Pierre Ferré's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

PHP / Symfony developer with a passion and curiosity to learn new things, I initiated a career change in 2008 after having worked in Textile manufacturing for 12 years, which lead me to complete a degree in Information Technology in 2010. Shortly after that, I relocated to the UK, which is now my permanent home.

PHP / Symfony developer with a passion and curiosity to learn new things, I initiated a career change in 2008 after having worked in Textile manufacturing for 12 years, which lead me to complete a degree in Information Technology in 2010. Shortly after that, I relocated to the UK, which is now my permanent home.

I am also bilingual, with fluency in French (native) & English.

Technical skills:

- PHP frameworks: Symfony, Laravel

- Behaviour Driven Development with Behat and PhpSpec

- PHPUnit

- Git

- Linux, Apache, MySQL

- HTML, CSS (Less, Sass), Javascript

- REST API design and implementationWeb Developer @ From October 2015 to Present (3 months) London, United KingdomWeb Developer @ Was a member of the initial team which helped build WorldStores' internal Fleet Management System, which was successfully launched in August 2015. The project uses Symfony as web framework and exposes a REST API which is consumed by the company's various components making up its supply chain. The project also integrates with 3rd party routing and Fleet Management services, consuming via protocols such as SOAP.

My main contribution was to introduce Behat to the team, help implement it and make sure we used its behaviour driven scenarios to cover all aspect of the project's API it was exposing. It made for a very robust architecture, helping us catch and troubleshoot bugs early and gave us the security and peace of mind to add functionality to the project as we went along. From March 2015 to October 2015 (8 months) Twickenham, United KingdomWeb Developer @ Managed, maintained and developed company web shop, content management system and related web sites. The role involved working closely with the Marketing team to develop and implement custom solutions on a per project basis.

Part of a team of two developers, I helped re-launch the company web shop in late 2014. Re-launch involved rewriting business logic from an old Symfony 1.4 codebase into a modern Symfony2 application. From December 2011 to February 2015 (3 years 3 months) Web Developer @ Shortly after settling in the UK, in search of a job, I created my own website / blog, in order to gain more exposure. From September 2011 to October 2011 (2 months) L1 Support Engineer @ Infopia is a complete cloud based Inventory Management system allowing customers to list their inventory to eBay and Amazon. This position involved the following responsibilities:

- Worked with the team/or independently to identify and propose solutions to customers in response to specific issues they encountered with the platform.

- Incidence follow up with customers via email or phone. From March 2011 to August 2011 (6 months) United KingdomStudent @ Went back to full time study. From July 2008 to June 2010 (2 years) Perth, AustraliaAssistant Managing Director @ Based in Mauritius, company of 125 employees specialising in the manufacturing of textile garments for exportation (mainly Europe). Company turnover at the time was 45 million MUR (Mauritian rupees). From September 2007 to June 2008 (10 months) MauritiusBachelor, Information Technology @ Edith Cowan University From 2008 to 2010 St. Esprit College From 1983 to 1991 Pierre Ferré is skilled in: PHP, jQuery, CSS, CMS, Linux, Symfony, MySQL, Laravel, Apache 2, HTML, JavaScript, SASS, Apache, Subversion, Web Development, Git, Bash