December 2015 - March 2016
An international supplier of Laboratory Services and DNA ancestry and trait testing providing six tests, three ancestry – Fatherline, Motherline and All My Ancestry – and three trait – Baldness, Blue Eyes and Red-head.
Continued maintenance of company websites.
Assisting in the migration of our websites and business data to CMS application favoured by Source BioScience.
Providing continued IT support to customers, staff and partners.
Management of web hosting and SSL certificates.
Affiliate management.
UK and international domain name management.
Migration and handover of websites and business data to Source BioScience.
May 2014 - December 2015
A DNA ancestry and trait testing company providing six tests, three ancestry – Fatherline, Motherline and All My Ancestry – and three traits – Baldness, Blue Eyes and Red-head.
Management of IT requirements of the office.
Providing maintenance and testing of company websites and implementing new features / solutions.
Providing IT support to customers, staff and partners.
Management of web hosting and SSL certificates.
Affiliate management.
UK and international domain name management.
Made IT Manager after two year with the company and managed IT Department single-handed.
Migration of websites from managed hosting to Krystal premium self-managed hosting, saving the company £4,500+ / year.
Rebuilding of online admin area for e-commerce, and processing and publishing of DNA test results.
Re-organisation of online applications / software used by staff, saving the company £540+ / year.
Redesigned / made mobile-friendly all websites using Semantic UI framework.
Began migrating websites to CakePHP 3.x.
May 2012 - April 2014
A DNA ancestry and trait testing company providing five tests, three ancestry – Fatherline, Motherline and All My Ancestry – and two trait – Baldness, Blue Eyes and Red-head.
Providing maintenance and testing of company websites and implementing new features / solutions.
Providing IT support to customers, staff and partners.
Management of SSL certificates.
Affiliate management.
Integration of eWAY payment processing, to replace PayPal which was unpopular with our customers.
Implementation of redesign of existing websites and creation of two additional cloned websites.
Conversion of basic PHP websites to CakePHP 2.x. This involved the handling of individual website themes and dependencies to speed up development and deployment times.
Integration of a MongoDB solution. Initially we chose management via MongoLab, however due to poor data transfer times we opted for an in house solution. Both solutions required custom coded API and DataSources.
Improvement of ecommerce solution and integration of Stripe payment processing for GBP / EUR payments, to reduce card processing costs and fund release times.
