Gordon Murray Dent

Gordon Murray Dent

Senior Developer at BraveNewTalent

  • London, GB

Over 9 years experience in software and website development. Experienced in requirements gathering, design, implementation and testing. At this stage in my career I am focussed on expanding my skill set and building a solid platform for my future. I am self-motivated, efficient and reliable. I enjoy taking on challenging projects and thrive under pressure. My interests lie in complexity, algorithm design and NP-Hard/Complete problems. I have a passion for taking inspiration from nature to tackle combinatorial problems (nature inspired computation). After all, systems within nature have evolved and adapted over billions of years to solve similar issues that we experience in our daily lives!

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  • BraveNewTalent, Senior Developer

    August 2011 to present

    - Fast paced start-up
    - Exposure to early life within a start up
    - Lots of autonomy and influence upon development of product - a product-focussed developer
    - Leadership role within development team
    - Generalist approach to development working in a variety of languages
    - Domain driven development, test driven development
    - Agile environment
    - Languages & Technologies: PHP, Python, Javascript (Node.js, Closure, jQuery), ElasticSearch, Kestrel, Octave, MySQL, Redis, Memcache, Git, Phing, Composer, Zend, Symfony, MixPanel, Logstash

  • National Services for Health Improvement, Principal IT Consultant

    September 2010 to August 2011

    - Promotion from previous role
    - More client facing responsibilities on top of development role
    - Requirements gathering
    - Client site visits
    - Development of Diabetes specialist care patient identification system

  • National Services for Health Improvement, Software Developer

    September 2008 to September 2010

    - Hired directly by client of Assertia to develop in house patient identification software
    - Develop intelligent systems for identifying and placing patients into cohorts
    - Develop dashboard for showing aggregated results of audits performed across country using patient identification software
    - Development and maintenance of scheduling system for managing workforce
    - Languages & Technologies: PHP, Java, Javascript (jQuery, D3), Adobe Flex, MySql, SQL Server, EMIS, Vision, Phoenix,
    - Preferred IDE: Netbeans

  • Assertia Productivity Solutions, Junior Software Developer

    July 2005 to September 2007

    - Development of patient identification software for clinical audits performed by our clients
    - Working within a small team to deliver websites according to client requirement specifications
    - Troubleshooting technical issues
    - Languages & Technologies: PHP, Java, Mysql, Linux
    - Preferred IDE: Netbeans

  • Applied Artificial Intelligence, M.Sc. at University of Exeter

    2007

    Project: A multi-objective Ant Colony Optimisation framework written in C++ Sponsored by Assertia Productivity Solutions to attend course full-time whilst continuing development of Clinical Audit software.

  • Computer Science, BSc at University of Exeter

    2005

  • I.C.T, Economics, Physics and Religious Studies: Western Ethics and Philosophy, A Levels at Doctor Challoners Grammar School

    2002