## Dougal Matthews

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        <td><b>Phone</b></td>
        <td>+44 (0) 7719 780 595</td>
        <td><b>Website</b></td>
        <td>http://www.dougalmatthews.com/</td>
    </tr>
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        <td><b>Email</b></td>
        <td>dougal@dougalmatthews.com</td>
        <td><b>Twitter</b></td>
        <td>@d0ugal</td>
    </tr>
</table>

I am a hard working highly motivated developer with proven skills in software design and development. I enjoy working as part of a team or working as a development lead. With a wide range of skills in web development I have worked in a number of different projects with small start-ups to traditional well established companies. I am interested in finding a challenging and interesting position where I can develop innovating and successful solutions to demanding problems. I also enjoy a highly active social life, meeting new people and travelling to get to know the world.

### Education

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        <th>Year</th>
        <th>Education Establishment</th>
        <th>Qualification</th>
        <th>Result</th>
    </tr>
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        <td>2007-2009</td>
        <td>Edinburgh Napier University</td>
        <td>MSc Advanced Software Engineering</td>
        <td>pass</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>2005-2007</td>
        <td>Edinburgh Napier University</td>
        <td>BSc (Hons) Software Technology</td>
        <td>2:1</td>
    </tr>
</table>

### Noteable Academic Projects

In my 4th year project for University I created an Ajax interface for phpMyAdmin, a highly popular open source database management system written in PHP. This project was very successful and was featured on sites such as Ajaxian.com.

For my Masters dissertation I worked on machine learning and successfully created a learning system that was able to improve its performance at playing Mancala over time. The system has implementations working with MiniMax Search tree, Evolutionary Algorithms, Neural Networks and Ant Colony Optimisation.

### Key Skills

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        <th>Languages</th>
        <th>Database Systems</th>
        <th>Technologies/Frameworks</th>
    </tr>
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        <td>Python (2.5 years)</td>
        <td>mySQL (4 years)</td>
        <td>Django (Python) (2 years)</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>JavaScript (4 years)</td>
        <td>PostgreSQL (2 years)</td>
        <td>Ajax (3 years)</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>C# (.NET versions -3.5) (1 years)</td>
        <td>SQL Server (1 years)</td>
        <td>Zend Framework (PHP) (1 year)</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>Java (1 year)</td>
        <td></td>
        <td>Etomite (PHP) (1 year)</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>PHP (3 years)</td>
        <td></td>
        <td>Facebook Apps (PHP/Python)</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>XHTML, XML and CSS</td>
        <td></td>
        <td></td>
    </tr>
</table>

### Conferences and Training

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        <td>EuroPython 2010 (Birmingham, UK)</td>
        <td>EuroDjangoCon 2009 (Prague, CZ)</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>DjangoCon.eu 2010 (Berlin, DE)</td>
        <td>Microsoft Visual Studio Conference 2005 (Edinburgh, UK)</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>EuroPython 2009 (Birmingham, UK)</td>
        <td></td>
    </tr>
</table>

### General IT/Programming

Excellent knowledge of OOP (Object Orientated Programming) design principles and practices.
Experience with Multi-Threaded Programs
Extensive  understanding of Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS)

### General Skills

Excellent problem solving skills and thinking outside the box
Good communication and written skills
Adept Group working skills 
Intuitive analytical and design skills

### Experience

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    <tr>
        <th style="width:20%">Date</th>
        <th style="width:30%">Company</th>
        <th style="width:50%">Duties Description</th>
    </tr>
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        <td>09/2009 - Present</td>
        <td>Loopo Ltd</td>
        <td>Django and Python development working on Zinc Medical Recruitment, A medical trainee recruitment system used by  medical schools and colleges in England and Wales.</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>11/2009 - 12/2009</td>
        <td>Aware Monitoring</td>
        <td>Development working on awaremonitoring.com for Viisys Ltd. The work involved Python, Django, RabbitMQ, Celery, jQuery, mySQL and various other related technologies.</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>02/2009 - 09/2009</td>
        <td>Mobilis Performance</td>
        <td>Django and Python development of an online self diagnosis physiotherapist website.</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>01/2009 - 05/2009</td>
        <td>Landmarts</td>
        <td>Django and Python development for an online property and land website. Including implementations of various unique features in this market area. Featuring many Ajax features using jQuery and Google Maps.</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>02/2008 - 09/2008</td>
        <td>XCalibre Communications</td>
        <td>Java and PHP development. Working in the internals of flexiscale and the customer control panel. Development, Maintenance and testing.</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>08/2007 - 01/2008</td>
        <td>1576 Advertising</td>
        <td>General web development work. Tasks including; PHP, mySQL, JavaScript, Ajax, Software Architecture.</td>
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        <td>09/2007 - 09/2007</td>
        <td>1576 Advertising, on behalf of Gillespie MacAndrew and Hunters Residential
        www.hunters - residential.co.uk</td>
        <td>Full Design and implementation of PHP and mySQL backend. Google maps property search interface with Ajax link to backend.
        Testing and Documentation.</td>
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        <td>06/2007 - 08/2007</td>
        <td>Zero Design Ltd.</td>
        <td>Training; OO Principles, PHP5 and Ajax/JavaScript</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>06/2007</td>
        <td>Spelvanfortuin
        http://www.spelvanfortuin.nl/</td>
        <td>Website Security audit & report
        Full evaluation of the PHP and JavaScript</td>
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        <td>06/2007</td>
        <td>Pure Services
        www.pure-services.co.uk</td>
        <td>Website Design & mark-up implementation
        ASP.NET Programming (C#)
        Testing and Documentation</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>02/2007</td>
        <td>FoAN : Friends of African Nursing - www.foan.org.uk</td>
        <td>Website Design & mark-up implementation
        PHP Programming 
        Testing and Documentation</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>11/2006 - 02/2007</td>
        <td>Zero Design, on behalf of
        Saltire Suzuki - www.saltiresuzuki.com</td>
        <td>Website Programming Design
        Full Database Design & Implementation
        Lead Programmer</td>
    </tr>
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        <td>07/2006 - 09/2006</td>
        <td>Universal Studios, Orlando, FL</td>
        <td>Ride operations, Greeting Guests
        General Entertaining and Maintenance</td>
    </tr>
</table>

### References and Recommendations

Written and verbal references and recommendations are available on request. A number can also be viewed on my LinkedIn profile. www.linkedin.com/in/d0ugal