Tarrandean Limited

Employment History

• 2007 - date Director, Tarrandean Ltd, Devon
• 1995- 2007 Technical Director - altcom Limited, Penzance, Cornwall
• 1988-1995 Software Developer, CSM Geothermal Energy project, Penryn, Cornwall
• 1984-1988 Software Developer, Software Sciences, Farnborough, Hants
• 1981-1984 Experimental Psychology, BA (Oxon, 1st)

Project Specifics

Here is an outline of projects I have worked on - often for other UK software companies and the rest on my own account.

Description	Buzzwords	More info
Implement a Drupal CMS website for Everybodys Acupuncture, promoting a Devon practitioner in acupuncture, massage, aromatherapy and other natural health solutions. (www.everybodysacupuncture.co.uk)	Drupal, PHP	Read more
Web development and maintenance of three sites based on Postnuke PHP CMS - including customised code for contacts databases, newsletters, Google maps, mailing, RSS feeds, site validation and accessibility using Firefox add-ons and TAW. Emphasis on CSS and W3C HTML validation. Bids, user guides, client training and test scripts.	PHP, CSS, MySQL, Googlemaps, Bids, SEO, test QA	Read more
Deriving a GoogleMap for schools around Auckland, New Zealand, with some search parameters	GoogleMaps, SQL, CURL	Read more
Re-build of the web-site for a Physiotherapist - www.marklandclinic.com. Added www.sportsperform.co.uk	HTML, CSS, SEO, Google maps, Flash	Read more
A single web site page to show UK TV listings day-by-day, for the next week. This was a PHP and MySQL job from the ground-up. No CMSes in sight. Options to choose channels and days, free text search, and hooks to advert images. (www.freetellyguide.co.uk).	PHP, MySQL	Read more
Implementing a store for Topologika (UK educational software) using the Paypal	Paypal	Read more
Web development of component for a site based on the Joomla PHP CMS - implementing the IPSV metadata coding system in PHP, using the Yahoo Javascript Tree Interface.	PHP, CSS, MySQL, YUI, IPSV, Joomla	Read more
Site Optimisation for Google Visibility - Semore Seismics. Reached front page for several key search phrases. (www.seismics.net).	HTML, CSS, Google, SEO	Read more
Designing test scripts for automation using Selenium IDE in Firefox. Ensuring re-useability of scripts for other CMS implementations.	Selenium	Read more
Web development for a UK nature Data Project: a PHP import process for Microsoft Excel, Word, Access and text files; export of data in XML format. All structured with the Symfony framework.	PHP, MySQL, Oracle, Symfony	Read more
Radar and GIS rainfall data display for the UK Environment Agency. Rainfall accumulation statistics, helping early warning of flooding and storm hazards.	Delphi	Read more
My first sizeable Drupal PHP module provides a venue to highlight suppliers of IT and digital media services. Write test scripts for the cousin site which publicised contract opportunities.	Drupal, PHP	Read more
Modify and install an open-source web calendar. www.dynamicadventures.co.uk.	PHP	Read more
Small website - Yoga teacher: Dru Yoga Devon	HTML, CSS, Xara drawing package, Picasa	Read more
Translation software for live news feeds for Reuters. Automatic parsing of plain text, XML, Word and PDF, quality checking and routing to database. Workflow control, trouble-shooting.	VMS, Pascal, Java, Antlr	Read more
PHP Zend Certification	PHP, Zend Certification	Read more
Improve an illustrator's website for Search Engine visibility. (www.akaowenarts.com)	HTML, CSS, Google, SEO	Read more
Small website for alternative health treatments: Time For You Treatments in Devon.	HTML, CSS, Googlemaps	Read more
Sales and Customer Database for small educational software company. Tracking of support enquiries and upgrades.	Microsoft Access	Read more
Conversion of Hydrology modelling package from FORTRAN on a Micro-VAX VMS machine, into a PC-Based package with Delphi and NAG	Delphi, NAG	Read more
Overhaul of small web-site for a Physiotherapist, including Google maps. Moved the site from Google obscurity onto front page - www.marklandclinic.com.	HTML, CSS, SEO, Google maps	Read more
Converter of oil well data for TecPlot 3D display	Delphi	Read more
Bespoke webcrawler to fetch PDFs from the OJEU site, zipping the results and recovering from outages caused by firewall.	Delphi	Read more
Small html web site www.searchwestafrica.co.uk, for a company which negotiates debts and investigates fraud around Nigeria.	HTML, CSS	Read more
Package for tidal flood prediction, using a database of tidal measurements interacting with a spreadsheet with a range of predictive formulae. Dynamic links between Delphi and Excel.	Delphi, NAG, Excel, VB	Read more
Construction of 3D panoramas for a university web site	PTGUI, Panorama	Read more
QA Auditor, Reuters Source Processing Department.
Database holding details of World Aid projects for the UK Department of Trade and Industry.	Microsoft Access	Read more
Small website for author and psychologist - Elizabeth Mapstone	HTML, CSS, Xara drawing package	Read more
Decoding IP Addresses from Web Logs	MS-Access	Read more
Database to log track record of medical staff to provide quality monitoring for surgeons, anaesthetists and consultants.	Microsoft Access
3-D display package for geophysicists.	FORTRAN, 3D	Read more
Weather Radar data collection, analysis and display for water companies.	FORTRAN
Ray Tracing - graphical modelling of geophysics and engineering structures	Rayshade	Read more
Flow forecasting system for Severn-Trent water company	FORTRAN on VMS	Read more
Water Resource management system for Wessex Water company	Pascal on VMS	Read more
Conversion of weather radar control and processing software for Met Office	FORTRAN, Coral on PDP-RSX
Contact Information and Tracking System, recording meetings, phonecalls and other communications. Cross-linking of contacts.	MS-Access	Read more
Membership database, mailing and office management for a dating bureau. Custom enquiries and searches.	Microsoft Access
Maintenance of database for Delabole (Cornwall) windfarm turbine, engineering and environment data, graph reports.	Microsoft Access	Read more
Modelling of potential windfarm development and resource in three regions of the UK. Custom app to join vector and raster map data on a common grid.	C, FORTRAN	Read more
Hotel room booking service, delivered via web	PHP and MySQL
Conversion of Trade Spreadsheet into Access database	MS-Access	Read more
Delphi app which uses OLE and looks through all the Excel timesheets it can find in a nominated folder. It finds task numbers and tots up the hours spent on a specific task	Delphi, Excel	Read more
FORTRAN Software course	FORTRAN	Read more