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Carl | Wed, 2008-10-22 20:05  tags: , , , , ,

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This brief letter will help you determine if I am the right candidate for a position with your company. I am American born and raised and have English as my mother tongue. I have lived and worked in Sweden for ten years and have learned to speak Swedish at a conversational level. I left college as electronics major but have made a career choice of web programmer working mostly with back-end systems. I like problem solving and re-factoring of web applications while making user interfaces more intuitive.

Programming languages that I have worked with include Classic ASP, Perl, PHP and Javascript. I am self-educated in many programming disciplines and just recently have immersed myself into learning Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC framework. Though I have certification for Microsoft’s SQL Server 2000 I have worked the last few years with MySQL databases. Lately I have become interested in applying column oriented database design and other data warehousing techniques to increase performance of web applications.

In the last three years I have worked exclusively as a Drupal WCMS systems developer and have contributed to other PHP open source content management projects like Joomla and Wordpress for the last 5 years. My first job as professional Drupal developer came when working for the Swedish Computer Society while helping them build a portal and community web site. Most recently I worked as a systems developer for Studentis AB, a company specializing in online communities and student web portals. Soon I will be releasing my own version of the Drupal content management system software. This release will allow the Drupal core systems to be manipulated for higher performance and scalability on high traffic websites. I aim to use PHP5 to the fullest and reduce the use of fancy bloat features.

Objective

Please consider me for work as a web developer, webmaster or web applications developer if your company has a team of people with established roles. If there are well proven project management and planning techniques in place. I also want to be able to learn from others and continue to develop as a programmer and in other areas of IT. If there is a bowling team I can join within the staff then all the better.

Salary

 I would like a starting salary of 30.000 sek per month. A good possibility of telecommuting later on is requirement at this salary level. If telecommuting is not possible then my asking salary is 33.500 per month.

If you are a business that can provide stable and enjoyable work environment, located anywhere in the Stockholm area or northern regions of Sweden, then please give me a call. I look forward to hearing from you.

 
Regards,

Carl McDade

 

JOB HISTORY

 

Period

Job descriptions

 

 

2/2007 – 7/2008

Web developer
Studentis AB  Borås/västragötland

 

PHP-MySQL programming in  Drupal CMS framework

 

Developed an installation system for websites in the Studentis network for both Drupal and non-drupal sites. The sites download database information and module activation from the main server to make it easy for administrators to install new games, build targeted advertising based on users information from all sites and add new functionality to a website with a few clicks.

Designed code and database solutions for using Drupal as basis for social networking websites with a high degree of user interaction. Responsible for redesigning of the databases, user-interfaces and code of older websites to use a common Drupal framework. Solving problems of scalability and availability in high traffic areas.  Examples:  Abandonia.com (Drupal), picali.com (Drupal), Student.se, Skoore.com (Drupal)

Responsible for the training of PHP developers in the use of the Drupal framework

 

 

 

8/2006 - 2/2007

Web developer
Swedish Computer Society Stockholm/stockholm

 

PHP and MySQL programming with the Drupal framework.

 

Worked as a telecommuter programming  PHP applications to fullfill the task of building a web portal for the 80,000 members of the Swedish Computer Society.

11/2005 – 7/2006

Not Employed

1/2005 - 10/2005

Web developer
Self-employed  Ljusdal/gävleborg

 

Built database systems and Microsoft Access/Visual Basic programs for small business.  Provided  webmaster services, training seminars in web design, Adobe photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver  to small business.

10/2004 – 12/2004

Not  employed

1/2003 - 9/2004

Web developer  
Light Valley Media AB Ljusdal/gävleborg

 

Previously business partnership was purchased and I continued to work as an employee. PHP and Classic ASP programming of custom content management systems, online shopping solutions.

 

Built database systems and Microsoft Access/Visual Basic programs for small business.  

1/2002 – 1/2003

Web developer  
Light Valley Media HB  Ljusdal/gävleborg

 

PHP and Classic ASP programming of custom content management systems, online shopping solutions, online auctions and common websites.

 

Built database systems and Microsoft Access/Visual Basic programs for small business.  

 

 

EDUCATION

 

Period

Examinations and Certification

2001 – 2002

Microsoft Certified Database Administrator in SQL Server 2000
A 54 week course in Microsoft database and programming technologies with the goal of becoming a MCP and MCDBA.
Ljusdal – gälveborg

2000 -2000

Adult education courses in Java, C++ and database design. 

1987-1989

Chabot Community College
25555 Hesperian Boulevard
Hayward, California 94545
Subject major: Electronics and Mathematics

1985-87

University of California at Hayward
25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard,
Hayward, CA 94542
Subject major: Mathematics and Economy

 

 

EXPERIENCE

 

Technology

Skill level and period of usage

Active Server Pages

Advanced Used presently/ 10 years

CSS

Advanced Used presently/ 10 years

Drupal

Advanced Used presently/ 5 years

HTML

Advanced Used presently/ 10 years

JavaScript

Moderate  Used presently/ 4 years

Joomla

Moderate  Used presently/ 2 years

MS FrontPage

Advanced Not used presently / 10 years

MS IIS 4-5-6-7

Advanced Used presently/ 10 years

MySQL

Advanced Used presently/ 5 years

PHP

Advanced Used presently/ 5 years

Visual Basic

Advanced Used presently/ 4 years

Ruby

Moderate Used presently/ 1 year

Photoshop

Advanced  Used presently /10 years

Dreamweaver

Advanced  Used presently /4 years

 

 

Languages

Competence level

Swedish

Conversational

English

Mother tongue

 

 

 

REFERENCES

Name: Henrik Algren
Business: Dataföreningen i Sverige
Titel: IT Chef
Telephone: 08-58743460
Email: Henrik.Ahlgren@dfs.se
Type: Job related


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Ten years of experience in web development. Carl is looking for in employment as a Senior PHP/mySQL Developer in Stockholm.
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