The Poile blog

I’m a web developer based in cardiff, working for Imaginet Ltd.

Married to my lovely wife Sarah. I live and breath web, in the last year I have pushed myself hard to learn new languages try new approaches and develop my skills. I would like to be get ISEB Foundation certification and become Zend PHP5 Certified within the next 2 years. I am a member of the BCS and would like to become more involved with BCS events in the next year.

I have a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Cardiff University where I graduated with a 2.1 in 2005.

For the last 4 years I have  programmed primarily in PHP, MySQL and Javascript, I currently prefer the Mootools JS framework and I am rapidly moving into use of the Zend Framework for PHP. I have extensive knowledge of OOP and database design, optimisation and maintainance.

Please see my portfolio for a sample of work I have done in my current position, this is not a exhaustive list.

I like to work hard, and play hard. I enjoy challenges and will rise to them every time. I will always perform to the best of my ability.

I love my job and have a hunger to develop into new areas including and especially gaining experience in Ruby, Django and Python.