Portfolio of Alex Evans

Wouldn't it be easier if we coded it this way

Who is Alex Evans?

Currently I work in Business Service Automation Field as Technical Consultant for HP, based in Vienna, Austria. With a strong background in Web Development I have enjoyed building Robust, customizable, efficient online applications. Although it seems my work follows me long after I leave the office, it's not all I do, Infact my biggest achievement in recent years is successfull transformation into fatherhood, seems not all beautiful things are built from code. Also I couldn't leave England without finding a suitable football team here in Vienna to burn off that modern day stress.

My Preferred Arsenal

Sublime Text 2

Feature 1 This Lightweight editor packs alot of functionality. Ontop of that it has a great community and plugins available for almost everything you could need.

Eclipse

Feature 1 This is my choice when working on larger applications, plugin support is amazing, specifically Pentaho design, Aptana Studio and subversion.

Firebug

Feature 1 I'm not even sure I would be able to cope in this field without this firefox plugin

Languages?

Database - mySQL, Postgres, Oracle
Client Side - HTML5, CSS, Javascript, XML, JSON
Server Side - Java, PHP, Perl, and Python.
CMS/Frameworks - Wordpress, Tumblr, GAS-ORM, Jquery, Codeigniter.

Testimonials

We now have a beautiful website which matches our desired image and best of all it only took Alex two evenings to create

Christina Poelzl-Huemer, Schmucktodo

I am awesome

- Alex Evans, HP SW Professional Services

Services

Front End Design

I like to think I have the skills required to integrate front end useable and visually pleasing GUI's to any kind of serverside technology required. With extensive knowledge in javascript and the frameworks such as jquery, I have a good knack of creating seamless ajax apps.

Creating mapping mashups using tools such as Openlayers, Mapnik and OSM are also a strong point. For Larger blog, sites I like to dabble with Wordpress and for Applications I use codeigniter or any other MVC model framework going.

Javascript Frameworks.
CMS frameworks.
XHTML, CSS, XML, XSL.

Server Side

A broad understanding of Object oriented workhorse langauges such as java, php and perl and python. Cross server technologies and protocols such as soap, snmp, ssh, telnet. Working with variety of server OS including, linux, windows server and HP-UX. Web Server configuration such as Apache, JBOSS, tomcat, jetty.

Object Oriented Programming.
Shell and Batch Scripting.
Unix, Windows and HP-UX Management.

Data Base Management/Optimisation

Having worked closely with a wide variety of RDBMS I find my personal preference to mysql, to many of the big companies are tied into using the Wrong tools for the job. Having said that understanding the sql standards and what customizations are required for different vendors, weather it be SQL server, Oracle, DB2 or mySQL, having the right background goes a long way.