James Crowley
Computer Science graduate from University of Oxford. Currently working as Managing Director at Developer Fusion.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://www.developerfusion.com/ |
| Skills: | AJAX, HTML / CSS, Javascript, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Groups: | DrinkTank London, IT/Software Development Outsourcing/Offshoring, Oxford Entrepreneurs |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | University of Oxford |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Developer Fusion |
| Position: | Managing Director |
| Time period: | December 2002 - Present |
| Description: | Founded the largest UK-based developer site with over 600,000 unique users per month, with responsibilities including
- Technical writing, editing and reviewing of content, and presentations at several developer events. - Development of website, driving advertising sales, building brand awareness - Establishing strategic partnerships across the developer community in the UK, including Microsoft and Adobe. |
| Employer: | Anorak Digital |
| Position: | Head of Development |
| Time period: | November 2006 - June 2008 |
| Description: | - Established a successful technical team working with blue-chip clients to deliver consumer and b2b websites to tight deadlines and a consistently high technical standard.
- Experienced across the full project lifecycle – from pitching for business and establishing requirements, IA and timelines through to the development process and final QA. - Extensive hands-on development and mentoring to deliver solutions including fully standards and accessibility compliant pan-European sites, consumer brand sites, “web 2.0” community sites with sophisticated use of AJAX, and solutions to deliver tight integration with existing business systems. - Created web service platform and central library to reduce lead-time and costs for projects, including full-text site searches, user registration, 3rd party integrations and automated deployment. - Researched and drove the use of new technologies and standards both internally and with our clients |
| Employer: | Self Employed |
| Position: | Work Experience |
| Time period: | December 1998 - November 2003 |
| Description: | Delivered solutions for a range of clients,
- Modular e-commerce system (multi-million pound transaction volume), online file management systems, ad-serving tracking and management - WebZinc.NET a tool written in C# that allows developers to extract content from web sites and automate form filling tasks, featured in several leading .NET magazines - Created “Developers Pad”, a fully customizable development editor written in VB 6, reviewed in leading magazine, PC Plus. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of Oxford |
| Time period: | 2001 - 2005 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BA |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | Microsoft ASP Insider (info)
FreshMinds ‘Ones to Watch’ (info) Oxford College Prizes (‘03, ‘04, ‘05) |
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Developer Fusion
A UK-based community for software engineers and web developers. Founded in 1999, the site has an active community base of over half a million visitors each month. Developer Fusion is relaunching in S...
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Ben Godfrey
CS graduate. Programmer and entrepreneur focussed on consumer internet. Startup junky apparently.
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Richard Price
CEO of Academia.edu - Facebook for academics