Alistair Prestidge

Alistair Prestidge

I am keen to expand my experience and learn fast. I am a committed and hard-working individual, both at work and in my personal life.

<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> I am a committed and hard-working individual, both at work and in my personal life. I enjoy running and have taken part in the London marathon and other competitive races, I am currently training for my third London marathon on the 17th of April. I was a member of the scouts for most of my youth and still enjoy outdoor activities such as camping and walking.  

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  • Openbrackets ltd, PHP Developer/System Administrator, Crystal Palace, London

    June 2008 to present

    Main duties include:
    Managing project delivery times.
    In conjunction with other members of the technical team, develop new features and extend existing features within the main e-commerce code base.
    In conjunction with other members of the technical team, maintain and develop RWF an internally written PHP framework.
    Make sure all subversion branches are up to date with trunk on a monthly basis.
    Administrating production servers (web, mail, database, pfsense).
    Backup all mission critical data.
    Keeping all software up to date.
    Technologies used: php5, MySQL, Asterisk, FreeBSD, Subversion, RWF (internal framework), Ubuntu, Smarty, Shell Scripting, pfsense, propel, swift, rdiff-backup, rsync

  • Bigmouthmedia, PHP Developer, Manchester

    February 2006 to June 2008

    Main duties included:
    Manage an existing, and developing a new, tracking system used by our clientèle.
    Administrating FreeBSD servers that run the tracking system.
    Conduct simple windows administration tasks for the office.
    Installing/maintaining/updating our internal Asterisk VOIP server.
    Developing tools to gather information from Google's web master console, page rank and an internal tool; display all this information usefully for my colleagues.
    Establishing a Windows domain and migrating users to this.
    Ensuring data backup to tape using Bacula.

  • Intouch Marketing, Technical Assistant, Banbury

    October 2005 to February 2006

    Main duties included:
    Writing a Java programme to import data from Microsoft Access and to organise this into a CSV file with data from an Excel file.
    Establishing a Windows domain and migrating users to this.
    Establishing a back up system.
    Entering Excel data.
    Technologies used: Java, Windows 2003, Microsoft Office.

  • Tampere Polytechnic, Java Developer, Tampere, Finland

    September 2003 to June 2004

    Main duties included:
    Developing the Codewitz Material Bank (CMB) to agreed specifications.
    Creating technical reports on users, their activity and time logged in.
    Creating an area for users to leave their comments about using the CMB.
    Technologies used: JSP, Servlets, Struts, Tomcat 4, PostgreSql, OJB, Macromedia Director

  • Internet Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, ScB) at University of Portsmouth

    2005