I’m currently working on a freelance basis and looking for new opportunities.
I have been a software developer for 17 years now and the last 10 of those have been spent doing web development.
I have been Lead Developer for Nethouseprices (April ’07 to December ’10), which at the time was the UK’s leading site for free sold house prices and had traffic of 800k visits (6M page views) per month . After that I spent just under a year working for Connells the UK’s largest Estate Agency. Both of their sites enjoyed traffic of up to 600-800k visits per month.
I like to think I’m fairly language agnostic – in my time I’ve used (in date order) Pascal, 8086 assembly language, COBOL, Visual Basic, Perl, PHP and C#. As Bob Martin a.k.a Uncle Bob once said “a programmer that only knows one language is like a carpenter who only knows how to work pine”, its important to have worked with a variety so that you can appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of each.
I currently specialise in PHP, MySQL, Web Standards, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, C# and ASP.NET.
Sites I have worked on include
- www.connells.co.uk
- www.sequencehome.co.uk
- www.nethouseprices.com
- www.nethouseauctions.com
- www.propertypod.co.uk
- www.jameshay.co.uk (upto mid 2007 – but it hasn’t changed much since then)
Feel free to contact me at richard@1234willis-owen.co.uk (remove the numbers – there to stop my address getting picked up by spammers).