Curriculum Vitae

Contact details:

Rowan Wookey, email/jabber/google talk admin {at} rwky {dot} net

Education:

University: The Open University 2007-Present Studying BSc (Hons) Computing part time, expected completion 2012
High School: Albany High School 1997-2002
College: Cardinal Newman College 2002-2003

Current activities:

I am currently studying a BSc (Hons) Computing degree part time with The Open University (www.open.ac.uk). Along side this I work as a self-employed contractor doing server administration, web programming and consultancy on internet technologies.

Employment history:

April 2007 - Present - Self-employed consultant.

December 2004- May 2007 - Technical Analyst at Computer Sciences Corporation
Resposibilities: Supporting British Aerospace technical issues via phone and remote support in a Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003/Exchange Server/Blackberry environment.

May 2004 - November 2004 - Mortgage Assistant at HBOS (Now Lloyds Banking Group)
Responsibilities: Processing customer Mortgage Applications and locating fraudulent cases.

Open source contributions

• Linode Bash API https://github.com/rwky/Linode-Bash-API
• Rwky Redis, a Redis library written in PHP https://github.com/rwky/Rwky-Redis
• Redis Ubuntu Package PPA
• Linode stack script LEMP,Kernel,Security,Tools,Monitoring

Closed source projects

• Foodnation - An iOS and Android App written using Phone Gap and JQuery Mobile which communicates with a NodeJS remote server to process searches and geo-location using Google APIs - Foodnation on Android Market Foodnation on iTunes

Computer skills:

• Linux (CentOS/RHEL/Debian/Ubuntu and others)
• Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/Server 2003
• Mac OS X

• Apache
• Nginx
• IIS

• Dovecot
• Courier
• Microsoft Exchange
• Postfix

• MySQL
• SQLite
• Redis

• PHP
• Python
• Java
• Javascript
• HTML
• NodeJS
• JQuery
• DJango

• Amazon Web Services
• Facebook integration
• Twitter integration
• Wordpress
• Drupal
• Paypal
• Sagepay
• Moneybookers
• Paypoint
• Realex

• JQuery Mobile
• Phone Gap

• Microsoft Office
• Open Office/Libre Office
• Git version control system
• SVN/CVS