About me...

I'm an experienced Developer with more than 10 years working for Digital Agencies and doing freelance work.

I take on new challenges with gusto and am a strong believer that nothing is out of our reach, we may just have to keep at it to get there.

The majority of the work I do these days is back-end coding and I mainly use PHP to get the job done.

I love pushing technology and trying to come up with innovative ideas and new ways of doing things.

Outside of my working life I'm a keen Surfer, Skateboarder, Climber, BMXer, Photographer and Guitarist. I also really enjoy drawing (hence the terrible doodles that adorn this site).

My work has taken me through many different types of project, including simple flat HTML builds, classic ASP sites, .NET extranets and e-commerce sites, PHP intranets, PHP e-commerce solutions, a PHP social network, and PHP reporting systems.

I have a great grasp of data structure and system interaction points and pride myself on my ability to plan and map out exactly how a site will all hang together and the structure the database will have.

My Experience..

Reading Room 2009 - April 2015
Builds in .NET and PHP, My role in Reading Room started as a Back End Developer working exclusively with .NET, over time I moved to work exclusively with PHP which to be honest I much prefer. My role as Senior Technical Developer at Reading Room, requires the mentoring of the PHP team, line management, consultancy work for clients, architecting the build and pitching for new business.

I am also the qualified first aider for my current employer

Pavilion Communication Services (merged into Amaze in 2008) 2005 - 2009
Builds in Classic ASP, .NET, Flash/AS2/AS3, I worked in both a front-end and back-end capacity often working all the way through the project from requirement gathering, cut-up of designs, building templates and building the back-end solution. I also worked as the technical support for the company, setting up servers, databases and internal IT equipment.

Freelance work - 2002 - 2007, 2009 - onwards
Numerous freelance projects in both .NET and PHP - including a solicitor's website, an online will builder and online document storage, a business consortium website, a holiday letting website, multiple e-commerce sites and various consultancy jobs.

Computation MSc - UMIST

Business Studies BSc(Econ) - University of Wales Aberystwyth

My skills..

• PHP
• MySQL
• Drupal
• Wordpress
• Typo3
• Silex framework
• Twig
• Zend Framework
• CMSMS
• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• JQuery
• cURL
• Facebook API
• Twitter API
• Paypal API
• MSSQL
• Flash/AS2/AS3
• .NET VB/C#
• Classic ASP
• Terminal 4 - (Limited experience though have been on training with them in Dublin)
• I am always keen to learn new things... more skills to come!

My portfolio..

• Peace21 "an ethical social network"- Visit Peace21 - This is a PHP project built on the silex framework.
• A video searching portal - Visit Ask Malawi - This is a PHP project built on the silex framework
• sportscoach UK - Visit sportscoachUK - This is a PHP project using Drupal and containing e-commerce sections.
• sportscoach UK - Visit West Yorkshire Police - This is a PHP project using Drupal
• Walk4Life - Visit Walk4Life - I was one of two devs that did the original build for this PHP project built in Drupal
• Fairtrade Africa - Visit Fairtrade Africa - PHP project that uses Wordpress
• Fairtrade International - Visit Fairtrade International - I refactored the original website in Typo3
• Fairtrade Info - Visit Fairtrade Info - I refactored the original website in Typo3
• IABF - International Anthony Burgess Foundation - Visit IABF - PHP project in Wordpress
• Peoples History Museum - Visit PHM - PHP project in Wordpress
• CLES - Visit CLES - PHP project in Wordpress
• Edgehill University - closed reporting/data collection system no link available - PHP project using the Zend Framework and custom classes to enable the generation of large and complex word documents from data entered into the collection system.
• KPMG - internal reporting systems - no link available
• Co-operative Food - I worked on the till screens project and generated media for the screens
• CIS (Co-operative Insurance) - reporting sites, no longer active
• Siemens - Sites have changed - things I worked on are no longer available - series of .NET sites that were internationalised.
• Odeon Cinemas - Site has changed a lot since I worked with it, much of my role was content based

Contact me

Email me at talktome@adambush.co.uk

OR

Look me up on Linkedin - Adam Bush on Linkedin