00 Perl Development

Some Past Clients

Yahoo!

• Maintained and enhanced Yahoo’s 600+ European multimedia feeds using a highly complex, poorly documented, legacy Perl/XML based system.
• Managed software releases and critical issues.
• Liased between internal customers and network operations in many countries.
• Onboarded new feeds
• Documented legacy system using a wiki to capture knowledge when taking over from European team.
• In turn, trained and supported offshore transition team.
• Skills: Perl, Unix, XML & NewsML datafeeds, maintaining legacy systems.

Financial Times

• Analysis and development of a Web/Perl CGI intranet system to add metadata to Newspaper Articles in order to create data feeds.
• Linking to legacy applications and interfaces.
• Planning for future UTF8 products.
• Skills: Perl, SOAP, Agile, XML, XSLT, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Template::Toolkit

BBC #1

• Developer of BBC Blogs Project (www.bbc.co.uk/blogs)
• Configuration of Movable Type Blog.
• Managed relationships with many non-technical journalists with multiple concurrent issues, and with technical teams to solve performance issues.
• Skills: Movable Type, CSS, XML, Perl, Solaris, Apache.

BBC #2

• www.bbc.co.uk/search
• Development of a web front end to generate extensive management reports in HTML and XML, including graphs and email delivery.
• Designing a compact yet flexible database schema to store vast quantities of bbc.co.uk search query data into a MySQL database.
• Skills: Perl, Solaris, SQL, MySQL, HTML::Template, XML.

Cartesian

• Loading complex binary extract files from Vodafone network elements into an Oracle database
• Investigated undocumented legacy system to reverse engineer interfaces to existing reporting database.
• Designing a generic and reusable data importer with comprehensive documentation.
• Trained development team to support the data importer.
• Skills: Perl, Linux, Oracle, SQL, SQL Loader, Ericsson HLR File Formats