Stewart Waller
Born: 20th March 1977
Location: Brighton & Hove
Born: 20th March 1977
Location: Brighton & Hove
I am currently working as a software developer in the Brighton & Hove area.
After finishing school, I found work primarily as a PC hardware technician - build, installation and repair to a commercial standard. Returning back to academia to study archaeology in 2000 was a breath of fresh air, but ultimately dovetailed with my previous computer background when I started working at the ADS.
After living, studying and working in York for over 5 years, I moved back to the South Coast where I have continued my career as a software developer.
I have a good technical aptitude which enables me to learn new skills fast. Although I favour the Java programming language I have dabbled in C++/C#, Perl, Pascal and am competent developing websites using PHP and ColdFusion. The following list is a summary of my primary skills:
Privately Held; Email Marketing and Advertising industry
February 2011 – Present (7 months)
Pure360 is an email marketing platform built on top of a bespoke PHP MVC framework. The framework utilizies a Java Bean-like middle tier in conjunction with a facade and data access layers.
I have recently played a key role in developing integration solutions (both online and on-premise) between our platform and client CRM. The development of a swing based Java agent has allowed integration with on-premise CRM installations that would otherwise be unobtainable.
* Bespoke PHP MVC framework
* OO Design patterns
* CRM Integration (Salesforce, MS Dynamics, Goldmine)
* Pervasive Data Integration
* NSIS installer
* Java swing agent
Public Company; Publishing industry
February 2010 – March 2011 (1 year 2 months)
I’ve been working at Boatshop24 since January 2010 as a PHP web developer. I was initially tasked with recoding of http://www.boatshop24.com using a Code Igniter / Smarty base and have since started writing the new 'Place An Ad' system soon to be released.
I have also created several WordPress powered sites, such as http://brightonandhovefreepress.co.uk, as side projects for Friday Media Group Ltd.
* PHP & Code Igniter frameworks
* Smarty templating engine
* Javascript (AJAX, jQuery)
* Internationalization
* WordPress
* SEO, SEO, SEO !!
Information Services industry
July 2005 – December 2009 (4 years 6 months)
During my time at the ADS I was the sole Java developer and technical lead for R&D projects.
My responsibilities included: the development of bespoke Java web applications; architecting/development of the new ADS website using J2EE technologies; the integration of the legacy ColdFusion sites; development of web-services to provide search/retrieval of archaeological information to UK local/national organisations. I was also responsible for the configuration of application servers including multiple Tomcat and Glassfish instances, the ADS wiki system and the Collections Management System. Although my work at the ADS was predominantly Java based, I gained extensive knowledge of ColdFusion/Open Blue Dragon, Web-GIS systems (including both ESRI products and GeoServer/OpenLayers) and JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery.
* Java J2EE (OO Design Patterns, Glassfish, EJB3.0)
* Web-Services (Apache Axis, Metro, WSDL, UDDI)
* MVC Frameworks (JSF, Struts)
* Portal Technology (JSR-168, JSR-286)
* ColdFusion
* Web-GIS (GeoServer/OpenLayers)
* Javascript (AJAX, jQuery)
Information Services industry
July 2004 – July 2005 (1 year 1 month)
My role as a Curatorial Officer for the ADS initially involved the accessioning, preparation, archive and dissemination of archaeological digital data for the digital archive. This was achieved using various tools to manipulate, convert and manage digital information(images, video, office documents and raw xyz data etc). Special Collection interfaces were developed using ColdFusion which allowed web-based dissemination. Due to the increasing complexity of various archives and the increasing amount of R&D projects I became involved with, my role at the ADS shifted towards software development.