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"Breaking assumptions - Creating solutions"
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| I am an independent internet content management specialist. My main area of specialism is in the development of "back-end" software for the integration of internet based applications with commercial data systems. |
content management back-end data systems |
| The websites that I manage use data/content management software that I have written using PHP and MySQL. This software allows business owners to manage their own websites. It also allows me to design "bespoke" websites to their precise business requirements. I also run several of my own commercial content-based websites such as BriggLife.co.uk and the OpenSourceHandbook.com. |
PHP MySQL business owners "bespoke" content websites |
| Before becoming self-employed, I studied industrial data processing in the late 1980s and then went on to work in the computer industry as a designer, analyst and developer of database systems for companies based in the City of London, the Humber bank area of the UK, and the Netherlands. |
designer analyst developer database systems |
| My main professional inspirations are the elegance, simplicity and functionality of the Google search engine and also the freedom and creativity embodied in the open source movement. |
elegance simplicity functionality open source |
| In all of the development work that I do, I try to maintain these same principles to create systems that work reliably, efficiently, meet the needs of their users, and are easy to use and understand. |
reliability efficiency usability |
| As a committed European, I am a native English speaker who has a good working knowledge of the Dutch language. At present I am resident in England, but I am open to offers of contract work anywhere in the UK, the Netherlands or Belgium. |
English Nederlands contracting UK NL BE |
| My standard contract rates are very reasonable: £250 GBP or €300 EUR per day. Contracts can be of any length, but a 5 day-rate start-up fee is applicable payable in advance. All contract work is covered by full professional insurance. Please contact me for more details or to arrange a contract. |
day rates £250 / €300 start-up fee insurance |
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