Andy Yates

Current

Web Developer at White Space Communications Ltd
Director at Art of Source Ltd.

Past

Web Developer at TechnoPhobia Ltd
Junior Web Developer at TechnoPhobia Ltd

Education

Sheffield Hallam University
Chesterfield College
Hasland Hall Community School

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Industry

Computer Software

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Andy Yates’s Summary

At the moment I work professionally as a Web Developer. I have experience with a fair number of languages and frameworks on various platforms for desktop, web and mobile.

My favourite technology of the moment is Ruby on Rails along with Cucumber and Rspec for BDD (Behaviour Driven Development), and HAML (HTML Abstraction Markup Language) which I try and use where I can - not exclusively in Rails (.NET and Django too); that said I am a big believer in using the right technology for the job.

Over the past few years I have been working primarily with Ruby/PHP/JavaScript but have also touched on the following technologies:

* Python / Django
* Java / J2ME
* ASP .NET
* MVC .NET
* Microsoft XNA Framework
* ObjectiveC

I have been working mostly as part of teams delivering and maintaining software for various clients (including Becta, Creative Council England, Technology Strategy Board, Dyson and OGC) and more recently employing the Scrum framework for incremental delivery of projects.

Andy Yates’s Specialties:

PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, MySQL, Oracle, Fedora / Debian flavors of Linux, Solaris, Windows.

Design in Photoshop and some GIMP, 3D modeling (3D studio as well as a few lesser know packages), HTML and CSS.

Andy Yates’s Experience

Web Developer

White Space Communications Ltd

(Computer Software industry)

June 2010 — Present (4 months)
Director

Art of Source Ltd.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 2010 — Present (8 months)
Web Developer

TechnoPhobia Ltd

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

June 2009 — May 2010 (1 year )

Web application development mostly in Ruby on Rails using Cucumber(+Selenium) and Rspec to drive development.

The majority of my time so far has been spent delivering a large Ruby on Rails application as a part of a small team using BDD and the Scrum framework for management and incremental delivery.

Additional work has included:

* JavaScript/AJAX on various projects (some with jQuery and some without the aid of a library).
* PHP work mostly centered around SugarCRM.
* More QA work than a developer should ever be exposed to; mostly manual testing and story/step writing.
Junior Web Developer

TechnoPhobia Ltd

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

July 2007 — June 2009 (2 years )

Web application development, mostly working as a part of a team to deliver bespoke software to clients or maintaining and updating existing applications.

Core technologies worked with:

* Ruby on Rails
* Rspec / Storyrunner
* PHP
* JavaScript/AJAX
* MySQL

Andy Yates’s Education

Sheffield Hallam University

Web Information Systems and Services 2006 — 2009
Chesterfield College

AVCE , ICT , 2004 — 2006
Hasland Hall Community School

GCSE , English, Mathematics, Statistics, Electronics, Graphic Design, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, French , 1998 — 2003