IamMark

Hello!

I am Mark Davison,

a Software Engineer

from London, UK

I am a problem solving, coffee drinking, cap wearing web application developer.

My mother tongue is PHP, but I am also fluent in Javascript and English.

Employment

Everlution, London Software Developer Sep 13 - Present

  • Outsourced to William Hill to work on two major projects. Responsible for creating a number of services built with Symfony 2/Yii and their integration with existing components

Teleperformance, Beijing Senior Developer Jan 12 - Aug 13

  • Developed an intranet/extranet/internet system for the processing of visas with PHP, PostgreSQL, Node.js and Redis.
  • Concieved and developed a tool that allowed the business to double centre productivity which they later went on to patent.

Towequipe, Nuneaton Web Developer Jan 11 - Jan 12

  • Designed and operated two eBay stores, the Snow Chain Outlet and Mont Blanc Outlet and set up a ecommerce website.
  • After migrating to Beijing I continued my employment remotely for four months.

FT Frames, Coventry Facebook App Developer Aug 09 - Jan 11

  • Designed and programmed all web elements of The Artifice; a social media platform combining gaming and viral promotion. Including the Facebook application, eccommerce advertising site and film blog.
  • Ran a sucessful marketing campaign on Facebook resulting in a fan page of 4 million (top 20 in the world at the time).

Skills

Programming Languages

  • PHP

  • Javascript

  • Node.js

PHP Frameworks

  • Symfony 2

  • Zend 1.1

  • Yii 2.0

Javascript Frameworks

  • Express

  • Mongoose

  • Backbone

  • Angular

  • jQuery

  • jQueryUI

  • Prototype

Databases

  • MySQL

  • PostgreSQL

  • MongoDB

Projects

ZuFangDitu - Beijing Rental Map App

  • A large Google map populated with scraped listings of rental accomodation in Beijing. The apartments are filterable with jQuery UI sliders on price, size and number of rooms.
  • The web scraper and application backend were built on Node.js, coupled with a MongoDB document store.

Commuter Homes London - Add Public Transport Commute Times to Rightmove

  • Chrome extenstion scrapes each properties location and requests commute time from workplace postcode to the property. Then adds the time and route to each listing.
  • Get Commuter Homes London

Contact

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