Peter Yates 7 Cloughs Avenue Mobile: 0773 3075 395 Chadderton E-mail: pd.yates@gmail.com Oldham Web: http://www.peteryates.net OL9 0NR Skills • Languages: Ruby, Python, Delphi (5-7), PHP, BASH, Javascript, SQL • Markup: HTML, XHTML, HAML, CSS, XML, YAML, XSLT, • Frameworks: Rails, jQuery, Django • Operating Systems: Linux (Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, Gentoo), MacOS X (10.3-10.5), Windows (95, NT4, 98, 2000, XP, Server 2003) • Relational Database Management Systems: PostgreSQL 7.3-9.0, MySQL 4.1-5.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, an extensive knowledge of user defined functions, stored procedures, views, indexes, pro- cedural languages (including PL/Ruby, PL/Python, PL/pgSQL and Microsoft T-SQL), DTS Packages • Testing: RSpec, Cucumber • Miscellaneous: Vim, L TEX, Cron, Apache HTTPD, bash, zsh A • Version Control/Project Management: Subversion, Git, Trac, Redmine Education Manchester Metropolitan University 2001-2004 • BSc. Hons Information Technology (2:1) North Chadderton Sixth Form College 1999-2001 • A-Levels in Biology, Information Technology, Chemistry North Chadderton School 1994-1999 • 9 GCSE (A-C) including: Science, Maths, English Employment History Software Developer January 2011 - February 2011 • Insider Media/Newsco (contract spanning 3 weeks) – diagnosed and provided fixes for a number of bugs with the internal editorial content management system – added new functionality to the CMS giving writers the ability to publish articles en masse and have RSS feeds automatically generated – implemented a source control and deployment infrastructure – rewrote the database backup procedure and associated scheduling Web Developer November 2008 - September 2010 • Setfire Media – developed web sites and applications for large clients including being a member of the onthe- beach.co.uk rewrite team – implemented unit and integration tests for all projects, development undertaken in a BDD envi- ronment – performed a variety of system administration tasks on Debian 5.0 and CentOS 5 servers – held responsibility for database administration on all projects, tasks included query optimisation, setting up replication and managing permissions on MySQL 5.1 and PostgreSQL 8.3+ Senior Information Analyst August 2007 - November 2008 • Salford Royal Foundation Trust – designed and implemented performance-related reports to help trust meet NHS targets – wrote queries and created Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database objects using Microsoft T-SQL – assisted with the advancement of the internal development methodology – performed database optimisation, troubleshooting and maintenance Software Engineer October 2006 - August 2007 • Clicks And Links Ltd. – developed and maintained web sites written in Ruby On Rails, Zope and Django – designed database back-ends for web applications in PostgreSQL Database Programmer November 2005 - May 2006 • Harrington Brooks Accountants Ltd. (six-month fixed-term contract) – developed back-end data objects for new IVA system in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 – provided technical assistance to IT team while bug-fixing internal systems in Visual Basic 6.0 – implemented source control with Subversion Programmer November 2004 - November 2005 • Egton Medical Information Services – developed software used in the primary care sector for management of medical records and ad- ministrative purposes – obtained Microsoft Certified Professional qualification in Programming SQL Server 2000 (2073)