George Brocklehurst's CV

I build great websites, work well in teams and drink a lot of tea. You should totally hire me.

Contact details

Name
George Brocklehurst
Website
georgebrock.com
E-mail
Telephone
+44 (0) 7891139160 ( mobile)
Location
Stockholm, Sweden

Skills

Front-end

Back-end web development

Desktop software development

Tools and processes

Experience

Django developer at Tripbirds

Date
- present
Responsibilities
Working on every aspect of an early stage web startup, including code and product development.
Intoducing better coding practices for HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Products
Tripbirds
Company
Tripbirds AB
Prästgatan 36
111 29 Stockholm

Django developer at Artfinder

Date
- (five month contract)
Responsibilities
Working on a range of features for Artfinder, including adding JavaScript navigation to parts of the site using the HTML5 history API and a new multi-variant homepage.
Working on HTML and JavaScript-based iPad applications.
Company
Art Discovery Limited

Ruby on Rails developer at Reevoo

Date
-
Responsibilities
Working on all aspects of a variety of high-traffic web sites, from front-end code to performance.
Introducing better coding practices for CSS and JavaScript.
Selecting and interviewing candidates for roles within the development and design teams.
Participating in high-level product design and strategy decisions.
Running a week of idea generation and rapid prototyping during which a team of developers, designers and business people planned, designed and developed a working prototype for a new product.
Products
Reevoo.com
Just Buy This One
Reevoomark – An embedded reviews service on many UK and international retailer and manufacturer websites including Sony UK.
Company
Revieworld Limited
61 Webber Street
London
SE1 0RF

Mac OS X developer

Date
- Present
Products
Choosy – A smarter default browser for Mac OS X, downloaded over 40,000 times.
Iconic – Custom folder icons for Mac OS X Leopard.

Freelance web developer

Date
-
Selected projects
Angels of Anarchy (design by Wonder Associates)
Audiences UK (design by Wonder Associates)

Intranet applications developer

Date
- (alongside undergraduate study)
Responsibilities
PHP and ASP developer for intranet applications.
Linux server administrator.
Company
UK Choice, Manchester

Web community

Open source projects

Talks and presentations

Mentoring

Education and qualifications

Computer Science degree (First class)

Date
-
Qualifications
B.Sc. (Hons) First Class
Institution
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9LP
England

A-Levels

Date
-
Qualifications
Subject Grade
Computing A
Mathematics A
Physics A
Further Mathematics B
Institution
Oldham Sixth Form College
Union Street West
Oldham
OL8 1XU
England