Date of Birth: 13th October 1984
Email: ben@bgrout.co.uk
Twitter: benjamunky
Skype: bengrout
I hold a clean UK driving license and have access to a car.
In the last two years I have had the privilege of working on a number of internal and customer facing web applications and marketing sites. I have had many roles and responsibilities on these projects from fixing bugs to architecting to leading a small team of developers. I am an enthusiastic, independent and dedicated developer who is self-driven to produce quality products.
During my time at 3rd Eye Vision I have been responsible for leading development on several important projects such as TNT Post's intranet and Sing Up's main website. Other roles have involved creating XHTML templates, maintaining and extending Typo3 sites and assisting in training and support for the company's products.
My main duties at CMS involved designing and developing new features for a service management tool according to business needs as well as debugging and testing existing code. Other projects included designing and developing a bespoke corporate Intranet and re-developing a mobile web application with a strong focus on user experience. I introduced many initiatives such as a comprehensive testing program, use of version control and strict adherence of W3C standards in front-end code.
Over the last few years I have completed several web development projects on a freelance basis. These have ranged from static web pages to bespoke content management systems. Please see www.themoononastick.org and www.thecodingfactory.com for examples.
I am currently taking on contract work creating high quality markup for web and mobile applications. More information can be found at www.xhtmls.com
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During my time at the University of Plymouth I worked on many interesting and exciting projects. The largest of which was my dissertation project - a user content driven, social networking website developed with PHP and backed by a MySQL database. My project was awarded for being the best on the degree course, an achievement of which I am immensely proud.
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Please do email me at ben@bgrout.co.uk if you have any questions or propositions for me.