Managing Director @ Managing the day-to-day running of Block 8, a small web development consultancy and build firm. We specialise in helping businesses solve potentially difficult web development problems easily and effectively. Actively involved in development for client sites and applications, primarily built in PHP & MySQL, as well as Golang and .NET. From August 2012 to Present (3 years 5 months) Project Lead @ Leading the development of the open source PHPCI project, a continuous integration tool designed for and built in PHP. From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Digital Development Manager @ Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, Nginx, Apache, Amazon AWS, CentOS, Varnish, jQuery, ExtJS, Bootstrap CSS, Facebook API, Twitter API I managed digital development and technology at Real and Smooth Radio. The role entails: - Managing the internal development team - Specifying, planning, scheduling and delivering projects utilising the internal development team and external partners - Finding and working with external partners including freelancers, contractors and agencies Key projects have included the delivery of a new "COPE" content management platform and roll out of the new Smooth Radio and Real Radio XS web sites. From May 2011 to October 2012 (1 year 6 months) Hosting and Development Contractor @ Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, Apache, CentOS, cPanel, WHM Contracted to manage and improve the hosting services provided by Invision Power Services, also provided some development services. The role included: - Day to day system administration of around 200 servers and 24/7 on-call duties. - Automating processes within system administration. - Customer support for hosting. - Development of a new hosting management panel, allowing better server monitoring, anomaly alerts, account management and server control. - Led development of a point release of the company's IP.Blog product, improving usability and adding a number of social features. I also designed and developed the company's free to all customers IP.SEO application, which improved the search engine performance of IP.Board and provided some search performance reporting. From May 2010 to April 2011 (1 year) Lead Developer @ Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, Wordpress, Ubuntu, HTML, CSS Handled all aspects of web development for Media Wow. Involved in the whole process from pitch, to requirements analysis, design, specification, development and ongoing management. I was also in charge of system administration. Key projects included: - New web site for City Car Club. - A range of consistent new web sites for all Niagara Healthcare Group companies, supporting an ongoing SEO campaign. - Design and development of a new web hosting platform for Media Wow clients. From March 2010 to August 2010 (6 months) Leeds, United KingdomSenior Developer @ Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, Ubuntu, Memcached, Beanstalkd, ZF1, jQuery Working as part of the research and development team, my role covered several distinct areas, including: - Building a large search data analysis system. Had a database over 3TB in size, running across 50+ servers. Tracked billions of distinct pieces of data, analysing tens of gigabytes of data every day. - Public web applications for pay-per-click advertising tracking. - Internal productivity, insight and management tools. - Client facing projects including custom built web sites, Wordpress web sites and applications. From October 2008 to March 2010 (1 year 6 months) HR Systems Consultant @ Technologies used: C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ASP, Microsoft SQL Server, HTML, CSS Working in HR Systems, currently technical lead on the company's employee engagement survey. Other parts of the role include technical consulting on projects and development of Windows and Intranet based applications. From January 2008 to October 2008 (10 months) Intranet Developer / Account Manager @ Technologies used: C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ASP, Microsoft SQL Server, HTML, CSS Worked on the Norwich Union UK intranet team, doing various roles including account management for the RAC, project leading for various systems and development. Development work includes HTML, CSS, Javascript, ASP and ASP.NET. From March 2007 to December 2007 (10 months) Freelance Web Developer @ I worked freelance full time from January 2004 to March 2007, at the time primarily doing web design and development. The work ranged from building my own content management system, to designing forum themes for international record labels. I also wrote, with a partner, an article management system that was used internally by NASA's jet propulsion lab. Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, FreeBSD I now do freelance work as a side activity from my day to day job. I've expanded what I do to cover web development, design, server management and, to a degree, advising on search engine optimisation. As a part of this, I run a small network of my own sites, including Forum Insider and a range of hotel affiliate sites. From January 2004 to March 2007 (3 years 3 months)

n/a, Media Production - Video @ York College From 2002 to 2004 n/a, secondary education @ Joseph Rowntree School From 1997 to 2002 Dan Cryer is skilled in: Web Development, PHP, Golang, Go, MySQL, Nginx, JavaScript, Developer Relations, Team Management, Apache, CSS, Web Applications, Linux, API development, Social Media