About Me

I am senior web developer for Assertis, a web agency based in Tunbridge Wells. My areas of interest are software architecture, continuous integration, unit testing, design patterns, frameworks, development methodologies and project managment.

I'm a qualified Zend PHP5 Certified Engineer and experienced Javascript, XHTML, CSS and MySQL developer. Other technical skills include XML, XPATH, XSLT, XSD's, DTD's, Apache configuration and the occasional bit of Java development.

I graduated from the University of Kent with a 2:1 in Computer Science before and during this time I did a lot of development using Java which gave me a strong working knowledge of Object Oriented Programming and I have transferred that to website development using PHP5. Java also sparked my interest in Design Patterns and inspired me to use many of these ideas when I was developing Assertis' CMS framework and later my own PHP/XSLT web application framework.

Please feel free to have a look through my Portfolio which also has a bit more about my technical background.