About Me

My name is Harry Webster and I’m a 27 year old IT professional living in the Peak District. I enjoy all types of software, hardware, network and business development. I have been in the IT industry since I was 16 being trained while doing the job from entry level programming positions to senior level and management level roles for global multi million pound enterprises.

Software Development

• Perl, mod_perl 1 & 2.
• C
• Objective-C (for iPhone and iPad development)
• Bash scripting (and AWK where required)
• MySQL
• PHP
• xHTML, CSS, Javascript (and AJAX)

Hardware

I have worked in a number of datacenters involved in everything from hardware installations, time critical replacements, emergency repairs/catastrophic failure on everything from cobolt raq 3′s to modern IBM, Dell, HP etc servers.

I have on a number of occasions been involed in live datacenter migrations (both physically moving hardware and data migration moves).

In addition to this I have worked building all forms of desktop machines, phone systems etc.

Networking

• Load balancing (LVS-NAT, TUN and DR, as well as DNS round-robin and IPTABLES balancing).
• Office networking installations, patch panelling, VOIP etc.

Server Systems and Website Frameworks

• A number of Website frameworks – Confidential
• PBX Online Telephone Exchange, built and written bespoke management portal.
• Large scale DNS platforms with management interface
• Large scale email hosting platforms
• Large scale domain sales, provisioning systems (daily.co.uk, 123-reg.co.uk)
• Payment systems including PCIDSS compliance
• Virtual server build both for development and production environments – VMWare, Xen etc.
• Database replication and clustering.

Other Technologies and Methodology

• API development using many different mechanisms depending on the projects requirement and prerequisites – eg XMLRPC (such as SOAP), KVP, JSON etc
• Software version control such as CVS and SubVersion.
• Nagios setups.
• Pseudocode and UML diagrams
• Search Engine Optimisation
• Large and small scale CMS and CRM systems.
• Ticket systems and KPI based tracking systems.
• Any number of Open Source projects.
• Software licensing and contract negotiations.
• Technical sales.

… and much much more!

Recent Employment

• Quintessentially – Software Development Manager and Senior Systems Administrator (global) – www.quintessentially.com
• Daily Internet – Senior Developer (joined 12 months before launch) – www.daily.co.uk
• PIPEX/Host Europe/123-reg – Senior Developer/Systems Administrator for Product Development www.123-reg.co.uk www.webfusion.com

Public Projects

• DartsScoreKeeper – Now UniScore 501 Darts Scorer with AI player
• iPhone Applications – link to come

If you have found this website through LinkedIn or one of the other networking sites and you’d like to view a copy of my CV please contact me by email h (at) rrywebster.co.uk.