Gideon King

Gideon King Shailer Park, Queensland, Australia Phone: - — E-Mail:- Capabilities Languages PHP: 12 years HTML: 20 years JavaScript: 20 years CSS: 20 years SQL: 28 years Objective-C: 25 years Java: 5 years Also experienced in CSH, Ruby, PL/SQL, SASS, Blade, Bash, C, C++, Visual Basic and various other languages. Frameworks and Tools Wordpress: 7 years (including significant programming and creation of custom plugins and themes) J2EE: 3 years WooCommerce: 3 years (including significant modifications for subscription handling) jQuery: 4 years Bootstrap: 3 years Cocoa / XCode (and predecessors): 25 years WebObjects: 7 years Also experienced with Laravel, Blade, Vue, Eloquent, Pusher, Valet, Rails, Rational Rose. Databases MySQL: 17 years Oracle: 5 years Informix: 3 years Postgres: 2 years Experienced with several database related frameworks such as MySQLi, PDO, Eloquent, ODBC, JDBC, Enterprise Objects Framework, CoreData. Operating Systems and Deployment Environments Deployed systems on: Linux / Apache, HP/UX, Solaris, MacOS X. Developed systems on: Mac OS X and predecessors, Windows, Linux, and various BSD based Unix-like systems. Deployment to AWS services including EC2, Elastic Load Balancer, S3, CloudFront, Route 53. Business Grew a company from 5 developers to 98 in 5 years and managed multiple projects for deployment in Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Built and ran a software company for 16 years while remaining heavily involved in development. Worked as a business and strategic planning consultant. Wide ranging industry experience solving business problems that were too hard for other development companies. Page 1 of 2 Gideon King Shailer Park, Queensland, Australia Phone: - — E-Mail:- Work History Private Contractor - Business growth and strategic planning consulting, and website development using PHP, Laravel, Bootstrap, Blade, Vue, SASS, Eloquent, Pusher, Valet, JQuery, JavaScript, Wordpress, MySQL and related tools and languages. NovaMind Software - Founder and CEO, software developer for NovaMind Mind Mapping software. Developed for MacOS, iOS (Objective-C), and web based SAAS app (PHP, WordPress, WooCommerce, JavaScript, JQuery). AIG Software International - Technical Manager, CTO, Vice President. Insurance related software development, based in Kuala Lumpur. Black Albatross (University of Otago Computer Science Applied Research Centre) - Senior Software Engineer, Acting Manager. Wide range of highly technical research and development projects. Works Consultancy Services - Lab Technician, Computer Programmer. Civil engineering materials testing laboratory. Education BSc Computer Science NZCE (Civil Engineering) Experience - Built a company from scratch and ran it for 16 years, - Designed and developed multiple programs and websites from end to end including user interface design, graphic design, user interaction, development, documentation, maintenance and user assistance, - Have written, illustrated and published both technical and fiction books, and proofread and edited various documents and websites, given presentations at conferences and manned show exhibits, - As CTO and VP, built multiple development teams to take a business from 5 to 98 staff, - Ran multiple international software development projects for deployment across Asia, - Had wide exposure to different industries and developing solutions for insurance, car sales, knitwear design, multimedia databases, bi-temporal databases, nutrition, sport, and aluminium smelting, - Automated testing and reporting for an engineering materials lab, including instrumentation, machine control, database interfaces, and mobile systems, - Experience in programming using over 20 languages – most proficient in Objective-C, JavaScript, PHP, HTML, - Designed and built my own house, built a 7m catamaran yacht, - Hobbies include Latin dance, watercolour and oil painting, sculpture, sailing and travel. Page 2 of 2