Good Communication and Strong Understanding of Various Standards (Inc. RFC, W3C, WAI, Etc.)

Jason Jacques |

About:

Young, fresh and energetic technology guru for a London based streaming media business. Enthusiastic about open standards and inspired by emerging technologies. Excellent problem solver with a 'can do' attitude. Complete with Enhanced CRB and full, clean driving license.

Goal:

To work for an innovative company pushing the boundaries of technology, utilising it in new and unusual ways. Become involved in challenging projects which cause me to improve on and expand my existing skills and push me to think in new ways about problems.

Key Skills:

Good communication and strong understanding of various standards (inc. RFC, W3C, WAI, etc.)

Experience with all versions of Microsoft Office as well as OpenOffice.org and StarOffice on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms (as applicable).

Experience with Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux up to Administrative level (including server administration and configuration and Windows network integration).

Fluent in PHP, (X)HTML, CSS, XML/RSS, Java, C#, .NET, C/C++ and BASIC variants.

Commercial use of SQL, including Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL on both the Microsoft Windows and Linux platform.

Experience:

Dec ’07 - Jan ’08Stream UK Media Services Ltd.

Developer

Developed prototype for systems integration between proprietary in house task management system and the AOL Partner Ingest Tool allowing video to be transcoded and made live as a one step process.

Sep - Nov ’07Freelance Development and Consultancy

Various freelance projects including:

Created a bespoke desktop application, Razorblade.tv, utilizing RSS feeds which allowed desktop viewing and searching of videos from YouTube and other popular web video sharing sites.

Created and integrated Mac OS X 10.4 Server based server environment for backup, sharing, printing and remote access of architectural renders and promotional video. Integrated a number of Mac OS X and Windows XP based computers. The system also included a VPN end-point to allow secure remote access to the network.

Continued Support for Rancon Ltd on scalability for telephone driven audio manipulation system (see below).

Jul - Aug ‘07Rancon Ltd.

Developer

Main focus was completion of work outsourced to Mirola Ltd. Also contributed design and development elements to undisclosed internal projects. Work continued from Mirola Ltd. (see Mirola Ltd. below for more info):

Arniston Bay Wine email driven game backend.

Bespoke, telephone driven, audio manipulation system.

Oct ‘06 - Jun ’07Mirola Ltd.

Developer

Main task involved web development for Internet and telephone networks. Other experience included:

Maintained SendandGive.org for Cancer Research UK fixing many end user issues with the system using the .NET platform.

Applied extensive knowledge of email infrastructure to allow high throughput emails to be delivered with over 95% inbox delivery rate (rather than junk mail folder).

Lead Developer role on an investment-demonstration of bespoke audio manipulation system operated via telephone. Includes a custom designed cross platform execution system to allow different host platforms for various dependent elements.

Lead Developer role on a backend system for email driven game for Arniston Bay Wine.

Jul - Sep ‘06The Diamond Group Ltd.

IT Technician & Consultant

Main task involved web development and server maintenance for Internet and client intranet including a fix for long term and costly issue with franchisee user authentication.

Apr - May ‘03Deutsche Post Global Mail

Assistant Network Administrator

School-time work experience involving network and server maintenance and administration (Windows 2000 Server) and user support.

Education:

2004 - 2006Merton College Sixth Form Centre

A2 Subjects: Business Studies, Computing, Government & Politics.

AS Subjects: Chemistry, Mathematics.

2000 - 2004Bishopsford Community School

11 Subjects, all to B grade or higher.

Other Achievements:

Software engineering, including open source software, the most successful, in volume, of which being POSS ( a cross-platform email engine for PHP functionally compatible with the built in mail() function and is now being utilised by Southern Vermont College, USA amongst others. Re-design of the popular Mac OS X widget Maintidget which increased download rate 400% (

Portfolio:

Design and development portfolio featuring some of the work detailed here as well as other projects. Examples can be seen at:

Referees:

Available on request.