About Me

 

Richard Banks Name: Richard Banks
Date of Birth: 22 April 1984 (24)
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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Job: Programer/Developer @ eConsultant
   
GPG Fingerprint: 895D BB87 1455 E2B9 C074 7110 F695 5AFF 219B EBA4

 

Qualifications

  • 4 years experience working with php.
  • 1 year experience doing systems administration.
  • Working with computers for over 10 years.

Skills

  • php programming.
  • Systems Administration (Linux).
  • Computer maintenance.
  • Office network setup.

Education

  • High School - Grade 11
    • English
    • Afrikaans
    • Maths
    • Science
    • Geography
    • Computer Science
  • PHP, HTML self taught

Work Experience

  • Web Designer - Self Employed (DataPoint)
    July 2004 - Present
    • Designed and Implemented website for Horizon Church of the Nazarene using Mambo.
    • Designed and Implemented website for The Gauteng District of the Church of the Nazarene using Drupal.
    • Designed and Implemented website for Podcast SA using Wordpress and designed a plug-in to manage automatic submission of information.
    • Designed, Implemented and managed a website for the Nazarene Renewal Prayer Team.
    • Designed my own personal website SourceWave.
  • Sales Assistant - Tech Toyz
    October 2005 - May 2006
    • Managed some of the undertakings of the business, on some occasions manage the business in the owners absence.
    • Assisted customer requests beyond the scope of the business.
  • Camera Assistant - Church of the Nazarene
    October 2003
    • Worked as part of a team of cameramen and assisted in the setup of equipment.
    • Operated sound desk and and assisted in stage management.
  • Sound Engineer - Church of the Nazarene
    December 2003
    • Operated the sound desk for a Christmas church service that was broadcast live on a local radio station.

Volunteer work

  • 1 year assisting x10Hosting.com in managing their servers. There are three servers one of which runs the Xen hypervisor.
  • 2 years managing the IT infrastructure at Horizon Church of the Nazarene.

Interests

  • Scripting languages, I'm currently learning python.
  • Passionate about Free and Open Source software.
  • Collaborative services and software, I'm interested in the way services like SourceForge and Launchpad work.