Darren Westall

Developer at Broadbean Technology

Location: Chelmsford, United Kingdom
Industry: Computer Software

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Darren Westall's Overview

Current

Perl Developer at Broadbean Technology

Past

Junior Perl Developer at Broadbean Technology
ICT Technician at Essex Training Centre

Education

Harlow College
Harlow College
Roding Valley High School

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Connections

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I have excellent design & coding skills, as well as an ability to convert client requirements into exciting online applications with passion and pride. I am a team player with excellent communication skills, committed to learning the latest technologies and implementing them to the industry standards.

Specialties

HTML, CGI, XHTML, CSS, XML, Javascript, Prototype, Ajax, JSON, XPath, SOAP, Template::Toolkit, MySQL, OO Perl (language of choice), PHP, Photoshop, Subversion control (SVN) and a touch of mobile web development

Perl Developer

Broadbean Technology

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry

January 2009 – Present (3 years 5 months)

At the start of 2009, I was asked to join the lead product team and I am currently working on a product to gather CVs from multiple job boards (Stream), interfacing with dozens of different sites via remote procedure calls, API calls and scraping, using Object Oriented Perl, MySQL, XPath, XML, SOAP, liaising directly with clients and other service providers in order to deliver projects of undefined ETA or specifications in a timely and effective manner. I'm also working on support tickets concerning all aspects of the system, improving the system directly or by providing detailed feature requests and implementation plans, integrating our system with third party websites and software in order to satisfy the clients' requirements, redefining internal processes and automating or creating tools to facilitate the completion of routine support tickets directly by the operations team.

Junior Perl Developer

Broadbean Technology

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry

January 2008 – January 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Previously I was an imperative part of the integrations team, writing code that linked the AdCourier multi-posting tool to 3rd party websites, whilst maintaining previous integrations by researching and eliminating any problems that should arise.

I was required to analyze, plan and execute development projects based on the client needs whilst interpreting data structures and presenting them in a readable format for final delivery. Due to the global market of the product, my activity was coordinated with developers across remote locations.

ICT Technician

Essex Training Centre

February 2006 – January 2008 (2 years)

I planned, designed and implemented the computer network and developed the company website. My day to day responsibilities included testing, installing and connecting various computers in the networks and troubleshooting and diagnosing hardware problems. I also tutored students on basic Microsoft Office skills and oversaw web based tests as the adjudicator.

A-Levels ICT & Business Studies

Harlow College
- ICT
- Business Studies
Perl Developer

Broadbean Technology
- Introduction to Linux (Learning Tree Foundation)