Paul Bennett
Professional Web Developer

Status: Accepting work

Contact

email: family.bennett@gmail.com
twitter: http://twitter.com/bennettpr

8 years professional web development experience

Day job

Senior Web Developer, Ministry for Culture and Heritage

• Drupal development for Te Ara, NZHistory, VietnamWar, 28 Maori Battalion

Live Freelance Projects

Wardrobe Flair

Template integration, CMS development, eCommerce

• http://www.wardrobeflair.com [SilverStripe]
  

Wellington City Council

• ePetitions – [CakePHP] Security enhancements
  
• Cemeteries Search – [Custom PHP] Plot image integration
  
• Venues Search – [Custom PHP] search extension to existing venues listing
  

Jill Marshall

• http://www.jillmarshall.co.nz – [SilverStripe] Template Integration, CMS customisation
  

Tangerine Design

Content Management System integration

• http://www.tautoko.org.nz – [Expression Engine] Template creation, CMS extension and customisation
  
• http://www.energyhealing.net.nz – [SilverStripe] Template Integration, CMS development, client area and booking system development
  

InfoAge Business Development

Custom database development, eCommerce integration

• http://www.ifa.org.nz [Custom PHP / ASP] event management & online payments integration
  
• http://www.nzrf.co.nz [Custom ASP] database integration
  

Wellington Rental Cars Ltd NZ:

Website design & development, online deposit payment

• http://www.wellingtonrentalcarsltd.com
  

Web presence, Network Advantage Ltd

Website and multimedia product demonstrations.

• http://www.networkadvantage.biz
  

Open Source Projects

ee-yui – a rich text editor for the ‘Expression Engine’ content management system. ee-yui uses the  YUI JavaScript framework.
http://code.google.com/p/ee-yui/

Experience & skills:

Competencies:

• Open Source Content Management Systems (Drupal 5, SilverStripe, WordPress, Expression Engine)
• Apache webserver
• PHP
• Object-oriented programming
• MySQL
• CSS
• JavaScript (YUI, jQuery)
• (X)HTML / XML / XSLT
• Iterative development methodologies
• Accessible, standards-compliant web design (including applying and interpreting New Zealand Government Web Standards)
• Web application load optimisation
• User interface design
• Creating lean, standards-compliant interfaces from design files

Professional exposure to:

• ASP
• SQL Server
• Access databases (under duress)
• XSLT
• XUL (Mozilla Rich Application interfaces)
• Flash animation
• Mobile application development
• Application modelling and UML

Qualifications:

2006 – current: Completing Bachelor of Information Science (Massey University)
2001 – Diploma of Internet Technology (National College of Design & Technology)