Luke Simmons

Experience

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  Odeon & UCI Cinemas

  Oct 2000 - Mar 2005

  Team Leader
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  Deeson Group Ltd

  Apr 2005 - Jul 2012

  Lead Developer
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  Brightlemon London

  Jul 2012 - Apr 2014

  Lead Developer
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  Deeson

  Apr 2014 - Jul 2014

  Solutions Architect

  Contracting on a few projects. Working with a great team and successfully launching a large Drupal build.

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  N/a

  Aug 2014 - Aug 2014

  Freelance Solutions Architect / Developer
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  NBCUniversal, Inc.

  Aug 2014 - Aug 2015

  Lead Developer

  Led and helped grow a team of developers, QA testers, content editors, etc to build the pINT system delivering the new Syfy, Universal Channel, Movies24 and Studio Universal websites for EMEA, APACS and Latin America.

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  Deeson

  Aug 2015 - Apr 2016

  Freelance Tech Lead / Drupal Developer

  Working on multiple projects, including architecture and build through to launch and optimisation of Porchlight, a homeless charity in Canterbury and Kent. Also build of CRM, e-commerce solution, migration and then final overseeing to launch of the rebuild of DSDM.org, a highly recognised Agile project delivery framework institution.

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  Singularity Labs

  May 2016 - Jul 2016

  PHP Architect

  Assisted and innovated the build of a data capture web application for analytical reporting and generation of geometric result sets. Built with CakePHP this was the first non-Drupal inclusive project I'd worked on for a little while so it was exciting to remind myself that I can pick up new technologies very quickly.Also I spent some time analysing the performance capabilities of importing a 1 million+ row data set from a customer supplied CSV into a database and managed to cut the time from 3 hours to 13 minutes through trial and error optimisation. Show less

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  British Film Institute (BFI)

  Jul 2016 - now

  Senior Software Developer Team Lead