Chisel Colin Wright

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 2nd October 1974
Nationality: British
Full Driving License: Yes
Position Type: Permanent
Availability: One Calendar Month

Computing Experience

Key Skills:
  • Perl - over 8 years commercial, including:
  • PostgreSQL - over 4 years commercial
  • HTML - over 4 years commercial, including:
    • Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)
    • Javascript
    • CSS2
  • mySQL - over 4 years commercial
  • C - 3 years University + 7 months commercial
  • Visual Basic for Applications (Access 97) - 14 months commercial
Other Skills:
  • familiar with SVK, SVN and CVS
  • shell scripting (bash)
  • installation and maintenance of Linux, FreeBSD and Microsoft workstations
  • previous experience with lex & yacc
  • previous experience with Delphi (v3) and Kylix

Work Experience

Nov 2006 - Present Net-A-Porter London [ Map ]
Perl Programmer
Main Technologies Used:
  • Perl (mod_perl, CGI scripts, standalone scripts, modules)
  • PostgreSQL
  • Apache
  • HTML
Projects, Roles and Responsibilities:
  • ongoing maintenance and improvement of custom stock/order system (xTracker)
  • implement Perl-SOAP interface to US Tax Calculation service (Vertex)
  • implement Photography Workflow and Management project
  • implement Promotions project
  • provide feedback and suggestions for project specifications

 

Jan 2002 - Oct 2006 EHS Brann London [ Map ]
Lead Developer
Main Technologies Used:
  • Perl (mod_perl, CGI scripts, standalone scripts, modules)
  • PostgreSQL
  • mySQL
  • Apache
  • HTML
Roles and Responsibilities:
  • ongoing maintenance and development of large scale email newsletter tool
  • maintenance of various data collection and presentation tools
  • Involved in the design and implementation of the volvo-i.co.uk campaigns
  • Wrote Special Offers tool for Al Italia
  • Maintenance of Canon Europa (UK) Product Finder and Driver Downloads
  • Database design for volvo-i marketing campaign and importing a number of 3rd party data sources
  • Modifying existing scripts and modules to increase performance

 

Jan 2000 - Dec 2001 moneyextra.com London [ Map ]
Perl Programmer
Main Technologies Used:
  • Perl (mod_perl, CGI scripts, standalone scripts)
  • mySQL and Oracle
  • Apache (configuration, including dynamic perl configuration)
  • HTML
Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Maintenance and enhancements to the discussion boards
  • Maintenence of services on the site
  • Dealing with technical questions and problems for site users
  • Contact Centre and Mortgage Centre software
  • Modifying services for portal sites

 

Jul 1998 - Jan 2000 CGG-PECC Forest Row, East Sussex [ Map ]
Software Engineer
  • MS Access 97 database development (including VBA)
  • HTML design, including Perl-CGI scripts
  • Firewall maintenance
  • Set-up and maintained local (anonymous) FTP server

 

Dec 1997 - Jul 1998 Geodetic Technology Crawley, West Sussex [ Map ]
Software Engineer
  • Design and implement software solutions for a cutting machine
  • Develop user-interface for operation machine
  • Develop wirh real-time OS, QNX (Unix based)
  • Provide general technical support for other PC users in the company

 

Nov 1996 - Nov 1997 Mastercare (Dixons) Nottingham, East Midlands [ Map ]
Technical Service Advisor (Telephone)
  • Hardware support for all PC related products sold by Dixons Stores Group
  • Arrange on-site engineer for diagnosed hardware faults
  • Software support for any software and PC hardware on a premium rate helpline

Education

1993 - 1996 Manchester (Victoria) University Manchester [ Map ]
Joint Honours, Computer Science and Mathematics
  • Received B.Sc. Hons (III)
1993 - 1996 Arnold Hill Comprehensive Nottingham [ Map ]
A-Levels:
  • Maths
  • Further Maths
  • Chemistry
  • Physics
  • 'A'
  • 'D'
  • 'D'
  • 'E'
GCSE:
  • 7 'A-C' grades

Additional Skills

  • I passed the First Aid at Work course in September 2001 and requalified in August 2004.
  • I've been a Fire Warden at both CGG/PECC and moneyextra.com

Interests

  • I enjoy programming for personal pleasure. Where possible I make solutions available through various online resources, including the CPAN (CPAN id: CHISEL).
  • Founding member and (current) sole developer of the Parley project. Parley is a web-based forum written in Perl (using Catalyst, DBIx::Class and Template Toolkit).
  • I'm a keen amateur photographer. Samples of my work can be found at chizography.net.

Other Information

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