Andy Gibson

Current

• Junior Information Systems Developer at Rockstar North

Past

• Speaker at Epicenter 2009
• Speaker at DDD Scotland
• Software Engineer (Contracted) at GeoMEM Ltd.

• Speaker at DDD Belfast
• Speaker at WebDD '09
• Student Intern Software Engineer at NCR
• Web Programmer at GeoMEM Ltd
• Web Developer & Technical Assistant (Voluntary) at UberNet

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Education

• The University of Dundee
• Dundee College

Recommended

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Connections

31 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Scottish Developers

Andy Gibson’s Summary

Primarily works with the Microsoft .NET framework (2.0+) and surrounding technologies including WPF, LINQ, ASP.NET (+ MVC Framework) and Visual Studio. Also has strong experience working with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (including jQuery), Web Services, Web Standards and Accessibility.

Recently spoken at UK community events including Developer Day Scotland, Web Developer Day 2009 and Developer Day Belfast. As of June 2009 became a committee member of Scottish Developers as the Event Coordinator for the Tayside region.

Andy Gibson’s Specialties:

.NET (2.0 - 3.5), C#, ASP.NET MVC, Windows Forms, Web Applications

Andy Gibson’s Experience

• Junior Information Systems Developer

  Rockstar North

  (Public Company; Computer Games industry)

  July 2009 — Present (7 months)

• Speaker

  Epicenter 2009

  (Computer Software industry)

  August 2009 — August 2009 (1 month)

  Epicenter Conference 2009 in Dublin (Aug 26th - 28th)
  - Talk on Web Application Testing With Selenium

• Speaker

  DDD Scotland

  (Computer Software industry)

  May 2009 — May 2009 (1 month)

  jQuery Deep Dive

• Software Engineer (Contracted)

  GeoMEM Ltd.

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2009 — May 2009 (3 months)

  - Creation of mining tool calibration software
  - Project Management; Unit Testing; Refactoring
  - .NET 3.5 (C# and Delphi Prism); Windows Forms
  - Design Patterns; Model View Controller; Inversion of Control

• Speaker

  DDD Belfast

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 2009 — April 2009 (1 month)

  jQuery Deep Dive

• Speaker

  WebDD '09

  (Computer Software industry)

  April 2009 — April 2009 (1 month)

  Introduction to jQuery

• Student Intern Software Engineer

  NCR

  (Public Company; NCR; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2008 — September 2008 (5 months)

  Taken on for 16 weeks at NCR Dundee in Advanced Solution Concepts as part of a student placement.
  
  - Responsible for assisting in the development of prototypes.
  - Researching viable technologies and ideas
  - Developed using .NET 3.5 and WPF
  - Worked with Phidgets (hardware sensor kits)

• Web Programmer

  GeoMEM Ltd

  (Mining & Metals industry)

  January 2002 — October 2007 (5 years 10 months)

  - Maintaining the existing website
  - Planning, designing and creating a new website and product catalogue
  - Creating a simple backend for updating the website (pricelist, news, etc.)
  - Maintaining the list of products
  - Writing product descriptions
  - Improving the accessibility of the site and ensuring it met W3C standards (including XHTML 1.0, CSS 2.0 and WCAG 1.0)
  - Assisting with the maintenance and repair of the computer systems

• Web Developer & Technical Assistant (Voluntary)

  UberNet

  (Computer Games industry)

  November 2004 — April 2006 (1 year 6 months)

  Initially offered to help UberNet (a local internet gaming centre which opened in October 2004) by providing them with a website and organising web content.
  
  After the website was completed I began to assist in the centre by maintaining the machines (server and clients), serving customers and liaising with Interactive Gaming UK (IGUK - http://www.iguk.org)
  
  The company shut down in October 2007.
  
  - Developed and maintained the website
  - Assisted in the maintenance of the client and server machines
  - Used SmartLaunch software for administrative tasks.
  - Served customers

Andy Gibson’s Education

• The University of Dundee

  BSc (Hons) , Applied Computing , 2005 — 2009

  Honours Project:
  - Component-based web application framework using:
  - ASP.NET MVC Framework
  - Managed Extensibility Framework
  - Unity Application Block (Inversion of Control)
  - DB4Objects (Object database)
  
  Material covered:
  - Computer Languages (C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic.NET)
  - Design Patterns & Software Architecture
  - Project & Risk Management (Waterfall, Iterative and Agile)
  - Human Computer Interaction
  - Database Design & Development (MySQL and SQL Server)

• Dundee College

  HNC , Computing , 2003 — 2005

Additional Information

Andy Gibson’s Websites:

• Scottish Developers

Andy Gibson’s Interests:

Software Development, Programming Languages, Design Patterns, EVE Online, Logic Problems, Strategy Games, Table-top Wargames, Swimming, Badminton, Golf, Snooker

Andy Gibson’s Groups:

Scottish Developers Committee Member

•    .NET People
•    BCS Membership Group
•    University of Dundee Alumni
•    developerFusion - the global developer community

Andy Gibson’s Honors:

European Computer Drivers License

Andy Gibson’s Contact Settings

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