Kevin Prince

Email: me@kevinprince.me
Phone: +44 (0)7956 196237

Hello! I'm a freelance web developer, operations chieftain and aspiring explorer!

Recent Projects

The Green Hat Project

Current Project

I am currently working with a large well known non-governmental to deliver a key component of there online strategy. The deliverable due in April 2010, and includes a hosted PHP web service with a front-end implementation in jQuery.

The National Strategies

During 2009 I worked with Capita on the UK Department for Children's Schools and Families National Strategies site. My main role was to provide a crossover between the frontend and backend teams.

Chinwag Jobs Widget

I developed a simple drop in javascript widget which gave Chinwag Jobs the ability to share there job listings with their various 3rd parties.

CharityFrag

As a small hackday project with four other developers, we built a donation based first person shooter on-top of Paypal's Adaptive Payment technologies. The hack won first place and we got to present the game to attendees of Innovate X in San Francisco.

GoSpoken

Working with Mobcast, a Shoreditch based startup, I spent six months developing their content production platform, and working on their mobile web application.

Work Experience

FC Business Intelligence

Web Co-Ordinator 2007 - 2009

At FC Business Intelligence, I was responsible for the planning and development for a wide range of news and magazine sites with various industry verticals. I was also involved in the many IT projects including development of an on-site registration system, and several infrastructure changes.

Other Work Experience

During the past few years, I have had a wide array of roles including an Apple Specialist with an Apple Reseller, Sales Assistant at a leading video games retailer and Computer Lab Assistant during my time at the University of South Florida.

Education

BA Hons International Business

University of Glamorgan

During my three years at the University of Glamorgan I studied a wide range of business areas; including accountancy, economics, product development, business law and marketing. I graduated July 2007 with Honours.

BA International Business - (Study Abroad)

University of South Florida

As part of my degree program I spent a year studying at the University of South Florida. During my time there I minored in Computer Science and left in the summer on 2006 in good academic standing.

Technical Skills

I write in

  • PHP
  • Ruby
  • SQL
  • HTML & CSS
  • Javascript

I work with

  • Codeigniter - Rapid PHP Development
  • Drupal - Open Source CMS
  • jQuery - JS framework
  • Capistrano - Deployment Scripting

I work on

  • Mac OS-X Desktop & Server
  • Windows XP and Server 2003
  • Linux (Debian & Red Hat)

I also

  • Build mixed environment networks
  • Design for high availability
  • Plan for disaster and recovery
  • Understand the importance of security
  • Love Agile but understand PRINCE2