance</h2>
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2007
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Present (Remote).
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<p>Working on Drupal and Symfony development, maintenance and support projects in my spare time.</p>
<p>Administration of Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS servers, and configuration using Puppet, or more recently, Ansible.</p>
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<h2>Appnovation</h2>
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<div class="experience-item-role text-light">Senior Drupal Developer
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May 2016
to
March 2017 (Cardiff, Wales).
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<p>Drupal 7 and 8 site building, custom module development and theming.</p>
<p>Part of various pre-sales teams, including the company’s first UK Drupal 8 project and first FTSE 100 client.</p>
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<h2>CTI Digital</h2>
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<div class="experience-item-role text-light">Lead Drupal Developer
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November 2015
to
May 2016 (Remote).
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<p>Working on various Drupal 7 projects for clients including Greater London Authority (http://www.london.gov.uk), British Land and British Council, as well as various retainer contracts.</p>
<p>Working on internal Drupal 8 learning initiatives, focussing on custom module development and data migration.</p>
<p>Initial development of a CLI application for generating new and auditing existing codebases to ensure consistency across projects. This uses various Symfony components - mainly the Console and Filesystem components.</p>
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<h2>Microserve</h2>
<a class="experience-item-website display-inline-block" href="https://microserve.io">https://microserve.io</a>
<div class="experience-item-role text-light">Senior Drupal Developer
from
July 2015
to
November 2015 (Bristol, England).
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<p>Full-stack Drupal development, focussing on data migration.</p>
<p>Lead Developer of the <a href="http://road.cc">road.cc</a> rebuild project onto Drupal 7, including working with non-Drupal PHP applications and utilising of Symfony components, and interacting with Drupal via REST.</p>
<p>Community and contribution advocate.</p>
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<h2>Drupal Association</h2>
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2014
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July 2015 (Remote).
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<p>Maintaining and improving Drupal.org - the home of the Drupal community.</p>
<p>Speaking at user groups and DrupalCamps to promote the Drupal Association.</p>
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<h2>Precedent</h2>
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<div class="experience-item-role text-light">Senior Drupal Developer
from
2013
to
2014 (Cardiff, Wales).
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<p>Drupal 7 website development, including site building, theming, module development, data migration and server configuration.</p>
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<h2>Nomensa</h2>
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<div class="experience-item-role text-light">Contract Drupal Developer / Application Developer & System Administrator
from
2012
to
2013 (Bristol, England).
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<p>Drupal 7 website development and Linux server administration.</p>
<p>I originally started as a contractor, and later took a staff role.</p>
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<h2>Proctor & Stevenson</h2>
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<div class="experience-item-role text-light">PHP Developer
from
2011
to
2012 (Bristol, England).
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<p>Website development, mainly with Drupal and PHP, including the agency’s first Drupal 7 project.</p>
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<h2>Horse & Country TV</h2>
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<div class="experience-item-role text-light">Web Developer
from
2010
to
2011 (Cwmbran, Wales).
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<p>Maintaining and adding new features to the Horse & Country TV website (Drupal 6).</p>
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Publishing Sculpin Sites with GitHub Pages
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Turning Your Custom Drupal Module into a Feature
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