Lukas White

Overview

With over seven years experience in information technology, Lukas is a Web professional who has held a range of positions and utilised numerous technologies. Working in both the private and public sectors, his roles have included those of an Web Services Manager, Team Leader (Web Development), Trainer, Web Designer and Webmaster, Technical Support and Consultancy. He is an experienced web developer specialising in front-end design and technologies such as PHP and MySQL, among others. Having been a key member of numerous development teams, Lukas has been involved in the full life-cycle of small-scale assignments through to multi-million pound projects. An effective and proactive team-player, with excellent leadership skills and a desire to encourage and help others, Lukas also has several professional qualifications in addition to a first class degree.

Achievements

• Held the position of Team Leader on a £500k development project for a major Oil company
• Responsible for training of new and existing staff, in both general web technologies and in-house products
• Took ownership of a Department's website within the UK's largest university, and a member of the Central Web Team re-developing the corporate site
• Developed an intranet for staff and students, incorporating numerous business-critical applications
• A key member of a research and development project set up to redevelop a division's market-leading flagship product
• Solely responsible for technical support for two offices, with over 150 users
• Designed, built, maintained and supported several websites

Experience

Webmaster / Web Designer / Intranet Developer
University of Manchester (2004-2008)

Consultant
TietoEnator, Stavanger / Aberdeen (2002-2004)

IT Consultant
Logica U.K. Limited, Aberdeen (2000-2002)

Research Assistant
Department of Accountancy and Finance, University of Aberdeen (1998-2000)

Demonstrator
Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen (1998)

Education

Postgraduate Certificate in Management
Aberdeen Business School (2001-2002)

BSc Honours Computing Science, First Class
University of Aberdeen (1996-2000)

Professional Qualifications

Sun Certified Java Programmer (2002)

Microsoft Certified Professional, Installing, Configuring and Administering Windows 2000 Professional (2001)

Microsoft Certified Professional, Installing, Configuring and Administering Windows 2000 Server (2001)

Training

Training Skills for Occassional Training, University of Manchester (2008)

uPortal Training, Unicon (2006)

Estimation and Risk Analysis, TietoEnator AS (2004)

Java Web Development Workshop, QA Training (2001)

Transforming XML Using XSL(T) and XPath, QA Training (2001)

Oracle 8i: A Comprehensive Introduction, Learning Tree International (2000)

Graduate Training Programme, Logica U.K. Limited (2000)

Shell Technology Enterprise Programme, Phoenix Petroluem Services (1998)