Contents: Contact, Skills, Work, Education, Other, Referees.
Name: Marcus David Baker
Profession: Software developer
Date of birth: 11/11/63
Nationality: UK
Address: 5 Morrison Avenue, Tottenham, London N17 6TU.
Telephone: 020 8801 7871; Mobile/SMS: 07973 290 084.
E-mail:
marcus@lastcraft.com
Mobile e-mail:
nokia@appo.demon.co.uk
Strong OO design and development skills, small enterprise architecture, data modelling and developer coaching. Here is a standard Resume/CV...
Consultant and senior developer for complete rearchitecture of this market leading search engine optimisation tool. OO analysis and development in PHP, Ruby, SQL and Perl on Linux/Apache platform. Also responsible for team organisation and introducing agile and other coding practices into the organisation.
Projects include:
I've pretty much worked on every part of the Wordtracker system as I started as the first developer. Now a technical team of 11 and growing.
Also author of a regular column on object oriented programming and design patterns. Technical reviewer for "PHP Design Patterns" by Jason Sweat.
Consultant specialising in small and medium web development projects. Areas of expertise include agile methodologies applied to small businesses, developer coaching and improving business/developer communication of requirements.
Although no longer a partner, still do occasional projects and maintanence as lead developer on a contract basis.
Part of a team of four developers producing internet administered ISDN telephony services (unified messaging). Projects included an object based telephony server library in C, web site localisation, emergency messaging and sundry database work.
Lead developer and founding partner of this web start up. Specialised in e-commerce solutions.
| Institution | Dates | Qualifications |
|---|---|---|
| Kings College, Nuffield Foundation | 9/89 - 7/90 | P.G.C.E. in Physics and General Science. |
| Imperial College, London University | 10/82 - 7/85 | B.Sc. in Physics. |
| John Newnham Sixth form College | 9/80 - 7/82 | 3 A-Levels, 3 further O-Levels. |
| Riddlesdown High School | 9/75 - 7/80 | 8 O-Levels. |
Cgreen project on sourceforge, a unit test and mock objects framework in C.
Phemto project on sourceforge, a dependency injection too in PHP.
SimpleTest project on sourceforge, a unit test, web test and mock objects framework in PHP.
Arbiter project on sourceforge, a requirements acceptance tool to aid in project management. A Ruby/Rails app.
Fakemail project on sourceforge, an e-mail simulation tool for testing in Perl.
Co-founder, and organiser for three years, of the PHP London. An organisation dedicated to improving communication between developers and business users of PHP. Founder of the first UK PHP conference.
Have given several presentations on software development in topics ranging from learning OO to using knowledge managment to understanding agile development. Able to give audience presentations confidently and with due preparation.
Over ten years experience of one to one teaching, and just under two years of classroom teaching as a qualified secondary school teacher.
Main qualities are honesty and flexibility. Hobbies include all aspects of computing and psychology and ex-holder of an international chess rating. Married June 2001 with two kids.
Full driving license and workshop skills.
Available on request.
Contents:
Contact,
Skills,
Work,
Education,
Other,
Referees.
The latest version of this document is at
www.lastcraft.com/marcus/marcuscv.html